Paper – I

SHORT NOTES (10 markers)

1. ‘Enlightenment’ and emergence of sociology

2. Sociology and common sense

3. Multidisciplinary : Sociology’s relation with other social sciences

4. Scope of sociology today in understanding various social issues in a globalized world

5. Sociology as interpretative science

6. Problems of objectivity.

7. Difference between objectivity and value neutrality

8. Research designs in social science-The explanatory and exploratory designs

9. Ethnography

10. Techniques of data collection- Participant observation, Questionaries, Probability and Non probability sampling techniques, focus group Discussion, Content analysis, Biographies and Interviews.

11. The issues of Reliability and validity in non-positivism

12. Good hypothesis

13. Class in itself and Class for itself

14. Commodity fetishism

15. AGIL

16. Pattern variables and social change

17. Society as moving equilibrium

18. Cybernetic hierarchy of Parsons

19. Cultural lag

20. Difference between ‘unanticipated consequences’ and ‘latent functions’

21. Reference groups and Relative deprivation/Sanskritisation

22. Social stratification- Class, Status, Gender, Ethnicity and Race as dimensions

23. Hierarchy and exclusion leads to underdevelopment

24. Hierarchy replaced by differentiations today due to social mobility

25. Ethnocentrism and Ethnic discrimination / conflict

26. Status inconsistency in Modern societies

27. Globalisation: Growing Poverty, inequality, and social Exclusion

28. Voluntary and involuntary social exclusion

29. Sociology of work (Durkheim’s DOL)

30. Social organization of work in feudal/ capitalist and post industrial society.

31. Asiatic modes of production

32. Social determinants of Economic development

33. Globalisation and informalization of work

34. Feminisation of work

35. Women as Reserve Army of Labor

36. Legitimate Authority, and Dysfunction of Bureaucracy( Iron cage rationality )-Max Weber

37. Role of civil society/pressure groups in democracy – Protests/Policy making

38. Circulation of elites

39. Power Elite

40. Community power/societal power

41. Democracy as a social order

42. Indicators of power in industrial/postindustrial society

43. Globalization and Citizenship

44. The prerequisites/structure of social movements

45. Role of media in protests/movements today

46. Globalization and New Social movements

47. Religious beliefs in premodern societies

48. Religion and gender inequality/patriarchy

49. Sects and cults. Why it is proliferating today?

50. Gender roles in changing structure of family

51. Sex Vs Gender / The problem of gender

52. LGBT

53. Privatization of higher education

54. Education and social mobility/social continuity

55. The role of Science and technology in solving social problems

56. The social responsibility of science

57. Is ideology inevitable for social movement/social change?

58. Sociological imagination

LONG ANSWERS (20 markers)

1. Modernity and emergence of sociology

2. Sociology as a science: Positivism Vs Non positivism

3. Quantitative and Qualitative techniques

4. Religion : Durkheim Vs Weber

5. Division of Labor : Durkheim Vs Karl Marx

6. Social fact (Durkheim) Vs Social Action (Max Weber)

7. Comparison of Alienation(Karl Marx), Anomie (Durkheim) and Rationalization (Weber)

8. Mode of production (Karl Marx)

9. Class struggle (Karl Marx Vs Weber )

10. Protestant ethics and spirit of capitalism(Weber)

11. Social Action (Weber and Parsons)

12. Social System and Equilibrium (Parsons)

13. Social structure and Anomie/Deviance (R.K. Merton and Durkheim )

14. Compare Parsons’ Grand theory with Merton’s Middle Range theories

15. H.Mead on Self and identity/Gender identity

16. Davis and Moore theory of social stratification

17. Melvin Tumin’s criticism of functional theories of social stratification.

18. Social stratification: Karl Marx Vs Weber

19. Open Vs Closed societies debate

20. Poverty/inequality and Covid 19

21. Threats to Nationalism Today (Globalization Perspective)

22. Globalization and power of the nation State

23. Democracy and Identity Politics

24. Secularization and Cultural Nationalism/pluralism

25. Globalization and religious revivalism/ fundamentalism. 

26. Religion and science as compatibles

27. Religion as a conservative force or change agent

28. Changing family and marriage today /Threats/Non Normative families-Homosexuality /Live in relations

29. Patriarchy and sexual division of labor/Feminist movements/Patriarchal bargain

30. Development and dependency/Development of under development

31. UN/WTO/World Bank/IMF and other global institutions as agents of developed countries against developing and poor countries during Covid 19

32. Compare Marxian and Weberian theories of social change

33. Compare Marxian and Parsonian views on social change

34. Tradition and Modernity in social change/Structural constraints to social change