(Download) UPSC Topper Akshat Kaushal Sociology Study Notes in PDF

(Download) UPSC Topper Akshat Kaushal Sociology Study Notes in PDF

Sociology Study Notes :

Paper-1 Contents :

• Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology
• Protest, agitation, social movement, collective action and revolution
• Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties
• Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
• Family, household and marriage + Types and forms of family + Lineage and descent
• Patriarchy and sexual division of labour
• Contemporary trends in marriage
• Sociology and other social sciences
• Sociology and Common sense
• Science, scientific method and critque
• Positivism and its critique
• Fact, value and objectivity
• Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity
• Quantitative and qualitative methods
• Techniques of data collection
• Robert K Merton: Latent and manifest functions, Conformity and deviance, and reference groups
• Mead: Self and Identity
• Karl Marx: Historical Materialism, Mode of Production, Alienation, and class struggle
• Max Weber: Social Action, Ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic & spirit of capitalism
• Talcott Parsons
• Emile Durkheim
• Religion and Society : Sociological theories of religion
• Religion and science
• Secularisation
• Religious revivalism
• Religious fundamentalism
• Religious organisations:
• Millenarian movements
• Theories of social stratification: Structural-functionalist theory, Marxist theory
• Nomothetic and Ideographic
• Cultural lag theory

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Paper-2 Contents :

• On domestic violence act
• Women in IT sector
• Untouchability: Forms and Perspectives
• Challenges to Social Transformation:
• Population size, growth, composition and distribution & Components of population growth: birth, death and migration.
• Emerging issues: Ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health
• Sex ratio:
• Infant mortality rate
• Environment movements
• Women’s movements
• Dalit movement
• Backward Class movements
• Peasant and farmer movements
• Tribal movements
• Social background of Indian Nationalism
• Social reforms
• Constitution, law and social change
• Education and social change
• Idea of development planning and mixed economy :->Bipan Chandra
• Social classes in India
• System of kinship in India
• Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.
• Tribal Communities in India
• Agrarian social structure -> Evolution of land tenure system and land reforms
• Cooperatives
• Modernisation of Indian Tradition
• Western Impact on India
• Idea of Indian Village and Village studies
• Land tenure system
• Features of caste system -> Look at Ghurye
• Problems of religious minority in India:
• Urbanisation in India
• Child Labour
• Informal sector
• Slums and deprivation in urban areas
• Slums

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