Rajasthan Public Service Commission

Syllabus For Screening Test For Post of College Lecturer: Sociology

Unit – I

Sociological Perspective:-

• Basic Concepts: Status & Role, Multiple Roles, Role Set.
• Social Groups: Meaning types, Reference Group.
• Social Stratification: Theories, Forms, Caste, Class and Gender, Social Mobility.
• Concepts of Social change: Transformation, evolution and progress, theories of social change, Process of change-sanskritisation, westernisation, Modernization.
• Socialization Concept: Resocialization, Anticipatory Socialization, Adult Socialization and theories of Socialization.
• Nature of Social Research: Hypothesis, Sampling, Research Design and Techniques of data Collection.

Unit – II

• Karl Marx – Historical Materialism, Class struggle, Neo-Marxism.
• Max Weber – Ideal type, Protestant ethic and rise of spirit of capitalism, Authority and its type.
• E.Durkheim – Rules of Sociological method, Division of Labour in Society.
• Functional Theory – Parsons (Functional pre-requisites),
• Merton (Middle range theory), J.Alexander (Neo Functionalism)
• Conflict Theory – Marx (Class theory), Coser (Functions of Social Conflict) Darrendrof (Comparison with Marx).

Unit – III

• Ethnomethodology, Phenomenology: Alfred Shultz, Garfinkel and Goffman.
• Post modernity- Modernity and post modernity – Vies of Derrida, Foucault.
• Indological/Textual perspective – G.S. Ghurye, Louis Dumount.
• Subaltern Perspective – B.R. Ambedkar, David Hardiman

Unit – IV

• India – Social Structure - Unity and diversify, emerging contradictions.
• People – Major and Minor communities.
• Caste & Class – Caste characteristics, Changes, Industrial, Agrarian and middle class Marriage, Family and Kinship- Changing patterns.

Unit – V

• Tribal Societies – Characteristics, perspective for Tribal development.
• Rural – Urban Society- Rural urban nexus, Agrarian relations, Problems of Urban Society- Crime and Pollution.
• Gender discrimination and empowerment of women.
• Forces of Social Change – Media, Economy, Education, Reformist and Radical movement. Issues for nation building– Globalisation , Crises of values, Privatisation of education.

Note :- Pattern of Question Paper

1. Objective type paper
2. Maximum Marks : 100
3. Number of Questions : 100
4. Duration of Paper : Two Hours
5. All questions carry equal marks.
6. There will be Negative Marking.

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