WBCS Exam Main Optional Question Paper on Sociology [Paper I] - 2016

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W.B.C.S. (EXECUTIVE) EXAMINATION - 2016  Optional Paper

SOCIOLOGY    PAPER - I

Time Allowed: 3 Hours      Full Marks : 200

If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions attempted first up to the prescribed number shall be valued and the remaining.ones ignored.

Answers may be written either in English or in Bengali but all answers must be in one and the same language.

All questions carry equal marks.

GROUP-A

Answer any three questions.

1. Expalin Karl Marx's analysis of Historical-materialism and Class-Struggle.    40

2. Discuss Emile Durkheim's theory of Division of Labour.       40

3. Indicate the rules of social mobility in the process of social stratification.     40

4. Examine in the context of modern Society the relation between religion and science.     40

5. Write an essay on poverty and deprivation in the context of modern India.      40

 

GROUP - B

Answer any two questions

6. Elaborate the importance and sources of hypotheses in social science research.       40

7. Write an essay on education as an instrument of social change.      40

8. Explain the rules of science and technology in the development of a science.      40

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