EXAMINATION, 2004
SOCIOLOGY. TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
[NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all; including QUESTION No.8 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry EQUAL marks.


1-Write clearly. What major Contributions did Karl Marx and Ibn-i-Khaldun make to our understanding of the social experience?

2-Why is culture indispensable to human society and what part do norms and values play in social life?

3- Define social institution and how can religion hold in check the explosive social tensions produced by inequality and injustice.

4-How you can define poverty and what strategies the Government of Pakistan has adopted to alleviate poverty and also discuss the role of NGO's to address the issue of poverty.

5-What are the social effects of deviance and do Crime-fighting programmes including imprisonment work in Pakistan.

6-Why is research essential to the scientific enterprise and what are the principal theoretical methods available to Sociologists in the study of social life? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each.

7-Write short notes on the following:
(a) Future of Cities in Pakistan
(b) Implications of population growth
(c)Ethnocentrisms
(d)probability and Non-probability Sampling.