Test No

Date

Syllabus

1.

20^th July

Sociology: Meaning, nature and scope, emergence of sociology, its relationship with other social sciences, importance of sociology. Study of Social Phenomena — Social research, the scientific method, objectivity and subjectivity in social sciences.

Basic Concepts            Association, institution, community, social groups, culture.

Social Structure           Status, role, norms and values.

The Individual and Society: Individual and society, socialization; culture and personality; leadership, social control.

Social Stratification: Meaning, Forms and Functions; caste, class and their changing dimensions; future of caste.

2.

27^th July

Types of Societies: Rural, urban and tribal communities-distinctive characteristic, rural urban continuum, problems of tribal people, tribal development.

Social Change: Meaning, factors and theories of social change; processes of social change — Sanskritization, westernization, and modernization; globalization and socio-economic change; trends of change in Indian society.

Science, Technology, and Society: Social responsibility of science and technology; human critique of science and technology, environmental issues- pollution of air, water and soil; energy crisis; social impact assessment, environmental awareness, people's action.

Population and Society         Interface between population and social development, population problems, population policy, population controls.

3.

3^rd August

The Pioneers in Sociology: Augste Comte- positivism; Karl Marx- materialist conception of history and class struggle; Max Weber- authority and power, the Protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism; and  Durkheim- social solidarity, division of labour and its pathological forms.

Institutions: Family, marriage and kinship-forms, functions and their changing dimension, education, religion, power and authority.

Types of Societies: Rural, urban and tribal communities-distinctive characteristic, rural urban continuum, problems of tribal people, tribal development.

4.

10^th August

Indian Society Traditional bases : Varnashrama and dharma; unity and diversity; cultural pluralism and Unitarianism.

The Structure and Composition of Indian Society: villages, towns and cities; rural-urban linkages; tribes- problems, constitutional safeguards and development; weaker sections- Dalits, women and minorities, population profile and related issues.

Rural Class Structure: Classes in India, agrarian classes, peasant movements, land reforms, commercialization of agriculture and change in land use pattern, emerging agrarian unrest, leadership and its changing dimensions. 

5.

17^th August

Basic Institutions: Family- forms and changing dimensions; marriage- forms, functions and changing dimensions; kinship- types and regional variations.

Indian Caste System: Origin of caste, its socio-economic and cultural dimensions, issues of equality and social justice; scheduled castes and backward classes -problems, safeguards and welfare

Social Change: Impact of reform movements, social movements and factors of planned change-Five Year Plans, legislative and executive measures; impact of liberalization, privatization and globalization; trends of change

6.

24^th August

Power Structure: Working of the democratic political system in a traditional society; sociocultural basis of political parties; Panchayati raj and urban local self-government.

Issues and Problems: Poverty, inequalities of caste and gender; dowry, domestic violence, intergenerational conflict, problems of elderly; regional disparities; ecological degradation and environmental pollution; white-collar crime, corruption, drug addiction, suicide

7.

31^st August

Paper I

8.

4^th September

Paper II

9.

7^th September

Paper I

10.

10^th September

Paper II