AIR 2 · CSE 2025 · Sociology I · 46 pages

Rajeshwari: Sociology I answer copy

19 answers by Rajeshwari, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q1(a)Describe Sociological imagination. How does it challenge the common sensical ways of looking at the world around us?10 marks
  2. Q1(b)What is the utility of scientific method in sociological research? Describe with examples.10 marks
  3. Q1(c)How does hypothesis help in sociological research? Write with suitable steps.10 marks
  4. Q1(d)Bring out the correlation between Economic base and superstructure in Marxian sociology.10 marks
  5. Q1(e)Durkheim suggests 'society is more than sum of Individuals'. Do you agree? Why?10 marks
  6. Q2(a)Critically assess the differences between Durkheim and Marx on Division of labor.20 marks
  7. Q2(b)What is Ideal type? How did Weber use Ideal type in his analysis of social action and Bureaucracy?20 marks
  8. Q2(c)How does Tumin critique Davis & Moore's theory of stratification? Illustrate with examples.10 marks
  9. Q5(a)Describe the primary functions of family. Do you see any change in the structure of family with modernization? Explain.10 marks
  10. Q5(b)Critically assess Power and its social correlates in society.10 marks
  11. Q5(c)How does media act as an agent of social change? Illustrate with suitable examples.10 marks
  12. Q5(d)What are various modes of adaptation in Merton's theory of Anomie? How is anomie rooted in social structure?10 marks
  13. Q5(e)'No society can either be absolutely open or absolutely closed.' Comment.10 marks
  14. Q6(a)Education is often believed to be an agent of development & social change. However, it may reinforce conservatism and conflicts in society. How do you assess this dual role of education in society?20 marks
  15. Q6(b)Describe Talcott Parsons' theory of social system. Explain the dynamics of moving equilibrium taking State as a social system.20 marks
  16. Q6(c)How is civil society useful in deepening the roots of democracy?10 marks
  17. Q7(a)Compare and contrast the contributions of Marx and Weber on social stratification in capitalist society.20 marks
  18. Q7(b)Bring out the causes behind growth of fundamentalist tendencies in society. Describe possible measures to deal with it.20 marks
  19. Q7(c)What is the difference between natural and social inequality? Is inequality inevitable in society? Give your views.10 marks

The answers

Question 1(a) · 10 marks · 151 words written

Describe Sociological imagination. How does it challenge the common sensical ways of looking at the world around us?

Opening · a definition

None written.

Body · points

Sociological imagination is the process through which the body of knowledge is evidentially examined and concluded with generalisation.

But common sense is the routine knowledge based on personal beliefs usually unexamined, biased and taken for granted by all.

Therefore sociological imagination challenge common sensical ways by following ways:

  1. Common sense justifies the cultural norms without validation. Sociology challenges by subjecting it into studies and rationality.

Example: Common sense of suicide argued it as personal act and psychological illness. Emile Durkheim studied its social current cause by sociological studies.

  1. Common sense is superficial and is biased. Sociology challenges it by questioning it through logic.

  2. Common sense is not verified by empirical means. Sociology challenges it by subjecting common sense to research, reasons, etc.

Close · a summary

Hence, Sociology and commonsense is having dynamic relationship. Common-sense provide knowledgebase which is studied to form generalisation by sociology. Both are crucial to study social structures.