SOCIOLOGY

Unit I Indian : Basic Concepts :
Society , Community , association , institution .Culture- culture change, diffusion , Cultural tag, Cultural relativism , ethnocentrism, abculturation .
Social Groups-primary, secondary and reference groups.
Social structure , social system ,social action.
Status and role, role conflict , role set.
Norms and values- conforlity and devhancd.
L`w and ctstols.
Rocin-!ctltural procdsses:
Socialisation, assimilation , integration cooperation competition , conflict , accommodation , Social distance , relative deprivation.
Unit II : Marriage, Family and Kinship :
Marriage : types and norms, marriage as contract and as a sacrament .
Family : type , functions and changes.
Kinships : 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 : Type 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 , non –economic determinants of economic behaviour, market (free) economy and controlled (planned) economy.
Unit VI : Industrial and Urban Society :
Rural- Urban Continuum , urban growth and urbanization – town , city and metropolis; basic features of industrial society ; impact of automation on society ; industrialization 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 socialization; political modernization 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 .