WBCS(Main)- 2001 Sociology Paper -I Question Paper

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                                         WEST BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE

                                                  EXAMINATION—2001

                                                  SOCIOLOGY—Paper I

Time Allowed—3' Hours                                                                 Full marks—100

 

                Answer any three questions from Group A and any two from Group B.

                                                All Questions carry equal marks.

                                                         

                                                                 Group A

                                                    Answer any three questions.

 

1.  What differences are found in the in-group-out-group distinations in primitive and modern societies ?

 

2.  How does the participant-observer technique differ from merely looking at things ?   Isn't everyone a participant observer ?

 

3.  Why do "backward" or primitive societies have less crime and fewer violations of the mores than "progressive" societies like ours ?

 

4.  Why are the social scientists hesitant to use the term ''progress"?

 

5.  If culture develops similarities in personslity within a society, how do we explain personality differences within a society ?   Are such personality difference greater within a simple or within a complex society ?   Why ?

 

                                                         Group B

                                              Answer any two questions.

 

6.  What place has the individual in Durkheim's thought ?

 

7.  Does Durkheim's suicide have any modern relevance ?

 

8. The conservative churches with a rigid theology seem to be growing more rapidly than liberal churches which seek an accomodation between religion and science.  How would you explain this ?

 

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