DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (Sociology) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
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 August Comte.
2. Explain the Evolutionary Doctrine.
3. Write a brief note on Divisional of Labour by Durkheim.
4. Write short note on latent and manifest functions.
5. Explain the concept of Dialectical Materialism.
6. Write briefly about Theories of information and
Communication.
7. Discuss about the cultural Dynamics.
8. Explain the meaning of circulation of elites by Vilferedo
Pareto.
PART B — 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following in about
700 words each
9. Give detailed account on law of three stages given by
Auguste Comte?
10. Illustrate Evolutionary Doctrine and Organismic
Analogy by Herbert Spencer.
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11. Discuss in details about Class Conflict by Karl Marx.
12. Enumerate the concept of Functions of Conflict by Lewis
Coser.
13. Elucidate about the Ethno methodology by Harold
Garfinkel.
14. Critically analyses latent and manifest functions by
Robert Merton.
15. "Religion as a opium by Karl Marx" — Critically analyze.