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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – November 2008

    MS 1806 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

 

Date : 06-11-08                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

Part – A

 

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

 

1. Fetishism of commodities.
2. Religion of Humanity
3. Anomie
4. Repressive Law
5. Imitation Theory
6. Manifest Function
7. Enlightenment
8. Dramaturgy
9. Production relation
10. Social Statics

 

Part – B

 

Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each:                                            (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

11. Examine the nature of Comtean positivism.
12. Explain how alienation leads to dehumanization?
13. What is Stigma? How does it devalue a person’s social identity?
14. What are the four dimensions of collective conscience?
15. What are the four key functional imperatives that society must fulfill in order to survive?
16. What are the main characteristics of ‘Ideal Type’?
17. What is symbolic interactionism.

 

Part – C

 

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

 

18. Examine the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of sociological theory.
19. ‘Suicide is an index to decay in social solidarity’. Critically evaluate in the light of Durkheim’s work on suicide.
20. Examine in detail the theory of structural functionalism propounded by Talcott Parsons
21. Write a detailed essay on historical materialism

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010

    SO 1810  – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

 

Date : 11-11-10                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

Part – A

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

 

1. Asiatic Society.
2. Causality of Nature.
3. Ideographic explanation.
4. Moral Action.
5. Malady of Infiniteness.
6. Metaphysical- Ethical Rationalism.
7. Problem of Theodicy.
8. Non-significant Others.
9. The Outside.
10. Latent Function.

 

Part – B

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

 

1. What was the impact of industrial revolution and capitalism on the development of sociology?
2. Evaluate Comte’s ‘Typologization of human attributes’.
3. What are the three major metaphors that Durkheim uses to discuss social change?
4. Explain the four basic stages of Mead’s ‘act’?
5. Describe the four key forms of Marxian alienation.
6. What is Stigma? Explain the three main types of stigma.
7. Explain Weber’s thesis on the relationship between protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

 

 

Part – C

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

 

1. Critically evaluate Parsonian Structural Functionalism.
2. ‘Dramaturgical sociology argues that human actions are dependent upon time, place, and audience’. Evaluate this statement in the light of Goffman’s work.
3. Weber’s work on ‘authority’ makes him a bourgeois Marx. Clarify this statement.
4. Examine the main elements of Marxian theory of class conflict.

 

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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)

3. Social Statics.
4. Division of labour.
5. Religion of Humanity.
6. Problem of theodicy.
7. Formal rationality.
9. Production relations.

 

Part – B

 

Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each:                     (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

11. ‘Gesture is the basic mechanism in the social act and in the social processes.’ Examine in light of Mead’s work.
12. Explain Goffman’s concept of dramaturgy.
13. How does Ideal type become heuristic devices to study historical reality?
14. What are the three postulates of functional analysis that Merton criticized?
15. How does Marx use the concept of alienation to revel the devastating effect of capitalistic production?
16. Explain the theory of looking glass self.
17. 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)

 

18. Examine in detail the Comtian stages of social evolutions.
19. How does Durkheim’s work on suicide demonstrate the function of sociological theory in empirical science? Illustrate with examples.
20. Examine in detail the AGIL model proposed by Talcott Parsons.
21. Evaluate Marxian historical materialism.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

SO 1810 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

 

Date : 03-05-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

Part – A

 

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

 

1. Value Freedom.
2. Determinism.
3. Egoistic Instincts.
4. Role-Distance.
5. Hermeneutics.
6. Adaptation.
7. Reification.
8. Social Construction of Reality.
9. Nonfunctions.
10. Repressive law.
11. Voluntarism.

 

Part – B

 

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

 

1. How does Comte look at Individuals in society? Why did he say that individuals are incapable of self-control?
2. Explain Durkheim’s views on crime and punishment.
3. What are the four interactional principles that constrain face-to-face interaction?
4. Explain Weber’s concept of Verstehen. Does it give a rational procedure to study society?
5. Explain the structure of the capitalist society proposed by Marx.
6. Explain Parsons’ conception of Action, Interaction and Institutionalization.
7. Explain the four functional imperatives, proposed by Parsons that are necessary for all systems.

 

Part – C

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

 

1. Explain Parsonian Structural Functionalism and evaluate the major criticism of structural functionalism proposed by Ritzer.
2. Examine in detail how Comte presented his three stages of social development ‘mentalistically’.
3. Critically evaluate Weber’s structures of authority.
4. Examine in detail how Goffman perceived the self as the product of a dramatic interaction between actor and audience.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

SO 1810 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

Date : 05/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

Part-A

 

Answer ALL the following in 30 words each :                                                            (10 X 2=20 marks)

 

1. Who is the founding father of Medical Sociology?
2. What are the essential constituents of Enlightenment?
3. What do social statics and social dynamics refer to?
4. Explain crime and punishment as cause and consequence.
5. Write a short note on alienation.
6. Define Verstehen.
7. Explain AGIL.
8. What is the meaning of Middle range theory?
9. How does G.H.Mead understand Mind?
10. Define the meaning of Stigma with an example.

 

Part-B

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in 300 words each :                                                (5 X 8=40 marks)

 

11. Explain the law of three stages.
12. Elucidate the characteristics of ‘Ideal Types’.
13. Highlight the various types of authority according to Weber.
14. Discuss the Parsonian understanding of Structure and Social Action.
15. Define the meaning of anomie according to R.K.Merton? How does it manifest in American

society?

16. How does G.H.Mead understand society?
17. Delineate E.Goffman’s concept of dramaturgy.

 

Part-C

 

Answer any TWO of the following in 1200 words each :                                           (2 X 20=40 marks)

 

18. Discuss the social forces that contributed to the evolution of sociological theory.
19. Critically evaluate Durkheim’s study on Suicide.
20. Define dialectical materialism. Apply this philosophy to the evolution of different societies.
21. Write a detailed essay on the theory of looking glass self.

 

 

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