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Syllabus
Prelim Syllabus
Paper-I
General
Sociology/Foundations of Sociology/Fundamentals of Sociology
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Pioneering contributions
to Sociology
Karl Marx : Historical
materialism, mode of production, alienation and class struggle.
Emile Durkheim : Division of
labour, social fact, religion and society.
Max Weber : Social action,
ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the
spirit of capitalism.
Talcott Parsons : Social
system, pattern variables.
Robert K. Merton : Latent
and manifest functions, anomie, conformity and deviance, reference
groups.
- 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.
- Social Stratification
Concepts-hierarchy,
inequality and stratification; theories of stratification-Marx,
Davis and Moore and Melvin Tumin?s critique; forms and functions;
class-different conceptions of class; class-in-itself and
class-for-itself; caste and class; caste as a class.
- Social Mobility
Types of mobility-open and
closed models; intra-and inter-generational mobility; vertical and
horizontal mobility; social mobility and social change.
- Economic System
Sociological dimensions of
economic life; the impact of economic processes on the larger
society; social aspects of division of labour and types of
exchange; features of pre-industrial and industrial economic
system; industrialisation and social change; social determinants
of economic development.
- 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.
- 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.
- Religion
Origins of religious beliefs
in pre-modern societies; 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.
- Science & Technology
Ethos of science; social
responsibility of science; social control of science; social
consequences of science and technology; technology and social
change.
- Social Movements
Concepts of social
movements; genesis of social movements; ideology and social
movement; social movement and social change; types of social
movements.
- 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
- Historical Moorings of
the Indian Society
Traditional Hindu social
organisation; socio-cultural dynymics through the ages; impact of
Buddhism, Islam, and the West, factors in continuity and change.
- 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.
- Class Structure
Class structure in India,
agrarian and industrial class structure; emergence ofmiddle class;
emergence of classes among tribes; elite formation in India.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dimensions of
Development
Strategy and ideology of
planning; poverty, indebtedness and bonded labour; strategies of
rural development-poverty alleviation programmes; environment,
housing, slums, and unemployment; programmes for urban
development.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Social Problems
Prostitution, AIDS,
alcoholism, drug addiction, corruption.
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