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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

SO 1806 – INDIAN SOCIAL SYSTEM AND HEALTH

 

 

 

Date & Time: 30/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

PART –A

Answer ALL questions in about 30 words each                      (2×10=20 Marks)

1. Explain Social Structure.
2. Define social Mobility.
3. Explain Feudalism.
4. Name important village studies.
5. Define Village.
6. Explain Structuralism.
7. What do you mean by collective sentiment?
8. Explain Sanskritisation.
9. Explain Demography.
10. Define Urbanisation.

PART – B

Answer any five questions in about 300 words each                     (5×8=40 marks)

1. Explain the problems faced by village people.
2. Analyse the historical approach to the study of social structure in India.
3. Explain critically ‘Asiatic Mode of Production’.
4. Write a short note on M.N.Srinivas’s conceptualisation of social change and mobility.
5. Explain the various characteristic features of urban stratification in India today.
6. How would you assess the rise of middle class among tribals in India?
7. Write a critical note on the privatisation of health care system in our country today.

PART – C

Answer any TWO questions in about 1200 words each                (2×20=40 marks)

1. Write an essay with critical inputs on the various approaches to the study of Indian social structure.
2. Critically analyse the traditional characteristics of village in India.
3. How would you evaluate the rise of nationalism in India?
4. Explore the structural changes Indian society witnessing due to Globalisation.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

    SO 1806 – INDIAN SOCIAL SYSTEM AND HEALTH

 

 

 

Date : 05/05/2008            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

PART A

Answer ALL questions in about 30 words each   (10 x 2=20 marks)

 

1. Mention the various approaches to study the Indian society.
2. What is demography?
3. Define urbanization.
4. What is a village?
5. What is meant by seasonal migration?
6. Give the meaning of Tribe.
7. Differentiate town and city.
8. Mention any two studies on villages and their significance.
9. What do you mean by caste mobility?
10. Write a short note on urban transportation.

 

PART B

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

 

1. What are the dominant economic activities of the tribal population?
2. Explain villages as participants in development and transformation.
3. Discuss the controversy between Elwin and Ghurye on the tribal policy.
4. Describe the morphology of urban India with a special emphasis on slums and squatter settlements.
5. Highlight the important features of religions in India.
6. Write a brief essay on backward classes and reservation.
7. Compare and contrast the problems faced by village and urban India.

 

PART C

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

 

1. Analyse the social and cultural approaches to health and diseases in India.
2. Highlight the importance of the political organizations of north eastern, central and south Indian tribes.
3. Elaborate on kinship, festivals, markets migration and collective sentiments of village India.
4. Write an essay on globalization in relation to politics, media and health care.

 

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