LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

OL 29

FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009

MS 1806 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

 

Date & Time: 28/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00   Dept. No.                                                     Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

Write a short note on the following in about 30 words each            (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

 

1. Means of Production
2. Anomie
3. Adaptation.
4. Social Fact
5. Collective conscience
6. Social physics
7. Unilinear theory
8. Consensus universalis
9. Legal Authority
10. Manifest Function

 

PART – B

Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each                         (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)

 

1. How does crime serve as a social function?
2. How does Durkheim use the idea of pathology to criticize the abnormal forms which the division of labour takes?
3. How does Marx use the concept of alienation to reveal the devastating effect of capitalist production on human beings and on society?
4. Briefly explain Parsonian functionalism
5. Briefly explain the importance of Middle range theory
6. What are the different types of authority?
7. What are the social reasons for ‘suicide’?

 

PART – C

Answer any Two questions in about 1200 words each           (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)

 

1. To understand human nature, we need to understand social history. Elucidate.
2.  Examine in detail the theory of looking glass self.
3.  Critically evaluate Comtean law of three stages.
4.  Examine the social forces that led to the development of sociological theory.

 

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