LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

SO 1810 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

 

Date : 03-05-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

Part – A

 

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

 

1. Value Freedom.
2. Determinism.
3. Egoistic Instincts.
4. Role-Distance.
5. Hermeneutics.
6. Adaptation.
7. Reification.
8. Social Construction of Reality.
9. Nonfunctions.
10. Repressive law.
11. Voluntarism.

 

Part – B

 

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

 

1. How does Comte look at Individuals in society? Why did he say that individuals are incapable of self-control?
2. Explain Durkheim’s views on crime and punishment.
3. What are the four interactional principles that constrain face-to-face interaction?
4. Explain Weber’s concept of Verstehen. Does it give a rational procedure to study society?
5. Explain the structure of the capitalist society proposed by Marx.
6. Explain Parsons’ conception of Action, Interaction and Institutionalization.
7. Explain the four functional imperatives, proposed by Parsons that are necessary for all systems.

 

Part – C

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

 

1. Explain Parsonian Structural Functionalism and evaluate the major criticism of structural functionalism proposed by Ritzer.
2. Examine in detail how Comte presented his three stages of social development ‘mentalistically’.
3. Critically evaluate Weber’s structures of authority.
4. Examine in detail how Goffman perceived the self as the product of a dramatic interaction between actor and audience.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

SO 1810 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

Date : 05/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

Part-A

 

Answer ALL the following in 30 words each :                                                            (10 X 2=20 marks)

 

1. Who is the founding father of Medical Sociology?
2. What are the essential constituents of Enlightenment?
3. What do social statics and social dynamics refer to?
4. Explain crime and punishment as cause and consequence.
5. Write a short note on alienation.
6. Define Verstehen.
7. Explain AGIL.
8. What is the meaning of Middle range theory?
9. How does G.H.Mead understand Mind?
10. Define the meaning of Stigma with an example.

 

Part-B

 

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

 

11. Explain the law of three stages.
12. Elucidate the characteristics of ‘Ideal Types’.
13. Highlight the various types of authority according to Weber.
14. Discuss the Parsonian understanding of Structure and Social Action.
15. Define the meaning of anomie according to R.K.Merton? How does it manifest in American

society?

16. How does G.H.Mead understand society?
17. Delineate E.Goffman’s concept of dramaturgy.

 

Part-C

 

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

 

18. Discuss the social forces that contributed to the evolution of sociological theory.
19. Critically evaluate Durkheim’s study on Suicide.
20. Define dialectical materialism. Apply this philosophy to the evolution of different societies.
21. Write a detailed essay on the theory of looking glass self.

 

 

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