Works and Economic Life

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2026Describe the impact of capitalist mode of production on society. (20 marks)View answer
2026Critically analyse the mode of production debate from different perspectives. (20 marks)View answer
2026Compare the social organisation of work in industrial capitalism and platform capitalism. (10 marks)View answer
2026Critically examine the position of women in the informal economy. (10 marks)View answer
2026Evaluate the socio-economic impacts of migration on rural households. (20 marks)View answer
2025Do you think that the formal workspaces are free of gender bias? Argue your case. (10 marks)View answer
2025What do you understand by gender-based domestic division of labour? Is it undergoing a change in the wake of increasing participation of women in formal employment? Clarify your answer with illustrations. (20 marks)View answer
2025Critically analyze the sociological significance of informal sector in the economy of developing societies. (10 marks)View answer
2024Define the concept of ‘gig’ economy and discuss its impact on labour market and workers social security net.View answer
2024Describe the differing principles of work organization in feudal and capitalist societiesView answer
2023Explain how economic globalization has brought changes in the patterns of employment in the 21st century.View answer
2022What characterizes degradation of work in capitalist society according to Marx?View answer
2022Explain the implications of feminization of work in the developing societies.View answer
2021Elucidate the main problems and challenges faced by the migrant labourers in the recent ‘Lockdown period’.View answer
2021Explain how political parties and pressure groups are dialectically related to each other in terms of achieving their goals.View answer
2021Explain the emerging challenges in establishing gender equality in the informal sector.View answer
2021How has the idea of ‘Work from Home’ forced us to redefine the formal and informal organization of work?View answer
2020Capitalism has brought increasing informalisation of work in society. Substantiate your answer.View answer
2020Discuss the new labour codes and their impact on formal and informal labour in India.View answer
2019What is 'informal labour’? Discuss the need for and challenges in regulating informal labour in the post-industrial society.View answer
2019What is 'reserve army of labour’? Present the position of feminist scholars on this.View answer
2018Discuss the nature of social organisation of work in capitalist society with reference to the 'Limits of the working day'.View answer
2018What is labour commitment? Discuss it with reference to studies of manufacturing industry.View answer
2017What do you understand by 'informalisation of labour' ? Write your answer with special reference to India.View answer
2017Trace the changing nature of organisation of work in capitalist society over the years.View answer
2016Describe the nature of social organization of work in industrial society.View answer
2016"Globalization has pushed the labour into informal organization of work." Substantiate your answer with suitable examples.View answer
2015Distinguish between the social organization of work in feudal society and in capitalist society.View answer
2015The increasing importance of the tertiary sector has weakened the formal organization of work in recent times. Examine the statement.View answer
2014What are the distinctive features of social organization of work in slave society ? How is it different from feudal society ? (in about 150 words)View answer
2013Examine the social impact of globalization on labour and societyView answer
2012Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective : Industrial Democracy.View answer
2012How do formal and informal organisation of work influence labour’s mobility ? Explain with examples.View answer
2011Write short note on Self – Help Group (SHG) as an informal organization from a sociological perspective (in about 150 words)View answer
2011What is formal organization ? “The growth of bureaucracy has resulted in extreme concentration of power at larger levels of social organization.” Discuss.View answer
2010“Work in capitalism is reduced to mere labour in which the individual does not develop freely his physical and mental energy and mortifies his body and ruins his mind.” Critically evaluate the assertion.View answer
2010Write short note on Feminisation of Labour in Informal SectorView answer
2010Write short note on Human Relations School of Thought by Elton Mayo as a social organisation of work process in industry.View answer
2010Analyse the social impact of market economy on traditional societies.View answer
2007Indicate social determinants of economic development. Discuss any one sociological perspective analysing backwardness and poverty in the developing societies.View answer
2007Write short note : Features of Pre-Industrial economic system.View answer
2005Write short note : Social determinants of economic developmentView answer
2004Examine in detail the impact of new global economy on work organization and family structure in India.View answer
2003Write short note : Social determinants of Economic Development.View answer
2002Write short note : Industrialization and social change.View answer
2001Write short note : Types of Exchange.View answer
2001Write short note : Emerging pattern of sexroles in modern societyView answer
2000Write short note : Social determinants of economic development.View answer
1998Write short note : Features of pre-industrial economic system.View answer
1997Write short note : Industrialisation and social change.View answer
1996Write short note : Types of exchange.View answer
1995Write short note : Social consequences of economic development.View answer
1989Write short note : Pre – industrial Economic system.View answer
1988Write short note : Formal organisation.View answer
1986Write short note : Problems of nation – building in developing countries.View answer
1984Write short note : Social aspects of Industrial economic system.View answer
1984Write short note : Changing concept of property.View answer

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Can you compare 14th century and 21st century

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