IAS Main Sociology Question Paper 2010


SOCIOLOGY

Paper I

Time Allowed: Three Hourse

Maximum Marks: 300

INSTRUCTIONS

Each question is printed both in Hindi and in English.

Answer must written in the medium specified in the admission Certificate issued to you, which must be stated clearly on the cover of the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No marks will be given for the answer written in an medium other than that specified in the admission Certificate.

Candidates should attempt Question Nos. and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the reamining questions selecting at least one question from each Section.

The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question.

Section A

1. Write short notes on any four of the following, keeping sociological perspectives in view (each short note in about 200 words) 15×4=60

Content Analysis

Nomothetic and Idiographic Methods

Serendipity

Cybernetic Hierarchy of Control

Ethnicity and Development

2. " Sociology without History is rootless and History without Sociology is fruitess." Elaborate. 30

Examine the social dimensions of religious revivalism and fundamentalism in the context of globalisation. 30

3. " Work in capitalism is reduced to mere labour in which the individual does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and riuns his mind ." Critically evaluate the assertion. 30

Complex Karl Mark with Emile Durkheum with reference to the framework of 'division of labour'. 30

4. Critically analyse the contributions of G.H. Mead to 'symbolic interactionism'. 30

Examine how open and closed systems of stratifaction are undergoing transformation in the emergence of new hierachical social order in societies. 30

Section B

5. Write short notes on any four of the following, from a sociological perspective (each short note in about 200 words): 15×4=60

Ferminisation of Labourb in Informal Sector

Identity Politics

Positive Religion

Kinship and Social Capital

Human Relations School of Thought by Elton Mayo as a social organisation of work process in industry

6. " There has been a substantial decline in labour class and increase in labour force in non- manual jobs with the advent of new technological revolution." Critically examine. 30

Distinguish between people being socially excluded and people excluding themselves socially in societies. 15

" Science has empirical means to logical ends and religions has non- empirical means to logical ends." Comment. 15

7. List the sources of power and explain the various indicators based on which power can be measured. 30

Analyse the social impact of market economy on traditional societies. 15

Examine the social dimensions of displacement induced by development. 15

8. Evaluate how civil society and democracy mutually reinforce each other. 30

Examine Karl Mark's views on 'class in itself' and 'class for- itself' with reference to proletarians. 30