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Subject sociology
Paper
Exam / Course mains
Department
Organization Karnataka Public Service Commission
Position
Exam Date 2005
City, State karnataka,


Question Paper

21/1

2005

SOCIOLOGY
Paper 1

Time: 3 Hours} Maximum Marks: 300
INSTRUCTIONS
Each question is printed both in English and in Kannada.
Answers must be written in the n-wdium specified (English or Kannada) in the Admission Ticket issued to you, which nwst be stated clearly on the cover of the answer book in the space provided for this purpose. No credit will be given for the answers written in a medium other than that specified In the Admission Ticket. In case of any doubt in the Kannada text, please refer to English text.
This paper has four parts:
A 20 marks
B 100 marks
C 90 marks
D 90 marks

Marks allotted to each question are indicated in each part,
All questions in Part Part B and Part C are compulsory. Answer any three qlJiestions in Part D.
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PART A
Write short notes on the following in not more than 50 words each. Each question carries 5 marks.
1. Social facts
Ideal types
Social mobility
Levirate and Sororate

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1.
Social stratification

2.
Conflict theory of social change

3.
Deviance

4.
Status and Role

5.
Validity and Reliability

6.
Participant observation

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Variables

8.
Malinowski's conception of culture

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Parallel cousins

10.
Interview schedule and Questionnaire



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1. 2. Power and Authority Elites
3. 4. 5. 6. Radcliffe-Brown on social structure Magic, Religion and Science Functional approach to social stratification Education and cultural reproduction






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Answer any three questions, in not more than 300 words each. Each question carries 30 marks.
1.
What do you understand by 'social movements' Discuss their types and characteristics.

2.
Bring out the distinction between the Linear and Cyclical theories of social change.

3.
Critically assess Merton's contribution to Structural Functionalism.

4.
What are Weber's main arguments in relation to the Protestant ethic and the rise of Capitalism?

5.
Bring out the salient social consequences of industrialisation.


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2005
SOCIOLOGY
Paper 2
Twre 3 Hours] Maximum Marks: 300

INSTRUCTIONS
Each question is printed both in English and l:n Kannada.
Answers nws! be written in the med/'um specified (English or
Kannada) in the Admission Ticket issued to you, which must
be stated clearly on the cover of the answer book in the space
provided for this purpose. No credit will be given for the
answers wntten in a medium other than that specified in the
Admission Ticket. In case of any doubt in the Kannada text,
please refer to English text.

This paper has four parts:
A 20 marks
B 100 marks
C 90 marks
D 90 marks

Marks allotted to each question arc indicated in each part.
All questions in Part Part B and Part C are compulsory.
Answer any three questions in Part D.

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Write short notes on the following in not more than 50 question carries 5 marks.
1. Sanskritisation

Modernisation


Universalisation and Parochialisation


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question carries 10 marks.
1.
Tribes

2.
.Social consequences of the Green Revolution


3.
Srinivas's notion of Secularisation

4.
Desai's notion of Jointness


5. Jajmani system
6.
Dominant Caste

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Westernisation


8. Corruption
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Acculturation

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Caste among Muslims



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Backward classes

2.
Social stratification in Indian urban-industrial setting


3.
Cultural barriers to Family Planning

4.
The Indian joint family


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