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What arguments were given for and against the village as a subject of sociological research by M.N. Srinivas and Louis Dumont?
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What is the significance of village studies in the history of Indian sociology? What role did M.N. Srinivas play in promoting village studies?
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As a member of society, you must be interacting with and in different groups. How do you see these groups from a sociological perspective?
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Note what are the marriage rules that are followed in your society? Compare your observations with these made by other students in the class. Discuss.
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Find out how membership, residence pattern, and even the mode of interaction changes in the family with broader economic, political, and cultural changes, for instance, migration.
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How can we demonstrate that the different dimensions of culture comprise a whole?
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Compare two cultures with which you are familiar. Is it difficult not to be ethnocentric?
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Discuss two different approaches to studying cultural change.
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Is cosmopolitanism something you associate with modernity? Observe and give examples of ethnocentrism.
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Would you agree with the statement that rapid social change is a comparatively new phenomenon in human history? Give reasons for your answer.
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How is a social change to be distinguished from other kinds of change?
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What do you understand by `structural change’? Explain with examples other than those in the text.
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Describe some kinds of environment-related social change.
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What are some kinds of changes brought about by technology and the economy?
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What are some of the important forms of pollution-related environmental hazards?
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What are the major environmental issues associated with resource depletion?
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Why is the Enlightenment important for the development of sociology?
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How was the Industrial Revolution responsible for giving rise to sociology?
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What are the various components of a mode of production?
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Write an essay on `work’. Focus on both the range of occupations, which exist and how they change.
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