Answer the following questions in about 150 words each:
Section A
Q.1
- Europe was the first and the only Place where modernity emerges comment.
- Do you think ethnomethodology helps us in getting reliable and valid data? Justify your answer
- Discuss the challenges involved in collecting data through census method.
- Explain whether Durkheim’s theory of Division of Labour is relevant in the present-day context.
- Critically examine Max Weber’s theory of Social Stratification.
Q.2
- From the viewpoint of growing important of multidisciplinary, how do you relate sociology to other social sciences?
- How far are sociologists justified in using positivist approach to understand social reality? Explain with suitable illustrations.
- How is sociology related to common sense?
Q.3
- How do qualitative and quantitative methods supplement each other in sociological enquiry?
- Critically examine the dialectics involved in each mode of production as propounded by Karl Marx.
- Do you agree with Max Weber’s idea that bureaucracy has the potential to become an iron cage? Justify your answer
Q.4
- Explain the concept of Social mobility. Describe with suitable illustrations how education and social mobility are related to each other.
- How has the idea of ‘Work from Home’ forced us to redefine the normal and informal organization of work?
- With suitable examples, explain how conformity and deviance coexist in a society as propounded by R.K Merton.
