TEST QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of the following instructions carefully before attempting questions. There are 19 questions in this test paper.
Candidate has to attempt ALL the questions. All the questions are compulsory.
Marks Distribution
- Q 01 to Q 10: 10 Marks each, 150 words. [Total 100 Marks]
- Q 11 to Q 16: 15 Marks each, 200 words. [Total 90 Marks]
- Q 17 to Q 19: 20 Marks each, 250 words. [Total 60 Marks]
Answers must be written in the medium authorized in the Admission Certificate which must be stated clearly on the cover of this Question-cum-Answer (QCA) Booklet in the space provided. No marks will be given for answers written in a medium other than the authorized one.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
Diagrams/Sketches, wherever required, may be drawn in the space provided for answering the question itself.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order. Unless struck off, attempt of a question shall be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page left blank in the Question-cum-Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
P1 U1. 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.
P1 U2. Sociology as Science
(a) Science, scientific method, and critique.
(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
(c) Positivism and its critique.
(d) Fact value and objectivity.
(e) Non-positivist methodologies.
P1 U3. Research Methods and Analysis
(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
(b) Techniques of data collection.
(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability, and validity.
P1 U4. Sociological Thinkers
(a) Karl Marx– Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
(b) Emile Durkheim– 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.
P1 U5. Stratification and Mobility
(a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist 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.