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# Sociology Daily Answer Writing (19-10-2022)
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- Published: 2022-10-19T07:10:09.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-19T07:10:09.000Z
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### Questions

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 Solutions

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

**Model Structure** 
**Introduction**

- Definition of Sociology
- Sociology - the mother of all social science

**Main Body**

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