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This document outlines the syllabus for sociology courses covering the following key topics: - Basic concepts in sociology including culture, social groups, social structure, roles, norms and values. - Marriage, family and kinship structures as well as how they are changing. - Social stratification and forms of social hierarchy including caste, class and tribal systems. - Different types of societies from tribal to industrial and factors influencing economic and social change. - Demographic and political processes in society as well as the roles of education, religion and social movements. - The study of Indian society including the historical development of its social institutions and current issues related to caste, class, agriculture

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This document outlines the syllabus for sociology courses covering the following key topics: - Basic concepts in sociology including culture, social groups, social structure, roles, norms and values. - Marriage, family and kinship structures as well as how they are changing. - Social stratification and forms of social hierarchy including caste, class and tribal systems. - Different types of societies from tribal to industrial and factors influencing economic and social change. - Demographic and political processes in society as well as the roles of education, religion and social movements. - The study of Indian society including the historical development of its social institutions and current issues related to caste, class, agriculture

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Basic Concepts :

Society, community, association, institution. Culture-


culture change, diffusion, Cultural-tag, Cultural
relativism, ethnocentrism, acculturation.
Social Groups-primary, secondary and reference
groups.
Social structure, social system, social action.
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d role, role conflict, role set.
Norms and values-conformity and deviance.
Law and customs.
Socio-cultural processes :
socialisation, assimilation, integration, cooperation,
competition, conflict, accommodation, Social distance,
relative deprivation.

Unit II :

Marriage, Family and Kinship :


Marriage : types and norms, marriage as contract, and
as a sacrament.
Family : types, functions and changes.
Kinships : terms and usages, rules of residence,
descent, inheritance.

Unit III :

Social Stratification :
Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system,
purity and pollution, dominant caste, sanskritisation.
Unit IV :

Types of Society :
Tribal, agrarian, industrial and post-industrial.

Unit V :

Economy and Society :


Man, nature and social production, economic systems
of simple and complex societies, non-economic
determinants of economic behaviour, market (free)
economy and controlled (planned) economy.

Unit VI :

Industrial and Urban Society :


Rural-Urban Continuum, urban growth and
urbanization-town, city and metropolis; basic features
of industrial society; impact of automation on society;
industrialisation and environment.

Unit VII :

Social Demography :
Population size, growth, composition, and distribution
in India; components of population growth-births,
deaths and migration; causes and consequences of
population growth; population and social development;
population policy.
Unit VIII :

Political Processes :
Power, authority and legitimacy; political socialisation;
political modernisation, pressure groups; caste and
politics.

Unit IX :

Weaker Sections-and Minorities :


Social justice-equal opportunity and special
opportunity; protective discrimination; constitutional
safeguards.

Unit X :

Social Change :Theories of change; factors of change;


science, technology and change. Social movements-
Peasant Movement, Womens Movement, Backward
Caste Movement, Dalit Movement.
Sociology Syllabus for Main Examination Paper-I 
General Sociology/Foundations of
Sociology/Fundamentals of Sociology

1. Sociology-The Discipline :
Sociology as a science and as an interpretative
discipline; impact of industrial and French Revolution
on the emergence of sociology; sociology and its
relationship with history, economics, political science,
psychology and anthropology.
2. Scientific Study of Social Phenomena :
Problem of objectivity and value neutrality; issue of
measurement in social science; elements of scientific
method-concepts, theory and fact, hypothesis;
research designs-descriptive, exploratory and
experimental

3. Techniques of data collection and analysis :


Participant and quasi-participant observation;
interview, questionnaire and schedule case study,
sampling-size, reliability and validity, scaling
techniques-social distance and Likert scale.

4. Pioneering contributions to Sociology:


a) Karl Marx : Historical materialism, mode of
production, alienation and class struggle.
b) Emile Durkheim : Division of labor, social fact,
religion and society.
c) Max Weber : Social action, ideal types, authority,
bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of
capitalism.
d) Talcott Parsons : Social system, pattern variables.
e) Robert K. Merton : Latent and manifest functions,
anomie, conformity and deviance, reference groups.

5. Marriage and Family :


Types and forms of marriage; family-structure and
function; personality and socialization; Social control;
family, lineage, descent and property; changing
structure of family marriage and sex roles in modern
society; divorce and its implications; gender issues;
role conflicts.

6. Social Stratification :
Concepts-hierarchy, inequality and stratification;
theories of stratification-Marx, Davis and Moore and
Melvin Tumins critique; forms and functions; class-
different conceptions of class; class-in-itself and class-
for-itself; caste and class; caste as a class.

7. Social Mobility :
Types of mobility-open and closed models; intra-and
inter-generational mobility; vertical and horizontal
mobility; social mobility and social change.

8. Economic System :
Sociological dimensions of economic life; the impact of
economic processes on the larger society; social
aspects of division of labor and types of exchange;
features of pre-industrial and industrial economic
system; industrialisation and social change; social
determinants of economic development.

9. Political System :
The nature of power-personal power, community
power, power of the elite, class power, organisational
power, power of the un-organised masses; authority
and legitimacy; pressure groups and political parties;
voting behaviour; modes of political participation-
democratic and authoritarian forms.

10. Educational System :
Education and Culture; equality of educational
opportunity; social aspects of mass education;
problems of universalisation of primary education; role
of community and state intervention in education;
education as an instrument of social control and social
change; education and modernisation.

11. Religion :
Origins of religious beliefs in pre-modern socieites; the
sacred and the profane; social functions and
dysfunctions of religion; monistic and pluralistic
religion; organised and unorganised religions; semitism
and antisemitism; religion, sect and cults; magic,
religion and science.

12. Science & Technology :


Ethos of science; social responsibility of science; social
control of science; social consequences of science and
technology; technology and social change.

13. Social Movements :


Concepts of social movements; genesis of social
movements; ideology and social movement; social
movement and social change; types of social
movements.

14. Social change and Development :


Continuity and change as fact and as value; theories of
social change-Marx, Parsons and Sorokin; direted social
change; social policy and social development. Paper-
II Study of Indian Society
1. Historical Moorings of the Indian Society :
Traditional Hindu social organization; socio-cultural
dynymics through the ages; impact of Buddhism,
Islam, and the West, factors in continuity and change.

2. Caste System :
Origin of the caste system; cultural and structural
views about caste; mobility in caste; caste among
Muslims and Christians; change and persistence of
caste in modern India; issues of equality and social
justice; views of Gandhi and Ambedkar on caste; caste
on and Indian polity; Backward Classes Movement;
Mandal Commission Report and issues of social
backwardness and social justice; emergence of Dalit
consciousness.

3. Class Structure :
Class structure in India, agrarian and industrial class
structure; emergence ofmiddle class; emergence of
classes among tribes; elite formation in India.

4. Marriage, Family and Kinship:


Marriage among different ethnic groups, its changing
trends and its future; family-its structural and
functional aspects-its changing forms; regional
variations in kinship systems and its socio-cultural
correlates; impact of legislation and socio-economic
change on marriage and family; generation gap.

5. Agrarian Social Structure :


Peasant society and agrarian systems; land tenure
systems-historical perspectives, social consequences of
land reforms and green revolution; feudalism-semi-
feudalism debates; emerging agrarian class structure;
agrarian unrest.

6. Industry and Society :


Path of industrialisation, occupational diversification,
trade unions and human relations; market economy
and its social consequences; economic reforms
liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation.

7. Political Processes :
Working of the democratic political system in a
traditional society; political parties and their social
base; social structural origins of political elites and
their orientations; regionalism, pluralism and national
unity; decentralisation of power; panchayati raj and
nagarpalikas and 73rd and 74th constitutional
amendments.

8. Education :
Directive Principles of State Policy and primary
education; education; educational inequality and
change; education and social mobility; the role of
community and state intervention in education;
universalisation of primary education; Total Literacy
Campaigns; educational problems of disadvantages
groups.

9. Religion and Society :


Size, growth and regional distribution of different
religious groups; educational levels of different groups;
problems of religious minorities; communal tensions;
secularism; conversions; religious fundamentalism.

10. Tribal Societies :


Distinctive features of tribal communities and their
geographical spread; problems of tribal communities-
land alienation, poverty, indebetedness, health and
nutrition, education; tribal development efforts after
independence; tribal policy-isolation, assimilation and
integration; issues of tribal identity.

11. Population Dynamics :


Population size, growth, composition and distribution;
components of population growth; birth rate, death
rate and migration; determinants and consequences of
population growth; issues of age at marriage, sex ratio,
infant mortality rate; population policy and family
welfare programmes.

12. Dimensions of Development :


Strategy and ideology of planning; poverty,
indebtedness and bonded labor; strategies of rural
development-poverty alleviation programmes;
environment, housing, slums, and unemployment;
programmes for urban development.

13. Social Change :


Endogenous and exogenous sources of change and
resistance toc hange; processes of change-
sanskritisation and modernisation; agents of change-
mass media, education and communication; problems
of change and modernisation; structural contradictions
and breakdowns.

14. Social Movements :


Reform Movements : Arya Samaj, Satya Sadhak
Samaj, Sri Narayanguru Dharma Paripalana Sabha, and
Ram Krishna Mission.
Peasant movements-Kisan Sabha, Telengana,
Naxalbari.
Backward Castes Movement : Self-respect Movement,
backward castes mobilisation in North India.

15. Women and society :


Demographic profile of women; special problems-
dowry, atrocities, discrimination; existing programmes
for women and their impact. Situational analysis of
children; child welfare programmes.

16. Social Problems : Prostitution, AIDS, alcoholism,


drug addiction, corruption.

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