Advertisement

Write in short the meaning of the following terms/words :

(i) Ideal Type

(ii) Latent Functions

(iii) Integration

(iv) Ideographic

(v) Functionalism


(i)Ideal Type : A mental construction from in its abstract or pure for the social measurement.

(ii) Latent Functions : Functions, which are hidden and remain unacknowledged by participants,

(iii) Integration : The extent to which an individual experience a sense of belonging to a social group by virtue of sharing its norms, values, beliefs, etc.

(iv) Ideographic : Study of unique and unrepeatable events (e.g. History).

(v) Functionalism : It is a doctrine, which asserts that the principal task of sociology and social anthropology is to examine the contribution, which social items make to the social and cultural life of human collectivities.

230 Views

Advertisement
Explain the meaning of the following terms/words :

(i) Antithesis (ii) Thesis

(iii) Synthesis (iv) Variable

(v) Bureaucracy (vi) Organic Analogy

(vii) Capitalism


What is meant of the following terms/words :

(i) Concomitant Variation

(ii) Nomothetic

(iii) Conjectural

(iv) Cross-Cultural Method

(v) Dialectical

(vi) Materialism

(vii) Equilibrium

(viii) Manifest Functions

(ix) Ethnographic


State the limitations of historical method.

Discuss how the historical method can be explained through Karl Marx’s description of class conflict.

First 1 2 3 Last
Advertisement