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(Syllabus) Punjab PSC (Pre) : Combined State Civil Services Exam - Sociology
Punjab Public Service Commission
SYLLABI FOR THE EXAMINATION PART-B PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
SOCIOLOGY : CODE NO. (16)
Unit I : Basic Concepts :
- Society, community, association, institution, Culture: culture change, diffusion, Cultural: tag, Cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, acculturation.
- Social Groups: primary, secondary and reference groups. Social structure, social system, social action. Status and role, role conflict, role set.
- Norms and values: conformity and deviance, Law and customs. Socio-cultural processes : socialisation, assimilation, integration, cooperation, competition, conflict, accommodation, social distance, relative deprivation.
Unit II : Marriage, Family and Kinship :
- Marriage : types and forms, marriage as contract, and as a sacrament.
- Family : types, functions and changes.
- Kinship : terms and usages, rules of residence, descent, inheritance.
Unit III : Social Stratification :
- Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant caste, sanskritisation.
Unit IV : Types of Society :
- Tribal, agrarian, industrial and post-industrial.
Unit V : Economy and Society :
- Man, nature and social production, economic systems of simple and complex societies, noneconomic determinants of economic behaviour, market (free) economy and controlled (planned) economy.
Unit VI : Industrial and Urban Society :
- Rural: Urban Continuum, urban growth and urbanisation: town, city and metropolis; basic features of industrial society; impact of automation of society; industrialisation and environment.
Unit VII : Social Demography :
- Population size, growth, composition and distribution in India; components of population growth: births, deaths and migration; causes and consequences of population growth; population and social development; population policy.
Unit VIII : Political Processes :
- Power, authority and legitimacy; political socialisation; political modernisation, pressure groups; caste and politics.
Unit IX : Weaker Sections and Minorities :
- Social justice: equal opportunity and special opportunity; protective discrimination; constitutional safeguards.
Unit X : Social Change :
- Theories of change; factors of change; science, technology and change. Social movements: Peasant Movement, Women’s Movement, Backward Caste Movement, Dalit Movement.