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Bachelors Of Arts Programme IGNOU
Assignment July 2022 & January 2023 Sessions Solved
Course Code: BSOC 131
Subject Name: Introduction to Sociology
Submission of the completed assignments:
| Admission batch | Last date of submission | Place of submission |
| July 2022 | 30th April 2023 | study centre |
| January 2023 | 31st October 2023 |
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Assignment Code: ASST /TMA /2022-23
Total Marks: 100
Assignment One
Answer the following Descriptive Category questions in about 500 words each. Each question carries 20 marks.
(One among the two)
1A. Discuss the similarities and dissimilarities between sociology and political science.
1B. What are the elements of culture? Discuss.
(One among the two)
2A. Does Psychology use sociological concepts and methods? Discuss. OR
2B. Explain the concept of role with suitable examples.
Assignment Two
Answer the following Middle Category questions in about 250 words each. Each question carries 10 marks.
(One among the two)
3A. Discuss Weber’s view on organization.
3B. Compare and contrast roles in simple and complex societies.
(One among the two)
4A. Discuss the perspectives on social institutions.
4B. Explain Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of socialization.
(One among the two)
5A. Describe the premises of functionalism.
5B. Discuss Mead’s theory of the development of self.
Assignment Three
Answer the following Short Category questions in about 100 words each. Each question carries 6 marks.
6. What is informal social control?
7. What is ethnocentrism?
8. Differentiate between primary and secondary groups.
9. Differentiate between multiple roles and role sets.
10. What is cultural diffusion?