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# Sociology Daily Answer Writing (02-09-2022)
- URL: https://www.upscprep.com/sociology-daily-answer-writing-02-09-2022/
- Published: 2022-09-01T21:09:17.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-01T21:15:20.000Z
- Description: Topics - Sociology and Common Sense | Emergence of Sociology
- Author: UPSCprep.com
- Tags: Socio Daily Writing

### Questions

1. Clarify the correlation between Common Sense and Sociology. 10
2. Explain how sociology emerged as a distinct discipline based on rationality and scientific temper. 20

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### Model Solutions

**1\. Clarify the correlation between Common Sense and Sociology. 10**

**Model Structure**  
**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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**2\. Explain how sociology emerged as a distinct discipline based on rationality and scientific temper. 20**

**Model Framework:**  
**Introduction**

- Define Sociology
- Emergence of Sociology- rooted in the Enlightenment and Scientific revolution

**Main Body**

- Intellectual Development in Europe -  
  - Greek philosophers Plato
  - Renaissance - Changes in religion
  - Enlightenment - Rousseau General will of people
- French and industrial Revolution -  
  - Old Traditions challenged by Modernity (Eg - Political structure, Feudalism, Old forces of production)
  - Changes due to modernity
- Challenges in the society due to modernity -  
  - Urbanisation, Poverty, Deviance
- Contradictory ideas caused Antithesis -  
  - Pro-modernist (Comte, Durkheim) versus anti-modernist (Marx) debate causing intellectual unrest
  - Already established social disciplines were not able to address the social problems
  - New discipline was established to study societal phenomena scientifically.

**Conclusion**

- Concluding on lines of Question
- Can conclude giving a futuristic dimension - how Sociology progressed after emergence.

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