DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (Sociology) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2017.
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in about 150 words each.
1. Write briefly Comte's Social Statics and Social Dynamics.
2. Distinguish between organism and society.
3. Examine Durkheim's concept of Social Fact'.
4. Write a short note on Marx's concept of 'Alienation'.
5. Discuss Pareto's 'Circulation of elites'.
6. Differentiate between vertical mobility and Horizontal
mobility with suitable example.
7. Distinguish between function and dysfunction.
8. Analyse the meaning and perspective of ethno
methodology.
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Critically analyse Comte's law of three stages.
10. What is social evolution? Discuss Spencer's theory of
evolution.
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11. Elaborate Durkheim's theory on Division of labour in
society.
12. Discuss the conflict functionalism of Lewis Coser.
13. Write an essay on society as a system of equilibrium
propounded by Pareto.
14. Discuss elaborately Sorokin's theory of social mobility.
15. Evaluate Merton's concept on 'Manifest function' and
'Latent function'.
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