PAPER-III

SOCIOLOGY

Note This paper is of two hundred marks containing four sections. Candidates are required to attempt the questions contained in these sections according to the detailed instructions given therein.

Note This section consists of two essay type questions of twenty marks each, to be answered in about five hundred words each. ×20 40 Marks)

1. Corruption in India is disruptive to social development. Discuss.

2. Compulsory primary education to all children upto the age of 15 is necessary for socio-economic progress of Indian society. Argue in favour or against.

3. How pauperization has led to depeasantization in rural India Comment.

4. Discuss the factors responsible for the growth and development of Trade Unions in pre-independent India.

5. The path of mixed economy takes us nowhere near socio-economic development. Discuss.

6. How does internal migration disturb the population structure of India Discuss with examples.

7. Evaluate the socio-economic indicators of women's status in India.

SECTION II

Note This section contains three questions. From each of the electives/specializations, the candidate has to choose only one elective/specialization and answer all the three questions from it. Each question carries fifteen marks and is to be answered in about three hundred words. ×15 45 Marks)

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8. Discuss in brief various approaches to the study of rural society.

9. Discuss about the types of land ownership in rural India.

10. Define Jajmani System. Discuss the factors responsible for changes in the Jajmani System.

11. Discuss briefly the patterns of industrial bureaucracy.

12. Discuss the role of trade unions in maintaining industrial relations.

13. Analyse the importance of Hawthorne experiments in understanding human relations in industry.


14. Explain how ecology plays an important role in sustainable development.

15. Give a critique of Wallerstein's understanding of underdevelopment.

16. Did Mahatma Gandhi advocate modernisation of Indian society Explain in brief.

17. Critically examine "Demographic Transition" in India.

18. Analyse the State wise variations in Indian Infant Mortality Rate.

19. Discuss briefly the problems of population education in India.

20. Explain how culture influences gender role construction in India.

21. Evaluate the factors responsible for gender inequality in India.

22. Examine the role of self help groups in women empowerment.


SECTION III
Note This section contains nine questions of ten marks, each to be answered in about fifty words. ×10 90 Marks)


23. Explain Peter Berger's idea of phenomenology.

24. Examine Habermass's views on Neo-Marxism.

25. Explain the concept of structuration.

26. What contributes to the unity of diverse Indian society

27. Bring out Srinivas's contribution to structural-functional perspective.

28. What are the causes for gender inequality in India

29. Briefly describe the problems of displaced population.

30. Examine the causes for white collar crime in India.

31. Highlight the consequences of privatization of education.

Note This section contains five questions of five marks each based on the following passage. Each question should be answered in about thirty words. ×
5 25 Marks)

32. Answer the below questions according to the passage


In observing the social change going on around him, Durkheim thought that the chaos he discerned was caused by the lack of an appropriate moral order for the conditions newly brought about by the industrial and nationalist revolutions. He reasoned that a new moral order was necessary in order to produce social order under these circumstances. He felt that it was sociology's task to help discover the principles of social change and social order, and that social theory would then be able to dictate social practice and develop the new moral order.
How should sociologists go about developing this new moral order This was the same question that Saint-Simon had asked, and Durkheim was impressed with Saint-Simon's work. Saint-Simon was one of the first to argue that morality could be developed scientifically and, like him, Durkheim said that the proper method for sociology was the scientific method.
Durkheim's study of suicide is often held up as a model of scientific research in sociology. In his book, Suicide, he compared data from different countries, different religions, different periods of history, different times of the day and year, and so on. There were variations within religions as well as between religions and between married and unmarried people and the like. Durkheim concluded that suicide was a social phenomenon; it was not caused by individual distress (such as alcoholism or mental illness) or by environmental factors, such as climate, geographical location, or the season of the year. Different social environments exert different amounts of pressure on individuals thus promoting certain kinds of behaviour and inhibiting others. Protestants, for example, are freer of the control of the church than are Catholics; but one of the prices Protestants pay for that increased freedom is an increased probability of suicide. Similarly, when political or economic crises decrease the unity or cohesion of a society, individuals are under less pressure from society's rules and are more likely to commit suicide. In short, the more an individual is integrated into intimate social groups, the lower is the probability that he or she will commit suicide.
Durkheim's premise that social facts are things, makes it possible for sociologists to get outside of what they are looking at just as the chemist is outside of the test tube and thus study social life scientifically.


What is the reason for chaos in society

33. What is the task of sociology according to Durkheim

34. How Durkheim's study of suicide is considered a model of scientific research in sociology

35. Under what circumstances a person commits suicide

36. How suicide is a social phenomenon