LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

SO 1803 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

 

 

 

Date & Time: 28/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

SECTION – A

Answer the following questions in about 30 words each.                (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

1. What is sociology?
2. What are the essential features of a community?
3. Differentiate between associations and institutions.
4. Explain the kinship usage of avoidance.
5. What is a reference group?
6. Explain folkways and mores.
7. Distinguish between primary socialization and re-socialization.
8. List any three major works of Durkhiem.
9. What is ‘Ethnocentrism’?
10. Outline the goals of social control.

SECTION – B

Answer any FIVE of the following in about 300 words each.           (8 x 5 = 40 marks)

11. Explain Weber’s conception of sociology.
12. Define Social institution. Examine the importance of social institutions.
13. Define marriage. What are the different forms of marriage?
14. Elucidate Cooley’s theory of looking glass self.
15. Explain with example the cultural variability.
16. Explain Marx’s theory of class and class conflict.
17. Explain any two theories of social change.

 

SECTION – C

 

Answer any TWO of the following in about 1200 words each.      (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

18. Delineate the nature, scope and importance of sociology.
19. What is meant by social processes? Explain the different associative and dissociative social processes.
20. Define social change. Discuss the factors of social change.
21. What is meant by socialization? State its importance. Briefly discuss any two theories of socialization.

 

 

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