INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGUY KANPUR

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

End-Semester Exam. Sem II. 2020-2021
SOC. 171A Introductory Sociology

Duration: 1.5 hours Marks: 50 only

Answer any two of the following essay type questions. Each question carries
25 marks only (not exceeding 2000 words each).

Q.1. Write an essay on the approaches to secularization of institutional

religion.

Q.2. Write an essay on the master trends of Social change toward modernity.

Q.3. Discuss religion as a social institution from the vantage of consensus

perspective.

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