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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 4804 – QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

 

 

 

Date : 5/4/2011                Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

Part – A

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

 

  1. Nomothetic explanation.
  2. Inductive reasoning.
  3. Nominal measures.
  4. Double barrelled questions.
  5. CAPI.
  6. Generalisation.
  7. Narrative review.
  8. Sampling error.
  9. Vignette questions
  10. Dependant variable.

 

Part – B

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

 

  1. How does theory both inform and is informed by research process?
  2. What is validity? Why is it an important criterion in social research?
  1. Compare and contrast with adequate examples Indexes and scales.
  2. Why might it be helpful to conduct a small pilot study before beginning your research project?
  1. What is a double blind experiment? Explain with suitable examples.
  2. What is the role of bibliography in social research?
  3.  How do you reduce error due to interviewer variability?

 

 

 

Part – C

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

  1. Examine in detail the problems associated with structured interview.
  2. What is a self-completion questionnaire? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
  3. Evaluate the three most common and useful purposes of social research.
  4. Evaluate in detail how a research project is designed.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 2807 – CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

Date : 05-04-2011             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. Opportunity cost.
  2. Operant conditioning.
  3. Exchange network.
  4. Positioning.
  5. Discursive consciousness.
  6. Hermeneutic knowledge.
  7. Symbolic violence.
  8. Framing.
  9. Rules and resources.
  10. Undistorted communication.

 

Part – B

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

 

  1. Why did Emerson consider power as central concept in explaining exchange theory?
  2. What is public sphere? Why did Habermas propose to resurrect it?
  3. How did Gramsci’s concept of Hegemony have a major influence on post-war Western Marxism?
  4. Why is there a crisis of rationality in the modern world?
  5. How is manufactured risk produced by the modernization process?
  6. How does Foucault’s conceptualisation of power differ from that of the Marxists?
  7. Explain Peter. M. Balu’s concepts of norms and values.

 

 

Part – C

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

  1. Summarize and assess the theory of Structuration.
  2. Explain in detail how Bourdieu explains the concepts of habitus and field in his empirical study called Distinction.
  3. Examine how Althusser’s structuralist interpretation of Marxism liberated the intellectuals of the rigid determinism of orthodox Marxism?
  4. ‘Knowledge gives power and power controls knowledge’. Do you agree/disagree? Argue with examples.

 

 

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Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology April 2011 Human Resource Management In Hospital Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 2804 – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITAL

 

 

 

Date : 2/4/2011                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. What is the principle objective of Human Resource Audit?
  2. What does the spiritual asset of an employee refer to?
  3. Define Human Resource Planning according to Coleman.
  4. Write a short note on the impediments in Human Resource Planning.
  5. What is the specific meaning of “recruitment” and “selection”?
  6. How does the meaning of job description differ from job specification?
  7. “On-going training of employees is important in Modern Hospitals”-Justify with two reasons.
  8. What is the significance of e-learning in contemporary business world?
  9. Enumerate the purpose of wage and salary programmes.
  10. Write a short note on the constraints in performance appraisal.

 

Part-B

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in 300 words each :                                           (5 x8=40 marks)

 

  1. Explain the importance of Human Resource Accounting.
  2. Critically evaluate Human Resource theory propounded by Milles.
  3. What are the prerequisites for job analysis?
  4. Elucidate the challenges that the modern hospitals face in performance appraisal?
  5. “ Training is gaining ”- Dicuss.
  6. What are the factors that could be considered as “determinants of rewards”?
  7. Delineate the advantages of performance appraisal.

 

Part-C

 

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

 

  1. Elucidate the importance of Human Resource Management in the context of globalization.
  2. With the help of a flow chart, delineate the different steps followed in HR Planning.
  3. “Job satisfaction of employees is one of the principle reasons for the increase in production”-Discuss.
  4. Highlight the various types of incentives accorded to employees for better performance in Hospitals.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 2953 – HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

 

 

Date : 07-04-2011             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

Part – A

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

 

  1. Cross-sectional research.
  2. Diagnosis.
  3. Hospice.
  4. Inverse care law.
  5. Cardiac delirium.
  6. Moral discourse of suffering.
  7. Foetal alcohol syndrome.
  8. Attribution bias.
  9. Type A personality.
  10. Medical error.

Part – B

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

 

  1. Explain the stimulus model of stress.
  2. What are the limitations of doctor-patient communication?
  3. What are the issues faced in the assessment of pain?
  4. Explain the behaviour change approach to health promotion.
  5. How does cultures affect what and when people eat?
  6. Explain the four main approaches to the treatment of ‘problem drinking’.
  7. What are the health effects of smoking?

Part – C

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

  1. Examine in detail the factors associated with non-adherence to treatment.
  2. Evaluate the three major approaches to health promotion.
  3. Which theory of pain do you find the most reasonable, given your pain experience? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach?
  4. Is stress a social construct? Evaluate with adequate examples.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 4805 – HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

 

 

Date : 07-04-2011             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

PART A

Explain the following in about 30 words each                                                             (10 x 2=20 marks)

 

  1. Public policy.
  2. Health policy.
  3. Types of authority.
  4. Professional monopolists.
  5. Elitism.
  6. Power as thought control.
  7. Evidence based policy.
  8. Summative evaluation.
  9. Community participation in health policy.
  10. Public choice.

 

PART B

Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each                                                 (5 x 8=40 marks)

 

  1. What is health policy? Why is it important?
  2. Explain the salient features of pluralism.
  1. ‘Actors are at the centre of health policy framework’. Substantiate.
  2. Describe the process of policy making.
  3. Describe the limitations and challenges of community participation in health programmes.
  4.  Write a brief note on the role of the state in health systems.
  5. Bring out the practical steps advocated to reduce the gap between research and policy.

 

PART C

Answer any TWO questions in about 1,200 words each.                                           (2 x 20=40 Marks)

 

  1. Discuss the contextual factors that affect policy.
  2. What is private sector? What makes the private sector a powerful actor in health policy?
  3. Define globalization. Examine the impact of globalization on health.
  4. Write an essay on the Alma Ata Declaration on health.

 

 

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Loyola College M.Sc. Medical Sociology April 2011 Counselling Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 3807 – COUNSELLING

 

 

Date : 12-04-2011             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

Part – A

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

 

  2. Positive reinforcement.
  3. Mirror statements.
  6. Primary empathy.
  7. Reluctant client.
  8. Minimal leads.
  9. Functional fixity.
  10. Bobo doll experiment.

 

Part – B

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

 

  1. What do you consider as the pressing future issues for the profession of counselling? How do you think counsellors should address these concerns?
  2. What are the purposes of using cognitive and behavioural techniques in cognitive therapy and counselling?
  3. Given the values and goals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, what criteria would you use to distinguish rational from irrational thinking and behaviour?
  4. What is stress? What are the effective ways to tackle stress?
  5. What are the physical and psychological effects of stigmatization?
  6. How does ‘eating problem’ manifest psychologically?
  7. What is depression? How would you counsel a person suffering from depression?

 

 

Part – C

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

 

  1. Critically evaluate the attitudes and skills of an effective counsellor.
  2. Examine in detail the process of counselling.
  3. Distinguish between counselling, guidance and psychotherapy. How do you think the public perceive the similarities and differences in these three ways of helping?
  4. Examine feminist approach to counselling. How do they differ or not differ from other approaches? How are they the same?

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

SO 1810/1804 – CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

 

 

Date : 20-04-2011             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

Part – A

 

Answer all the questions in about 30 words each:                              (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

  3. Social Statics.
  4. Division of labour.
  5. Religion of Humanity.
  6. Problem of theodicy.
  7. Formal rationality.
  9. Production relations.

 

Part – B

 

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

  1. ‘Gesture is the basic mechanism in the social act and in the social processes.’ Examine in light of Mead’s work.
  2. Explain Goffman’s concept of dramaturgy.
  3. How does Ideal type become heuristic devices to study historical reality?
  4. What are the three postulates of functional analysis that Merton criticized?
  5. How does Marx use the concept of alienation to revel the devastating effect of capitalistic production?
  6. Explain the theory of looking glass self.
  7. How does Durkheim refute that crime is not pathological?

 

 

Part – C

 

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

 

  1. Examine in detail the Comtian stages of social evolutions.
  2. How does Durkheim’s work on suicide demonstrate the function of sociological theory in empirical science? Illustrate with examples.
  3. Examine in detail the AGIL model proposed by Talcott Parsons.
  4. Evaluate Marxian historical materialism.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY.

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

SO 1805 – SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH

 

 

 

Date : 27-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

PART – A

 

Answer ALL questions in about 30 words each:                                                           (10×2=20 marks)

 

  1. State the definition of health according to W.H.O.
  2. List any four roles of a medical sociologist.
  3. Define sick role.
  4. What is trepanation?
  5. What is meant by social epidemiology?
  6. What is a potion?
  7. Who are known as midwifes?
  8. What do you mean by home remedy? Give an example.
  9. List any four inventions of 17th century in the field of medicine.
  10. Differentiate primary care from secondary care.

 

PART – B

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

 

  1. Discuss the present status of medical sociology.
  2. Delineate illness as a lived experience.
  3. Explain professional model of health care.
  4. Compare and contrast the characteristics of primitive and folk medicine.
  5. Examine Parson’s sick role concept.
  6. Write a short note on hospice care.
  7. Trace the evolution of renaissance medicine.

 

PART – C

 

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

 

  1. Discuss the social basis of health.
  2. Examine in detail the labeling theory of health and sickness.
  3. Analyse the folk medicinal practices of Magdalenans and Ozarks.
  4. Describe the evolution of modern medicine.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

SO 4804 – QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

 

 

Date : 16-04-2012             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)

 

  1. Contingency table.
  2. Vignette questions.
  3. Observation schedule.
  4. Ordinal variable.
  5. Internal validity.
  6. Hypothesis
  7. Negative relationship.
  8. Snowball sample.
  9. Inter-coder reliability.
  1. Dependent variable.

 

Part – B

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

 

  1. Describe the difference between simple random sampling and systematic sampling. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each of these sampling approaches?
  2. What is a missing data? Why do they arise?
  3. Can you infer causality from bivariate analysis? Explain.
  4. Why are closed questions frequently preferred to open questions in survey research?
  5. Why do you think it is important to follow a specific set of guidelines when preparing a research proposal?
  6. What is the relationship between epistemology and methodology?
  7. What is a coding schedule? What are its limitations?

 

Part – C

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

 

  1. What is probability sampling? Examine the various types of probability sampling.
  2. What are the advantages and disadvantages associated with narrative review?
  3. Examine in detail the format for writing a dissertation.
  4. Elaborate the general guidelines for survey interviewing.

 

 

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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)

 

 

  1. Bring out the characteristics of social change.
  2. Identify the social conditions and factors leading to social deviance.
  3. Highlight the importance of socialization.
  4. Explicate the functions and dysfunctions of conflict.
  5. Classify the means of social control.
  6. What are ‘isomorphic cultures’? How do they come into existence?
  7. 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)

 

  1. Examine the theories of social change.
  2. Discuss the concept of group and groupings and present a classificatory scheme of social groups.
  3. Describe different means and methods of social control. Show how each society devices its own strategies of social control.
  4. Examine the ways and mechanisms by which cultures elicit cooperation and manage conflicts.

 

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