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Here I am giving you syllabus for lecturer post examination in sociology subject organized by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission

Syllabus For Screening Test For Post of College Lecturer: Sociology

Unit – I
Sociological Perspective:-
Basic Concepts: Status & Role, Multiple Roles, Role Set.
Social Groups: Meaning types, Reference Group.
Social Stratification: Theories, Forms, Caste, Class and Gender, Social Mobility.
Concepts of Social change: Transformation, evolution and progress, theories of social change, Process of change-sanskritisation, westernisation, Modernization.
Socialization Concept: Resocialization, Anticipatory Socialization, Adult Socialization and theories of Socialization.
Nature of Social Research: Hypothesis, Sampling, Research Design and Techniques of data Collection.

Unit – II
Karl Marx – Historical Materialism, Class struggle, Neo-Marxism.
Max Weber – Ideal type, Protestant ethic and rise of spirit of capitalism, Authority and its type.
E.Durkheim – Rules of Sociological method, Division of Labour in Society.
Functional Theory – Parsons (Functional pre-requisites),
Merton (Middle range theory), J.Alexander (Neo Functionalism)
Conflict Theory – Marx (Class theory), Coser (Functions of Social Conflict) Darrendrof (Comparison with Marx).

Unit – III
Ethnomethodology, Phenomenology: Alfred Shultz, Garfinkel and Goffman.
Post modernity- Modernity and post modernity – Vies of Derrida, Foucault.
Indological/Textual perspective – G.S. Ghurye, Louis Dumount.
Subaltern Perspective – B.R. Ambedkar, David Hardiman

Unit – IV
India – Social Structure - Unity and diversify, emerging contradictions.
People – Major and Minor communities.
Caste & Class – Caste characteristics, Changes, Industrial, Agrarian and middle class Marriage, Family and Kinship- Changing patterns.

Unit – V
Tribal Societies – Characteristics, perspective for Tribal development.
Rural – Urban Society- Rural urban nexus, Agrarian relations, Problems of Urban Society- Crime and Pollution.
Gender discrimination and empowerment of women.
Forces of Social Change – Media, Economy, Education, Reformist and Radical movement. Issues for nation building– Globalisation , Crises of values, Privatisation of education.

Pattern of Question Paper
Objective type paper
Maximum Marks : 100
Number of Questions : 100
Duration of Paper : Two Hours
All questions carry equal marks.
There will be Negative Marking.