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Sociology UPSC Syllabus
Sociology UPSC Syllabus
Sociology UPSC Syllabus
Socio-cultural processes :
Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant caste,
sanskritisation.
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.
Unit VI : Industrial and Urban Society :
Rural-Urban Continuum, urban growth and urbanisation-town, city and metropolis; basic
features of industrial society; impact of automation on society; industrialisation and environment.
Power, authority and legitimacy; political socialisation; political modernisation, pressure groups;
caste and politics.
Theories of change; factors of change; science, technology and change. Social movements-
Peasant Movement, Women's Movement, Backward Caste Movement, Dalit Movement.
Sociology - Optional
of Part B - Main Examination of Civil Services Exam
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FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
(a) Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
(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.
(e) Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance,
reference groups
(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.
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land reforms.
(d) Secularization
(d) Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive
health.