LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – November 2008

    MS 1805/SO 1803/MS 1800 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Date : 04-11-08                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

PART – A

Answer the following questions in about 30 words each:                                     (10×2=20)

1. Define Sociology.
2. List the salient features of community.
3. What is an institution?
4. Explain the term ‘Social structure’.
5. Define culture
6. What is xenocentrism?
7. Outline the importance of social groups.
8. Differentiate between formal and informal methods of social control.
9. What is a social norm?
10. What are the important sources of social change?

PART – B

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

11. Is Sociology a science? Substantiate.
12. Explain the concept of ‘Sociological Imagination’ with suitable example.
13. Elucidate the role and importance of culture to the individual and society.
14. Explain the different types of social groups and the criteria involved in the classification.
15. Critically examine the different types of deviance.
16. Analyze the factors of social change.
17. Elucidate the functional theories of social change.

PART – C

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

18. Define socialization. What are the important agents of socialization? Explain with example the role of different agents of socialization.
19. What are social processes? Examine the associative social processes explaining the factors facilitating and hindering each of the processes.
20. Define deviance. Illustrate the factors facilitating deviance.
21. What is Social change? Critically examine the cyclical theories of social change.

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        LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009

MS 1805 / 1800 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Date & Time: 25/04/2009 / 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. Define Community.
2. Define the term ‘society’.
3. What is an association?
4. Mention the characteristic features of culture.
5. Explain the concept of ethnocentrism.
6. What is meant by the term ‘socialization’?
7. Differentiate between associative and dissociative social processes.
8. Define social control.
9. Differentiate between primary and secondary groups.
10. What are the sources of social change?

PART – B

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

11. Explain the important uses of the discipline of sociology.
12. Elucidate the concept of ‘sociological imagination’.
13. Briefly describe the process of socialization.
14. Delineate the importance of social group in social life.
15. Define deviance. Illustrate the factors facilitating deviance.
16. Explain with example the different associative social processes.
17. Elucidate the conflict theory of social change.

PART – C

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

18. Define Sociology. Discuss the nature and scope of sociology.
19. Define culture. Elucidate the role of culture. Examine the growth of culture.
20. Outline the important goals of social control. Explain with example the formal and informal methods of social control.
21. What is social change? Discuss the factors of social change.

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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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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

SO 1803 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Date : 25-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

Section A

Answer ALL questions in 30 words each. All questions carry equal marks:           (10 × 2 = 20 Marks)

1. How does a sociologist define institution?
2. Is there a consensual definition among sociologists for sociology? Briefly present your defense.
3. Differentiate culture from civilization.
4. What is xenocentrism?
5. What is a social group? How is it different from social aggregates?
6. Identify any one issue related to defining associative social process.
7. Explain the meaning of anomie.
8. Is deviance necessarily anti-social? Justify.
9. Explicate macro social change with an example.
10. Define progress.

Section B

Answer any FIVE questions in 300 words each. All questions carry equal marks:     (5 × 8 = 40 Marks)

11. Bring out the characteristics of social change.
12. Identify the social conditions and factors leading to social deviance.
13. Highlight the importance of socialization.
14. Explicate the functions and dysfunctions of conflict.
15. Classify the means of social control.
16. What are ‘isomorphic cultures’? How do they come into existence?
17. How do functionalists and Marxians view the nature of sociology?

Section C

Answer any TWO questions in 1200 words each. All questions carry equal marks: (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

18. Examine the theories of social change.
19. Discuss the concept of group and groupings and present a classificatory scheme of social groups.
20. Describe different means and methods of social control. Show how each society devices its own strategies of social control.
21. Examine the ways and mechanisms by which cultures elicit cooperation and manage conflicts.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

SO 1803 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Date : 01/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

PART – A

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

• Define society.
• What is meant by association?
• What is cultural lag?
• State the types of socialization.
• What is meant by accommodation?
• Differentiate associative from dissociative process.
• What is meant by social control?
• Mention the types of deviance.
• Define social change.
• Name the theorists associated with evolutionary theory on social change.

PART – B

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

• Delineate the nature and subject matter of Sociology.
• Write a note on sociological imagination.
• Explicate ethnocentrism with examples.
• Elucidate the factors favouring and hindering assimilation.
• Discuss briefly the classification of social groups.
• Explain the social significance of deviant behaviour.
• Discuss in brief conflict theories of social change.

PART – C

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

• Define Sociology. Elaborate on the characteristics and scope of Sociology.
• What is socialisation? Analyze in detail the stages and agents of socialisation.
• What is social control? Discuss the types and agencies of social control.
• Discuss the different factors of social change.

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