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Sociology For Business Old Question Paper Year 2019 | Tribhuvan University | Program BBA
Group “A”
Brief answer questions: [10*1=10]
1) What is sociological imagination?
2) Point out major features of economic institutions
3) Define ethnicity.
4) Point out benefits of network analysis of organizations to the managers.
5) Name four types of research design.
6) Give one example that reflects the relationship of work with leisure.
7) What are the major types of organizational socialization?
8) Distinguish between kinship and family.
9) What is the meaning of conflict for functionalist?
10) Write the definition of market as stated by Niel Fligestein.
Group “B”
Short answer questions: [5*6 = 30]
11) Define sociology and describe its emergence.
12) How does education help in socializing younger generation? Illustrate
13) What is social movement? How do politics and social movement impact work organizations?
14) Define sociological perspective and write the basic assumptions of post-modern perspective.
15) Lay out a research design for carrying out a sociological research in topic of your interest.
16) Discuss the caste based stratification in Nepali society.
Group “C”
Comprehensive answer questions: [20]
17) Read the following case carefully and answer the questions that following below.
Human beings have always thought of an egalitarian society. And the concept of egalitarian is raised; many scholars give the example of Kibbutz communities or the Kibbutzim of Israel which have the characteristics of collective ownership and wealth. The hallmark of traditional Kibbutzim is equal sharing of production and consume wherein the division of income used to be shared strictly equal among all the members of within a Kibbutz. Besides, the education and socialization of children, the responsibility of the elderly also rest on the Kibbutz rather than on a specific family. The children used to live in communal residences for children. Similarly, within the system, the members not have the common ownership of income but they have many amenities in common besides their land; for instance, communal dining hall and common cultural centres. The common swimming pools, housing and the factories are some of the communal assets of present day Kibbutz communities.
Kibbutizim is originated as a small farming settlement which was believed to the guided by the notion of ‘from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs’. It was in the year 1910, the first Kibbutz was established and during 1930s and 1940s Kibbutzim communities flourished in many settlements in Israel. In the recent times, it was reported that there are around 270 active Kibbutz communities in different regions of the country and few are operated outside Israel as well. Though all Kibbutizim were established with the same principle but with the course of time the operative mechanisms underwent changes due to various reasons. One of such reasons was the threat to the survival of these communities due to economic crisis of 1980s.
Today, the Kibbutizim are operated by the younger generations – many whom are the ones who left the communities earlier. The majority of currently active Kibbutizim are being operating not solely under “traditional approach” of equal sharing but rather on “a novel approach” which is the combination of ‘traditional values’ of communal life with the current approach. Within this mechanism, a member not just receives the equal sum given to each member of the Kibbutz, but also gets a sum the basis of his/her seniority plus an additional amount as his/ /her contribution to the Kibbutz.
Questions:
- What type of communities the Kibbutizim are? What are the distinctive features?
- Discuss Kibbutizim communities from functional perspectives.
- What other perspectives can be employed in analysis of the Kibbutizim communities?
- In your view, which approach of communal living is more appropriate; the “traditional” one or the “novel” one? Why?