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    This document provides a list of topics for a sociology exam, divided into short answer questions and long answer questions. The short answer section lists 58 topics that could be answered in 10 marks or less, covering areas like the emergence of sociology, research methods, social stratification, and globalization. The long answer section lists 34 topics that require 20 marks or more to answer, comparing theories of key sociologists like Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Parsons on issues such as religion, social change, and development.

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    This document provides a list of topics for a sociology exam, divided into short answer questions and long answer questions. The short answer section lists 58 topics that could be answered in 10 marks or less, covering areas like the emergence of sociology, research methods, social stratification, and globalization. The long answer section lists 34 topics that require 20 marks or more to answer, comparing theories of key sociologists like Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Parsons on issues such as religion, social change, and development.

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    SOCIOLOGY HIT LIST-2023

    “Predicted the unpredictable 100%


    for the 14th time in a row (2009-2022)”

    PAPER - I
    SHORT NOTES (10 markers)
    1. ‘Enlightenment’ and emergence of sociology
    2. Sociology and common sense
    3. Multidisciplinary : Sociology’s relation with other social sciences
    4. Scope of sociology today in understanding various social issues in a globalized world
    5. Sociology as interpretative science
    6. Problems of objectivity.
    7. Difference between objectivity and value neutrality
    8. Research designs in social science-The explanatory and exploratory designs
    9. Ethnography
    10. Techniques of data collection- Participant observation, Questionaries, Probability and Non
    probability sampling techniques, focus group Discussion, Content analysis, Biographies
    and Interviews.
    11. The issues of Reliability and validity in non-positivism
    12. Good hypothesis
    13. Class in itself and Class for itself
    14. Commodity fetishism
    15. AGIL
    16. Pattern variables and social change
    17. Society as moving equilibrium
    18. Cybernetic hierarchy of Parsons
    19. Cultural lag
    20. Difference between 'unanticipated consequences' and 'latent functions'
    21. Reference groups and Relative deprivation/Sanskritisation
    22. Social stratification- Class, Status, Gender, Ethnicity and Race as dimensions
    23. Hierarchy and exclusion leads to underdevelopment
    24. Hierarchy replaced by differentiations today due to social mobility
    25. Ethnocentrism and Ethnic discrimination / conflict
    26. Status inconsistency in Modern societies
    27. Globalisation: Growing Poverty, inequality, and social Exclusion
    28. Voluntary and involuntary social exclusion
    29. Sociology of work (Durkheim’s DOL)
    30. Social organization of work in feudal/ capitalist and post industrial society.
    31. Asiatic modes of production
    32. Social determinants of Economic development
    33. Globalisation and informalization of work
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    34. Feminisation of work
    35. Women as Reserve Army of Labor
    36. Legitimate Authority, and Dysfunction of Bureaucracy( Iron cage rationality )-Max Weber
    37. Role of civil society/pressure groups in democracy – Protests/Policy making
    38. Circulation of elites
    39. Power Elite
    40. Community power/societal power
    41. Democracy as a social order
    42. Indicators of power in industrial/postindustrial society
    43. Globalization and Citizenship
    44. The prerequisites/structure of social movements
    45. Role of media in protests/movements today
    46. Globalization and New Social movements
    47. Religious beliefs in premodern societies
    48. Religion and gender inequality/patriarchy
    49. Sects and cults. Why it is proliferating today?
    50. Gender roles in changing structure of family
    51. Sex Vs Gender / The problem of gender
    52. LGBT
    53. Privatization of higher education
    54. Education and social mobility/social continuity
    55. The role of Science and technology in solving social problems
    56. The social responsibility of science
    57. Is ideology inevitable for social movement/social change?
    58. Sociological imagination

    LONG ANSWERS (20 markers)


    1. Modernity and emergence of sociology
    2. Sociology as a science: Positivism Vs Non positivism
    3. Quantitative and Qualitative techniques
    4. Religion : Durkheim Vs Weber
    5. Division of Labor : Durkheim Vs Karl Marx
    6. Social fact (Durkheim) Vs Social Action (Max Weber)
    7. Comparison of Alienation(Karl Marx), Anomie (Durkheim) and Rationalization (Weber)
    8. Mode of production (Karl Marx)
    9. Class struggle (Karl Marx Vs Weber )
    10. Protestant ethics and spirit of capitalism(Weber)
    11. Social Action (Weber and Parsons)
    12. Social System and Equilibrium (Parsons)
    13. Social structure and Anomie/Deviance (R.K. Merton and Durkheim )
    14. Compare Parsons’ Grand theory with Merton’s Middle Range theories
    15. G.H.Mead on Self and identity/Gender identity
    16. Davis and Moore theory of social stratification

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    17. Melvin Tumin’s criticism of functional theories of social stratification.
    18. Social stratification: Karl Marx Vs Weber
    19. Open Vs Closed societies debate
    20. Poverty/inequality and Covid 19
    21. Threats to Nationalism Today (Globalization Perspective)
    22. Globalization and power of the nation State
    23. Democracy and Identity Politics
    24. Secularization and Cultural Nationalism/pluralism
    25. Globalization and religious revivalism/ fundamentalism.
    26. Religion and science as compatibles
    27. Religion as a conservative force or change agent
    28. Changing family and marriage today /Threats/Non Normative families-Homosexuality
    /Live in relations
    29. Patriarchy and sexual division of labor/Feminist movements/Patriarchal bargain
    30. Development and dependency/Development of under development
    31. UN/WTO/World Bank/IMF and other global institutions as agents of developed countries
    against developing and poor countries during Covid 19
    32. Compare Marxian and Weberian theories of social change
    33. Compare Marxian and Parsonian views on social change
    34. Tradition and Modernity in social change/Structural constraints to social change

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