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# Sociology Daily Answer Writing (25-07-2022)
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- Published: 2022-07-24T16:54:09.000Z
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### Questions

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1\. Write a short note on Sociology and its relationship with Economics and Political Science. 20 

2\. Clarify the correlation between Common Sense and Sociology. 10 

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### Model Structure 1.

**Introduction** 

● Definition of Sociology 

● Sociology - the mother of all social science 

**Main Body** 

A. Sociology and Economics 

● Define Economics 

● Divergence between the two - 

○ Scope of Study (society vs. utilization of resources) 

○ Types of Research methods 

○ Focus of the subject 

○ Sociology have emerged relatively recently 

● Convergence between the two - 

○ Marx - MoP, Economic Base structure 

○ Weber - Spirit of Protestant ethic and Rise of capitalism 

○ Durkheim - Division of Labour 

○ Origin of caste can be analysed by studying economic DoL in Jajmani system 

○ Current Examples - 

1. Budgetary allocation for social development
2. Amartya Sen's capability approach

B. Sociology and Political Science- 

● Define of Political Science 

● Divergence between the two - 

○ Scope of Study - (Society vs State) 

○ Types of Research methods 

○ Subject matter (codified, related to power in Pol Science; Open-ended, stresses interrelation of social institutions in Sociology) 

○ Focus of the subject - (Social actions vs Power) 

○ Sociology have emerged relatively recently 

● Convergence between the two - 

○ Sociological investigation for policy forming 

○ Max Weber developed sociological theory of authority and power in his study on Bureaucracy 

○ Sociological analysis of voting pattern, Identity politics 

○ Morris Ginsberg- Historically sociology has its roots in politics and Philosophy of History. 

○ Sociological concepts such as religion, caste, ethnicity, etc used for political mobilisation. Eg. Maratha agitations in Maharashtra 

○ C.W. Mills, Immanuel Wallerstein 

○ Indian Context - M.N.Srinivas Dominant caste, Rajni Kothari 

● Current Examples - 

○ Study of caste identity in politics (AJGAR, Muslim-Yadav Vote banks, etc) 

○ Issue of tribal autonomy 

**Conclusion** 

● Scope of the disciplines evolve with time and mutually reinforcing each other, to flourish together 

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### Model Structure 2.

**Introduction**

● Define Common sense and Sociology 

**Main Body** 

Compare and contrast the both 

● Sociology- Not Common Sense (common sense vs sociology) 

○ Nature of findings: Cues from surface Vs Looking out for interconnectedness 

○ Nature of Observations: Assumptions, individualistic, culturally determined Vs Organized skepticism, tested thoughts. 

○ Orientation: Status-quoist, unreflective Vs Change oriented and reflective 

○ Positivist argues that common sense and sociology is different 

● Sociology- Common Sense (Similarities between them -Moore & Reid) 

○ Concepts in sociology been framed by taking common sense knowledge into consideration 

○ Common sense helps in building sociological hypotheses. 

○ It also provides raw material for sociological investigation 

○ Non-positivists (phenomenology, ethnomethodology) consider common sense as a part of sociology. 

**Conclusion:** 

● At first, it was rejected by positivists like Durkheim; Some see it as complementary; 

● Post-modernist see sociological knowledge as no superior to common sense. 

● Thus, the relation between sociology and common sense is dynamic and even mutually reinforcing at times.

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