Dear All, I am appending some of the answers that I wrote last year. (Please understand that these are not models answers but some of the answers that I wrote during strict examination conditions)
Que 1. Strive for objectivity is a Sociological nonsense. Comment critically using illustrations and cases. – 60 marks.
Ans 1
Que 2. Write a short note on ‘P. Sorokin on Social Change’ – 20 marks.
Ans 2.
Que 3. Write a short note on ‘Technology and Alienation’ – 20 marks.
Ans 3.
Que 4. Write a short note on ‘Household dimension to family’ – 20 marks.
Ans 4.
Que 5. ‘Sexual division of labor is as old as human civilization itself’. Comment – 30 marks.
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Que 6. Write a short note on ‘Sociology of Feudalism’ – 20 marks.
Ans 6.
Que 7. Write a short note on ‘Death of Ideology’ – 20 marks.
Ans 7.
Que 8. Write a short note on ‘Feminist approach to Social Change’ – 30 marks
Ans 8.
Que 9. Write a short note on “Education and persistence of economic inequality” – 30 marks
Ans 9.
Que 10. Do you think that technology and science are making global inequality stronger, deeper and more persistent ? – 30 marks
Ans 10:
(Pls note that the graph I have drawn in this answer is not correct, instead of gender inequality it should be gender equality)
Que 11. To what extent you consider that democracy offers a string platform for the institutionalization of religion? Provide suitable illustrations in support of your answer. – 30 marks.
Ans 11.
Que 12. A strong democracy is reflected in terms of effective participative citizenry. Critically comment. – 30 marks.
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Que 13. “Pluralism is a great social doctrine but it is difficult to practise in modern society”. Comment – 30 marks.
Ans 13.
Comments:
1) The feedback that I repeatedly used to get was that my answers tend to exceed the word limit, and hence sometimes were vague (which is visible in the above scripts). My suggestion to the aspirants is stick to the word limit, write with precision rather than exceeding the word limit, the latter is a strict no no in UPSC, in my opinion. Precision comes with a good understanding of the subject matter, repeated reading, and most importantly writing the answers regularly. The more you write, the better would be your command over the language.
2) Please ignore the marks obtained/ total marks mentioned along some of the answers, there was some confusion while evaluation, please treat the maximum marks mentioned along with the question as the actual max marks.
All the best.
Raghu sheshadri said:
Vibhu, You are perhaps topper of socio paper 2 with 196 marks. we will be highly obliged if you scan and upload your paper 2 answers .
Also as you have seen that Kannan has uploaded his paper 1 notes, I would request you to please upload your paper 2 notes or your collected material which you mentioned.
if you could find time for doing the second thing, I and every aspirant would pray to God that may your wish in life be fulfilled.
mahendra said:
Thanks a lot for the test papers Vibhu sir.. Just going through them..and will try to write our own answers and catch u in case of doubts…. Thanks a lot once again
Anonymous said:
thanks a lot man. i found logical presentation of arguments in your answer scripts. once again thanks a lot.
Anonymous said:
May be my request for socio paper 2 notes has fallen on deaf ears. Kannan seems to be the only hope.
vibhugoel said:
Sorry for the delay in reply. I hadn’t explicitly prepared elaborate notes. I underlined/ highlighted and read from sources (which I have mentioned in an earlier post) and added pointers/ key words in those readings itself. I am putting whatever I could, through the answers which I wrote last year. Thanks.
Abhishek said:
thanku very much for uploading notes, its a great help
Vibin said:
Sir, if possible kindly upload any of your Essays too ..
Anonymous said:
Sir plz tell me any teacher in delhi who can help me in improving my writing skills in socio. I can get my answrs chckd from him & can know my shrtcmngs
Dinesh Prajapati said:
respected sir
this was my second attmept with socio as optional
i cant do classes with work(m working as med officer in local corporation)
kindly give a list of ref books and places from where u got the diagrams
romy said:
in your answers there is name of so many thinkers …..how to remember so many names…
Namita Sharma said:
Sir, can you please suggest which test series to join for sociology?
thank you
Rupesh Yadav said:
Sir,where did you got those diagrams from?
If you made them yourself then kindly provide certain tips…