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M.A. (Part II) (Fourth Semester) EXAMINATION, 2018
SOCIOLOGY
SC-08 Contemporary Social Theories
(2008 PATTERN)
Time Three Hours Maximum Marks 80
N.B. All questions are compulsory.
(ii Figures to the right indicate full marks.
1. Answer any one of the following questions within 500 words
Discuss current crisis of Sociology.
Explain the relationship between agency and structure according
to Giddens.
2. Answer any one of the following questions within 500 words
Explain Foucault's contribution to post-structuralism.
Elaborate Althusser's theory of ideology.
3. Answer any two of the following questions within 250 words
each
Elucidate the contribution of Frankfurt School to Neo-Marxism.
Explain Derrida's concept of deconstruction.
Discuss characteristics of post-modernism.
Elaborate Bourdieu's concept of habitus and field.
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4. Write notes on any four of the following within 100 words
each
Hegemony (Gramsci)
Lifeworld and System (Habermas)
Modernity
Civil Society (Gramsci)
Mill's views on critique of positivism
Meaning of theory.