- Modern families have not just become nuclear and neo-local, but also filiocentric. How do you explain this trend? (2024)
- What are the ‘basic and irreducible’ functions of the family as proposed by Talcott Parsons ?
Explain. (2024) - Marriage as an institution has undergone a radical transformation from ‘ritual’ to
‘commercial’ in its outlook. Explain the factors behind this change. (2024) - Analyze critically David Morgan’s views on family practices (2023)
- How do you assess the changing patterns in kinship relations in societies today? (2023)
- Does women’s education help to eradicate patriarchal discriminations? Reflect with illustrations. (2023)
- Discuss various theoretical perspectives on the family. (2022)
- How do you understand the relationship between patriarchy and social development? (2022)
- Discuss the changing nature of kinship relations in the contemporary world. (2021)
- Discuss the consequences of Across Region marriage on kinship system in modern Indian society. (2020)
- What is the impact of gender division of labour on the development of society? (2020)
- Does the institution of marriage continue to be sacred in Indian society? Comment. (2020)
- In the light of judicial intervention on ‘Live-in relationships’, discuss the future of marriage and family in India. (2019)
- What, according to Irawati Karve, are the major differences between North Indian and South Indian Kinship systems? (2019)
- What are the new forms of family in developed societies? Discuss. (2018)
- Distinguish between family and household with reference to the concept of development of the household. (2018)
- Define patriarchy. How does patriarchy manifest in interpersonal relations? (2018)
- Examine ‘patriarchal bargain’ as gendered division of work in contemporary India. (2017)
- Examine the relationship between the contemporary trends in marriage and changing forms of family (2017)
- Discuss the regional variations of kinshipsystem in Indian society. (2017)
- To what extent is patriarchy a cause for the problems of women ? Discuss. (2016)
- Discuss the contemporary trends in family as a response to social change in modern society. (2016)
- Distinguish between family and household as sociological concepts. (2016 )
- Is male authority absent in matrilineal society? Discuss. (2015)
- How do the rules of descent and alliance in kinship differ from each other ? Illustrate. (2015)
- Critically examine the functionalist views on the institution of family. How do those help us in understanding family in the present times? (2014)
- What do you understand by institutionalization of ‘live-in – relationship’ ? (2014)
- Analyse the contemporary trends in family with examples. (2013)
- Is patriarchy a universal phenomenon ? Critically examine how does patriarchy affect sexual division of labour in societies. (2013)
- Examine the emerging trends in marriage and family as a response to the charges in economic and social order. (2013)
- Describe the importance of lineage and descent in kinship and family. (2012)
- Show how family is distinct from household. (2012)
- Write short note on Lineage and Descent from a sociological perspective (in about 150 words). (2011)
- What you mean be marriage and family? Discuss the structural and functional changes in family in modern society. (2011)
- Write short note on Kinship and Social Capital. (2010)
- Discuss the emerging forms of marriage and family with examples from the West and the East. Can there be family without marriage? Examine. (2009)
- Write short note on Industrialization and changes in the family’s functions. (2009)
- Write short note: New trends in the types and forms of family in contemporary India. (2008)
- Write short note: Changing structure of family. (2007)
- Write short note: Nuclear family and industrial society. (2006)
- Elucidate changing structure of family and marriage in modern society. (2005)
- Write short note: Role of Family in Social Control. (2005)
- Write short note: Gender Roles in Changing Structure of Family. (2004)
- Discuss the meanings and significance of culture in Human Society. Critically bring out the role of Culture in the Development of personality. (2003)
- Elaborate on the concepts of Family and Lineage. Discuss the relationship between Rules of descent and inheritance of property. (2003)
- Distinguish between Sex and Gender issues with suitable examples. (2002)
- In what way is the process of socialization helpful in the development of personality? Explain with suitable examples. (2002)
- Write short note : Incest taboo. (2001)
- Discuss the factors responsible for the changing structure of family in modern societies. (2000)
- Social control is more a matter of conviction than that of coercion. Comment. Discuss the role of ideology in social control. (1999)
- ‘Socialization is a process by which all of us acquire the culture that we transmit to the next generation’. Elaborate the statement and discuss its various stages. (1998)
- Compare the role of custom as an agency of social control in primitive and modern industrial societies. (1996)
- Write short note : Impact of changes in sexrole on family. (1996)
- What has been the impact of industrialisation on family and kinship organisation ? Illustrate the significance of kinship organisation in the industrial societies. (1995)
- Write short note : Primary group. (1995)
- Write short note : Role of culture. (1995)
- Explain the view that the nuclear family “fits” the needs of industrial society. Is it that the structure of nuclear family is the same in all industrial societies ? (1994 )
- Give a brief account of the trends in sociological analysis of change in traditional family and kinship systems in the face of industrialisation. (1993)
- Bring out the relationship between culture and personality. Discuss with examples the differences in personalities in the same culture. (1993)
- Short note : Social consequences of increase in the rate of divorce. (1992)
- Write short note : Social control. (1991)
- Write short note : Socialization and personality. (1990 )
- How do changes in the age and sex roles in the family affect the social structure itself ? (1989)
- Write short note : Structural principles of kinship. (1988)
- How does culture influence personality ? Can personality influence culture ? How ? (1985)
- What are the agencies of social control? Which is the most effective one in a democratic society ? (1985)
- Analyze scientific theory of culture.Will the crisis in culture in the contemporary society facilitate the emergence of new man ? (1984)
- Discuss family as a basic and fundamental social institution. Do you think changing sex roles necessitate the replacement of family by another institution ? (1984)
- Write short note : Change in sex roles and the socialisation of children. (1984)
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