Faculty of Social Work

The Maharaja Sayajirao university of Baroda

MSW ADMISSION TEST SYLLABUS 2024-25

SECTION-I SOCIAL SCIENCES (30%)

SOCIOLOGY:

Unit-1- Basic Sociological Concepts- Society, Community, Association, Institution, Social

Structure & Culture. Social Norms and Values- Social Norms, Social Sanctions, Folkways,
Customs, Mores, Norm and Values.

Unit-2- Social Institutions: Religion; Family; Marriage; Kinship; Education in Simple and
Complex Societies.

Unit-3- Socialization- Meaning, Aims and Objectives, Forms of Socialization: Primary and
Secondary, Mechanism of Socialization, Process of Socialization, Stages of Agencies of
Socialization, Development.

Unit-4- Social Change- Nature, factors & Theories of Social Change; Cultural Lag, Social
Change, Modernity and Development; Globalization and Social Change

Unit-5- Social Stratification and Social Mobility- Class Stratification; Gender Stratification;
Types, Factors & Consequences of Social Mobility, Ethnic Stratification.

Bibliography
1) Ahuja, R. (2006). Indian social system. Rawat Publ.
2) Dube, S. C. (2001). Indian society. National Book Trust.
3) Inkeles, A. (1900). What is sociology? Prentice-Hall.
4) Rawat, H. K. (2007). Sociology: Basic concepts. Rawat Pubns.
 5) Turner, J. H. (2002). Sociology: Concepts and uses. Pearson Custom Pub.

PSYCHOLOGY:

Unit-1- Introduction to Psychology: Concept and Definition, Approaches to Psychology,

Subfields of Psychology (Clinical, Counseling, Educational, Developmental, Health Psychology,
Environmental Psychology)

Unit-2– Stress: Concept and Definition: Theories of Stress, Models of Stress, Organizational
Stress; Defense Mechanisms.

Unit-3- Motivation: Definition, Theories of Motivation, Measurement of Motivation

Unit-4- Personality: Concept and Definition and Theories of Personality.

Unit-5– Attention and Perception: Nature, Perceptual Organization, Role of Experience in

Perception, Sensory and Extra Sensory Perception.

Bibliography
1) Baron, R. A., Byrne, D., & Branscombe, N. R. (2006). Social psychology. Pearson.
2) Glassman, W. E., & Hadad, M. (2012). Approaches to psychology. McGraw-Hill.
3) Morgan, C. T., & King, R. A. (1971). Introduction to psychology. McGraw-Hill u.a.

ECONOMICS

Unit -1 Concept, Meaning, and definition of Economics: Methods of economic analysis,

Capital, Factors of production, Utility, Government, Household, Firm, Value, Production,
Consumption, Micro and Macro Economics, Economic Problem, Consumption decision
description of preferences.

Unit-2 Types of Economy: a. Capitalist or free enterprise economy b. Socialist or centrally

Planned economy c. Mixed economy

Unit-3 Market and price determination: demand and supply, Commercialization of

agriculture, Money and Credit, Banking System, labour supply and saving decision, function of
money, quantity theories of money, determination of money supply and demand, credit creation
tools of monetary policy.

Unit-4 Determination of Income & Employment: nature of unemployment; causes of

unemployment, measures to check unemployment.

Unit-5 Digitalization and Indian Economy: Current challenges faced by Indian economy
(especially poverty), Sustainable economic development

Unit-6 Public Distribution System (PDS) a. Subsidy b. Fixed quantity (Rationing) c. Fair Price
shops (FPS)

Bibliography
1) Abel, A. B., Bernanke, B. S., & Croushore, D. (2011). Macroeconomics. Addison-
Wesley.
2) Blanchard, O. (2009). Macroeconomics. Pearson Prentice Hall.
3) Mankiw, N. G. (2010). Macroeconomics. Worth Publishers.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Unit -1 Foundations of Political Science: Meaning, Nature & Scope of political science,
Political Science as an art or science, Indian and Western Political Scientists-B.R Ambedkar,
Gandhiji, J.S Mill, Karl Marx, John Rawls with their theories and contribution in brief.

Unit: 2 Constitutions: The Philosophy and Making of the Constitution, Fundamental Rights and
Duties, Directive Principles of State Policy, Constitutional Amendments.

Unit: 3 Elections and Representation: Elections and Democracy, Election System in India,
Electoral Reforms.

Unit-4 Concept of liberty, Equality, Concept of Sovereignty. Concept: What is Secularism?

Western and Indian Perspectives of Secularism, Salient Features of Indian Secularism.

Unit-5 Functions of State and Ideologies

1. Guild Socialism
2. Communalism

3. Capitalism

4. Anarchism

5. Fascism

6. Nazism

7. Democracy

8. Gandhism and Sarvodaya

Bibliography
1) Bhargava, R. (2008). Political Theory: An Introduction. Pearson Education India.
2) Heywood, A. (2003). Political Ideologies: An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan.
3) Laxmikanth,M. (2023). Indian Polity. McGraw Hill.

PHILOSOPHY:

Unit-1 Philosophy: Introduction to Indian Philosophy- Meaning, Scope, Types and Approaches,
Common features of Indian Philosophical Schools, Specialized branches of philosophy.

Unit-2 Philosophers and Social reformers of India: Such as Mahatma Gandhi, Swami
Vivekananda, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, etc and contemporary social
workers/reformers and activists.

Unit-3 Selected Western and Eastern Philosophers: Such as Plato, Socrates, Pyrrho, Aristotle,
Confucius, Sun Tzu & etc.

Unit-4 Nature of Philosophy of Religion: Western and Indian

Unit-5 what is Ethics?

• Morality

• Cultural Relativism
• Subjectivism

Bibliography:
1) Amaladass, A. (2001). Introduction to philosophy. Satya Nilayam Publications.
2) MACKENZIE, J. S. (2018). Manual of Ethics. FORGOTTEN BOOKS.
3) Masih, Y. (2016). A critical history of western philosophy: Greek, medieval and modern.
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited.
4) Perry, J., Bratman, M., & Fischer, J. M. (2022). Introduction to philosophy: Classical
and contemporary readings. Oxford University Press.
5) Radhakrishnan, S. (2012). Eastern religions and Western thought. Oxford University
Press.
6) Sharma, C. (2016). A critical survey of Indian philosophy. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
Private Limited.

SECTION-II: (25%)

Social Sensitivity and Social Awareness

Bibliography:

1. Competition Success Review

2. Pratiyogita Darpan

3. Manorama Yearbook

SECTION-III: (20%)

Quantitative Aptitude, Data interpretation, Data sufficiency/Decision Making, analytical and

logical reasoning.

Bibliography
1) Aggarwal, R. S. (2017). Quantitative aptitude: For competitive examinations (fully
solved) as per new examination pattern. S. Chand and Company Limited.
 2) Aggarwal, R. S. (2018). A modern approach to logical reasoning. S. Chand and
Company Limited.
3) SIJWALII, B. S. (2015). Analytical & Logical Reasoning for CAT & Other Management
Entrance tests. ARIHANT PUBLISHERS.
4) Verma, S. K. (2008). Quantum CAT: Quantitative Aptitude for CAT (comnon admission
test). Arihant.

SECTION-IV (25%)

ENGLISH

Unit-1 Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms, Idioms & Phrases, One Word Substitutions,
Homonyms

Unit-2 Grammar: Conjunctions, Prepositions, Tenses, Common Errors

Unit-3 Grammar: Active Voice and Passive Voice, Direct Speech & Indirect Speech.

Unit-4 Arrangement of Jumbled Sentences and Paragraph Completion.

Unit-5 Reading Comprehension

Bibliography
1) Bhardwaj, A. P. (2013). General English for competitive examinations. Pearson.
2) Thorpe, E., & Thorpe, S. (2014). Objective English. Pearson.
3) Wren, P. C., Martin, H., & V., P. R. N. D. (2017). High school english grammar &
composition: Wren & martin. S Chand.