2025
- Is the social stratification theory gender-blind? Elucidate.
- Compare capability deprivation approach with that of social capital deprivation in understanding chronic poverty.
- Does the structural-functionalist perspective on social stratification promote a status quo? Give reasons for your answer.
2024
- Analyse the changing nature of caste as a status group. 10
- What is social mobility? Critically examine the classification of ‘closed” and ‘open’ models of social stratification. 10 Marks
- How does a multicultural society accommodate diversities of all kinds – ethnic, linguistic and religious? Discuss its major challenges. 20 Marks
- Discuss the dimensions of power in the construction and maintenance of social hierarchies in a society. 10 Marks
2023
- Do you think that the boundary line between ethnicity and race is blurred? Justify your answer.
- How is poverty a form of social exclusion? Illustrate in this connection the difference dimension of poverty and social exclusion.
- Explain Max Weber theory of social stratification. How does Weber view of class differ from that of Marx?
2022
- How does sociologist construct gender in their analysis of social inequality. (2022)
- Discuss social mobility in open and closed system(2022)
- Social stratification is claimed to contribute to the maintenance of social order and stability in society. Critically assess.(2022)
2021
- Q. Critically examine Max Weber theory of social stratification.(2021)
- Q. Explain the concept of social mobility. Describe with suitable illustration how education and social mobility are related to each other.(2021)