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Paper pattern

Session	Paper	Marks	Number of Question	Duration
First	I	100	60 out of which 50 question to be attempted	1¼ Hours
First	II	100	50 questions all are compulsory	1¼ Hours
Second	III	150	75 questions all are compulsory	2½ Hours

Syllabus

Sociological Concepts

Nature of Sociology

Definition
Sociological Perspective

Basic Concepts

Community Institution Association Culture.
Norms and Values.

Social Structure

Status and role, their interrelationship.
Multiple roles, Role set. Status set, Status sequence.
Role conflict.

Social Group Meaning

Types: Primary-Secondary, Formal-Informal, Ingroup-Outgroup, Reference group.

Social Institutions Marriage

Family
Education
Economy
Polity
Religion

Socialization

Socialization, Resocialization, Anticipatory socialization, Adult socialization Agencies of socialization Theories of socialization.

Social Stratification

Social differentiation, Hierarchy and Inequality Forms of stratification: Caste, Class, Gender, Ethnic Theories of social stratification Social mobility.

Social Change

Concepts and Types: Evolution, Diffusion, Progress, Revolution, Transformation, Change in structure and Change of structure
Theories: Dialectical and Cyclical.

Sociological Theory

Structural

Nadel
Radclifife Brown
Levi-Strauss

Functional

Malinowski
Durkheim
Parsons
Merton

Interactionist

Social action: Max Weber, Pareto
Symbolic Interactionism: G H Mead, Blumer

Conflict

Karl Marx
Dahrendorf
Coser
Collins

Methodology

Meaning and Nature of Social Research

Nature of social phenomena
The scientific method
The problems in the study of social phenomena: Objectivity and subjectivity, fact and value.

Quantitative Methods

Survey
Research Design and its types
Hypothesis
Sampling
Techniques of data collection: Observation, Questionnaire, Schedule, Interview.

Qualitative Methods

Participant observation
Case study
Content analysis
Oral history
Life history

Statistics in Social Research

Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode
Measures of dispersion
Correlational analysis
Test of significance
Reliability and Validity

Sociology Paper III-A Core Group

Unit-I: Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

Alfred Shultz, Peter Berger and Luckmann
Garfinkel and Goffman

Unit-II: Heo-functionalism and Neo-Mawdsm

J Alexander
Habermass, Althusser

Unit-III: Structurisation and Post-Modernism

Giddens
Derrida
Foucault

Unit-IV: Conceptualising Indian Society

Peoples of India: Groups and Communities.
Unity in diversity.
Cultural diversity: Regional, linguistic, religious and tribal.

Unit-V: Theoretical Perspectives

Indological/Textual Perspective: G. S. Ghurye, Louis Dumont.
Structural-Functional Perspective: M. M. N. Srinivas, S. C. Dube.
Marxian Perspective: D P Mukherjee, A R Desai.
Civilisational Perspective: N. K. Bose, Surajit Sinha.
Subaltern Perspective: B R Ambedkar, David Hardiman.

Unit-VI: Contemporary Issues: Socio-cultural

Poverty
Inequality of caste and gender
Regional, ethnic and religious disharmonies.
Family disharmony:
1. Domestic violence
2. Dowry
3. Divorce
4. Intergenerational conflict.

Unit-VII: Contemporary Issues: Developmental

Population Regional disparity Slums
Displacement
Ecological degradation and environmental pollution
Health problems

Unit-VIII: Issues Pertaining to Deviance

Deviance and its forms
Crime and delinquency
White collar crime and corruption
Chaging profile of crime and criminals
Drug addiction
Suicide

Unit-IX: Current Debates

Tradition and Modernity in India.
Problems of Nation Building: Secularism, Pluralism and Nation building.

Unit-X: The Challenges of Globalisation

Indianisation of Sociology
Privatisation of Education
Science and Technology Policy of India

Sociology Paper III-B Elective or Optional

Elective-I

Rural Sociology
Approaches to the study of Rural Society: Rural-Urban differences Rurbanism Peasant studies
Agrarian Institutions:
1. Land ownership and its types.
2. Agrarian relations and Mode of production debate.
3. Jajmani system and Jajmani relations.
4. Agrarian class structure.
Panchayati Raj System:
1. Panchayat before and after 73rd Amendment.
2. Rural Leadership and Factionalism.
3. Empowerment of people.
Social Issues and Strategies for Rural Development:
1. Bonded and Migrant labourers.
2. Pauperization and Depeasantisation.
3. Agrarian unrest and Peasant movements.
Rural Development and Change:
1. Trends of changes in rural society.
2. Processes of change: Migration-Rural to Urban and Rural to Rural Mobility: Social/Economic.
3. Factors of change.

Elective-II

Industry and Society
Industrial Society in the Classical Sociological Tradition:
1. Division of labour
2. Bureaucracy
3. Rationality
4. Production relations
5. Surplus value
6. Alienation
Industry and Society:
1. Factory as a social system
2. Formal and informal organization
3. Impact of social structure on industry
4. Impact of industry on society
Industrial Relations:
1. Changing profile of labour.
2. Changing labour-management relations.
3. Conciliation, adjudication, arbitration.
4. Collective bargaining.
5. Trade unions.
6. Workers'participation in management (Joint Management Councils).
7. Quality circles.
Industrialisation and Social Change in India:
1. Impact of industrialization on family, education and stratification.
2. Class and class conflict in industrial society.
3. Obstacles to and limitations of industrialization.
Industrial Planning:
1. Industrial Policy
2. Labour legislation
3. Human relations in industry

Elective-III

Sociology of Development
Conceptual Perspectives on Development:
1. Economic growth
2. Human development
3. Social development
4. Sustainable development: Ecological and Social
Theories of Underdevelopment:
1. Liberal: Max Weber, Gunnar Myrdal.
2. Dependency: Centre-periphery (Frank), Uneven development (Samir Amin), World-system (Wallerstein).
Paths of Development:
1. Modernisation, Globalisation
2. Socialist
3. Mixed
4. Gandhian
Social Structure and Development:
1. Social structure as a facilitator/inhibitor
2. Development and socio-economic disparities.
3. Gender and development.
Culture and Development:
1. Culture as an aid/impediment.
2. Development and displacement of tradition.
3. Development and upsurge of ethnic movements.

Elective-IV

Population and Society
Theories of Population Growth:
1. Malthusian.
2. Demographic transition.
Population Growth and Distribution in India:
1. Growth of Indian population since 1901.
2. Determinants of population.
Concepts of Fertility, Mortality, Morbidity and Migration:
1. Age and Sex composition and its consequences.
2. Determinants of fertility.
3. Determinants of mortality, infant, child and maternal mortality Morbidity rates.
4. Determinants and consequences of migration.
Population and Development:
1. Population as a constraint on and a resource for development.
2. Socio-cultural factors affecting population growth.
Population Control:
1. Population policy: Problems and perspectives
2. Population education
3. Measures taken for population control

Elective-V

Gender and Society Gender as a Social Construct:
1. Models of Gendered socialisation.
2. Cultural symbolism and general roles.
Social Structure and Gender Inequality:
1. Patriarchy and Matriarchy.
2. Division of Labour-Production and reproduction.
Theories of Gender Relations:
1. Liberalist
2. Radical
3. Socialist
4. Post-modernist
Gender and Development:
1. Effect of development policies on gender relations.
2. Perspectives on gender and development-Welfarist, developmentalist Empowerment.
Women and Development in India:
1. Indicators of women's status: Demographic, social, economic and cultural.
2. Special schemes and strategies for women's development.
3. Voluntary sector and women's development.
4. Globalisation and women's development Eco-feminism