MPPSC 2013 EXAM SOCIOLOGY SYLLABUS I

MPPSC PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

SOCIOLOGY (CODE NO. 19)

1.Introduction

• The meaning & nature of Sociology. 
• The sociological perspective, sociology and social sciences
• Scope of sociology.

2. Basic concepts

• Society, Community, Institution and Associations, Social groups,Social structure, Status and role. Culture , Acculturation ,Cultural lag.

3. Institutions

• Family and kinship, Religion, Marriage, caste and class changing dimensions.

4. Views about Indian society

• Varna, Ashram, Dharma,Field views - M.N. Srinivas, S.C. Dube 
• Structure and composition of Indian society:Village, City, Scheduled tribes, Dalits, Other backward class,Constitutional provisions, Women and minorities.

5. Rural and urban society

• Characteristics of rural and urban society. Changing status of women with reference to community participation ( Panchayatiraj and social and ritual festivals) Rural-urban migration, Rural development, Rural urban continuum.

6. Tribal society

• Matrilineal and polyandrous socities, Forms of marriage, practices relating to mate selection, Difference and similarity between tribes and castes, Tribal movement.

7. Social control

• Meaning & agents of social control,Types of social control.Socialization -Meaning & agents.

8. Social change

• Meaning and factors, Progress and development, Sanskritization ,Westernization.

9. The pioneers

• August comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile - Durkheim, Max Weber.

10. Societal problems

• Castism, Communalism, Corruption, Population Growth and unemployment, Domestic- violence.

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