PUC Lecturers recruitment 2012 CET syllabus for sociology subject
Sociology (Subject
Code - 09)
PAPER -1
Scientific study of social Phenomena : The Emergence
of sociology and its relationships with other disciplines, science and social
behaviour, the problem of objectivity, the scientific method and design of
sociological research, techniques of date collection and measurement including
participant and non-participant observation, interview schedules and
questionnaires and measurement of attitudes. Pioneering contributions to
sociology. The seminal ideas of Durkheim, Weber, Redoliffe-brown, Malinowski, Parsons,
Merton and Marx Historical materialism, alienation, class and class struggle
durkheim, division of labour, social fact, religion and society, weber social
action, types of authority, bureaucracy, rationality, protectant ethnic and the
spirit of capitalism, ideal types.
The individual and society, individual behaviour, social
interaction, society and social group; social system, status and role, culture,
personality and socialization, conformity, deviance and social control, role
conflicts. Social stratification and mobility, Ineruality and stratification, different
conceptions of class, theories of stratification, caste and class, class and
society, types of mobility, intergenerational mobility, open and closed models
of mobility. Family Marriage and kinship, structure and functions of family, structural
principles
of kinship, family, descent and kinship, change in
society, change in age and sex roles and change in marriage and family, marriage
and divorce.
Formal organisations, elements of formal and informal
structures bureaucracy, modes of participation, democratic and authoritarian
forms, voluntary associations. Economic System : Property Concepts, Social
dimensions of division of labour and types of exchange, social aspects of pre-industrial
and industrial economic system, industrialization and changes in the political,
educational, religious, familiar and stratification spheres, social determents
and consequences of economic development. Political System : The nature of
social power community power structure; power of the elite, class power, organization
power, power of unorganized masses, power authority and legitimacy, power it
democracy and ittotalitarian society, political parties and voting.
Educational System : Social origins and orientation
of students and teachers, equality of educational opportunity, education as a
medium of cultural reproduction, indoctrination, social stratification and
mobility, education and modernization.Religion : The religions phenomenon, the
sacred and the profane, social functions and dysfunctions of religion, magic
religion and science, changed in society and changes-in religion secularization.
Social Change and Development : Social structure and social change, continuity and
change as fact and as value, proceses of change, theories of change, social disorganization
and social movement, types of social movements, directed social change, social
policy and social development.
PAPER - II
Society of India Historical of the Mid Society : Traditional
Hindu social organization, sociocultural dynamics through the ages, especially
the impact of Budhism, and the modern West.factors in continuity and change.
Social : Caste system and its transformation aspects
of ritual, economic and caste statis, cultural and structural views about caste,
mobility in caste, issue of equality and social justice caste among the Hindus
and the non-Hindus Casteism; the Backward Classes and the Scheduled Castes, untouchability
and its eradication; agrarian and industrial class structure.
Family, Marriage and Kinship : Regional variation in
kinship systems and its
sociocultural correlates changing aspects of Kinship,
the joint family - its structural and functional aspects and its changing form and
disorganization, marriage among different ethnic groups and economic categories,
its changing trend and to future; impact of legislation and socio economic
change upon family and marriage, intergenerations gap and youth unrest; changing
status of women.
Economic System: The jainmani system and its bearing
on the traditional society,
market economy’and its social consequences, occupational
diversification and social structure profession trade unique, social
determinants and consequences of economic development, economic inequalities, exploitation
and corruption.
Political Systems : The functioning of the democratic
political system in a traditional society, political parties and their social composition,
social structural origins of political elites and their social orientations, decentralization
of power and political participation.
Educational System: Education and society in the
traditional and the modem contexts, educational inequality and change, education
and social mobility, educational problems of women, the Backward Classes and
the Scheduled Castes. Religion: Demographic dimensions, geographical
distribution and neighbourhood living patterns of major religions categories, interraligious
interaction and its manifestation in the problems of conversion, minority
status and communalism, secularism.Tribal Societies and their Integrations : Distinctive
feature of tribal communities, tribes and caste; acculturation and integration.
Rural Social System and Community Development: Socio-Cultural
dimensions of
the village community, traditional power structure
democratization and leadership, poverty, indebtedness and bonded labour, social
consequences of land reforms, Community development programme and other planned
development projects and the Greed Revolution, New strategies to rural
development.
Urban Social Organisation : Continuity and change in
the traditional cases of social organization, namely, kinships, caste and
religion in the urban context, stratification and mobility in urban communities,
ethnic diversity and community integration, urban neighbourhoods, rural urban
differences in demographic and sociocultural characteristics and their social
consequences.
Population Dynamics: Socio-cultural aspects of sex
and age structure, marital status, fertility and mortality, the problem of
population explosion, social, psychological, cultural and economic factors in
the adoption of family planning practices. Social change and Modernization : Problems
of Role Conflict Youth unrestintergenerational gap changing Status of Women, Major
Sources of social change and of Resistance to change, impact of West, reform
movements, social movements industrialization and urbanization, pressure groups
factors of planned change, Five Year Plans legislative and executive measures, process
of change, Sanskritization, esternization and modernization, Means of
modernization, mass media and education, problem of change and modernization, structural
contradictions and breakdowns. Current Social Evils, Corruption and Nepotism, Smuggling,
Black money
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