Ias Gurukul Sociology Optional By By Pranay Aggarwal Sir Printed Notes 2021 English Medium
Total-1114 Pages
Total-05 Booklets

01.Paper-I Book-01
UNIT I: SOCIOLOGY – THE DISCIPLINE
•An Introduction: What is Sociology?
•Basic Concepts
•Modernity & Social Changes in Europe and Emergence of Sociology
•Scope of Sociology
•Uses of Sociology
•Sociology In Relation With The Other Social Sciences
•Sociology and Common Sense

•UNIT II: SOCIOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
•What is Science & Scientific method
•Positivism and its Critique
•Fact, Value and Objectivity

•UNIT III: RESEARCH METHODS & ANALYSIS
•Social Research and Its Importance
•Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
•Methods And Techniques Of Social Research

UNIT IV: SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS
•Karl Marx
•Historical Materialism
•Alienation
•Class, Class Struggle and Social Change
•mile Durkheim
•The Division Of Labor In Society
•Social Facts
•Suicide
•Religion & Society
•Max Weber
•Social Action
•Ideal Types
•Structures of Authority
•Bureaucracy
•Protestant Ethics and Spirit of Capitalism
•Talcott Parsons
•Social System
•Pattern Variables
•Robert King Merton
•Structural functionalism
•Manifest and latent functions
•Reference Group
•Conformity and Deviance
•G.H. Mead
•Self and Society

02.Paper-I Book-02
UNIT V: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY
•Social Stratification
•Equality
•Inequality and Hierarchy
•Poverty
•Social Exclusion
•Theories of Social Stratification
•Ethnicity and race as systems of stratification
•Social Mobility

UNIT VI: WORK AND ECONOMIC LIFE
•Social organization of work in different types of society
•Social importance of work and occupations
•Formal and informal organization of work
•Scientific management
•Human relations movement

UNIT VII: POLITICS AND SOCIETY
•Marxist approaches to power
•Elite theory
•Pluralism
•Concept of the State
•Concept of Citizenship
•Concept of Democracy
•Political Party
•Interest/ Pressure Groups
•Collective Action
•Protests
•Agitation
•Social Movements

UNIT VIII: RELIGION AND SOCIETY
•Theories of Religion
•Types of religious practices
•Sociological classifications of religious movements
•Religion in modern society
•Religion and Science
•Secularization
•Fundamentalism

03.Paper-II Book-01
A. Introducing Indian Society
(i) Perspectives on the study of Indian society:
(a) Indology (G.S. Ghurye)
(b) Structural functionalism (M.N. Srinivas)
(c) Marxist sociology (A.R. Desai)

(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society:
(a) Social background of Indian nationalism
(b) Modernization of Indian tradition
(c) Protests & movements during the colonial period
(d) Social reforms

B. Social Structure
(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
(a) The idea of Indian village & Village studies
(b) Agrarian social structure –
Evolution of land tenure system
Land reforms

(ii) Caste System:
(a) Perspectives on the study of caste system:
G.S. Ghurye, M.N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont,
Andre Beteille
(b) Features of caste system
(c) Untouchability – forms and perspectives

(iii) Tribal communities in India:
(a) Definitional problems
(b) Geographical spread
(c) Colonial policies and tribes
(d) Issues of integration and autonomy
(iv) Social Classes in India:
(a) Agrarian class structure
(b) Industrial class structure
(c) Middle classes in India

04.Paper-II Book-02
•Systems of Kinship in India
•Lineage and descent in India
•Types of kinship systems
•Family in India
•Marriage in India
•Household dimensions of the family
•Patriarchy, entitlement and sexual division of labour
•Religion and Society:
•Religious communities in India
•Problems of religious minorities
•Social Changes in India:
•Visions of Social Change in India:
•Idea of development planning and mixed economy
•Constitution, law and social change
•Education and social change
•Rural and Agrarian transformation in India:
•Programmes of rural development, Community Development
•Programme, cooperatives, poverty alleviation schemes
•Green revolution and social change
•Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture
•Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration
•Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
•Evolution of modern industry in India
•Growth of urban settlements in India
•Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization
•Informal sector & child labour
•Slums and deprivation in urban areas
•Politics and Society:
•Nation, democracy and citizenship.
•Political parties & pressure groups
•Social and political elite
•Regionalism
•Decentralization of power
•Secularization

05.Paper-II Book-03
•Social movements in modern India:
•Definition of social movements
•Approaches to study social movements: marxist, structure-functional and Gandhian 5
•Classification of social movements
•Agrarian movements
•Women’s movements
•Dalit movement
•Backward class movements
•Environmental and ecological movements
•Ethnic movements
•Social movements and democracy
•Population dynamics:
•Population studies
•Theories of population
•Structure, characteristics and dynamics of population
•Population growth, development, policies and programmes
•Population growth in India
•Nature of population problem in India
•Population policy and family planning in India
•Demographic dividend
•Emerging issues:
•Ageing
•Declining sex-ratios
•Child and infant mortality
•Sexual and reproductive health