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Sociology 2024 • Sociology Paper-I • Q.1

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Sociology • Sociology Paper-I • 2024 • Q.1
Sociology Optional
(a) Discuss the nature of Sociology. Highlight its relationship with Social Anthropology. (b) Analyse the changing nature of caste as a status group. (c) Marriage as an institution has undergone a radical transformation from 'ritual' to 'commercial' in its outlook. Explain the factors behind this change. (d) Democracy needs a vibrant culture of civil society in order to strengthen its foundation of citizenship. Comment. (e) What are the 'basic and irreducible' functions of the family as proposed by Talcott Parsons ? Explain.
2024 Sociology • Sociology Paper-I
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Syllabus Connection

1. Sociology - The Discipline: (a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of Sociology. (b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences. (c) Sociology and common sense. (Sociology)4. Sociological Thinkers: (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle. (b) Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society. (c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. (d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables. (e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups. (f) Mead - Self and identity. (Sociology)5. Stratification and Mobility: (a) Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation. (b) Theories of social stratification - Structural func tionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory. (c) Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race. (d) Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility. (Sociology)7. Politics and Society: (a) Sociological theories of power. (b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties. (c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology. (d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution. (Sociology)9. Systems of Kinship: (a) Family, household, marriage. (b) Types and forms of family. (c) Lineage and descent. (d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour. (e) Contem porary trends. (Sociology)

NCERT Connection

Ch.1: Sociology and Society

Sociology • Class 11 • Introducing Sociology

Ch.5: Doing Sociology: Research Methods

Sociology • Class 11 • Introducing Sociology

Ch.2: Terms, Concepts and their use in Sociology

Sociology • Class 11 • Introducing Sociology

Ch.3: Understanding Social Institutions

Sociology • Class 11 • Introducing Sociology

Ch.4: Culture and Socialisation

Sociology • Class 11 • Introducing Sociology

Ch.1: Social Structure, Stratification and Social Processes in Society

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

Ch.2: Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

Ch.3: Environment and Society

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

Ch.4: Introducing Western Sociologists

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

Ch.5: Indian Sociologists

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

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