Description
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Core Course in M.A. Sociology
MSO-003: Sociology of Development
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)
Programme Code: MSO
Course Code: MSO-003
Assignment Code: MSO-003/AST/TMA/2022-23
Maximum Marks: 100
Weightage: 30%
Answer any five questions selecting at least two from each of the sections. Your answers
should be in about 500 words each.
Marks
Section -I
1. What is Development? Contrast the evolutionary models of development as
elaborated by Marx and Parsons.
20
2. Discuss in detail the concept of Modernization and its various perspectives
with examples.
20
3. What is Sustainable Development? Discuss critically the future of
sustainable development in the context of globalization.
20
4. What is knowledge/Information Society? Analyze the role of the role of
knowledge and ICTs in empowering communities.
20
5. Discuss critically the social dimensions of globalization in India. 20
Section-II
6. Discuss the changing perspectives on women’s development. 20
7. Write a critique of the Marxian perspective of development. 20
8. Describe dependency theory? 20
9. Discuss the role of civil society for the empowerment of the marginalized
sections of the society.
20
10. Discuss the Gandhian perspective on development.
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