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2022 2. The panchamas are the purest of all castes.

SOCIOLOGY
3. Gender is a basic organising principle of society
( Theory ) which is based on sex.

Full Marks : 80
4. A stateless society maintains its order without a
Time : 3 hours modern governmental apparatus.

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the

B. Choose the correct answer:
questions
5. A citizen is a member of a ________ community:
General Instructions :
(a) Political
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script provided.
(b) Social
(ii) Answer all Questions serially according to the ‘Part’
and ‘Section’. (c) Economic.
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place.

6. Field-work as a distinctive method in social

PART –– A anthropology was established by:

(a) Bronislaw Malinowski

SECTION – I
(b) Emile Durkheim
( OBJECTIVE )
(c) James Frazer.
( Marks : 10 )
7. Altruism is the principle of acting to benefit:
A. Write True or False 110  10 (a) Others

1. Capitalism rests on the public ownership of assets (b) Oneself

and means of production. (c) One’s own.

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C. Fill in the blanks. 7. What is cosmopolitanism

8. In-groups are marked by a sense of __________.
8. What is violence?

9. The opposite of sacred is __________. 9. What is a ghetto?

10. __________ refers to the degree of acceptance that

is involved in power relations. SECTION – I I I

( SHORT ANSWER )

SECTION – I I ( Marks : 28 )

( VERY SHORT ANSWER )

Answer the following questions in not more
than six sentences each. 4  7  28
( Marks : 18 )

Answer the following questions in not more than five 1. (a) What are the dimensions of culture?
sentences each. 2  9  18 Or
(b) What is informal social control?
1. What is a quasi group?

2. (a) What are the disadvantages of the survey as a

2. What is social sanction? research method?
Or
3. What is ‘flexible production’? (b) Write on the relationship between sociology and
Economics.
4. What is material culture?

3. (a) What is Role conflict?

5. What is socialisation?
Or
6. Define work. (b) What is Role stereotyping?

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4. (a) Write on the educational differences between a PART –– B

simple society and a complex society.

( DESCRIPTIVE )
Or
( Marks : 24 )
(b) How does Emile Durkheim explain constraint?
Answer the following questions : 6  4  24

1. (a) Write on environment as one of the causes of

social change.
5. (a) How does Karl Marx explain constraint?
Or
Or
(b) What is social order? How is it achieved?
(b) Write a short note on the Industrial Revolution.

2. (a) What is mechanical and organic solidarity?

Or

6. (a) Write on the three basic forms of advantages that (b) Write on the agencies of socialistion.
privileged groups enjoy.
3. (a) Write on Resource Depletion as a major
Or
environmental problem?
(b) Why is social change slower in villages?
Or

(b) Write a note on Survey.

4. Read the following passage carefully and answer the

7. (a) What is civil rights? questions given below:
Or The Ridge forest in Delhi is not the natural
vegetation of this region but was planted by the British
(b) Write on primary and secondary groups. around 1915. Its dominant tree species is Prosopis

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juliflora (vilayati kikar or vilayati babul) which was

introduced into India from South America and which
has become naturalised all over North India.
Did you know that the chaurs, the wide grassy
meadows of Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal which
offer excellent views of wildlife, were once agricultural
fields? Villages in the area were relocated in order to
create what now appears to be a pristine wilderness.
1. What is the name of the forest in Delhi? 1

2. Is the vegetation natural to the region? 1

3. When was the forest planted? 1

4. What is the dominant tree species in this forest? 1

5. What were the chaurs before it became the grassy

meadows of Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal? 1

6. What happened to the villages that existed there? 1

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