PAPER-I-1999
SECTION
A
1. Write
short notes on any three of the following (each answer should not exceed
200 words):
(a) Sociology
as a by-product of Industrial Revolution
(b) Role
conflict as a source of deviation
(c) Limitations
of questionnaire as a technique of data collection.
(d) Gemeinschaft
and Gesselschaft types of communities.
2. How
would you distinguish between the stratified and the unstratified social
positions? What explanation would you profer for the universal existence of the
social stratification in human society?
3. Elaborate
on the social necessity of religion. Discuss the relationship between religion
and science.
4. Social
control is more a matter of conviction than that of coercion. Comment. Discuss
the role of ideology in social control.
SECTION
B
5. Write
short notes on any three of the following (each answer should not exceed
200 words):
(a) Division
of labour and differentiation of social structure
(b) Impact
of the democratic political system on the traditional social structure
(c) Social
structure and Anomie
(d) Functional
problems of the social system
6. Discuss
the nature and characteristics of social mobility. Can the nature and the rate
of social mobility be treated as an index of economic development? Comment.
7. Bring
out the commonality between a social movement and a revolution. Would you agree
with the view that each revolution is preceded by a social movement? Give
reasons.
8. Elaborate
on the concept of structural change. Discuss the endogenic factors of
structural change in a society, with suitable examples.
PAPER-II-1999
SECTION
A
1. Write
notes on any three of the following (in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Social
Justice
(b) National
Unity
(c) Total
Literacy Campaign (TLC)
(d) Peasant
Society
2. Discuss
73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments with reference to
decentralization of power.
3. What
is meant by privatization and how could it effect economic reforms in India?
4. What
do you mean by ‘Green Revolution’ and what are its socio-economic consequences?
Discuss.
SECTION
B
5. Write
notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Secularism
(b) Sanskritization
(c) Naxalbari
Movement
(d) Dowry
as a social problem
6. Define
religious minority. Discuss the problems of religious minorities in India.
7. Slums
are scars on the social fabric. How can these scars be removed?
8. How
is modernization an agent of change? Discuss its positive and negative aspects.
