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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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