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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
M.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION -SOCIOLOGY
FIRST SEMESTER APRIL 2018
17/16PSO1MC04/SO 1814 INDIAN SOCIETY STRUCTURE AND PROCESS
Date: 30-04-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
PART- A
Answer all the questions in about 30 words each: (10 x 2=20 marks)
1. What isstructural functionalism?
2. What is meant by subaltern?
3. Differentiate polyandry from polygyny.
4. Define family.
5. What is dowry?
6. Write a short note on village panchayat.
7. What is communal violence?
8. What is meant by regionalism?
9. Define social change.
10. Write a short note on industrialisation.
PART-B
Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each: x 8=40 marks)
11. India is a 'multi-cultural state'- substantiate.
12. Highlight Marxian perspective of understanding Indian society.
13. Critically examine the dowry system in Indian marriages.
14. Describe the economic life of the rural society.
15. Elucidate the communal conflicts in the Indian society with examples.
16. Explicate the process of urbanisation in India.
17. What is the need of the subaltern perspectives to study the Indian society? Explain.
PART- C
Answer any TWO questions in about 1,200 words each: x 20=40 Marks)
18. What is Indology? How can we understand the Indian society through this perspective?
19. Discuss different kinds of dowry system in Indian marriages.
20. Discuss the socio-economic inequalities spread in the Indian society.
21. Critically examine the modernisation of Indian society through urbanisation.