Class 10 Social Science I (English Medium) Chapter 11 Sociology: What? Why? - Questions and Answers
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Chapter 10 Sociology: What? Why? - Questions and Answers Questions and Answers
1. What is the difference between creative writing and the study of sociology?
Answer:
Creative Writing
• Writing is based on imagination and creativity.
• Social events are depicted in aesthetic realms.
• The goal of creative writing is appreciation.
Study of Sociology
• Social issues/subjects are analyzed scientifically
• Social conditions are analyzed on the basis of the cause-effect relationship
• Society is objectively analyzed.
2. Sociology meaning
Answer:
• Sociology is a distinct subject area that undertakes a comprehensive study of the relation between man and his social environment.
3. By what name is the 19th century known in history?
Answer: 'Age of Revolutions'.
4. What were the 3 revolutions that led to the emergence of sociology?
Answer:
• Renaissance or scientific revolution.
• French Revolution.
• Industrial Revolution.
5. Where did sociology originate?
Answer: Western Europe.
6. Who is the father of sociology?
Answer:
• Auguste Comte the French thinker is regarded as the father of sociology.
7. Who utilized the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin for the study of society.
Answer:
• Herbert Spencer
• He clarified that just as biological evolution, society had passed through various stages and reached the present stage.
8. Who are the thinkers who have made important contributions to the development of sociology.
Answer:
• Karl Marx,
• Emile Durkheim,
• Max Weber.
9. In which university was the Department of Social Studies first started in India?
Answer: The University of Bombay.
10. Who were the main contributors to the study of sociology in India?
Answer:
• G. S. Khurey,
• A. R. Desai,
• S.C. Dubey,
• M.N. Sreenivas,
• D.P. Mukharjee,
11. Define sociology
Answer:
• Sociology is the scientific study of the social aspects of human life.
According to this definition
• Sociology studies human life.
• Studying the relationship between man and society.
• The study of human mental processes.
12. Why the study of sociology? / What is the importance of the study of sociology.
Answer:
• Helps to formulate the right perspective of society.
• Helps to get an objective knowledge of one's society and other societies.
• Helps to know the relation between the individual and the social institutions.
• Studies social problems precisely.
• Helps to find solutions for social problems.
• Benefits social planning and development.
• Provides guidance to social welfare measures by conducting studies on the backward sections, the exploited and people who have faced discrimination and oppression.
13. What are the main areas of study in sociology
Answer:
• Social institutions
• Social groups
• Social relations
• Socialization
• Social control
• Communities
• Social changes
• Social problems.
14. Methods of study in sociology
Answer:
• Social survey
• Interview
• Observation
• Case study
15. Social survey
Answer:
• Survey is the most suitable method for the study of sociology.
• It helps to formulate a comprehensive point of view of the topic, based on the data collected from a group of selected people.
• Survey method is used when data is to be collected from a larger population.
16. What are the features of the census?
Answer:
• Census is a type of survey which collects details about the total population of a nation.
• But the census is not practical in sociological studies, because usually data is not collected from all the people under study but only from a selected group of people.
• Such studies are called sample surveys.
17. Sample survey.
Answer:
• Sample survey is a method of conducting a study of the entire community by gathering information only from selected individuals.
18. What are the different means used to collect data during a survey
Answer:
• Social media
• Telephone
• Questionnaires are commonly used in social surveys.
19. What is a Questionnaire?
Answer:
• A questionnaire is a set of questions that researchers use to collect data.
• Questionnaires are given to the respondents from whom data is collected.
• The group under study is called respondents.
• Study is carried out using the respondents' responses in the questionnaire.
20. Interview
Answer:
• This is a method by which information is collected orally.
• Interview is the talk between the interviewer and the interviewee.
• As a method of study interview helps to know and analyse the attitudes, views, beliefs, habits, etc. of the individuals.
21. What are the things to consider when interviewing?
Answer:
• Identifying the apt persons.
• Formulating an idea of the information to be collected.
• Preparing of suitable questions
• Effective communication.
• Management of time
• Proper organisation of the information collected and preparing the report.
22. What is the difference between interview and questionnaire?
Answer:
Answer:
• Observation is a method by which whatever is seen, heard and experienced is recorded truthfully.
• It is more relevant where methods like interviews are not practically feasible.
• Such data collected directly helps inaccurate assessment.
There are two types of observation.
1. Participant observation.
2. Non participant observation.
24. Participant observation
Answer:
• When the researcher himself/herself collects information directly from the area under study it is called participant observation.
• The sociologist stays with the population under study and understands their life directly in such observation.
• The researcher learns their language, culture, etc. and becomes a part of their daily life.
• Through this method, even the behaviour which is not explicit can be studied.
• This method is also known as fieldwork.
• The participant observation method is mostly employed by anthropologists to study early human societies.
25. Non participant observation
Answer:
• In non-participant observation, the researcher does not stay with the group under study.
• They are observed from outside.
• An example of this is the way in which police track down suspected criminals without uniforms.
26. Case study
Answer:
• Case study is used to make an in-depth study on rare and different social phenomena and problems.
• Such studies will be exact and comprehensive.
• The topic under study using this method is called a case.
• The detailed study of the case is a case study.
27. Applicability areas of Sociology
Answer:
• Commerce,
• Town planning,
• Advertisements,
• Media and
• Educational activities.
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