Sociology of Law — DU B.A (hons) Socialogy Previous Year Question Papers

Sal do far AS 1. How does Saussure's distinction between the signifier (sr) and the signified (sd) explain the arbitrariness of language? 2. Explain Lacan's reinterpretation of Saussure's relationship between the signifier (sr) and the signified (sd) to explain the formation of the unconscious? 3. Examine the ways in which Foucault's archaeological method challenge the traditional view of history? 4. Discuss how for Levi-Strauss myths express universal structures of the human mind? 5. Describe how symbols help us make meaning in culture and in mathematics? 6. In what way do Uberoi and Tyabji challenge the Western notions of individuality, representation and secular modernity? 7. How does Turner show that the human body is both a physical organism and a medium of social meaning?