DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (Sociology) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each.
1. Write short note on Institution and Association.
2. Explain the Personality, Heredity and Environment.
3. List out the types and importance of agencies of
Socialization.
4. Write short note on Accommodation.
5. Differentiate competition and Conflict.
6. Write brief notes on formal ways of social control.
7. Discuss about the kinds of social control.
8. Put forth the relevance of folkways in the contemporary
society?
PART B — 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 700 words each.
9. Give detailed account on forms of social life.
10. Illustrate the various factors influence in one's
personality?
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11. Discuss in details about stages and agencies of
Socialization.
12. Enumerate the meaning and kinds of social control.
13. Elucidate about the associative process in Social
Processes.
14. Critically analyses the factors determining the
Competition and Conflict.
15. "Competition and Conflict is also one of the determinants
of social processes" critically analyze.