UPSC CSE-2021 SOCIOLOGY (Paper 1) QUESTIONS RELATED TO TRIUMPH IAS

UPSC CIVIL SERVICES IAS 2021 SOCIOLOGY QUESTIONS
RELATED TO TRIUMPH IAS “FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION”, “SOCIOLOGY NOTES” & “SOCIOLOGY TEST SERIES QUESTIONS”.

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UPSC CSE-2021 SOCIOLOGY QUESTIONS RELATED TO TRIUMPH IAS

Section-A

Q. No.	UPSC CSE IAS – 2021 SOCIOLOGY QUESTIONS	TRIUMPH IAS SOURCE OF THE QUESTION	Directly / Indirectly
1. (a)	Europe was the first and the only place where modernity emerged. Comment.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTION	DIRECTLY
1. (b)	Do you think ethnomethodology helps us in getting reliable and valid data? Justify your answer.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION	INDIRECTLY
1. (c)	Discuss the challenges involved in collecting data through census method.	SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES (Quantitative Method & Poulation Dynamics)	INDIRECTLY
1. (d)	Explain whether Durkheim’s theory of Division of Labour is relevant in the present day context.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
1. (e)	Critically examine Max Weber’s theory of Social Stratification.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
2. (a)	From the viewpoint of growing importance of multidisciplinarity, how do you relate sociology to other social sciences?	SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	INDIRECTLY
2. (b)	How far are sociologists justified in using positivist approach to understand social reality ? Explain with suitable illustrations	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
2. (c)	How is sociology related to common sense?	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
3. (a)	How do qualitative and quantitative methods supplement each other in sociological enquiry?	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	INDIRECTLY

3. (b)	Critically examine the dialectics involved in each mode of production as propounded by Karl Marx.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
3. (c)	Do you agree with Max Weber’s idea that bureaucracy has the potential to become an iron cage? Justify your answer.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
4. (a)	Explain the concept of social mobility. Describe with suitable illustrations how education and social mobility are related to each other.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
4. (b)	How has the idea of ‘Work From Home’ forced us to redefine the formal and informal organisation of work?	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	INDIRECTLY
4. (c)	With suitable examples, explain how conformity and deviance coexist in a society as propounded by R.K. Merton.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
5. (a)	Explain the emerging challenges in establishing gender equality in the informal sector.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
5. (b)	Critically examine the relevance of Vilfredo Pareto’s theory of Circulation of Elites in the present scenario.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES	DIRECTLY
5. (c)	Critically compare the views of E.B. Tylor and Max Muller on Religion.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION (Emile Durkheims’s Chapter) (Religion & Society)	DIRECTLY
5. (d)	What is cult? Explain the growth of cults in the contemporary world.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES	DIRECTLY
5. (e)	Do you think Talcott Parsons gave an adequate theory of social change Justify your answer.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY

6. (a)	Elucidate the main problems and challenges faced by the migrant labourers in the recent Lockdown period’.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
6. (b)	Explain how political parties and pressure groups are dialectically related to each other in terms of achieving their goals.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	INDIRECTLY
6. (c)	Give your comments on the growth of religious revivalism in the present day context.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
7. (a)	Explain how the pattern of patriarchy is being altered in a family and at the workplace in the present context.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	INDIRECTLY
7. (b)	Critically examine the contribution of dependency theories in understanding the present global scenario.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY
7. (c)	Explain the growing salience of ethnicity in the contemporary world with illustrations.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	INDIRECTLY
8. (a)	Discuss the changing nature of kinship relations in the contemporary world.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY

8. (b)	Describe the role of Science and Technology in enabling us to face the challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION	INDIRECTLY
8. (c)	Highlight the roles and functions of civil society in a democratic system.	FOUNDATION CLASS DISCUSSION SOCIOLOGY PRINTED NOTES TEST- SERIES QUESTIONS	DIRECTLY