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OPSC Sociology Syllabus (Paper 1)
Sociology: The Discipline
📖 Sociology as a Science.
📖 Sociology as an interpretative discipline
📖 Impact of Industrial and French Revolution on the emergence of sociology.
📖 Sociology and its Relationship with History, Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Anthropology.
📖 Problem of objectivity and value neutrality
📖 Issue of measurement in social science.
📖 Elements of Scientific Method Concepts.
📖 Theory and Fact
📖 Hypothesis
📖 Research Designs Descriptive
📖 Exploratory and Experimental
📖 Content Analysis
📖 Participant and quasi-participant observation
📖 Interview, Questionnaire and Schedule case study
📖 Sampling-Size, Reliability and Validity
📖 Scaling Techniques-social distance and Likert scale
📖 Karl Marx : Historical materialism, alienation and class struggle.
📖 Emile Durkheim : Division of labour, social fact, religion and society, suicide.
📖 Max Weber : Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
📖Talcott Parsons : Social system, pattern variables.
📖 Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
📖 Types and forms of marriage; family-structure and function
📖 Personality and Socialization
📖 Social control
📖 Family, lineage, Descent and Property
📖 Changing Structure of family and marriage in Modern Society
📖 Divorce and its Implications
📖 Role Conflicts
📖 Concepts Hierarchy
📖 Inequality and Stratification
📖 Theories of Stratification-Marx
📖 Davis and Moore and Melvin Tumin’s critique
📖 Forms and Functions
📖 Classdifferent Conceptions of Class
📖 Class-in-itself and Class-for-itself
📖 Caste and Class
📖 Caste as a Class
📖 Types of mobility-open and closed models
📖 Intra and Intergenerational Mobility
📖 Vertical and Horizontal Mobility
📖 Social Mobility and Social Change
📖 Sociological dimensions of economic life
📖 The impact of economic processes on the larger society
📖 Social aspects of division of labour and types of exchange
📖 Features of pre-industrial and industrial economic system
📖 Industrialisation and Social Change
📖 Social Determinants of Economic Development
📖 The nature of power-personal power, community power, power of the elite, class power, organizational power, power of the un-organized masses
📖 Authority and legitimacy
📖 Pressure Groups and Political Parties
📖 Voting Behaviour
📖 Modes of political participation-democratic and authoritarian forms
📖 Education and Culture
📖 Equality of educational opportunity
📖 Social Aspects of mass education
📖 Problems of Universalisation of primary education
📖 Role of Community and State Intervention in Education
📖 Education as an instrument of social control and social change
📖 Education and Modernisation
📖 Origins of religious beliefs in pre-modern socieites
📖 The Sacred and the Profane
📖 Social Functions and Dysfunctions of Religion
📖 Monistic and Pluralistic religion
📖 Organised and Unorganised Religions
📖 Semitism and Antisemitism
📖 Religion, Sect and Cults
📖 Magic, Religion and Science
📖 Social Construction of Gender
📖 Equality vs Differences
📖 Impact of Globalization on Women
📖 Emergence of Feminist Thought
📖 Gender Issues
OPSC Sociology Syllabus (Paper 2)
📖 Traditional Hindu social Organisation
📖 Socio-Cultural Dynamics through the Ages
📖 Impact of Buddhism, Islam, and the West, factors in continuity and change
📖 Class structure in India
📖 Agrarian and Industrial Class Structure
📖 Emergence of Middle Class
📖 Emergence of Classes Among Tribes
📖 Elite Formation in India.
📖 Origin of the caste system
📖 Cultural and Structural views about caste
📖 Mobility in Caste
📖 Caste among Muslims and Christians
📖 Change and Persistence of caste in modern India
📖 Issues of Equality and Social Justice
📖 Views of Gandhi and Ambedkar on Caste
📖 Caste on and Indian polity
📖 Backward Classes Movement
📖 Mandal Commission Report and issues of social backwardness and social justice
📖 Emergence of Dalit Consciousness
📖 Backward Caste Movement
📖 Marriage among different religious and tribal groups
📖 Its changing trends and its future
📖 Family-its Structural and Functional aspects-its changing forms
📖 Regional Variations in Kinship systems and its socio-cultural correlates
📖 Impact of legislation and socioeconomic change on marriage and family
📖 Generation Gap
📖 Peasant society and agrarian systems
📖 land tenure systems-historical perspectives
📖 Social Consequences of land reforms and green revolution
📖 Feudalism-semi-feudalism debates
📖 Emerging Agrarian class structure
📖 Peasant Movements
📖 Path of industrialisation, occupational diversification, trade unions and human relations
📖 Market Economy and its social consequences
📖 Economic reforms liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation
📖 Working of the democratic political system in a traditional society
📖 Political Parties and their social base
📖 Social Structural Origins of political elites and their orientations
📖 Regionalism, Pluralism and National Unity
📖 Decentralisation of Power
📖 Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalikas and 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments
📖 Directive Principles of State Policy and primary education
📖 Educational Inequality and Change
📖 Education and Social mobility
📖 The Role of Community and State Intervention in Education
📖 Universalisation of Primary Education
📖 Total Literacy Campaigns
📖 Educational Problems of Disadvantaged groups.
📖 Size, growth and regional distribution of different religious groups
📖 Educational levels of different groups
📖 Problems of religious minorities
📖 Communal tensions
📖 Secularism
📖 Conversions
📖 Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Reform Movements
📖 Distinctive features of tribal communities and their geographical spread
📖 Problems of tribal communities-land alienation, health and nutrition, education
📖 Tribal Development efforts after independence
📖 Tribal Policy-isolation, Assimilation and Integration
📖 Issues of Tribal Identity
📖 Endogenous and exogenous sources of change and resistance to change
📖 Processes of Change-Sanskritisation and Modernisation
📖 Agents of Change-Mass Media, Education and Communication
📖 Problems of Change and Modernisation; Structural Contradictions and Breakdowns
📖 Migration, Determinants and consequences of population growth, population policy and family welfare Programmes, child welfare Programmes
📖 Poverty, indebtedness, bonded labour, unemployment, depletion of forests, development related displacement, corruption, alcoholism, AIDS, drug addiction, violence against women, dowry, child labour.
📖 Maternal and Infant Mortality
