The Institution of Engineers,India 2010 A.M.I.E Section A Society and environment winter - Question Paper

W10: 2 AN: AN 204/AD 304 (1404)

SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT

Time: Three hours

Maximum marks: 100

 

Q 1.        (a) Differentiate between sociology and anthropology.

(b)    Sociology is the science of society. Justify this statement.

(c)     How is social system and social institution different from each other?

(d)    How stratification takes place in Indian society?

Q 2.        (a) What do you mean by social conflict? How can it be removed?

(b)    What are the hurdles of the development process?

(c)     How do you like to assess the planning for social development?

(d)    Discuss the relationship of population growth and social development.

Q 3.        (a) What are the criteria of indigenous technology and foreign technology

assessments?

(b)    What do you mean by appropriate technology? What are the pitfalls of technology transfer?

(c)     Differentiate between technology transfer and technology development.

Q 4.    (a) Discuss the role of women in social development. How cans women

empowerment helps in the process of social development?

(b)    What are different stages of economic growth of a society? What measures can be recommended to achieve the targets of economic growth?

 

 

Group B

 

Q 5.        (a) Describe the Sulphur cycle?

(b)    Can we call community as social ecosystem? Justify your answer.

(c)     How ecological factors affect the environment?

(d)    What are different types of ecological pyramid?

Q 6.        (a) What are major forms of environmental degradation and their consequences?

(b)    Define the following concepts: (i) Pollutants; (ii) contaminants, (iii) speculation, (iv) Threshold unit value, and (v) pollution standard index.

(c)     What is pesticide? How are pesticides spread in the environment?

Q 7.        (a) How are public health and the solid waste related?

(b)    How is energy derived from the municipal solid waste?

(c)     What do you mean by hazardous waste? What are the characteristic features of hazardous waste?

(d)    What do you mean by the life cycle assessment of a product?

Q 8.        (a) What are the rules of sustainable development?

(b)    What do you mean by sustainable energy?

(c)     What is geothermal energy? Where are these located?

(d)    What do you mean by solar distillation and social pond?

 

 

Group C

 

Q 9.        (a) Answer the following in brief:

                                                           (i)      What are tropical winds?

                                                         (ii)      What is mesosphere?

                                                       (iii)      What is Bhaskara II?

                                                       (iv)      What is RAM?

                                                         (v)      What is the effect of deficit financing on economy?

(b)    Give full form of the following abbreviations :

                                                           (i)      NEERI

                                                         (ii)      ASSOCHAM

                                                       (iii)      BIFR

                                                       (iv)      FEMA

                                                         (v)      GATS

(c)     What for these personalities famous for?

                                                           (i)      Madhavacharya

                                                         (ii)      Stephen hawking

                                                       (iii)      Lee Iacocca

                                                       (iv)      Medha patekar

                                                         (v)      Vikram sarabhai

(d)    Answer the following the one word:

                                                           (i)      The words Satya Meva Jayate are taken from____.

                                                         (ii)      The Indian Military academy is located at _____.

                                                       (iii)      The national calendar of India is based on ____.

                                                       (iv)      Who certifies a site on the internet as a secure site?

                                                         (v)      Blood circulation in human body was discovered by ____.