Major Paper-I (Sociology): General Sociology

Unit 1 — Basic Concepts:

1.1 Society and community, Institution and Association · 1.2 Social Norms and values · 1.3 Status and role

• Basic concepts
• Society (Meaning & Characteristics, Types of Society, Pluralistic Nature
• Norms, Values, Community, Associations, Institutions, Status and Role, Socialization, Culture, Social structure and Social system

Unit 2 — Social Institution

2.1 Marriage and family 2.1.1. Marriage-definition, forms and functions 2.1.2. Family-definition, forms and changing patterns, universality of family; 2.1.3. Functions and dysfunctions of family · 2.2 Religion and Caste

• Social Institutions
• Marriage (Meaning, Functions of Marriage, Forms of Marriage, Recent Trends of Marriage)
• Family — Meaning, Functions of Family, Theories of Origin of Family, Types of Family, Changing Patterns of Family
• Definition & Characteristics of Religion, Social Functions of Religion, Structural aspects of Religion, Theories of Origin of Religion, Organization of Religion — Church, Denomination, Sect Cult
• Social Stratification — caste, class, sex and gender, race and ethnicity

Unit 3 — Socialization

3.1 Meaning and process · 3.2 Agencies of Socialization · 3.3 Acquisition of Culture and personality formation

Unit 4 — Social Change

4.1 Social Change: 4.1.1. Meaning 4.1.2. Factors: Economic, Technological and cultural 4.1.3. Social processes of change-Sanskritization, modernization and westernization

• Change — Social change
• Meaning, Characteristics, factors or causes of social change, processes of social change (Westernization, Modernization, Industrialization, Sanskritisation, Liberalization, Globalization)

Unit 5 — Perspectives of Studying Indian Society:

5.1 Indological Perspective (G.S.Ghurey) · 5.2 Subaltern Perspective (Ranjit Guha) · 5.3 Structural Functional Perspective (M.N. Srinibas)