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1. “Sociology emerged in Europe and flourished to begin with on social reformist orientation
in the U.S.A”.-comment.
2. “The emergence of sociology in Europe owes a great deal to the ideas and discoveries
contributed by science.” Explain.
3. “Sociology without history is rootless & history without Sociology is fruitless”. Elaborate.
4. What can sociology show us about our actions? Discuss the practical significance of
Sociology.
6. Discuss how the sociologists have tried to solve the problem of differentiating the nature
and scope of their discipline from the subject matter of other social sciences
7. Had the French Revolution anything to do with the emergency of Sociology in Europe?
Make a critical study.
14. Explain the significance of empirical approach to the study of Indian society. How does
the use of historical approach enrich empirical orientation? (95/60)
15. “Tradition and modernity co-exist in contemporary Indian society’. Discuss the factors
responsible for this continuity and change. (96/60)
17. Substantiate, citing literature, the view that analysis of social stability and change has been
the main concern of classical sociologists. (400 Words)
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18. Explain the view that the social system is a basic conceptual model useful in
understanding social organization. (400 Words)
19. Explain as to why and how Durkheim described social reality to the group, not to the
individual.
20. Taking clue from Weber’s analysis of the role of Calvinist ethics in the rise of mature
capitalism, discuss the relative impact of (a) economic conditions, and (b) values and
ideas, on social change.
21. “The personality is formed, maintained and changed as the socialization process moves
along.” Explain. (400 Words)
22. What functions does social conflict perform? Explain the nature of social conflict in the
developing countries today. (400 Words)
27. What do you mean by empiricism? Examine the significance of empirical confirmation in
building sociological theory.
28. “Participant observation in many situations is nothing more than a case study.” Comment.
29. Explain the basic features of the ex post facto research design and assess its role in
sociological research.
34. Bring out the unity and diversity in the society and culture in India.
35. Describe the different approaches to the study of Indian society and examine fully the
utility of any one of them.
36. Discuss the impact of religious, linguistic, caste and tribal groups on the nation building
process in India.
37. Distinguish between tribe and caste bringing out the implications of the difference for
settlement pattern and community living.
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38. Enumerate and explain the factors conducive to joint family and comment on its
prevalence/disappearance in rural India.
39. Enumerate the forces affecting the jajmani system and examine their impact on the
‘community’ aspect of the village.
40. Examine whether the different centers of political power in India are successful as
democratic institutions. (400 Words)
41. Define social stratification and discuss the principles of stratification in the traditional
hierarchy (400 Words)
42. Examine the changing stratification system in modern India in relation to the issues of
equality and social justice. (400 Words)
43. Bring out the impact of education on social mobility and equality with special reference to
the Scheduled castes. (400 Words)
44. Define social change and assess the role of legislative measures in bringing about social
change in India. (400 Words)
49. Distinguish between formal and informal structures of organizations and show how some
of the problems of formal organizations can be better understood in forms of this
distinction. (250 Words)
50. Define ‘social stratification’ and critically examine the view that Marx has “oversimplified
the structure of satisfaction by reducing it to one factor, control of the means of
production.” (250 Words)
51. What do you mean by functionalism? Explain Merton’s paradigm of functional analysis.
Does it satisfy the requirements of a rigorous theory?(250 Words)
52. In what ways is organic solidarity different from mechanical solidarity? Does organic
division of labour lead to greater efficiency? Illustrate your view with examples. (250
Words)
53. Examine Pareto’s analysis of the circulation of elites. It is valid for the modern industrial
societies?
54. Distinguish among power, prestige and authority. What are the different ways in which an
authority may gain legitimacy? Why does a changing society face crises of legitimacy?
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55. Bring out the relationship between technological development and changes in family and
kinship. How do you account for the different types of kinship system in the US and Japan
which are similar with regard to technological development?
56. Define and elaborate social fact and social action as the subject matter of sociology. What
are the problems which such a subject matter possess for its scientific study? Can it be
studied scientifically at all?
57. Distinguish between observation and interviewing as techniques of data collection. Under
what contexts may their use be recommended? Bring out their merits and demerits as
regards their objectivity and validity. (300 Words)
58. Write short notes on any two of the following: (200 Words)
(a) Religion as a force both for integration and conflict within society.
(b) Dialectics of change as applied to the Indian society.(c) Changes in the society at large
and role conflict within the family.
(d) The significance of the combination of induction and deduction in scientific method.
59. What argument are adduced by some authors to assert that the caste system is peculiar
only to India, and by some others to show that it is a universal phenomenon observable in
other parts of the world as well?
60. Some authors maintain that the caste system contributes to solidarity and harmony in
society, whereas some other thinks that it is an exploitative system. What are the grounds
for such divergent views?
61. Analyse the interrelationships among the joint family, the caste system and the village
community in the traditional Indian society and show how they were supported by the
peculiar economic organization and the value system.
62. Describe the traditional modes of adaptation and mobility in tribe and caste in India and
bring out the significant changes in these process since independence.
63. Traditionally, marriage in the Father-right societies in India was not merely a union
between man and woman, but a permanent transfer of a woman from the family of her
parents into that of her husband. What customs and practices in marriage and family can
you adduce to substantiate this observation?
64. There are tendencies in some parts of the country, on the part of the native people of a
region to discriminate against the immigrants. Analyse the economic, demographic and
socio-cultural factors which may give rise to the politics of nativism. (250 Words)
65. Examine India’s claim to be a secular state and society. Does the concept of secular state
as understood in India lead to the spread of secularism in society as a scientific concept.
(250 Words)
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66. Give a brief account of the major social reform movements in the 19th and 20th century
India. How and why can they be regarded fundamentally different from such movements
in the past (250 W0rds)
67. Explain why it is not urbanization alone, but urbanization combined with
industrialization, which is responsible for far-reaching changes in society. (250 Words)
d. Whether the status of women in India is due to their inherent qualities or to social
arrangements.
69. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):-
70. What are the major postulates in functional analysis? Is the framework conservative or
radical in its approach to the study of social phenomena? Substantiate your view. (300
Words)
71. Discuss how the sociologists have tried to solve the problem of differentiating the nature
and scope of their discipline from the subject matter of other social sciences. (300 Words)
72. Distinguish among the concepts of “social inequalities”, “social hierarchy” and “the
perpetuation of social inequalities”. How are these features manifested in the different
forms of social stratification? (250 Words)
73. Write short notes on ALL of the following (Each answer should not exceed 200 words):
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74. In what sense is family a primary group? Examine the correspondence between the nature
and functions of the family on the one hand and the nature and functions of the state on
the other, in a changing society
75. Explain the basic features of “bureaucracy” and “oligarchy”. Do you, think that they have
become a part or all modern societies? If so, why? Substantiate your answer with
examples.
76. Analyse Weber’s thesis on the “protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism”. In the light of
this thesis do you think that all religions facilitate social change? Illustrate your answer.
77. Write notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:-
78. Explain:
c. Jajmani system.
d. Panchayati Raj
79. Examine on the basis of empirical evidence whether castes are evolving into social classes.
How do your account for the phenomenon of casteism?
80. Describe the variation in the form, structure and function of the Indian family at present.
Can this be under-stood in terms of rural-urban dichotomy? Elaborate your point of view.
81. Bring out the socio-cultural contexts of educational inequality. In view of these
circumstances what measures you think are appropriate for the solution of the educational
problems of the scheduled castes? (250 Words)
82. Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words each:-
(b) Social structural impediments to the adaptation of family planning practices in India.
(c) Socio-religious reform movements in modern India.(d) Socio-cultural causes of
corruption.
83. Compare and contrast the stratification systems and ideological patterns among the major
religious categories in India. Evaluate the problem of religious conversion against this
background. (250 Words)
84. In what sense was the traditional Indian village a ‘community’? Bring out the impact of the
Community Development Programme upon that ‘community’. (250 Words)
85. Describe the rural-urban differences in socio cultural characteristics such as caste and
religion and bring out their implications for economic and political behaviour. (250
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Words)
86. Write short notes on ALL of the following (Each answer should not exceed 200 words):-(a)
Suicide as a social fact.(b) Decent and Kinship as social networks.(c) Modernization and
intergenerational mobility.(d) Suitability of questionnaire for data collection in developing
societies.
87. How far do you agree with the view that while neopositivism reduces sociology
measurement, functionalism directs attention towards meaning? Can functionalism
explain dynamic social processes? (300 Words)
88. Discuss the utility of Max Weber’s ideal type as a methodological tool. Explain how Weber
uses the ideal type procedure to depict the authority patterns. (300 Words)
89. In social stratification a particular form of social inequality? Analyse the role of wealth,
power and status in the perpetuation of stratification systems in the society. (300 Words)
90. Write short notes on ALL of the following (Each should not exceed 200 words) :-(a)
Pressure groups and economic development.
(b) Industrialization and regional imbalances.(c) Social movements and the uplift of the
weaker sections.(d) Indoctrination and educational processes.
91. Discuss the role of participative decision making in formal and informal organizations. Is
it possible to have workers’ participation in industrial organizations?
92. Distinguish between science and religion. Examine religion as a functional and
dysfunctional factor in the contemporary society.
93. Analyse Marxian theory of social change. Is it useful to comprehend the changes in the
developing societies?
94. Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words on each:
95. What are the features of economic development? Outline the social determinants and
consequence of economic development in India.(250 Words)
96. Discuss the changing political relations in rural India in the context of democratic
decentralization.(250 Words)
97. Critically examine the view that joint family organization in India is changing over to
nuclear family.(250 Words)
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98. Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words on each:
99. Discuss industrialization and urbanization as inter related factors of social change in
India.
100. What is a social movement? Discuss with examples the part played by social movements in
bringing about social change in India.
101. What do you understand by population dynamics? Discuss the social dimensions of
population control and family welfare programmes in India.
102. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):-
103. Distinguish between social change and social development. How does the knowledge of
Sociology help in the formulation of development policies?
104. Discuss suicide as a social fact. While explaining the typology of suicide according to
Durkheim, bring out the destabilizing role of anomic in modern societies. (300 Words)
105. Are caste and class merely different forms of qualitatively different types of social
stratification? Elucidate your point of view. (300 Words)
106. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):
107. Analyse the social determinants of industrialization. Will industrialization per se lead to
equality and balanced development in the society?
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108. Do you agree with the view that legitimacy is a powerful instrument in the hands of the
elite in the contemporary society? What are the different grounds on which ruling elite
have tried to legitimize their authority in democratic and totalitartian societies?
109. Examine the concept of equality of educational opportunity. What are the social
constraints and social consequences implicit in the pursuit of this goal?
110. Write notes on ALL the following is not more than 200 words on each:
111. What is the relative role of ritual and secular factors in the traditional caste system?
Explain how their role in changing in the modern time. (250 Words)
112. Distinguish between the Ideological and the Sociological views on the Hindu family and
show how the former has influenced the latter. (300 Words)
113. Examine with particular reference to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the view
that education promotes social equality. (300 Words)
114. Write notes on any three of the following is not more than 200 words on each:
115. Discuss the efficacy of land reforms to transform India’s agrarian social structure. (250
Words)
116. Examine the view that the traditional social institutions of India are a major impediment
to its industrialization. (250 Words)
117. How far is, it true to say that the urban social structure in India is only a replica of the
rural social structure? (250 Words)
118. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):
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(c) Change in sex roles and the socialization of children.
119. Do you agree with the view that sociology can never be a science? What limitations need to
be taken into consideration in the scientific study of social phenomena? (300 Words)
120. Discuss Max’s concept of class. Is class struggle inevitable for the elimination of
inequalities and exploitation in the third world societies? (250 Words)
121. Analyse scientific theory of culture. Will the crisis in culture in the contemporary society
facilitate the emergence of new man? (250 Words)
122. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):
123. Discuss family as a basic and fundamental social institution. Do you think the changing
sex roles necessitate the replacement of family by another institution? (250 Words)
124. Explain the role of community power structure in the political decision-making processes
in the society. Are power and authority getting broad based in India today? (250 Words)
125. Examine the relationship between social structure and social change. Has the Indian
social structure facilitated or hindered the process of change? (250 Words)
126. Write short notes on ALL the following is not more than 200 words each:
127. What is the structural perspective on the caste system? Is it not an oversimplification to
describe the system as a hierarchy of statuses based on the opposition of the pure and
impure? (250 Words)
128. Describe the main characteristics of Jaimani system. Do you agree with the view that it is
basically an Institution of politico-economic dominance and dependence? (250 Words)
129. Discuss the social consequences of economic development in India. Do you share the view
that it has increased economic inequality and failed to promote social justice? (250
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130. Write short notes on ALL the following more than 200 words each:(a) The impact of
democratization on the village community.
131. Examine the role of caste as a pressure-group in contemporary Indian politics. (250
Words)
132. Trace the impact of urbanization on the Hindu family. (250 Words)
133. How far is tradition a barrier to modernization? Does not modernization take to form of
traditionalization in India? (250 Words)
134. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):
b. Research Design
135. Discuss the contributions of Durkheim to sociology. How far did his methodology
influence sociological traditions?
136. How does culture influence personality? Can personality influence culture? How?
137. What are the agencies of social control? Which is the most effective one in a democratic
society?
138. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):
b. Power.
c. Social Mobility.
d. Youth Culture.
139. Has development been successful in removing poverty? Can you relate development to
progress? (250 Words)
140. Can education be considered as an agent of social change? In what manner can it establish
a new social order? (250 Words)
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141. How is Marxism relevant to developing nations? Will it be able to establish classless
societies? (250 Words)
142. Write short notes on ALL of the following is not more than 200 words each:
143. Comment on the distinction between ‘hierarchy’ and ‘social stratification’. Which of the
two will be a more appropriate term to describe the caste system and why?
144. Discuss the process of social mobility in the caste system commonly described as
sanskritization and westernization. Have they reflected any structural change in the
system?
145. Examine the impact of recent social legislation on Hindu marriage and family with special
reference to the status of women. (250 Words)
146. Write short notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words each:
147. What is the link between industrialization and urbanization? Answer with reference to
India. (250 Words)
148. Discuss the salient features of the demographic situation in India. What are the prospects
of reducing the birth rate and stabilizing it in the near feature?
149. How far is generational disaffiliation responsible for youth activism in India? Why is the
Indian youth failing to respond to the national challenges?
150. Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):
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151. 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.
152. What is ‘social action’? What is its place in the analytical Frameworks of Max Weber and
Talcott Parsons?
153. Write short notes on the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):(a) Ethnic
group and its role in society.(b) Historical materialism.
154. Critically assess R.K. Mertion’s views on the contributions of research to the development
of sociological theory.
155. How do you relate the educational system to the economic development in India?
156. Discuss the role of religion to the world today. Has the supergrowth of science any de
mystifying effect on religion?
157. Write notes on ALL the following in not more than 200 words each:
158. Examine the impact of Buddhism and Islam on the Hindu society.
159. ‘Despite all the fusion and fusion that the caste system has undergone through the ages. It
has bound to maintain the permanency of its form’. Comment.
160. Discuss the changing value-orientations of women in the Indian middle class families.
161. Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words each:
163. 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?
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164. 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?
165. Write short notes on ALL the following (each answer should not exceed 200words):
b. Ideal Types
c. Social Movement
d. Alienation
166. 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?
167. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown is said to have improved upon B. Malinowski’s Functional theory.
Discuss, how.
168. 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.
169. “Sociology without History is rootless and History without Sociology is fruitless.”
Elaborate. (300 Words/2010)
170. “There has been a substantial decline in labour class and increase in labour force in non-
manual jobs with the advent of new technological revolution.” Critically examine. (300
Words/2010)
171. “Protective discrimination not only protects, but also discriminates.” Comment (300
Words)
172. Distinguish between ‘Secularism’ and ‘Secularization’. Analyze the nature and extent of
Secularization in contemporary India. (300 Words)
173. Are social movements always influenced by ideologies? Discuss (200 Words)
174. ‘Revolutionary changes have some specific characteristics.” Discuss with examples. (200
Words)
175. Write a note on Constitution as a living document of Social Change. (150 Words)
176. Examine the social dimensions of religious revivalism and fundamentalism in the context
of globalization. (300 Words)
177. Examine the social dimensions of displacement induced by development (150 Words)
178. Analyze the social impact of market economy on traditional societies. (150 Words)
179. Write a short note on the integration of tribes in Hindu Culture. (200 Words)
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180. Is Secularism a weak ideology? Critically analyze the reasons for anti-secular trends in
India. (300 Words)
181. Analyze the ideological and strategical features of Naxalbari movement. (300 Words)
182. Discuss the metaphysical and ethical basis of Hindu social organization. (300 Words)
183. Critically evaluate the existing welfare programs for women in India. Have they benefited
all sections of women in India? (300 Words)
184. Outline the factors responsible for unrest in agrarian communities of India. What
suggestions will you give to arrest this trend? (300 Words)
185. Briefly discuss the Conflict Perspective on social stratification and examine the view that
social inequality in India is the function of rigid social stratification system. (300 Words)
186. Write a short note on the social dimensions of corruption. (200 Words)
187. Discuss atrocities on women and suggest annihilative measures for them. (300 Words)
188. Discuss the meanings and significance of culture in human society. Critically bring out the
role of culture in the development of personality. (300 Words)
189. Describe the socio-economic factors responsible for communal tensions in India. What
suggestions will you give to control them? (300 Words)
190. Write a short note on science and social responsibility (200 Words)
191. Define ‘Social Policy’. Evaluate the performance of Social Policy in modernization of
developing societies. (300 Words)
192. Explain Karl Marx’s conception of ‘Class Antagonism’. How have the functionalists reacted
to his views? (300 Words)
193. Elaborate the concept of Political Elite. Explain how social structural origins of political
elites influence their political orientations. (300 Words)
194. Examine the nature of Social Facts as understood by Emile Durkheim. (300 words)
195. Describe the salient features of the poverty alleviation programmes. What modifications
would you suggest to make them more effective? (200 words)
196. What are social phenomena? Distinguish them from psychological phenomena.( 200
words)
197. Discuss the impact of industrialization and urbanization on family in India.( 300 words)
198. Discuss the emerging forms of marriage and family with examples from the West and the
East. Can there be family without marriage? Examine (300 words)
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199. Comment on the sociological impact of globalization on people working in the Informal
sector. (200 words)
200. Comment on the critics’ charge that Immanuel Wallerstein’s dependency theory is
simplistic and wrong. (200 words)
201. Write a short note on Ideological perspective of G.S. Ghurye. (200 words)
202. Write a note on comparison between Sociology and Economics. (200 words)
203. Comment on the influence of social and cultural factors on family planning in India. (200
words)
204. Critically examine Weber’s theory of Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. (300
words)
205. Mahatma Gandhi is often described as revolutionary. Examine this characterization in the
light of the theory of social movements. (300 words)
207. Write in not more than 200 words about Acculturation and integration of tribal
communities. (200 words)
208. Write a short note on C. Wright Mills’ Power Elite. (200 words)
209. Comment on the changes that the Agrarian Social Structure in India is undergoing. (300
words)
210. Write about Social mobility in open and closed systems. [IAS 2008][200 words]
211. In the context of the caste system, critically examine Louis Dumont’s concept of purity and
pollution.[IAS 2009][300 words]
212. Write a note on Objectivity and Value Neutrality in Social Research. (200 words/ IAS
2004)
214. Bring out a comparative analysis of Marxian and Parsonian views of social change and
examine the relevance of each view for social development in the contemporary India.
(600 words/ IAS 2004/ 60 marks)
215. Mention the Impact of Muslims on Indian Society.(200 words/ IAS 2004)
216. Distinguish between Sex and Gender. Discuss the gender issues with suitable examples
(300 words/IAS 2002)
217. Describe the socio-economic factors responsible for communal tensions in India. What
suggestions will you give to control them?(300 words/IAS 2003)
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218. Discuss the important factors involved in the making of a criminal. (300 words)
219. Evaluate the changing frontiers of caste system in contemporary India. (300 words)
220. Highlight the problem of objectivity and value-neutrality in Social Research. Elaborate,
with suitable examples, the limitations associated with the tools of measurements in Social
Science Researches. (200 words/ CSM 2003)
221. Examine the conceptual distinction between social inequality and social stratification.
How do the nature and forms of the social stratification system determine the patterns of
social mobility? (200 words/ CSM 2003)
222. What are micro-sociology and macro-sociology? How could the two be related?(200
words/ IAS ’74)
223. What is a “tribe”? Examine the view that the tribes in India are tribes in transition.(200
words/ IAS ’77)
224. Write short note on ‘Relative Deprivation’ (200 words/ IAS 1999)
225. Describe the distinctive features of tribal communities in India. Discuss the factors
affecting tribal identity.(300 words/ IAS 2006)
226. Discuss the Class struggle as conceived by Karl Marx(200 words/ IAS 2005)
227. Describe the process of emergence of the middle class in India. What role has the middle
class played in national development?(300 words/ IAS 2005)
228. Analyse the sociological ideas of Pareto. (300 words/ IAS 1964)
229. Discuss the metaphysical and ethical basis of Hindu social organisation. (300 words/ IAS
2002)
230. Bring out Tonnies’ differentiation between ‘Community’ (Gemeinschaft) and ‘society’
(Gesselschaft) and show how this paved the path for Cooley to develop his theory of
primary group. (200 words/IAS1965).
231. Write short note on- The share-croppers’ movement in India. (200 words/IAS1991).
232. Bring out the role of Culture in the development of human personality. (200 words)
233. Sociologists would not have objected to proselytization but for its harmful effects on
Indian culture’. Discuss critically. (200 words)
234. What is Merton’s view of relationship between social structure and deviance? In what
sense is a deviant also a conformist? (500 words/ IAS 2008)
235. Critically evaluate the child welfare programmes in India. Have they benefitted all sections
of children in India? (500 words/IAS 2000)
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236. State the meaning and characteristics of an ideal type. What, according to Max Weber, is
the use and significance of the ‘ideal type’ in social science research? (200 words)
237. Elaborate the concept of political elite. Explain how social structural origins of political
elites influence their political orientations.(500 words/IAS 2001)
238. What are the structural conditions under which movements emerge? Discuss with
reference to any one theory of genesis of social movements. (200 words)
239. Elaborate on the social necessity of religion. Discuss the relationship between religion and
science. (500 words/ IAS 1999)
240. In the context of the caste system, critically examine Louis Dumont’s concept of purity and
pollution. (300 words/ IAS 2009)
241. Comment on the reasons why neo-idealists and symbolic interactionists are critical of
‘positivism’ in Sociology. (300 words)
242. What is the impact of Globalization on the structure and mobilization of the working class
in India? (500 words)
243. Distinguish between probability and non-probability sampling methods. How many types
of sampling designs are there? (300 words/ IAS 2009)
244. Emile Durkheim’s conception of Social Fact was essentially an endeavor by him to create a
separate niche and scientific status for sociology. Explain.(200 words)
245. Critically Examine Emile Durkheim’s Concept of Sacred and Profane and how it can be
viewed for Indian Society (250 words)
246. Examine Emile Durkheim’s Concept of The Division of Labor and how it can be viewed for
modern Societies (250 words)
247. Critically Examine the Concept of Suicide and how is it viewed in Modern Societies
especially in India. (250 words)
248. How Marx understood Sociology through Process of Dialectics and how a common man
can understand contemporary Society by Dialectics? Explain with examples.(300words)
249. Explain Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle. Evaluate the theory in terms of its relevance
in explaining contemporary reality. ( 250 words)
252. Compare Karl Marx with ED with reference to the framework of DOL.(200 words)
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253. Write Short note on: Social System and Pattern Variables. (200 words)
254. Bring out a Comparative analysis of Marxian and Parsonian views of Social change and
examine the relevance of each view for Social Development in the Contemporary India.
(200 words/CSM 2004)
255. Write Short note on Cybernetic Hierarchy of Control (200 words/CSM 2010)
256. To Robert Merton, deviant behaviour is a result of Anomie. Analyse his Sociological theory
of deviant behaviour, with a special reference to his formulation of types of Deviance.
(250words/ CSM2009)
257. Write short note on: Robert Merton’s views on latent & manifest functions. (200 words)
258. Write short note on: Primary and Reference Groups. (200 words)
259. What are the reactions of Robert Merton to the functionalism pioneered by social
Anthropologists? Indicate the limitations of his ides of latent functions. (200 words)
260. Power and authority go together. Examine. Also explain the various types of Authority.
(200 words)
261. Define Ideal type and explain Weber’s concept of Verstehen for understanding Social
Phenomenon? (200 words)
262. Critically examine Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism? (200 words)
263. Critically analyze the contributions of G.H Mead to Symbolic Interactionism? (200 words)
264. Describe the importance of lineage and descent in kinship and family. (200 words)
265. What you mean by marriage and family? Discuss the Structural and functional changes in
family in modern society. (200 words)
266. Discuss the meanings and significance of culture in Human society. Critically bring out the
role of culture in the development of Personality. (200 words)
267. Write short note on: Social Consequences of increase in the rate of Divorce. (200 words)
268. In our society Hierarchical relations are influenced by Social Mobility. Explain How? (200
words)
269. Explain how open and closed systems of stratification are undergoing transformation in
the emergence of new hierarchical social order in societies. (200 words)
270. Socialization and social control are complimentary to each other in maintaining Social
Order – Elucidate your answer with appropriate illustrations. (200 words)
271. How do formal and informal organization of work influence labors mobility? Explain with
examples. (200 words)
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272. Write short note on feminization of labor in informal sector. (200 words)
273. Write short note on Social Determinants of Economic Development. (200 words)
274. Write short note on Self Help Group as an informal organization from a sociological
perspective. (200 words)
275. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Citizenship and Civil
Society. (200 words)
276. Collective action in politics can bring integration and disintegration in society. Comment.
(200 words)
277. Write short note on bureaucracy in new capitalist economy. (200 words)
278. Are social Movements always influenced by ideologies? Discuss. (200 words)
279. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Millenarian Movements.
(200 words)
280. What are the Structural elements of a social Movement? State how a social movement
comes to its end. Illustrate your answer with example. (200 words)
281. Write short note on: ideology and strategy of Social Movement. (200 words)
283. Discuss in detail the Mass Media and education on Indian Society. (200 words)
284. Write short note on: Privatization of Education and Equality of Opportunity? (200 words)
285. “Education is induction into learner’s culture”. Examine the statement in Society today?
(200 words)
288. Define Sect, Cult and Religion. In what way do Weber’s views on religion differ from those
of Durkheim? (200 words)
289. “Science has empirical means to logical ends and Religion has non empirical means to
logical ends.” Comment. (200 words)
290. Critically examine functional and dysfunctional aspects of Religion. (200 words)
291. Write short note on: Science and social Responsibility. (200 words)
292. Write short note on: Social Impacts of New Technologies in India. (200 words)
293. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Theory of cultural lag –
Ogburn and Nimkoff. (200 words)
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294. Revolutionary changes have some specific characteristics “. Discuss with examples. (200
words)
296. Define Social Policy. Evaluate the performance of social policy in modernization of
developing Societies. (200 words)
297. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Reliability and Validity.
(200 words)
298. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Utility and Reliability in
Social Research. (200 words)
299. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Comparative method.
(200 words)
300. Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Fact, value and
Objectivity. (200 words)
301. Comment on the reasons why neo idealists and symbolic interactionists are critical of
Positivism in Sociology. (200 words)
303. What can Sociology show about our Action? Discuss the Practical significance of
Sociology. (200 words)
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