LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
SO 1810/1804 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Date : 20-04-2011 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
Part – A
Answer all the questions in about 30 words each: (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
- Social Statics.
- Division of labour.
- Religion of Humanity.
- Problem of theodicy.
- Formal rationality.
- Production relations.
Part – B
Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
- ‘Gesture is the basic mechanism in the social act and in the social processes.’ Examine in light of Mead’s work.
- Explain Goffman’s concept of dramaturgy.
- How does Ideal type become heuristic devices to study historical reality?
- What are the three postulates of functional analysis that Merton criticized?
- How does Marx use the concept of alienation to revel the devastating effect of capitalistic production?
- Explain the theory of looking glass self.
- How does Durkheim refute that crime is not pathological?
Part – C
Answer any TWO questions in about 1200 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- Examine in detail the Comtian stages of social evolutions.
- How does Durkheim’s work on suicide demonstrate the function of sociological theory in empirical science? Illustrate with examples.
- Examine in detail the AGIL model proposed by Talcott Parsons.
- Evaluate Marxian historical materialism.
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