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M.A. (Sociology) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2011.
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

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SECTION A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each.

1.Bring out the differences between society and community.

2.Discuss the role of peers in the socialization process.

3.What are the positive effects of conflict?

4.Comment on the formal type of social control.

5.Briefly write on the forms of social change.

6.Explain the interrelations between individual and society.

7.Identify the impact of physical environment on personality.

8.Explain the unilinear theory of social change.

SECTION B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 700 words each.

9.Discuss sociology as science.

10.Comment on the various forms of social life.

11.Describe the stages of socialization.

12.Analyse the significant impact of family on socializing an individual.

13.Explain the dissociative processes and its consequences on social life.

14.Describe the various means of social control, with relevant examples.

15.Critically analyse the cyclical theory of social change.