Discuss the different aspects of the term ‘society’. How is it different from your common sense of understanding?
Concept: Introduction of Sociology and Society
Discuss the different aspects of the term ‘society’. How is it different from your common sense of understanding?
Concept: Introduction of Sociology and Society
Why do we need to use special terms and concepts in sociology?
Concept: Terms, Concepts and Their Use in Sociology
Discuss the kind of rights that exist in your society. How do they affect your life?
Concept: Understanding Social Institutions
Write an essay on school as a social institution. Draw from both your reading as well as your personal observations.
Concept: Understanding Social Institutions
Discuss how these social institutions interact with each other. You can start the discussion from yourself as a senior school student. And move on to how you are shaped by different social institutions. Are you entirely controlled or can you also resist and redefine social institutions?
Concept: Understanding Social Institutions
How does the understanding of culture in social science differ from the everyday use of the word `culture’?
Concept: Culture and Socialisation
Why is the question of a scientific method particularly important in sociology?
Concept: Doing Sociology : Research Methods
Describe in your own words what you understand by the term `ecology’.
Concept: Environment and Society
Why is ecology not limited only to the forces of nature?
Concept: Environment and Society
Describe the two-way process by which social environments emerge.
Concept: Environment and Society
Why and how does social organisation shape the relationship between the environment and society?
Concept: Environment and Society
Why is environmental management a complex and huge task for society?
Concept: Environment and Society
Can you identify any ideas or theories which have led to the formation of social movements in India in recent times?
Concept: Introducing Western Sociologists
How did Ananthakrishna Iyer and Sarat Chandra Roy come to practice social anthropology?
Concept: Indian Sociologists
What were the main arguments on either side of the debate about how to relate to tribal communities?
Concept: Indian Sociologists
Outline the positions of Herbert Risley and G.S. Ghurye on the relationship between race and caste in India.
Concept: Indian Sociologists
Summarise the social anthropological definition of caste.
Concept: Indian Sociologists
What does D.P. Mukerji mean by a `living tradition’? Why did he insist that Indian sociologists be rooted in this tradition?
Concept: Indian Sociologists
What are the specificities of Indian culture and society, and how do they affect the pattern of change?
Concept: Indian Sociologists
