{"id":50026,"date":"2019-07-17T14:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=50026"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:52:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:22:02","slug":"upsc-main-sociology-paper-i-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-main-sociology-paper-i-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Main Sociology Paper I- 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Section A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> Write short notes on the following: (Each note should not exceed 150 words<\/strong>) 10×5=50<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a)”Sociology emerged in Europe and flourished to begin with on social reformist orientation in the U.S.A.” – Comment. 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) Compare and contrast Sociology with Anthropology.                10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) Critically examine positivistic approach in sociological studies.  10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(d) Examine science and technology as agents of social change. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(e) Analyse the contemporary trends in family with examples. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong> (a) Analyse the limitations of quantitative methods in social research. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b)Critically examine the functionalist tradition in Sociology. 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c)Analyse the salient features of historical materialism. 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.<\/strong> (a)Compare Karl Marx with Emile Durkheim with reference to the framework of ‘division of labour’. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b)Critically analyse the contributions of G.H. Mead to ‘symbolic interactionism’. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) Examine the salient features of Weberian bureaucracy. 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> (a) How are open and closed systems of stratification undergoing transformation in the emergence of new hierarchical social order in societies?  20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) Is patriarchy a universal phenomenon? Critically examine how does patriarchy affect sexual    division of labour in societies. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) Examine the role of pressure groups in parliamentary democracy. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.<\/strong> Write short notes on the following: (Each note should not exceed 150 words<\/strong>) 10×5=50<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a) Distinguish between people being socially excluded and people excluding themselves socially in societies. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) Define social movement. Elucidate the role of reformist movements in social change.             10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) “Science has empirical means to logical ends and religion has non-empirical means to logical ends.” – Comment. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(d) Examine the social dimensions of displacement induced by development. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(e) Analyse the gender bias in the present society with examples.10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.<\/strong> (a) How do Karl Marx and Max Weber differ in terms of their analysis of social stratification? 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b)Examine the social impact of globalization on labour and society. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c)Examine the relevance of Parsonian Social System in the present society. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. <\/strong>(a) Evaluate how  do civil society and democracy mutually reinforce each other. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b)Examine the emerging trends in marriage and family as a response to the changes in economic and social order. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) Critically examine the role of civil society in democracy. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.<\/strong> (a) Illustrate the conflicts and tensions experienced by societies undergoing social change.20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) Critically examine the cultural theories of social change with suitable examples. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) Is religion antithetical to science? Comment. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Section A 1. Write short notes on the following: (Each note should not exceed 150 words) 10×5=50 (a)”Sociology emerged in Europe and flourished to begin with on social reformist orientation in the U.S.A.” – Comment. 10 (b) Compare and contrast Sociology with Anthropology.                10 (c) Critically examine positivistic approach in sociological studies.  10 (d) Examine science and technology… Continue reading UPSC Main Sociology Paper I- 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}