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MSOE-4 Solved Assignment English Medium 2023-24 for July 2023 and January 2024 Session
M.S.O.E-4
URBAN SOCIOLOGY
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Master’s in 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
- Discuss the contributions of Chicago school theorists to urban sociology.
- Define the concept of city and discuss the major features of an industrial city.
- What are pre-industrial cities? Describe and discuss its features with an example.
- Discuss the meaning of New Urban Sociology? What does it constitute?
- What is the nature of family in urban areas? Give examples.
- Analyse the different aspects of social change taking place in India? Are the villages getting urbanized in India? Discuss
Section-II
- Describe the occupational structure in urban India. How has it changed after economic liberalization, privatization and globalization?
- How does industrialisation affect the different social institutions in society? Discuss.
- What is urban ecology and how does urban environment impact the lives of people living in cities? Discuss
- Discuss critically the role and responsibility of media in urban governance.
MSOE4, MSOE 4
