M.Sc Medical Sociology Question Paper
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Qualitiative Research Methods Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
SO 3806 – QUALITIATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
Date : 29-10-10 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
Part-A
Answer ALL the following questions in 30 words each : (10 x 2=20 marks)
- What is the principle objective of research?
- What is the significance of survey of literature in research process?
- Mention some important factors that motivate scholars to take up research.
- Distinguish ideographic method of research from nomothetic method.
- What is the meaning of interview according to Bandarkar?
- Based on your experience of a rural camp, propose two relevant topics for Field Research.
- Point out some prerequisites for the successful collection of data through participant Observation?
- Define “content analysis”.
- Indicate two major assumptions of Life History Method of research.
- What are the advantages of Physical Traces Method of study?
Part-B
Answer any FIVE of the following questions in 300 words each : (5 x8=40 marks)
- “Social science is an imperfect science”-Discuss.
- Highlight the significance of the unobtrusive method of research.
- Critically evaluate data collection through interview technique.
- What are the various roles that a researcher can play during Participant observation?
- Discuss the various types of content analysis.
- How does the problem of validity arise in Life History Method of study?
- With an example of a case study, explain the limitations of Physical Trace method of research.
Part-C
Answer any TWO of the following questions in 1200 words each : (2×20=40 marks)
- Explain the symbiotic relationship between theory and research.
- Discuss the preparatory steps for the successful conduct of Field Research.
- Explicate the advantages and disadvantages of content analysis.
- Elucidate the primary sources of data for Life History Method of research.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Principles Of Sociology Question Paper PDF Download
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.
- Is sociology an action science? Explain.
- Briefly explain the structuralist thought on society.
- Write a brief note on social system.
- What are ethos and eidos?
- Explain the concept of culture.
- What is meant by folkways and mores?
- Explicate the concept of indirect conflict.
- What is deviant behavior?
- Write a short note on technology and social change.
- Name any four conflict theorists.
Section B
(5 × 8 = 40 Marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in 300 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
- Locate medical sociology in the map of sociology.
- Explicate sociological imagination.
- Outline G.H.Mead’s stages of socialization.
- Distinguish social groups from social aggregates and social categories.
- Explain the significance of deviant behavior.
- Furnish a brief description of functionalist treatment of social change.
- 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.
- Trace the development of society and community as unit-ideas of sociology.
- Present an analytical account of cooperation, conflict and accommodation.
- Discuss any two theories of social change by pointing out their usefulness and
limitations.
- Examine the relation between individual and society.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Ngo Management Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
SO 3810 – NGO MANAGEMENT
Date : 09-11-10 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
Part – A
Answer all the questions in about 30 words each (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
- What are the indicators for a successful project?
- What are the components of a Project Proposal?
- Why are NGOs known as the third sector?
- Name the tax laws applicable to NGOs
- What are the various steps in NGO formation?
- Define ‘Community Based Organisation’.
- What are the pre-requisites to register a ‘Trust’?
- Name the laws governing the registration of NGOs.
- Name a few characteristics of NGO’s in India.
- Define 360 degree feedback and its purpose.
Part – B
Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)
- Explain in detail the various steps involved in Designing a Project.
- List the various life skills and explain its benefits to children.
- NGOs have been a major contributor to women empowerment – Justify.
- Explain how NGOs work in partnership with the government with any one National Health program as an example.
- Define the need for ‘Code of Ethics in NGOs’ and elaborate on any one International Code.
- Classify NGOs according to their types and functions with examples.
- Is the influence of NGO’s on government performance positive or negative? Explain with examples.
Part – C
Answer any Two questions in about 1200 words each (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- Trace the evolution of NGO’s in general and write a note on the growth of NGOs in India.
- What are the various methods of Fundraising? Draw up a Fund-raising plan to raise funds to conduct a sports meet for children from Chennai’s slums.
- India ranks second in the world with highest number of malnourished children; India has about 35 million child labourers. In the light of the above statistics justify how NGOs have contributed to Development of children.
- What is the process for registering an NGO and elaborate any one in detail.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Indian Social System And Health Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
SO 1806 – INDIAN SOCIAL SYSTEM AND HEALTH
Date : 03-11-10 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
Part-A
Answer ALL the following questions in 30 words each : (10 x 2=20 marks)
- What is global warming?
- Write a short note on the Green Fest 2010 celebrated by Loyola College on Oct.1.
- What are the various categories of nuclear households?
- Indicate the reasons for the constant increase of nuclear households with females as their
heads.
- What is the role of caste panchayat in rural India?
- What are the four popular and traditional methods of treatment of diseases in India?
- Indicate the important factors that contribute social differentiation among Indian tribes today.
- What are the main objectives of tribal policies in modern India?
- What is the implication of introducing spectacles in pre-modern India?
- Mention two main water borne and air borne diseases that affect the Chennai slum dwellers.
Part-B
Answer any FIVE of the following questions in 300 words each : (5 x8=40 marks)
- Explain historiographic and geographic approaches to health and disease in India.
- Critically evaluate the impact of urbanization on rural India.
- Discuss the health problems in rural India and how they are treated?
- Expound the important sources of subsistence in the tribal society.
- What are the dreadful diseases that affect the Indian tribes? How does the Government of
India help them to combat these diseases?
- Highlight the research finding of Lukacs on Harappan civilization.
- Explain the origin and development of western medical practice in Travancore.
Part-C
Answer any TWO of the following in 1200 words each : (2×20=40 marks)
- Discuss the social and cultural approaches to health and diseases in India.
- Present a comparative study of diseases that are prevalent in urban, slum, rural and tribal
societies in modern India.
- Highlight the legitimate demands of Tribal movements in India.
- What were the reasons for the wide spread of smallpox in pre-modern India and how were
they treated?
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Counselling Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
SO 3807 – COUNSELLING
Date : 01-11-10 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)
- Vicarious Coping.
- Emotional insightfulness.
- Psychiatrist.
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
- Reluctant Client.
- Primary Empathy.
- Sublimation.
- Extinction.
- Aversion Therapy.
- Catharsis.
Part – B
Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)
- Distinguish between counselling and guidance.
- What is counter-transference? What are ways by which they are expressed?
- What are the factors that promote resistance to termination of counselling relationship?
- What is recycling? How would you refer a difficult client to another professional?
- What is rational Emotive Therapy? How does it view human nature?
- Describe the five characteristics of the normal acute grief response to bereavement.
- What are the practical issues that affect drug- related problem counselling?
Part – C
Answer any Two questions in about 1200 words each (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- ‘The ultimate goal in counselling is for counsellors to become obsolete and unnecessary to their clients’. Evaluate the conditions in which termination may be particularly difficult for counsellors.
- What is psychoanalysis? Examine in detail the prominent techniques in psychoanalysis.
- Review some of the issues that affect HIV counselling.
- Evaluate Cormier and Hackney’s Model of information-oriented first interview.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Classical Sociological Theory Question Paper PDF Download
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)
- Asiatic Society.
- Causality of Nature.
- Ideographic explanation.
- Moral Action.
- Malady of Infiniteness.
- Metaphysical- Ethical Rationalism.
- Problem of Theodicy.
- Non-significant Others.
- The Outside.
- Latent Function.
Part – B
Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)
- What was the impact of industrial revolution and capitalism on the development of sociology?
- Evaluate Comte’s ‘Typologization of human attributes’.
- What are the three major metaphors that Durkheim uses to discuss social change?
- Explain the four basic stages of Mead’s ‘act’?
- Describe the four key forms of Marxian alienation.
- What is Stigma? Explain the three main types of stigma.
- 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)
- Critically evaluate Parsonian Structural Functionalism.
- ‘Dramaturgical sociology argues that human actions are dependent upon time, place, and audience’. Evaluate this statement in the light of Goffman’s work.
- Weber’s work on ‘authority’ makes him a bourgeois Marx. Clarify this statement.
- Examine the main elements of Marxian theory of class conflict.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology Nov 2010 Bio-Medical Ethics And Law Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
SO 3809 – BIO-MEDICAL ETHICS AND LAW
Date : 03-11-10 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
Part – A
Answer all the questions in about 30 words each: (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
- What is Medical Paternalism?
- Define Ethical altruism .
- Define non-voluntary
- How much information should you share with your patient?
- Write a note on Divine Command Theory.
- Expand – MCI, IMA and
- What is an Institutional ethical committee?
- Write a note on Declaration of Helsinki.
- Differentiate Informed Consent and Informed choice.
- What is brain dead?
Part – B
Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
- Discuss the role of medical sociologist in promoting ethical values and norms in health care setup.
- Explain the Principles of Biomedical Ethics with suitable example from your field work experience.
- Comment on Nuremburg trail and its relevance to biomedical ethics.
- What are the pros and cons of euthanasia?
- Does the pregnant woman have the right to decide if she is going to carry the baby to term or not? Critically comment.
- Discuss the ethical problems involved in H1N1 vaccination in India.
- Highlight some of the current medico-legal issues in Indian Health Care Sector.
Part – C
Answer any TWO questions in about 1200 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- A mother from a rural area gives birth to Siamese twins, who are slightly underweight. Their heads are unattached, and they each have two hands. They are joined together from below the costal margin, and hence are sharing many organs as well as their lower extremities, with a third but rudimentary leg arising from the posterior aspect. The doctors know that an operation must be carried out for the babies to have a chance but the procedure itself is rather complicated. Furthermore, the doctors cannot determine the extent to which the vital organs are being shared. They know if an operation is to be carried out, only one of the twins will survive, and it will be a very costly procedure. The twins must be kept in the special care ward until they are fit to be operated on. They cannot survive outside the hospital. The parents are certain that someone has bewitched the twins. The parents do not care whether the twins will survive, and they just want to go home. – if you were part of the medical team, how would you proceed and what are the ethical issues in this case?
- Though we don’t follow theories while taking decision, ethical theories provide a strong base for key decision-making in health care setups – justify the statement with suitable theories and examples.
- “By 2010 it is estimated that some two million people in India will be taking part in clinical trials . Most of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have established a presence in India, where they are increasingly recruiting patients and outsourcing trials”. Enumerate the ethical problems connected with human experimentation with reference to Indian context. How effective are Indian guidelines and laws?
- Critically evaluate how religious interpretation of abortion, euthanasia, Organ transplant and assisted reproductive technology affects the Health care decision making.
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology April 2011 Sociology Of Socially Excluded Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
SO 2809 – SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIALLY EXCLUDED
Date : 11-04-2011 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
Part-A
Answer ALL the following in 30 words each : (10 x 2=20 marks)
- Indicate some fundamental factors that account for the exclusion of some categories of people in India.
- What is the etymological meaning of Harijan?
- Trace the origin of the practice of untouchability in Chozha dynasty?
- Indicate some major diseases prevalent among the Dalits dwelling in Chennai slums.
- Mention any one demand of Periyar to include the excluded Dalits.
- Referring to the villages of your ethnographic study, distinguish “murder” from “massacre” of Dalits.
- Explain the notion of negative innate capital.
- What is the essence of PCR Act?
- Can Samathuvapuram stand as a paradigm for social integration of the excluded?
- What are the demands of the Backward Class in Uthapuram?
Part-B
Answer any FIVE of the following in 300 words : (5 x8=40 marks)
- According to Dr B.R.Ambedkar, how does Manusmiriti discriminate the Shudras?
- What are the factors that rigidified caste system in the Middle Ages in Tamil Nadu?
- According to J.H.Hutton, what are the restrictions imposed on the Adi-dravidars in Ramnad district in
Pre-Independent India?
- Explain the various types of exploitation that the Dalit women undergo in rural areas.
15.With the paradigm of Melavalavu panchayat, discuss the obstacles that hinder the political
empowerment of Dalits.
- Explain the significance of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribe Atrocity Prevention Act 1989.
- Based on your ethnographic study of some villages in Madurai District, suggest some effective
strategies to include the excluded Dalits in the mainstream social life.
Part-C
Answer any TWO of the following in 1200 words : (2×20=40 marks)
- “As a mark of protest against Hinduism, Dr B.R.Ambedkar and his followers embraced Buddhism”-
Discuss.
- Discuss the different forms of segregation of Dalits in rural areas.
- Examine the reasons for inter-caste conflicts in Madurai District from 1990.
- What are the diseases prevalent among the Dalits in rural areas and what are the important methods of
treatment?
Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology April 2011 Social Movements In India Question Paper PDF Download
LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
SO 2901 – SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA
Date : 11-04-2011 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
PART A
Answer ALL the following questions in about 30 words each (10 × 2=20 marks)
- What are social movements?
- Define collective mobilisation.
- Write a short note on riot and revolution.
- Define crowd.
- Mention any two contemporary theories of social movements.
- Mention any two religious reforms of Brahmo Samaj.
- What are the educational reforms of Aligarh Movement?
- Define backward classes.
- Give a short note on Dharavi.
- What are green movements? Mention their objectives.
PART B
Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each (5 × 8=40 marks)
- Discuss the important characteristics of social movements.
- Bring out the relationship between social change and social movements.
- Explain the classical tradition theory.
- Describe the contemporary theory of social movements.
- Highlight the social and religious reforms of Arya samaj.
- Elaborate on Narmadha Bachao Andolan Movement.
- What is Chipko movement? Explain its origin and development.
PART C
Answer any TWO questions in about 1,500 words each. (2 × 20=40 Marks)
- Explain the various stages of social movements and the conceptual problems in
studying social movements.
- What is SNDP? Highlight its objectives, programmes and social and religious
reforms.
- Describe the origin, growth and the significant events of non brahmin movement in
Tamilnadu.
- Write an essay on Mahar movement.