STPGT: SYLLABUS(SOCIOLOGY)

 

STPGT: SYLLABUS(SOCIOLOGY)

Unit-I: General Sociology
(a) Emergence of Sociology as an Academic Discipline; Sociological Perspectives; Scientific
Character of Sociology; Nature, Scope and Significance of Sociology.
(b) Basic Concepts; Society, 

Community, 

Association, 

Institution, 

Organization, 

Status and
Role,  

Culture, 

Norms andValues,

 Socialization, 

Social Conformity and Deviance, 

Ethnicity
and Race, Sex and Gender.
(c) Social Control: Concept, Types, Agencies, Significance.
(d) Social Change: Concept, Types, Factors, Theories; Liberalization and Globalisation.
(e) Social Stratification: Concept, Types, Theories; Social Mobility; Caste, Class And Gender.
(f) Social Perspectives of Religion.
(g) Social Group: Concept, Types, Significance.

Unit-II: Sociological Thought

 
(a) A. Comte: Law of Three Stages, Positivism, Social Statics and Dynamics, Hierarchy of
Sciences.

(b) H. Spencer: Organicism, Social Evolution.

(c) E. Durkheim: Social Fact, Division of Labour, Suicide, Religion.

(d) K. Marx: Dialectical Materialism, Historical Materialism, Base and Superstructure, Class
and Class Struggle, Alienation, Social Revolution.

(e) M. Weber: Methodology, Social Action, Power and Authority, Bureaucracy, Protestant
Ethics and Spirit of Capitalism.

(f) V. Pareto: Residue and Derivation, Circulation of Elite.

Unit-Iii: Sociological Theories

(a) Nature and Task of Theory; Macro and Micro Sociology.

(b) Functionalism: General Propositions; Views of T. Parsons and R. K. Merton.

(c) Conflict Perspective: General Propositions; Views of R. Dahrendorf and L. A. Coser.

(d) Social Interaction Perspective - General Propositions; Views of Mead and Blumer.

Unit-Iv: Research Methodology

(a) Social Research and Social Survey: Concepts, Characteristics, Types, Importance, Various
Steps in Formulation and Reporting.

(b) Hypothesis.

(c) Research Design- Meaning, Function, Phases, Difference in Designing Quantitative and
Qualitative Research.

(d) Sampling.

(e) Techniques of Data Collection.

Unit-V: Indian Society and Culture

(a) Society in Pre – British India.

(b) British Rule and Its Impact upon Indian Society.

(c) Genesis of Sociology in India; Indological, Historical Dialectical and Subaltern Perspective.

(d) Indian Social Institutions: Family-Structure, Functions, Changes; Marriage-Forms,
Functions, Changes; Kinship- Concept, Types, Rules of Descent, Usages.

(e) Changes in Indian Society - Sanskritization; Westernization; Modernization;
Secularization; Introduction of Local Self Govt; Land Reform and its Consequences.

(f) Caste and Tribe: Concept, Characteristics, Changing Perspective.

(g) Rural and Urban Society in India and Its Emerging Issues.

(h) Indian Social Problems – (i) Population Explosion; Poverty; Illiteracy; Unemployment. (ii)
Communalism; Regionalism; Terrorism; and Insurgency. (iii) Corruption. (iv)
Environmental Issues. (v) Problems of Weaker Sections – SC; ST; OBI; Minorities
Children; Gender Justice and Women Related Issue