Category: Sociology Paper – I

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Change  Classical- Evolutionary Theory of Change Evolutionary theories are based on the assumption that societies

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Change Social change is a change in the social structures and functions of those Structures.

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Religion and society Monism is a religious-philosophical worldview in which all of reality can be reduced

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Thinkers: Religion and society Animism refers to the belief/FAITH that not ONLY HUMANS, BUT non-human entities

Relevance: Sociology Paper I: Thinkers: Robert Merton: Deviance  Approach: Description of ‘middle range theory’, in theory formulation in sociology Sociological

Relevance: Sociology paper I: thinkers Wright Mills explains elite rule (Theory of Power Elite) in institutional terms.       

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: thinkers Model Answer format-   Karl Marx distinguished between a ‘class in itself’ and a ‘class

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Thinkers The elite theory of power argues that all societies are divided into two main groups

Relevance: Sociology: paper I: Thinkers Parsons regards power as something possessed by society as a whole. As such power is

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Thinkers Max Weber deals power primarily in the context of society and state. Weber defines power

Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Thinkers Marx does not give a clear definition of power, for him, power means coercion. Marx

Relevance: Sociology paper I: Thinkers: Karl Marx   Model Answer format-  Karl Marx developed his theory of class-struggle in his