SOCIOLOGY
PAPER I- 1987
Section
A
1. Write
short notes on any three of the following (each answer should not exceed 200
words):
(a) Techniques of Data
Collection
(b) Ideal Types
(c) Social Movement
(d) Alienation.
2. Do
you agree with Max Weber that the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
are correlated? What are the alternative theories suggested by other academics?
3. A.R.
Radcliffe-Brown is said to have improved upon B. Malinowski’s Functional
theory. Discuss, how.
4. Do
you think that in T. Parsons there has been a transition from the analysis of
the structure of social action as such to the structural-functional analysis of
social systems”? discuss in detail.
Section
B
5. Write
short notes on any three of the following (each answer should not exceed 200
words):
(a) Authoritarian
Personality
(b) Collective
Representations.
(c) Religious
Secularization
(d) Legitimacy.
6. Critically
examine the statement. A study of power inevitably involves an investigation of
social class.
7. What
is meant by Equality of Educational Opportunities? What are its possibilities
in developing countries?
8. Do
you accept that Marxism offers a ‘pre-fabricated theory of social change’?
Discuss critically.
PAPER
II-1987
Section
A
1. Write
notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Role of Elite in social
transformation
(b) Reservations: Need
and achievement
(c) Convergence of class
and caste
(d) Crimes against women.
2. Assess
the impact of the west in shaping the Indian Renaissance Movement in the 19th century.
3. Is
the caste system immobile? Bring out the factors promoting intra-caste and
inter-caste mobility.
4. Examine
the roots of youth unrest. How can we channel youth power for national
development?
Section
B
5. Write
notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Unequal access to
education
(b) Bonded labour
(c) Role of mass media in
modernization.
(d) Reaching development
to the rural poor.
6. Analyses
the different dimensions of the integration of tribes in the national polity.
How can the process be accelerated?
7. Bring
out the socio-cultural constraints in population control in rural areas.
Suggest steps to make population control measures more effective.
8. Is
corruption a necessary concomitant of development? How can it be curbed?
