Test Code: Socio 2207

SOCIOLOGY Test Series 2022

TEST 07

Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 250

Question Paper Specific Instructions:

➢ There are 8 questions in the question paper.

➢ Questions No. 1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, any THREE are to be
attempted choosing at least ONE question from each section.
➢ The number of marks carried by a question /part is indicated against it.
➢ Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
➢ Content is more important than content length.

Section A

Q.1) Write notes on the following in about 150 words each: (10 * 5 = 50 Marks)
(a) Is Sociology a Science? Critically evaluate
(b) How is sociological approach to human actions different from that of
psychological approach
(c) What is historical method? Describe its significance in social research.
(d) Differentiate between Probability & Non probability sampling. Illustrate with
any one example.
(e) Scientific method in sociology is a laudable promise with limited possibility.
Comment

Q.2) (a) Marx, Weber, and Durkheim represent three different perspectives to the
same phenomenon called ‘modernity’. Describe briefly. (20 marks)
(b) What do you understand by Ideal Type? Why did Weber call it a measuring
rod? (20 marks)
(c) Significance of Dialectical Materialism. (10 Marks)

Q.3) (a) Which concepts were used by Weber to explain legitimate domination?
(20 marks)
(b) Explain the Indian society’s response to the recent pandemic through
Parsonian framework of AGIL. (20 marks)
(c) Limitation of Merton’s Deviance typology. (10 Marks)

Q.4) (a) ‘Informal organization of work and expansion of informal sector both explain
the vulnerability of labour in human societies.’ Do you agree with the
statement? (20 marks)
(b) Explain the Trinitarian theory of Stratification and its relevance in Indian
Society. (20 marks)

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(c) How does Mead’s theory help us to understand the development of self-
concept in a social interaction that involves two opposite sexes: each in a
different role? (10 Marks)
Section B

Q.5) Write notes on the following in about 150 words each: (10 * 5 = 50 Marks)
(a) Evolutionary approach to social change is ethnocentric.’ Explain the
adequacy of the statement.
(b) What do you understand by Marxian ‘circuit of capital’?
(c) Describe the nature of social organization of work in industrial society.
(d) In what way Ethnomethodology has posed a critique to positivism. Illustrate
with examples
(e) Explain the relevance of the idea of ‘cultural lag’ in understanding social
change.

Q.6) (a) ‘Science and Religion share both complementary and conflicting relationship
with each other’. Comment. (20 marks)
(b) Explain the adequacy of development and dependency theory to explain the
contemporary trend of ‘neo-protectionism’ in the globalised economic order.
(20 marks)
(c) ‘Inclusive citizenship is an essential precondition for the democratization of
democracy’. Explain the merit of the statement drawing examples from India.
(10 Marks)

Q.7) (a) Compare Marx, Weber, & Parsons to evaluate the correlation between
Religion & Economy. (20 marks)
(b) Secularization is a historic process but invitation to religion is need based.
Explain the statement with appropriate examples. (20 marks)
(c) ‘Impact of modernity on family system has not been uni-linear’. Analyze the
appropriateness of the statement with examples. (10 Marks)

Q.8) (a) Discuss how Religion acts as a patriarchal institution and legitimises
subordinate status of the women in society. Evaluate. (20 marks)
(b) How does New Education Policy 2020 aim to address the inequalities in
education? (20 marks)
(c) Discuss Amartya Sen’s idea of Development as Freedom briefly. How did it
fundamentally alter the discourse of development? (10 Marks)

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