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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
M.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION SOCIOLOGY
FIRSTSEMESTER APRIL 2018
17/16PSO1MC02- SOIOLOGICAL THEORY
Date: 02-05-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
SECTION-A
Answer the following in 30 words each: (10x2=20marks)
1.Define Social Theory.
2. What do you mean by the term "Survival of the fittest"?
3. What is Lassiez Faire according to Herbert Spencer?
4. Define historical materialism.
5. What do you mean by Max Weber's Ideal Type?
6. Write a short note on reference group theory.
7.What is Alienation
8. How Talcott Parson define Social System?
9. Why Status role is basic unit of Social System?
10.What is laent functions according to Merton?
SECTION-B
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 300 words each: (5x8=40 marks)
11. Trace the Biography of Augute Comte.
12. Write brief note on Comte's Social Statics and Social Dynamics.
13. Write a brief notes on Herbert Spencer's organismic analogy.
14. Describe Durkheim's Social Facts.
15. Write a Brief note on Alienation and its impact.
16. Enumerate the Types of Authority classified by Max Weber.
17. Distinguish between Merton's Manifest and latent Functions.2
SECTION-C
Answer any TWO of the following in 1200 words (2x20=40marks)
18.Ellucidate August comte's law of three stages in detail.
19.Explain Herbert Spencer's intellectual understanding of society and biological systems.
20.Explain in detail the theories of suicide by Emile Durkhiem
21.Elucidate Karl Marx class struggle which leads to radical social change.