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1. 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.
   Status and 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.

    

2. 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.
    

3. Social Stratification

   Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant caste, sanskritisation.

    

4. Types of Society

   Tribal, agrarian, industrial and post-industrial.

    

5. 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.
    

6. Industrial and Urban Society

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

    

7. 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.

    

8. Political Processes

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

    

9. Weaker Sections-and Minorities

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

    

10. Social Change

    Theories of change; factors of change; science, technology and change. Social movements-Peasant Movement, Women's Movement, Backward Caste Movement, Dalit Movement.