Rajasthan Public Service Commission

RAS Pre-Syllabus: Sociology (Code No. 28)

Sociological Perspective

Sociology as a Science

• Relation of Sociology with other Social Sciences : Economic, Political Science and Social Anthropology.

Basic Concepts :

• Society : Meaning, nature and characteristics.
• Community : Meaning and characteristics, Relationship with society.
• Association : Meaning and characteristics.
• Social Institution : Meaning, characteristics and forms; functions, difference between Social institution and Association.
• Social Group : Meaning and characteristics, Types - Primary and Secondary Reference Group.
• Social Interaction : Contact, communication and interest fulfilment.
• Culture : Meaning, characteristics, components and cultural processes.
• Social Structure : Meaning, characteristics and theories.
• Social Stratification : Meaning, bases, forms and theories.
• Status and Role : Meaning, types and mutual relationship.
• Norms and Values : Meaning, types and mutual relationship.
• Social Processes : Meaning, nature and forms-cooperation, competition and conflict.
• Socialization : Concept, types, agencies and theories.
• Social Deviance : Meaning, Forms and theories.
• Social Change : Meaning, factors and theories. Change, progress and development, Directed social change.

Magic, Religion and Science

• Indian Society : Socio-cultural factors; Unity and diversity.
• Caste in India : Features, origin and changing patterns.
• Purusharatha and Varnasharma Vyavastha : Objectives, features and forms. Marriage and Family in India : Features, forms, changes, problem and related legislation.
• Kinship in India : Features, types and usages.
• Residence and Descent : Rules, forms and primogeniture.
• Status of Women in India : Changes, problems and related laws.
• Population Problem in India : Causes, forms extent and remedies.
• Current Social Problems in India : Casteism, communalism, regionalism, poverty, bondage of labour, child misuse, environmental pollutions, crime and juvenile delinquency and youth unrest. Scheduled Castes and
• Scheduled Tribes in India : Problems, safeguard, Constitutional provisions and related legislation.
• Induced Social Change in India : Aims, Plans, Projects & Schemes. Rural and Tribal Development strategies and Agencies.
• Urbanization and Industrialization in India : Positive and negative implications for social life in India.

Panchayati Raj in India

Economic and Political Systems of simple and complex societies.

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