hss.iitb.ac.in M.Phil Entrance Test Paper II Sample Question : Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Organization : Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Department : Humanities and Social Sciences
Exam : M.Phil Entrance Test Paper – II
Subject : Paper – II
Document Type : Previous Year Question Paper
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IITB M.Phil Entrance Test Paper – II
Duration : 140 minutes
Maximum Marks : 60
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Instructions
Please read the following very carefully.
1. This exam has 2 papers. Paper I has 2 sections (A and B) with objective type questions and is for 40 minutes (40 marks). Paper II has descriptive questions and is for 140 minutes (60 marks).
2. At the start of the examination, you will be given a question paper-cum-answer booklet for Paper I. The invigilators will collect Paper I at the end of 40 minutes, and thereafter hand out the question paper-cum-answer booklet for Paper II.
3. Fill your MET 2014 REGISTRATION NUMBER and put your signature only where asked for and nowhere else. Entering your Name, Registration Number, or any other identifier in places other than those specified is strictly forbidden.
4. All rough work must be done on the question paper-cum-answer booklet itself and must be marked as “rough”.
5. Mobile phones and programmable calculators are not allowed in the examination halls.
6. Violation of the above-mentioned instructions or adoption of any unfair means during the examination will lead to the disqualification of the candidate.
Paper II Instructions
1. Paper II consists of Sections A and B.
2. Fill your MET 2014 REGISTRATION NUMBER and sign where asked for.
3. Answers to the questions selected must be written in serial order on the blank pages provided for the purpose. Begin each answer on a fresh page.
4. Write your answers in English only and use a pen/ball-point pen. A pencil may be used only to draw figures.
5. Tick (? ) the serial number of the questions attempted in Section A and Section B on both the cover pages.
Paper II Section – A
Write short notes (approximately 250 words each) on any FIVE of the following. Each short note carries 6 marks. The short notes are to be written on the blank pages provided for this purpose after the end of Section-B in this booklet.
A-1 Erving Goffman on Total Institutions
A-2 Weber’s typology on forms of authority
A-3 Pierre Bourdieu on cultural and social capital
A-4 Michel Foucault’s concept of bio-power
A-5 Hypothesis testing in the Classical Linear Regression Model
A-6 Price discrimination by monopolists
A-7 Cost-push inflation and stagflation
A-8 National Manufacturing Policy, 2011
A-9 Generativity vs. Stagnation stage
A-10 Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
A-11 Asch’s Conformity Paradigm
A-12 Halo Effect
A-13 Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill
A-14 Medical Tourism
A-15 The role of civil society
A-16 Health Insurance in India
A-17 Creation of new states in India
A-18 Common School System
Write short notes (approximately 250 words each) on ANY FIVE of the following. Each short note carries 6 marks. The short notes are to be written on the blank pages provided for this purpose after the end of Section-B in this booklet.
A-1 Substantialization of caste
A-2 Foucault?s governmentality
A-3 Weber?s ideas of rationalization and disenchantment
A-4 Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
A-5 Incidence of an indirect tax with respect to elasticities of demand and supply
A-6 Monetized deficit and its relation with inflation
A-7 Bandwagon, Snob and Veblen Effect and market aggregation problem
A-8 The long-run supply curve in a decreasing cost industry and stability of equilibrium
A-9 Processes of extinction and shaping in learning
A-10 Episodic and semantic memory
A-11 Leader-member exchange
A-12 What are the three types of social needs given by McClelland?
A-13 Implications of Right to Education Act in India
A-14 Open-source and Copyleft movement
A-15 Jan Lok Pal Bill
A-16 Koodankulam protests
A-17 Arundhati Roy as a public intellectual
A-18 Controversy around A K Ramanujan?s „Three Hundred Ramayanas?
Paper II Section – B
Answer any TWO of the following questions in approximately 750 words each. Each question carries 15 marks. Answers must be written on the blank pages provided at the end of this section. Your answers should make specific arguments rather than general comments as far as possible.
B-1 Discuss the contributions of post-development theory to the development debate? Mention also some of the criticisms of this approach.
B-2 Discuss the contribution of George Herbert Mead to symbolic interactionism. How does he explain the emergence of mind, self and society using concepts such as generalised others, play and game stage; I and me?
B-3 Discuss Weber’s essay ‘Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism’.
B-4 Describe and evaluate some treatment approaches for mental illness.
B-5 Discuss the relationship between culture and emotional expression.
B-6 Elaborate on forgetting with respect to how we forget and types of forgetting.
B-7 Critically evaluate MGNREGA in India in terms of efficiency and its impact on equity.
B-8 Explain the following: (i) backward bending supply curve of labour; (ii) equilibrium wage determination in the labour market in absence of government intervention; and,
(iii) the implication of minimum wage fixation by the government.
B-9 Explain the role of monetary and fiscal policy in an open economy with fixed exchange rates and free capital mobility.
B-10 Discuss what reforms in institutional mechanisms are needed to fight corruption, ensure accountability and transparency in matters of governance.
B-11 Does the use of Social Media redefine and reconstitute established ideas of privacy and inter-personal relationships? Comment with adequate examples.
B-12 Highlight the main provisions of ‘The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act’. Do you agree that it addresses the problem of displaced persons adequately? Substantiate your viewpoint.
B-13 “By according the recognition to the third gender through its recent ruling, the Supreme Court of India has challenged the dominant paradigm of gender binary”. Elaborate.
Answer ANY THREE of the following questions in approximately 750 words each.
Each question carries 10 marks. Answers must be written on the blank pages provided at the end of this section.
B-1 Discuss impression management strategies.
B-2 Freud?s impact on psychology is debated. What is your opinion on the value of Freud?s theory?
B-3 State the rules for attraction in interpersonal relationships.
B-4 What is „cultural capital? and how does the concept enable us to better understand the reproduction of inequalities in society?
B-5 Critically elaborate on the functionalist theory of social stratification?
B-6 What are the salient features of the „modernisation? thesis and how does the Underdevelopment theory critique it?
B-7 Give a critique of privatization of Public Sector Enterprises and the Disinvestment Programme in the Indian context.
B-8 Write a detailed note on poverty alleviation programmes in India.
B-9 Briefly describe the capital market in India. Explain the role of capital market in India?s relatively fast-paced economic growth.
B-10 Is corporate corruption an equally bigger menace as corruption in the government? Discuss.
B-11 Elaborate the ethical dimensions of permitting Dow Chemicals to be one of the sponsors of the London Olympics 2012.
B-12 The biggest challenge the women?s movement in India faces today is in attending to „difference? within the category „woman.’ Critically examine.
B-13 Film adaptations are invariably poorer in quality in comparison to the novels on which they are based, and ruin the original work of literature. Critically assess this statement.