KRISHNA KANTA HANDIQUI STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY Surya Kumar Bhuyan School of Social Sciences HOME ASSIGNMENT FOR MASTER IN SOCIOLOGY FOURTH SEMESTER, 2015 N.B. The learners will have to collect receipt after submitting the assignment with the signature and seal of the collector of study centre and will have to keep with him/her till the declaration of result. Receipt Received the assignment from Mr/Ms.Enrollment number of 4th Semester, MA in Sociology on 2015. Date: Signature of collector with seal
COURSE: SOCIOLOGY OF NORTH EAST INDIA (MSO - 14) Q1: What do you mean by NEC? Q2: Define patrilineal and matrilineal descent. Q3: What is the Mauzadari System? Q1: Examine the changes that prevailed in the post colonial period in North East India. Q2: How can you link the assertion of identity with identity politics? Q3: How did Sikkim became a part of North-Eastern Council? Q1: Define Common Property Resource? How can you link it with the process of developmentinduced displacement? Q2: Examine the various forms of residence pattern in North East India. Q1: Identity formation is a historical process rooted in social, cultural, economic and political forces. Explain. Q2: Critically analyse the obstacles to development planning in the North-Eastern Regions.
COURSE: SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY (MSO - 15) Q1: What are the three principle sources of demographic data? Q2: What are the various services provided for pregnant women under Antenatal Care? Q3: What do you mean by differential mortality? Q1: What are the major surveys used by demographers? Q2: Define Vital Statistics. Q3: What are the various criticisms of the demographic transition theory? Q1: Critically discuss the various goals of the National Population policy 2000? Q2: What is the relationship between fertility, fecundity and reproductive span? Q1: Critically discuss the Theory of Optimum Population. Q2: India is the world s most populated country after China. Examine with the the help of a diagram the trend of population growth in India.
COURSE: INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY (MSO - 16) Q1: What are the four types of alienation according to Marx? Q2: What are the two different categories of Industries? Q3: How can Industrial Sociology help in reducing social inequality in India? Q1: What were the major problems for the post-industrial society, according to Daniel Bell? Q2: What are the various disadvantages of industrialisation in India? Q3: What are the main features of an informal organisation? Q1: Critically examine Weber s Bureaucracy Model. Q2: Examine the primary features of McDonaldisation as proposed by George Ritzer. Q1: Define joint management in relation to industrial democracy. What are the various strategies and methods employed for Joint Management? Q2: Define Industrial Sociology. Discuss the Hawthorne Experiments in relation to the emergence of Industrial Sociology.
COURSE: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS (MSO - 17) Q1: What do you mean by CAM? Q2: What are the various uses of epidemiology? Q3: Define illness. Q1: What are the various qualities of a physician? Q2: How can medical sociology help in the social construction of illness? Q3: What is the Alma-Ata declaration? C. Answer the following questions within 150 words. Marks:6X2=12 Q1: While the hospital is chiefly a setting for medical practice, it has, by virtue of being an organisation, many characteristics of its own. Explain. Q2: Elaborate upon the concept of community medicine. Q1: Discuss the different system of medicine prevailing in India. Q2: Critically examine the various theoretical perspectives on gender.