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Social Change Question Paper
Social Change
Course:Bachelor Of Arts
Institution: Kenya Polytechnic University College question papers
Exam Year:2009
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS
ASC 201:
SOCIAL CHANGE
DATE: Tuesday, 29th December, 2009
TIME: 8.00 a.m. ? 10.00 a.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer question ONE and any other TWO questions. All questions carry 23.3 marks,
each.
Q.1
a)
Comment on the conservations that classical cydic advanced.
(10 marks)
b)
Discuss Ibn Khadulm?s contributions to the principal arguments, with a focus on
Kenya or any other African society with which you are familiar (13.3 marks)
Q.2 a) Outline
TWO of the major sources of social change.
(10 marks)
b)
Discuss
TWO of the positive and TWO of the negative consequences of
such changes, with reference to Kenya.
(13.3)
Q.3
a)
Give a conceptual definition of social change
(5.0 marks)
b)
Discuss the levels of social change as Robert Laner presented them, and
indicate their socio-economic implications in Kenya.
(18.3 marks)
Q.4
a)
What do you understand by resistance to planned social change?
(5.0
marks)
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b)
With reference to the main cultural and social barriers to change, explain
the strategies you would envisage to cope with these barriers
(18.3
marks)
Q.5
Write succinct, lucid notes on THREE of the following:-
a)
Karl Marx and change
b)
Spengler vs Toynbee
c)
Reductive vs Facilitative strategies
d)
Communicability vs Compatibility
e)
Structural strains
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