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Sociology – Optional (Preliminary Examination)
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| Unit I : Basic Concepts :
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Society,
community, association, institution. Culture-culture change, diffusion,
Cultural-tag, Cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, acculturation.
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| Social Groups-primary, secondary and
reference groups.
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| Social structure, social system, social
action.
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| Status and role, role conflict, role
set.
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| Norms and values-conformity and
deviance.
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| Law and customs.
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| Socio-cultural processes :
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socialisation,
assimilation, integration, cooperation, competition, conflict,
accommodation, Social distance, relative deprivation.
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| Unit II : Marriage, Family and
Kinship :
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| Marriage : types and norms, marriage as
contract, and as a sacrament.
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| Family : types, functions and changes.
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| Kinships : terms and usages, rules of
residence, descent, inheritance.
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| Unit III : Social Stratification :
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Forms and
functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant
caste, sanskritisation.
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| Unit IV : Types of Society :
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| Tribal, agrarian, industrial and
post-industrial.
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| Unit V : Economy and Society :
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Man, nature
and social production, economic systems of simple and complex societies,
non-economic determinants of economic behaviour, market (free) economy and
controlled (planned) economy.
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| Unit VI : Industrial and Urban
Society :
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Rural-Urban
Continuum, urban growth and urbanisation-town, city and metropolis; basic
features of industrial society; impact of automation on society;
industrialisation and environment.
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| Unit VII : Social Demography :
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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.
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| Unit VIII : Political Processes :
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Power,
authority and legitimacy; political socialisation; political modernisation,
pressure groups; caste and politics.
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| Unit IX : Weaker Sections-and
Minorities :
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Social
justice-equal opportunity and special opportunity; protective
discrimination; constitutional safeguards.
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| Unit X : Social Change :
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Theories of
change; factors of change; science, technology and change. Social
movements-Peasant Movement, Women's Movement, Backward Caste Movement,
Dalit Movement.
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