2019
SOCIOLOGY - PAPER - II
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 given either in English or in Bengali but all answer must be in one and the same language.
All questions carry equal marks
GROUP -A
Answer any THREE Questions :
1. (a) Examine the merits and limitations of the Approach made by M.N.Srinivas towards studying the Indian society.
(b) Why did M.N.Srinivas find it important to adopt field view from the book-view in studying the society and culture of India ? 20+20
2. Show if caste and class intersect in the Indian society. What have been the consequences of the interface of the two ? 40
3. Examine the nature of changes, if any, that have been occasioned in the family patterns by industrialization and urbanisation in contemporary Indian society. 40
4. Analyse the factors responsible for vulnerability of women and children and suggest ways and means for overcoming them in the light of the steps already taken by the state in that direction. 40
5. Assess the nature of social and cultural changes brought about in the society and culture of India by sanskritization, westernization and secularization. 40
GROUP -B
Answer any TWO Questions :
6. Discuss the nature and causes of the problem of drug addiction in today's India. How should it be combated ? 25+15
7. Examine the nature of the impact of forest on ecology. What more in to be done in avoiding conflict between States and people ? How to ensure cooperation of the two in improving forests and ecology ? 20+10+10
8. Write notes on :—
(a) B.R. Ambedkar and the Dalits.
(b) The Society and Educationally Backward Classes
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