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UPPSC 2010 Syllabus for Sociology (Subject Code 11)

Unit - I

Basic Concepts: Social Group-types: Primary, Secondary and Reference Community, Association, Institution. Society and its types: Tribal, Agrarian, Industrial and-Post Industrial, Social Structure and Social System Race's and Culture.

Unit - II

Social Processes Associative-Accommodation, Assimilation and Co-operation Dissociative competition, Constaventaion and conflict.

Unit - III

Social Institutions: Marriage-Types and forms, Contractual and Sacramental. Family-types, function, Importance and factors of change Kinship-Terms and usages, Rules of residence, Descent and inheritance.

Unit - IV

Social Stratification: Concept: forms: caste, class and estate. Social stratification and social differentiation. Status-Ascribed and achieved: role-role set and role conflict. Social mobility-horizontal and vertical.

Unit - V

Social Change and Social Control: Concept of Social change, linear and cyclical change factors of social change: Demographic, economic technological and cultural. Planning and social change. Social control-Concept, means and agencies.

Unit - Vl

Social Disorganisation, Conformity and Deviance: Concept, Symptoms and causes of disorganisation, anomie crime, juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, AIDS, casteism, regionalism and communalism.

Unit - VII

Economic, Polity and Society: Economic systems of simple and complex societies; liberal and controlled economy, political system of India, pressure group, caste and politics.

Unit - VIII

Under Privileged Sections of Society: Constitutional provisions regarding the scheduled caste / scheduled tribes / and other backward classes.

UPPSC Preliminary Exam 2010 Syllabus for Sociology