Saturday, April 23, 2011

Sociology Preliminary

Civil Service Examination Sociology Preliminary Syllabus
UNIT-1: BASIC CONCEPT
 Society,community,Association,Institution .Culture –culture change, diffusion , cultural tag, Cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, acculturation
 Social Group-Primary ,secondary and reference groups.
 Social Structure ,social system , social action
 Status and role conflict , role set
 Norms and values-conformity and deviance
Law and customs
 Socio-cultural processes:Socialization,assimilation , integration , co-operation , competition, conflict, accommodation, social distance, relative deprivation
UNIT-II MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND KINSHIP
 Marriage: type and norms, marriage as contract a, 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 behavior, market (free) economy and controlled (Planned economy
UNIT-VI :INDUSTRIAL AND URBAN SOCIETY
 Rural-Urban Continuum, urban growth and urbanization-town , city and metropolis; basis features of industrial society; impact of automation on society; industrialization 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 socialization; Political modernization, pressure groups; caste and politics
 UNIT-IX: WEAKER SECTION 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, Women’s Movement, Backward Caste Movement, alit Movement

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