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Sociology Paper - I - FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY

  Sociology – The Discipline
  • (a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of Sociology. Download
  • (b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences. Download
  • (c) Sociology and common sense. Download
  Sociology as Science
  • (a) Science, scientific method, and critique. Download
  • (b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology. Download
  • (c) Positivism and its critique. Download
  • (d) Fact value and objectivity. Download
  • (e) Non-positivist methodologies. Download
  Research Methods and Analysis     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Qualitative and quantitative methods. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Techniques of data collection. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability, and validity. 📄 Locked PDF
  Sociological Thinkers     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Karl Marx – Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Emile Durkheim – Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Max Weber – Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (d) Talcott Parsons – Social system, pattern variables. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (e) Robert K. Merton – Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (f) Mead – Self and identity. 📄 Locked PDF
  Stratification and Mobility     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Concepts – equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty, and deprivation. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Theories of social stratification – Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (d) Social mobility – open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility. 📄 Locked PDF
  Works and Economic Life     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Social organization of work in different types of society – slave society, feudal society, industrial capitalist society. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Formal and informal organization of work. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Labour and society. 📄 Locked PDF
  Politics and Society     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Sociological theories of power. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution. 📄 Locked PDF
  Religion and Society     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Sociological theories of religion. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism. 📄 Locked PDF
  Systems of Kinship     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Family, household, marriage. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Types and forms of family. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Lineage and descent. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (e) Contemporary trends. 📄 Locked PDF
  Social Change in Modern Society     🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material
  • (a) Sociological theories of social change. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (b) Development and dependency. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (c) Agents of social change. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (d) Education and social change. 📄 Locked PDF
  • (e) Science, technology, and social change. 📄 Locked PDF

Sociology Paper - 2 - INDIAN SOCIETY: STRUCTURE AND CHANGE

 A. Introducing Indian Society
 B. Social Structure
 C. Social Changes in India 🔒 Please LOGIN and SUBSCRIBE to view this material

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