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27th September 2014, 11:43 AM
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Re: Sikkim Public Service Commission PGT Sociology Exam Syllabus

Here I am providing the PGT Sociology Exam Syllabus of Sikkim Public Service Commission which you are looking for .

Unit – I 1. Introducing Sociology : The nature and scope of Sociology: Sociology as distinct from common sense. Sociology and other social sciences – the scientific and humanistic orientations to sociological study. 2. Basic concepts :  Society, Community, Association, Institution, Groups Social Status, Status and Role, Norms and Values, Folkways and Norms  Marriage, Family and Kinship  Social Stratification & Social Mobility  Culture – Culture change, Diffusion, Cultural Lag, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Acculturation  Socio-Cultural Process Cooperation, Competition, Conflict, Accommodation, Assimilation, Socialization, Social Distance, Relative Deprivation.

Unit – II 1. Major Sociological Perspectives  Evolutionary Perspectives (Augusta Comte/Herbert Spencer/H. Morgan)  Functionalist Perspectives (Emile Durkheim/Talcou Parsons/Radcliff Brown/ Robert Merton/Malinowski)  Conflict Perspectives (Karl Marx/ Dahrendorf/ Coser)  Social Action Perspectives  Phenomenological Perspective. 2. Sociological Thought –  The Pioneers-Comte-Positivism, Spencer; Social Darwinism  The Classical Tradition – Durkheim (Social Fact, Social Solidarity and Suicide). Max Weber (Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Social Action and Authority), Karl Marx (Materialistic Conception of History and Class struggle)
3. Indian Sociological Thought – Raja Ram Mohan Roy – Social Reform movement M. K. Gandhi – Idea of Swaraj, Rural Development

Unit – III Society in India & Issues related to Sikkim 1. Basic Social Institutions in Indian Society – Caste/ Family/ Kinship 2. Social Change – Role of Industrialization, Urbanization. Westernization, Sanskritisation, Education and Social Legislations. 3. Sociology of Tribes and Minorities – Social Justice – equal opportunities and special opportunity. Protective Discrimination, Reservation Policy – critical review. 4. Major Social Issues and Problems –  Caste & Gender  Social Consequences of Globalization and economic Liberalization  Poverty, Corruption, Problem of Youth, Juvenile Delinquency, Old Age Problems, Mass Illiteracy, Divorce, substance Abuse, Suicide, Dowry, Domestic Violence.  Communalism, Globalization.


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