WBCS(Main)- 2007 Sociology Paper -I Question Paper

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                                         WEST BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE

                                                  EXAMINATION—2007

                                                  SOCIOLOGY—Paper I

Time Allowed—3' Hours                                                                 Full marks—100

 

If the question 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.  Answer may be given either in English or in Bengali but all answers must be in one and the same language.

 

                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. Define social change. What are the factors of social change ?

 

2.  Discuss spencerian theory of evolution.

 

3.  What is deviance? How do norms and sanctions control deviance ?

 

4. Define power. Discuss different types of authority as a form of power.

 

5. How does technology influence society ?

 

                                                         Group B

                                              Answer any two questions.

 

6.  Discuss Weberian theory of Bureaucracy.

 

7. What is socialization ?  How the society is being controlled through socialization ?

 

8. Discuss observation as a method for sociological research.

 

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