La Excellence IAS - Sociology Optional Enrichment Program 2020 - English Medium - NotesIndia
Sociology Paper - 1
INDEX
1. Sociology – The Discipline
01. Modernity and Social Changes in Europe and Emergence of Sociology
02. Scope of the Subject and Comparison with other Social Sciences
03. Sociology and Common Sense
2. Sociology as Science
01. Science, Scientific Method and Critique
02. Major Theoretical Strands of Research Methodology
03. Positivism and its Critique
04. Fact Value and Objectivity
05. Non- Positivist Methodologies
3. Research Methods and Analysis
01. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
02. Techniques of Data Collection
03. Variables, Sampling, Hypothesis, Reliability and Validity
4. Sociological Thinkers
01. Karl Marx
02. Emile Durkheim
03. Max Weber
04. Talcolt Parsons
05. Robert K. Merton
06. Mead
5. Stratification and Mobility
01. Concepts- Equality, Inequality, Hierarchy, Exclusion, Poverty and Deprivation
02. Theories of Social Stratification
03. Dimensions – Social Stratification of Class, Status Groups, Gender, Ethnicity
and Race
04. Social Mobility- Open and Closed Systems
6. Works and Economic Life
01. Social Organization of Work in Different Types of Society
02. Formal and Informal Organization of Work
03. Labour and Society
7. Politics and Society
01. Sociological Theories of Power
02. Power Elite, Bureaucracy, Pressure Groups, and Political Parties
03. Nation, State, Citizenship, Democracy, Civil Society, Ideology
04. Class and Society
05. Protest, Agitation, Social Movements, Collective Action, Revolution
8. Religion and Society
01. Sociological Theories of Religion
02. Types of Religious Practices: Animism, Monism, Pluralism, Sects, Cults
03. Religion in Modern Society: Religion and Science, Secularization, Religious
Revivalism, Fundamentalism.
9. Systems of Kinship
01. Family, Household, Marriage
02. Types and Forms of Family
03. Lineage and descent
04. Patriarchy and Sexual Division of Labour
05. Contemporary Trends
10. Social Change in Modern Society
01. Sociological Theories of Social Change
02. Development and Dependency
03. Agents of Social Change
04. Education and Social Change
05. Science, Technology and Social Change
