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Indira Gandhi National Open University
Master’s in Sociology
MSOE-004: Urban Sociology
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)
Programme Code: MSO
Course Code: MSOE-004
Assignment Code: MSOE-004/AST/TMA/2023-24
Maximum Marks: 100
Weightage: 30%
Answer any five questions selecting at least two from each Section. Your answer should
be in about 500 words each.
Section-I
1. Discuss the contributions of Chicago school theorists to urban sociology. 20
2. Define the concept of city and discuss the major features of an industrial city. 20
3. What are pre-industrial cities? Describe and discuss its features with an example. 20
4. Discuss the meaning of New Urban Sociology? What does it constitute? 20
5. What is the nature of family in urban areas? Give examples. 20
6. Analyse the different aspects of social change taking place in India? Are the
villages getting urbanized in India? Discuss
20
Section-II
7. Describe the occupational structure in urban India. How has it changed after
economic liberalization, privatization and globalization?
20
8. How does industrialisation affect the different social institutions in society?
Discuss.
20
9. What is urban ecology and how does urban environment impact the lives of
people living in cities? Discuss
20
10. Discuss critically the role and responsibility of media in urban governance.
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