Civil Service Sociology Main Exam Paper One Syllabus
PAPER-I
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
1. SOCIOLOGY-The Discipline
a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology
b) WScope 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) Majhor 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) Emle 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) Talcolt Parsons-Social system,pattern variables
(e) Robert K. Merton-Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance ,reference group
(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,Werberian theory
(C0 Dimensions-social stratification of class, status groups ,gender ,ethnicity and race
(d) Social monility-open and closed systems,types of mobility,sources and causes of mobility.
6 Works and Ec onomics Life
(a)Social organization of work in different types of society-slave society,feudal society,industrial /capitalist socisty
(b) Formal and informal organization of work
(c) Labour and society
7) Politics and Society
(a) Socialogical 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-I
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
1. SOCIOLOGY-The Discipline
a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology
b) WScope 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) Majhor 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) Emle 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) Talcolt Parsons-Social system,pattern variables
(e) Robert K. Merton-Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance ,reference group
(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,Werberian theory
(C0 Dimensions-social stratification of class, status groups ,gender ,ethnicity and race
(d) Social monility-open and closed systems,types of mobility,sources and causes of mobility.
6 Works and Ec onomics Life
(a)Social organization of work in different types of society-slave society,feudal society,industrial /capitalist socisty
(b) Formal and informal organization of work
(c) Labour and society
7) Politics and Society
(a) Socialogical 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
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