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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010

    SO 1810  – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

 

Date : 11-11-10                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

Part – A

Write a short note on ALL of  the following in about 30 words each                         (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

 

1. Asiatic Society.
2. Causality of Nature.
3. Ideographic explanation.
4. Moral Action.
5. Malady of Infiniteness.
6. Metaphysical- Ethical Rationalism.
7. Problem of Theodicy.
8. Non-significant Others.
9. The Outside.
10. Latent Function.

 

Part – B

Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each                                                    (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)

 

1. What was the impact of industrial revolution and capitalism on the development of sociology?
2. Evaluate Comte’s ‘Typologization of human attributes’.
3. What are the three major metaphors that Durkheim uses to discuss social change?
4. Explain the four basic stages of Mead’s ‘act’?
5. Describe the four key forms of Marxian alienation.
6. What is Stigma? Explain the three main types of stigma.
7. Explain Weber’s thesis on the relationship between protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

 

 

Part – C

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

 

1. Critically evaluate Parsonian Structural Functionalism.
2. ‘Dramaturgical sociology argues that human actions are dependent upon time, place, and audience’. Evaluate this statement in the light of Goffman’s work.
3. Weber’s work on ‘authority’ makes him a bourgeois Marx. Clarify this statement.
4. Examine the main elements of Marxian theory of class conflict.

 

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