UPSC Sociology Optional 2021 Paper I Previous Year Questions
This is the full UPSC CSE Sociology Optional 2021 Paper I previous year question set, arranged like the original exam booklet (Section A / Section B, question-wise sequence).
It includes 26 questions across 10 syllabus chapters. Click any question to open its dedicated page with model answer support.
खण्ड—A / SECTION—A
निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों में से प्रत्येक का उत्तर लगभग 150 शब्दों में दीजिए :
Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :
Europe was the first and the only place where modernity emerged. Comment
Do you think ethnomethodology helps us in getting reliable and valid data? Justify your answer.
Discuss the challenges involved in collecting data through census method
Explain whether Durkheim’s theory of Division of Labour is relevant in the present-day context.
Is male authority absent in matrilineal society? Discuss.
From the viewpoint of growing importance of multidisciplinary, how do you relate sociology to other social sciences?
How far are sociologists justified in using positivist approach to understand social reality? Explain with suitable illustrations.
How is Sociology related to common sense?
How do qualitative and quantitative methods supplement each other in sociological enquiry?
Critically examine the dialectics involved in each mode of production as propounded by Karl Marx.
cage? Justify your answer
How has the idea of ‘Work from Home’ forced us to redefine the formal and informal organization of work?
With suitable examples, explain how conformity and deviance coexist in a society as propounded by R.K. Merton.
खण्ड—B / SECTION—B
निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों में से प्रत्येक का उत्तर लगभग 150 शब्दों में दीजिए :
Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :
Explain the emerging challenges in establishing gender equality in the informal sector. 10
Critically examine the relevance of Vilfredo Pareto’s theory of Circulation of Elites in the present scenario.
Critically compare the views of E.B. Tylor and Max Muller on Religion.
What is cult? Explain the growth of cults in the contemporary world.
Elucidate the main problems and challenges faced by the migrant labourers in the recent ‘Lockdown period’.
Describe the role of Science & Technology in enabling us to face the challenges triggered by the COVID – 19 pandemics.
Explain how political parties and pressure groups are dialectically related to each other in terms of achieving their goals.
Give your comments on the growth of religious revivalism in the present-day context.
Explain how the pattern of patriarchy is being altered in a family and at the workplace in the present context.
Discuss the changing nature of kinship relations in the contemporary world.
Explain the growing salience of ethnicity in the contemporary world with illustrations.
Critically examine the contribution of dependency theories in understanding the present global scenario.
Highlight the roles and function of civil society in a democratic system.
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