INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

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Course Code: BSOC –131
Assignment Code: ASST /TMA /2022-23
Total Marks: 100

Assignment One
Answer the following Descriptive Category questions in about 500 words each. Each question
carries 20 marks.
2 x20=40
1. Discuss the similarities and dissimilarities between sociology and political science.
OR
What are the elements of culture? Discuss.

2. Does Psychology use sociological concepts and methods? Discuss.

OR
Explain the concept of role with suitable examples.

Assignment Two
Answer the following Middle Category questions in about 250 words each. Each question carries 10
marks.
3 X 10 = 30
3. Discuss Weber’s view on organization.
OR
Compare and contrast roles in simple and complex societies.

4. Discuss the perspectives on social institutions.

OR
Explain Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of socialization.

5. Describe the premises of functionalism.

OR
Discuss Mead’s theory of the development of self.

Assignment Three
Answer the following Short Category questions in about 100 words each. Each question carries 6
marks.
5 X 6 = 30
6. What is informal social control?
7. What is ethnocentrism?
8. Differentiate between primary and secondary groups.
9. Differentiate between multiple roles and role set.
10. What is cultural diffusion?