IGNOU ESO-14: SOCIETY AND STRATIFICATION DEC 2017 QUESTION PAPER

Note: This question paper has three sections. Answer the questions as instructed in each section.

SECTION I

Answer any two of the following questions in about 500 words each.

Q1. In what way do ideas about purity and pollution stratify Indian society? Discuss with suitable examples.

Q2. Discuss Dahrendorf’s views on social class.

Q3. Highlight the differences and commonalities between caste and class in India.

Q4. Discuss the nature and scope of ethnicity as a basis of social stratification.

SECTION II

Answer any four of the following questions in about 250 words each.

Q5. What are the political consequences of social mobility?

Q6. Outline N. Luhmann’s systems’ theory of social stratification.

Q7. Discuss the reasons for women’s oppression in society.

Q8. In what way does socialisation contribute to the construction of gender-based identity?

Q9. How is mode of production related to class struggle?

Q10. Differentiate between classes in capitalist societies and socialist societies.

Q11. Explain the features of peasant movements in Independence India.

Q12. In caste a closed system? Discuss.

SECTION III

Answer any two of the following questions in about 100 words each.

Q13. What is meant by ‘fragmented middle class’?

Q14. What do you understand by ’embourgeoisement’?

Q15. What is ‘secularization’?

Q16. Define ethnicity.

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