Sociology syllabus

General knowledge (detailed breakdown not specified in notification — indicative)

• Indian history and freedom movement
• Geography of India and Uttar Pradesh
• Indian constitution and polity
• Basic Indian economy
• General science and everyday science
• Environment and ecology
• Uttar Pradesh special — geography history culture and administration
• Current national and international events
• Current affairs of the education sector
• Sports awards and books-authors

Introduction and theories

• Meaning and definition of Sociology
• Scope origin and development of Sociology
• Utility of Sociology
• Relation with History Geography Political Science
• Relation with Economics Psychology Anthropology
• Auguste Comte and positivism
• Herbert Spencer and social evolution
• Emile Durkheim and social facts
• Max Weber and social action
• Karl Marx and class conflict
• Sri Aurobindo on society
• Gandhi on social reform
• Radhakamal Mukerjee on Indian society
• Bhagwan Das social thought
• Functionalism structure and function
• Conflict theory
• Social exchange theory
• Symbolic interactionism
• Phenomenological sociology

Institutions processes stratification

• Society meaning and characteristics
• Types of social groups
• Primary and secondary groups
• Social associations and purposes
• Social institutions and functions
• Community structure
• Family types and functions
• Marriage types and rules
• Religion and social functions
• Cooperation meaning and types
• Conflict meaning and types
• Meaning of social stratification
• Caste class and status
• Social mobility
• Culture meaning and components
• Socialisation and agencies
• Social control and means
• Social change and factors

Indian society

• Varna system
• Ashrama system
• Dharma and Purushartha
• Sanskar and Karma theory
• Hindu marriage forms
• Joint family system
• Muslim marriage and nikah
• Muslim family structure
• Caste system characteristics
• Jajmani system
• Kinship in Indian context
• Scheduled Castes problems
• Scheduled Tribes problems
• Other Backward Classes issues
• Status of women in India
• Women empowerment
• Rural development programmes
• Panchayati Raj institutions
• Westernisation
• Sanskritisation
• Secularisation
• Modernisation
• Liberalisation and industrialisation
• Urbanisation in India
• Urban problems and policy
• Rural power structure

Social disorganisation and problems

• Social disorganisation meaning
• Personal disorganisation
• Family disorganisation
• Crime meaning and types
• Juvenile delinquency causes
• White-collar crime
• Correction of criminals
• Unemployment types
• Poverty and poverty line
• Alcoholism social impact
• Drug abuse
• Prostitution
• Beggary
• Population growth
• Population control
• Social welfare programmes