Score 300+ in Sociology Optional

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Start Date: 31st July 2023

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Entire syllabus taught with ease and understanding

as per UPSC standards.
Sociology Paper 1 and Paper 2 will be covered.
The class will be in Hinglish and handouts will be in
provided in english as well

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 Mains Examination Pattern and Syllabus
If a candidate successfully completes the Preliminary Examination stage, the next
step is to appear for the Mains Examination. There are a total of nine papers in the
Mains Test, seven of which are merit-based and two of which are qualifying.

Mains Paper VI

examination Optional Subject – Paper 1

Duration: 3 hour
Paper i
Maximum marks: 250
Essay
Duration: 3 hour Paper VII

Maximum marks: 250 Optional Subject – Paper II

Duration: 3 hour
Paper iI
Maximum marks: 250
General Studies – I
Duration: 3 hour
Maximum marks: 25
Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Qualifying

Geography of the World and Society papers

Paper iII
Paper A

General Studies – Ii Indian Language*

Duration: 3 hour Minimum qualifying requirement: 25
Maximum marks: 25 Duration: 3 hour
Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Maximum marks: 300
Justice and International Relations

Paper iV
Paper B

General Studies – Iii English

Minimum qualifying requirement: 25
Duration: 3 hour
Duration: 3 hour
Maximum marks: 25
Maximum marks: 300
Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity,
Environment, Security and Disaster Management

Paper V

General Studies – IV
Duration: 3 hour
Maximum marks: 25
Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude

*The Indian Language Paper will not be compulsory for candidates hailing from the states of Arunachal
Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.
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 PAPER-1 FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY

1. Sociology - The Discipline:

(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of Sociology.

(b) Scope 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) Major 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) Emile Durkhteim - 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 groups. (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, Weberian theory.

(c) Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.

(d) Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
6. Works and Economic Life:

(a) Social organization of work in different types of society - slave society, feudal society, industrial
capitalist society.

(b) Formal and informal organization of work.

(c) Labour and society.

7. Politics and Society:

(a) Sociological 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) Contem porary 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-1 FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY

A I . ntroducing Indian Society:
i erspectives on the Study of Indian Society:
( ) P

(a) Indology (G.S. Ghure).

(b) Structural functionalism (M. N. Srinivas).

(c) Marxist sociology (A. R. Desai).

ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society:

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(a) Social background of Indian nationalism.

(b) Modernization of Indian tradition.

(c) Protests and movements during the colonial period.

(d) Social reforms.

B . Social Structure:
i
( ) Ru ral and Agrarian Social Structure:
(a) The idea of Indian village and village studies.

(b) Agrarian social structure— evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
ii) Caste System:
(

(a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
(b) Features of caste system.

(c) Untouchability-forms and perspectives

iii) Tribal Communities in India:
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(a) Definitional problems.

(b) Geographical spread.

(c) Colonial policies and tribes.

(d) Issues of integration and autonomy.

i Social Classes in India:

( v)

(a) Agrarian class structure.

(b) Industrial class structure.

(c) Middle classes in India.

(v) Systems of Kinship in India:
(a) Lineage and descent in India.

(b) Types of kinship systems.

(c) Family and marriage in India.

(d) Household dimensions of the family.

(e) Patriarchy, entitlements, and sexual division of labour

(vi) Religion and Society:
(a) Religious communities in India.

(b) Problems of religious minorities.

C. Social Changes in India:

(i) Visions of Social Change in India:

(a) Idea of development planning and mixed economy.

(b) Constitution, law, and social change.

(c) Education and social change.

(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society:

(a) Programmes of rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty
alleviation schemes.

(b) Green revolution and social change.

(c) Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture.

(d) Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration.

(iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:

(a) Evolution of modern industry in India.

(b) Growth of urban settlements in India.

(c) Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.

(d) Informal sector, child labour. (e) Slums and deprivation in urban areas.

(iv) Politics and Society:

(a) Nation, democracy and citizenship.

(b) Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.

(c) Regionalism and decentralization of power.

(d) Secularization.

(v) Social Movements in Modern India:

(a) Peasants and farmers' movements.

(b) Women’s movement.

(c) Backward classes & Dalit movements.

(d) Environmental movements.

(e) Ethnicity and Identity movements.

(vi) Population Dynamics:

(a) Population size, growth, composition and distribution.

(b) Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.

(c) Population Policy and family planning.

(d) Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation:
(a) Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.

(b) Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.

(c) Violence against women.

(d) Caste conflicts.

(e) Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.

(f) Illiteracy and disparities in education.

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