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Time Allowed :Ninety minutes Maximum Marks: 125

SOCIOLOGY TEST SERIES & DAILY ANSWER WRITING PROGRAM

SECTIONAL TEST -1
Name of Candidate
Medium Enrollment Number
Centre Date
Test Paper Code ST-1
Index

SECTION A SECTION B
Q.No. Maximum Marks Q.No. Maximum Marks
Marks Obtained Marks Obtained
Q.1(a) 10

Q.1(b) 10

Q.1(c) 10

Q.1(d) 10

Q.1(e) 10

Q.2(a) 20

Q.2(b) 20

Q.2(c) 10

Q.3(a) 15

Q.3(b) 10

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There are THREE questions printed in ENGLISH.
Candidate has to attempt all THREE Questions.

The number of marks carried by a question / part is indicated against it.

Answers must be written in the medium authorized in the Admission Certificate. No marks will be given for
answers written in medium other than the authorized one.

Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.

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Q1 Answer the following questions sociologically in in about 150 words each:

(10x5 = 50)

a) Should India criminalize a marital rape? 10

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1. b) What is symbolic interactionism ? 10

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1. c) The nuclear family is increasingly a thing of the past. Explain. 10

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1 d) Critically examine Durkheim’s theory of suicide. 10

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1 e) How does Weber analyze the potential for both efficiency and dehumanization
within bureaucratic organizations? 10

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Q2. a) Is patriarchy universal? Give reasons to support your answer.

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Q 2. b) What is deviance? Explain Merton’s theory of deviance with examples

from Indian society ?

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Q 2. c) Outline the role of Durkheim and Comte in founding the discipline of

sociology. 10

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Q3. a) What are the Marxist and feminist criticisms of the institution of
family? Do you agree with their analysis?
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Q3. b) Had there been no Enlightenment, there would have been no

Sociology. Elaborate. 10

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