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1. Explain the main basis of 'Historical Materialism' by Karl Marx.
2. Who used the distinction between 'repressive' and 'restitutive' law for classifying societies?
3. Who propounded the concept of 'Collective Representation'?
4. Who stated that 'mode of production is the sole determinant of the culture of society'?
5. What, according to Marx, is the basis of capitalism?
6. What led to the existence of cities and towns?
7. Who proposed the idea of 'social fact as a thing'?
8. Who authored the book 'India's Changing Village'?
9. What year marks the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
10. Who was the founder president of Indian Sociological Society?
11. Who is the writer of the book 'Principles of Sociology'?
12. Who authored 'The Division of Labour in Society'?
13. Identify a positive effect of industrialization.
14. Which thinker observed that 'Religion is opium of the masses'?
15. Who asserted 'Men make their own history'?
16. Identify the thinker who said 'The idea of society is the soul of religion'.
17. Define 'social organization' as per sociological thinkers.
18. What are Durkheim's types of suicide?
19. Which books are not authored by Comte?
20. Explain charismatic authority.
21. Who pioneered work on 'Ideal Type'?
22. Who defined sociology as the study of 'Social Actions'?
23. Who argued that individuals not fitting in do not deserve to flourish?
24. Who explained the emergence of state through differentiation into social classes?
25. Who identified societies as simple, compound, doubly compound, and triply compound in evolutionary stages?
26. Who maintained that the study of society cannot be value-free?
27. Who proposed the theory of Surplus Value?
28. What are the bases of stratification according to Max Weber?
29. Who introduced the 'Theory of Circulation of Elite'?
30. How is 'Social Fact' used as a methodological tool?
31. Who coined the concept of 'Positivism'?
32. What are the two types of 'Social Solidarity' as per Durkheim?
33. Who introduced the Case Study method in sociology?
34. Explain participant observation.
35. Who argued that caste forms an institutionalized social stratification in India?
36. Who wrote 'Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India'?
37. Who gave the concept of Dominant Caste?