PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC -2025
SUBJECT: SOCIOLOGY (PAPER-I)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE:
i. All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
ii. Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No..in the Q. Paper.
ili. No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
iv. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.
NOTE: Attempt any FIVE Questions in all. Attempt in Urdu or English.
Q No. 1 How Structure-Functional Perspective clarify the significant functions of the family institution in complex and changing societies? Explain by taking examples from Pakistani society.
Q No. 2 Write short notes on:
(a) Patriarchy and Sexism
(b) Gender in Global Perspective
Q No. 3 Discuss how the pattern of health and illness has gender dimensions and how the differences in the lives of men and women account for their different experiences of ill-health.
Q No. 4 Discuss the relationship between mass media and mass culture. Critically evaluate the Marxist view of mass culture in the corporate economy.
Q No. 5: Explain how symbolic interactionist theorists like C. H. Cooley and Herbert Mead thought about self-development in the formation of personality in school children.
Q No. 6 Discuss how Feminism as a social movement provoked the changes in the role of women in both modern and traditional societies.
Q No. 7 According to Emile Durkheim, “In what ways can religion be a social force for both social stability and social cohesion in society?” Discuss in the scenario of Pakistani society.
Q No. 8 “The more wealth the worker produces, the poorer he becomes”. Discuss this statement through the lens of Marx’s concept of alienation in a capitalistic economy.
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