M.phil (Sciology) Examination May 2006 Question - ADVANCED SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

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2006 Tamil Nadu State Sociology Madurai kamaraj University M.phil (Sciology) Examination May 2006

ADVANCED SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

OCTOBER 2006
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks
Answer any FIVE of the following.
All questions carry equal marks.


1. Describe the views of social thinkers of 19th
century and state how their views are different from
later theorists. .


2. How did positivism of comte help the development
.. ofsociology?

3. Discuss the organismic theory of Herbert Spencer.

4. Examine the importance of manifest functions and
latent functions in understanding functionalism.

5. Discuss the Habermas analysis of communication
alternatives with examples.

6. Discuss the concept and principles of
Ethnomethodology .

7. Describe the salient features of parson's Holistic
~Trinity and systematic Hierarchy.


8. Discuss the concepts of Sanskritization and
modernisation according to M.N. Srinivas.

9. Write briefly about Periyar's ideas on caste system
and society.

10. Examine the social psychological approach to
sociology as given by Max Weber.