Notes (Paper-1)

1. Sociology - The Discipline:

2. Sociology as Science:

3. Research Methods and Analysis:

4. Sociological Thinkers:

5. Stratification and Mobility :

6. Works and Economic Life :

7. Politics and Society:

8. Religion and Society :

9. Systems of Kinship:

10. Social Change in Modern Society :

Notes (Paper-1)

1. Sociology - The Discipline:

(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of Sociology.(2)

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

(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.(1)

(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.

(c) Sociology and common sense.(1)

(c) Sociology and common sense.

Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions(1)

Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

2. Sociology as Science:

(a) Science, scientific method and critique.(1)

(a) Science, scientific method and critique.

(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.(1)

(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.

(c) Positivism and its critique.(1)

(c) Positivism and its critique.

(d) Fact value and objectivity.(1)

(d) Fact value and objectivity.

(e) Non-positivist methodologies.(1)

(e) Non-positivist methodologies.

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Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

3. Research Methods and Analysis:

(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.(1)

(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.

(b) Techniques of data collection.(1)

(b) Techniques of data collection.

(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.(1)

(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.

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Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

4. Sociological Thinkers:

(a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.(1)

(a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.

(b) Emile Durkheim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.(1)

(b) Emile 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.(1)

(c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

(d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.(1)

(d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.

(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.(1)

(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.

(f) Mead - Self and identity.(1)

(f) Mead - Self and identity.

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Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

5. Stratification and Mobility :

(a) Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.(1)

(a) Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.

(b) Theories of social stratification - Structural func tionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.(1)

(b) Theories of social stratification - Structural func tionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.

(c) Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.(1)

(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.(1)

(d) Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.

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Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

6. Works and Economic Life :

(a) Social organization of work in different types of society - slave society, feudal society, industrial capitalist society.(1)

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

(b) Formal and informal organization of work.(1)

(b) Formal and informal organization of work.

(c) Labour and society.(1)

(c) Labour and society.

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Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

7. Politics and Society:

(a) Sociological theories of power.(1)

(a) Sociological theories of power.

(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties.(1)

(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties.

(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.(1)

(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.

(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.(1)

(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.

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Current Affairs Inter-Topic Questions

8. Religion and Society :

(a) Sociological theories of religion.(1)