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Paper-I
Fundamentals of sociology
1. Sociology – The Discipline:
(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of
Sociology.
(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social
sciences.
(c) Sociology and common sense.
2. Sociology as Science:
(a) Science, scientific method and critique.
(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
(c) Positivism and its critique.
(d) Fact value and objectivity.
(e) Non-positivist methodologies.
3. Research Methods and Analysis:
(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
(b) Techniques of data collection.
(c ) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and
validity.
4. Sociological Thinkers:
(a) Karl Marx – Historical materialism, mode of production,
alienation, class struggle.
(b) Emile Durkheim – Division of labour, social fact, suicide, 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,
conformity and deviance, reference groups.
(f) Mead – Self and identity.
5. Stratification and Mobility :
(a) Concepts – equality, inequality, hierarchy,
exclusion,poverty and deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification – Structural
functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
(c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status
groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
(d) Social mobility – open and closed systems, types of
mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
6. Works and Economic Life :
(a) Social organization of work in different types of society – slave society, feudal society, industrial
capitalist society
(b) Formal and informal organization of work.
(c) Labour and society.
7. Politics and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of power.
(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political
parties.
(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil
society,ideology.
(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
8. Religion and Society :
(a) Sociological theories of religion.
(b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
(c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.
9. Systems of Kinship:
(a) Family, household, marriage.
(b) Types and forms of family.
(c) Lineage and descent.
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
(e) Contemporary trends.
10. Social Change in Modern Society :
(a) Sociological theories of social change.
(b) Development and dependency.
(c) Agents of social change.
(d) Education and social change.
(e) Science, technology and social change.
Paper-II
Indian Society : Structure And Change
A. Introducing Indian Society :
(i) Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society :
(a) Indology (G.S. Ghurye).
(b) Structural
functionalism (M. N. Srinivas).
(c) Marxist
sociology (A. R. Desai).
(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society :
(a) Social
background of Indian nationalism.
(b) Modernization
of Indian tradition.
(c) Protests and
movements during the colonial period.
(d) Social reforms.
B. Social Structure:
(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
(a) The idea of
Indian village and village studies.
(b) Agrarian social
structure— evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
(ii) Caste System:
(a) Perspectives on
the study of caste systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre
Beteille.
(b) Features of
caste system.
(c)
Untouchability-forms and perspectives
(iii) Tribal Communities in India:
(a) Definitional
problems.
(b) Geographical
spread.
(c) Colonial policies
and tribes.
(d) Issues of
integration and autonomy.
(iv) Social Classes in India:
(a) Agrarian class
structure.
(b) Industrial
class structure.
(c) Middle classes
in India.
(v) Systems of Kinship in India:
(a) Lineage and
descent in India.
(b) Types of
kinship systems.
(c) Family and
marriage in India.
(d) Household
dimensions of the family.
(e) Patriarchy,
entitlements and sexual division of labour.
(vi) Religion and Society :
(a) Religious
communities in India.
(b) Problems of
religious minorities.
C. Social Changes in India:
(i) Visions of Social Change in India:
(a) Idea of
development planning and mixed economy.
(b) Constitution,
law and social change.
(c) Education and
social change.
(ii) Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India:
(a) Programmes of
rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty
alleviation schemes.
(b) Green revolution
and social change.
(c) Changing modes
of production in Indian agriculture.
(d) Problems of
rural labour, bondage, migration.
(iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
(a) Evolution of
modern industry in India.
(b) Growth of urban
settlements in India.
(c) Working class:
structure, growth, class mobilization.
(d) Informal
sector, child labour.
(e) Slums and
deprivation in urban areas.
(iv) Politics and Society :
(a) Nation,
democracy and citizenship.
(b) Political
parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.
(c) Regionalism and
decentralization of power.
(d) Secularization.
(v) Social Movements in Modern India :
(a) Peasants and
farmers movements.
(b) Women’s
movement.
(c) Backward
classes & Dalit movements.
(d) Environmental
movements.
(e) Ethnicity and
Identity movements.
(vi) Population Dynamics :
(a) Population
size, growth, composition and distribution.
(b) Components of
population growth: birth, death, migration.
(c) Population
Policy and family planning.
(d) Emerging
issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation :
(a) Crisis of
development : displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.
(b) Poverty,
deprivation and inequalities.
(c) Violence
against women.
(d) Caste
conflicts.
(e) Ethnic
conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
(f) Illiteracy and disparities in education.
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