UGC NET Syllabus for Sociology , Ph 078-380-243-65

UGC NET Sociology Paper II
A : Sociological Concepts
1. Nature of Sociology

• Definition
• Sociological Perspective

2. Basic Concepts

• Community
• Institution
• Association
• Culture
• Norms and Values.

3. Social Structure

• Status and role, their interrelationship.
• Multiple roles, Role set. Status set, Status sequence.
• Role conflict.

4. Social Group Meaning

• Types : Primary – Secondary, Formal – Informal, Ingroup – Outgroup, Referencegroup.

5. Social Institutions

• Marriage
• Family
• Education
• Economy
• Polity
• Religion

6. Socialization

• Socialization, Resocialization, Anticipatory socialization, Adult socialization
• Agencies of socialization
• Theories of socialization.

7. Social Stratification

• Social differentiation, Hierarchy and Inequality
• Forms of stratification : Caste, Class, Gender, Ethnic
• Theories of social stratification
• Social mobility.

8. Social Change

• Concepts and Types : Evolution, Diffusion, Progress, Revolution, Transformation, Change in structure and Change of structure
• Theories : Dialectical and Cyclical.

B : Sociological Theory
9. Structural

• Nadel
• Radclifife Brown
• Levi – Strauss

10. Functional

• Malinowski
• Durkheim
• Parsons
• Merton

11. Interactionist

• Social action : Max Weber, Pareto
• Symbolic Interactionism : G. H. Mead, Blumer

12. Conflict

• Karl Marx
• Dahrendorf
• Coser
• Collins

C : Methodology
13. Meaning and Nature of Social Research

• Nature of social phenomena
• The scientific method
• The problems in the study of social phenomena : Objectivity and subjectivity, fact and value.

14. Quantitative Methods

• Survey
• Research Design and its types
• Hypothesis
• Sampling
• Techniques of data collection : Observation, Questionnaire, Schedule, Interview.

15. Qualitative Methods

• Participant observation
• Case study
• Content analysis
• Oral history
• Life history

16. Statistics in Social Research

• Measures of Central Tendency : Mean, Median, Mode
• Measures of dispersion
• Correlational analysis
• Test of significance
• Reliability and Validity

UGC NET Sociology Paper III ( A ) ( Core Group )
Unit – I : Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

• Alfred Shultz, Peter Berger and Luckmann
• Garfinkel and Goffman

Unit – II : Neo – functionalism and Neo – Marxism

• J. Alexander
• Habermass, Althusser

Unit – III : Structuration and Post – Modernism

• Giddens
• Derrida
• Foucault

Unit – IV : Conceptualising Indian Society

• Peoples of India : Groups and Communities.
• Unity in diversity.
• Cultural diversity : Regional, linguistic, religious and tribal.

Unit – V : Theoretical Perspectives

• Indological / Textual Perspective : G. S. Ghurye, Louis Dumont.
• Structural – Functional Perspective : M. M.N. Srinivas, S. C. Dube.
• Marxian Perspective : D. P. Mukherjee, A. R. Desai.
• Civilisational Perspective : N. K. Bose, Surajit Sinha.
• Subaltern Perspective : B. R. Ambedkar, David Hardiman.

Unit – VI : Contemporary Issues : Socio – cultural

• Poverty
• Inequality of caste and gender
• Regional, ethnic and religious disharmonies.
• Family disharmony : (a) Domestic violence (b) Dowry (c) Divorce (d) Intergenerational conflict.

Unit – VII : Contemporary Issues : Developmental

• Population
• Regional disparity
• Slums
• Displacement
• Ecological degradation and environmental pollution
• Health problems

Unit – VIII : Issues Pertaining to Deviance

• Deviance and its forms
• Crime and delinquency
• White collar crime and corruption ,
• Changing profile of crime and criminals
• Drug addiction
• Suicide

Unit – IX : Current Debates

• Tradition and Modernity in India.
• Problems of Nation Building : Secularism, Pluralism and Nation building.

Unit – X : The Challenges of Globalisation

• Indianisation of Sociology
• Privatisation of Education
• Science and Technology Policy of India

UGC NET Sociology Paper III ( B ) ( ELECTIVE / OPTIONAL )
Elective – I: Rural Sociology
Approaches to the study of Rural Society :

• Rural – Urban differences
• Rurbanism
• Peasant studies

Agrarian Institutions :

• Land ownership and its types.
• Agrarian relations and Mode of production debate.
• Jajmani system and Jajmani relations.
• Agrarian class structure.

Panchayati Raj System :

• Panchayat before and after 73rd Amendment.
• Rural Leadership and Factionalism.
• Empowerment of people.

Social Issues and Strategies for Rural Development :

• Bonded and Migrant labourers.
• Pauperization and Depeasantisation.
• Agrarian unrest and Peasant movements.

Rural Development and Change :

• Trends of changes in rural society.
• Processes of change : Migration – Rural to Urban and Rural to Rural Mobility : Social / Economic.
• Factors of change.

Elective – II : Industry and Society
Industrial Society in the Classical Sociological Tradition :

• Division of labour
• Bureaucracy
• Rationality
• Production relations
• Surplus value
• Alienation

Industry and Society :

• Factory as a social system
• Formal and informal organization
• Impact of social structure on industry
• Impact of industry on society

Industrial Relations :

• Changing profile of labour.
• Changing labour – management relations.
• Conciliation, adjudication, arbitration.
• Collective bargaining.
• Trade unions.
• Worker’s participation in management ( Joint Management Councils ).
• Quality circles.

Industrialisation and Social Change in India :

• Impact of industrialization on family, education and stratification.
• Class and class conflict in industrial society.
• Obstacles to and limitations of industrialization.

Industrial Planning :

• Industrial Policy
• Labour legislation
• Human relations in industry

Elective – III : Sociology of Development
Conceptual Perspectives on Development :

• Economic growth
• Human development
• Social development
• Sustainable development : Ecological and Social

Theories of Underdevelopment :

• Liberal : Max Weber, Gunnar Myrdal.
• Dependency : Centre – periphery ( Frank ), Uneven development ( Samir Amin ), World – system ( Wallerstein ).

Paths of Development :

• Modernisation, Globalisation
• Socialist
• Mixed
• Gandhian

Social Structure and Development :

• Social structure as a facilitator / inhibitor.
• Development and socio – economic disparities.
• Gender and development.

Culture and Development :

• Culture as an aid / impediment.
• Development and displacement of tradition.
• Development and upsurge of ethnic movements.

Elective – IV : Population and Society
Theories of Population Growth :

• Malthusian.
• Demographic transition.

Population Growth and Distribution in India :

• Growth of Indian population since 1901.
• Determinants of population.

Concepts of Fertility, Mortality, Morbidity and Migration :

• Age and Sex composition and its consequences.
• Determinants of fertility.
• Determinants of mortality, infant, child and maternal mortality
• Morbidity rates.
• Determinants and consequences of migration.

Population and Development :

• Population as a constraint on and a resource for development.
• Socio – cultural factors affecting population growth.

Population Control :

• Population policy : Problems and perspectives
• Population education
• Measures taken for population control

Elective – V : Gender and Society
Gender as a Social Construct :

• Models of Gendered socialisation.
• Cultural symbolism and general roles.

Social Structure and Gender Inequality :

• Patriarchy and Matriarchy.
• Division of Labour – Production and reproduction.

Theories of Gender Relations :

• Liberalist
• Radical
• Socialist
• Post – modernist

Gender and Development :

• Effect of development policies on gender relations.
• Perspectives on gender and development – Welfarist, developmentalist
• Empowerment.

Women and Development in India :

• Indicators of women’s status : Demographic, social, economic and cultural.
• Special schemes and strategies for women’s development.
• Voluntary sector and women’s development.
• Globalisation and women’s development
• Eco – feminism.

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