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Sociology Study Notes :

Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology
Protest, agitation, social movement, collective action and revolution
Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties
Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
Family, household and marriage + Types and forms of family + Lineage and descent
Patriarchy and sexual division of labour
Contemporary trends in marriage
Sociology and other social sciences
Sociology and Common sense
Science, scientific method and critque
Positivism and its critique
Fact, value and objectivity
Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity
Quantitative and qualitative methods
Techniques of data collection
Robert K Merton: Latent and manifest functions, Conformity and deviance, and reference groups
Mead: Self and Identity
Karl Marx: Historical Materialism, Mode of Production, Alienation, and class struggle
Max Weber: Social Action, Ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic & spirit of capitalism
Talcott Parsons
Emile Durkheim
Religion and Society : Sociological theories of religion
Religion and science
Secularisation
Religious revivalism
Religious fundamentalism
Religious organisations:
Millenarian movements
Theories of social stratification: Structural-functionalist theory, Marxist theory
Nomothetic and Ideographic
Cultural lag theory

On domestic violence act
Women in IT sector
Untouchability: Forms and Perspectives
Challenges to Social Transformation:
Population size, growth, composition and distribution & Components of population growth: birth, death and migration.
Emerging issues: Ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health
Sex ratio:
Infant mortality rate
Environment movements
Women’s movements
Dalit movement
Backward Class movements
Peasant and farmer movements
Tribal movements
Social background of Indian Nationalism
Social reforms
Constitution, law and social change
Education and social change
Idea of development planning and mixed economy :->Bipan Chandra
Social classes in India
System of kinship in India
Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.
Tribal Communities in India
Agrarian social structure -> Evolution of land tenure system and land reforms
Cooperatives
Modernisation of Indian Tradition
Western Impact on India
Idea of Indian Village and Village studies
Land tenure system
Features of caste system -> Look at Ghurye
Problems of religious minority in India:
Urbanisation in India
Child Labour
Informal sector
Slums and deprivation in urban areas
Slums