LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010

    SO 1803  – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

 

 

 

Date : 30-10-10                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

Section A

(10 × 2 = 20 Marks)

Answer ALL questions in 30 words each. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Is sociology an action science? Explain.
2. Briefly explain the structuralist thought on society.

1. Write a brief note on social system.
2. What are ethos and eidos?
3. Explain the concept of culture.
4. What is meant by folkways and mores?
5. Explicate the concept of indirect conflict.
6. What is deviant behavior?
7. Write a short note on technology and social change.
8. Name any four conflict theorists.

Section B

(5 × 8 = 40 Marks)

Answer any FIVE questions in 300 words each. All questions carry equal marks.

11. Locate medical sociology in the map of sociology.
12. Explicate sociological imagination.
13. Outline G.H.Mead’s stages of socialization.
14. Distinguish social groups from social aggregates and social categories.
15. Explain the significance of deviant behavior.
16. Furnish a brief description of functionalist treatment of social change.
17. Explain culture diffusion and culture area approaches.

 

Section C

(2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

Answer any TWO questions in 1200 words each. All questions carry equal marks.

18. Trace the development of society and community as unit-ideas of sociology.
19. Present an analytical account of cooperation, conflict and accommodation.
20. Discuss any two theories of social change by pointing out their usefulness and

limitations.

21. Examine the relation between individual and society.

 

 

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