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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