Category: Sociology PYQ

Karl Marx – Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Sociological Thinkers: (a) Karl Marx – Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation,…

Theories of social stratification – Structural func tionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Stratification and Mobility: (b) Theories of social stratification – Structural functionalist theory,…

Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Research Methods and Analysis: (c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity. The…

Concepts – equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
Stratification and Mobility: (a) Concepts – equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.

Techniques of data collection
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Research Methods and Analysis: (b) Techniques of data collection. Bring out the…

Social mobility – open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Stratification and Mobility: (d) Social mobility – open and closed systems, types…

Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Stratification and Mobility: (c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups,…

Qualitative and quantitative methods
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Research Methods and Analysis: (a) Qualitative and quantitative methods. Discuss the challenges…

Mead – Self and identity
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Sociological Thinkers: (f) Mead – Self and identity. According to Mead the…

Non-positivist methodologies
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Sociology as Science: (e) Non-positivist methodologies. Do you think ethnomethodology helps us…

Positivism and its critique
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Sociology as Science: (c) Positivism and its critique. What are the shortfalls…

Fact value and objectivity
Syllabus: Optional Subject – Sociology – Papers I Sociology as Science: (d) Fact value and objectivity. Is Sociology a Value…