SOCIOLOGY
PAPER I-1986
Section
A
1. Write
short notes on any three of the following (each answer should not exceed 200
words):
(a) The problem of
objectivity in Sociology.
(b) Techniques employed
in measuring attitudes.
(c) Bureaucracy in
developing societies
(d) New strategies for
the rural development in India.
2. Discuss
Durkheim’s concept of Division of labour. In what way does it differ from that
of classical and neoclassical economists?
3. Show
how culture constituted a seminal idea in B. Malinowski’s works.
4. What
is ‘social action’? what is its place in the analytical Frameworks of Max Weber
and Talcott Parsons?
Section
B
5. Write
short notes on any three of the following (each answer should not exceed 200
words):
(a) Ethnic group and its
role in society.
(b) Historical
materialism.
6. Critically
assess R.K. Mertion’s views on the contributions of research to the development
of sociological theory.
7. How
do you relate the educational system to the economic development in India?
8. Discuss
the role of religion to the world today. Has the supergrowth of science any de
mystifying effect on religion?
SOCIOLOGY
PAPER II- 1986
Section
A
1. Write
notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) The case for a
uniform civil code.
(b) The Indian family in
continuity and change.
(c) Class-conflict in the
agrarian society
(d) The Indian
intellectual between tradition and modernity.
2. Examine
the impact of Buddhism aud Islam on the Hindu society.
3. ‘Despite
all the fusion and fusion that the caste system has undergone through the ages.
It has binded to maintain the permanency of its form’. Comment.
4. Discuss
the changing value-orientations of women in the Indian middle class families.
Section
B
5. Write
notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Education for
development: the sociological implications of the new education policy.
(b) Communal tensions:
their economic and social background.
(c) Urban emerging
pattern of rural leadership.
(d) Urban decay: the
culture of overcrowded neigh-bourhoods and slums in industrial cities.
6. Trace
the impact of culture contact on the Indian tribes.
7. Discuss
the factors responsible for the growing felling of alienation among the
religious minorities in India. How can they be made to overcome this feeling?
8. Stress
the importance of regional development in the context of national planning in India. Can regional disparities be reduced within the framework of a centralist planning?
