Answer any five questions selecting at least two from each of the sections. Youra
should be in about 500 words each.
Section-1
1.
Discuss the concept of social reality in the context of symbolic universe.
2.
Discuss the relationship between theory and paradigm.
3.
Critically examine the theory of neo-functionalism.
4.
Discuss the concept of liberty in the writings of Isaiah Berlin.
5.
Explain Malinowski's Scientific Theory of Culture,
Answers
1.ans.It is stated that the symbolic universe constitutes the highest level of legitimation of the social reality that human beings create (Berger & Luckmann 1966:95). ... As individuals play their roles, they participate in a social reality, a reality that must be made meaningful and subjectively plausible to all its members.
2.ansA “theory” is an explanation to the happenings in the world. It is not just an assumption, instead theory is based on scientific facts. A paradigm is a set of beliefs and theories that a society possesses
3.ans.Neofunctionalism is a theory of regional integration which downplays globalisation and reintroduces territory into its governance. ... Neofunctionalism describes and explains the process of regional integration with reference to how three causal factors interact: Growing economic interdependence between nations.
4.ans.It is also one of Berlin's first expressions of his ethical ontology of value-pluralism. Berlin defined negative liberty (as the term "liberty" was used by Thomas Hobbes) as the absence of coercion or interference with agents' possible private actions, by an exterior social-body.
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