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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
SO 2807 – CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Date : 05-04-2011 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)
- Opportunity cost.
- Operant conditioning.
- Exchange network.
- Positioning.
- Discursive consciousness.
- Hermeneutic knowledge.
- Symbolic violence.
- Framing.
- Rules and resources.
- Undistorted communication.
Part – B
Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)
- Why did Emerson consider power as central concept in explaining exchange theory?
- What is public sphere? Why did Habermas propose to resurrect it?
- How did Gramsci’s concept of Hegemony have a major influence on post-war Western Marxism?
- Why is there a crisis of rationality in the modern world?
- How is manufactured risk produced by the modernization process?
- How does Foucault’s conceptualisation of power differ from that of the Marxists?
- Explain Peter. M. Balu’s concepts of norms and values.
Part – C
Answer any Two questions in about 1200 words each (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- Summarize and assess the theory of Structuration.
- Explain in detail how Bourdieu explains the concepts of habitus and field in his empirical study called Distinction.
- Examine how Althusser’s structuralist interpretation of Marxism liberated the intellectuals of the rigid determinism of orthodox Marxism?
- ‘Knowledge gives power and power controls knowledge’. Do you agree/disagree? Argue with examples.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology April 2012 Contemporary Sociological Theory Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
SO 2807 – CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Date : 19-04-2012 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)
- Success proposition.
- Practical consciousness.
- The marginal utility principle.
- Regionalization.
- Lifeworld.
- Hegemony.
- Ideal State Apparatus.
- Habitus.
- Unconscious motives.
- Behaviourism.
Part – B
Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)
- Explain Peter M. Blau’s implicit exchange principles.
- What do you understand by the regionalisation and routinization of interaction?
- What is the basic argument in ‘Legitimation Crisis’?
- Explain Althusser’s concept of state.
- Why does Bourdieu consider the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism as false?
- What are the four institutions that Giddens uses to describe modernity?
- Give a brief overview of the history of the development of exchange theory.
Part – C
Answer any Two questions in about 1200 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- Discuss the key elements of structuration theory. Why is it considered as most articulated effort to integrate agency and structure?
- Examine in detail Bourdieu’s concept of Habitus and Field and how he manages to apply them in the real world.
- Examine in detail the concept of McDonaldization and how it creates a new means of consumption.
- ‘An exchange network is a specific social structure formed by two or more connected exchange relations between actors’ – Elucidate.