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WBCS SOCIOLOGY OPTIONAL SYLLABUS:
PAPER: 1
Fundamentals of Sociology :
a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and the emergence of Sociology.
b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
c) Sociology and common sense.
Pathfinders of Sociology :
a) Karl Marx
b) Emile Durkheim,
c) Max Weber
d) Simmel
e) Contemporary interpretations of Modern Sociology:
Talcolt Parsons
Robert K. Merton
f) Social System: Equilibrium, status, role, culture, heredity and environment, social
control, conformity & deviance, forms of interaction, social interaction and everyday
life. Types of human groups. Personality and socialization. Power, authority,
legitimacy, sociology of political life. Religion in relation to solidarity and social conflict,
magic, science and morality.
Social aspects of production, distribution, exchange and consumption.
g) Individual & groups: Personality & Socialization, classification of groups & their
contemporary significance.
Inequality, Stratification & Mobility :
a) Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
b) Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and consequences of mobility.
Economy & Society :
a) Social aspects of production, distribution, exchange & consumption, Social organization of work in different types of Society - slave society, feudal society,
industrial/capitalist society, post-industrial society.
b) Formal and informal organization of work.
c) Labour & Society.
Politics and Society :
a) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties.
b) Nation-state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
c) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
Religion & Society :
a) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism,
fundamentalism, pluralism.
b) Magic, religion & morality and science.
Science & Technology
Social research and methods of enquiry

PAPER: 2
Society & Culture in India :
Unity & diversity, modernity and tradition, contestation.
Indian Society :
Indological (Ghurye); Structural-functional (Srinivas); Marxist / Dialectical (Desai); Dalit (Ambedkar).
Major Social Groups :
Religious groups, linguistic and regional groups, castes & tribes.
Some Major Institutions :
Marriage, family, kinship patterns and changes affecting those; gender socialization; division of labour
and economic interdependence, decision-making, centres of power and political participation; religion and
society; Education, inequality, social change, contemporary trends.
Social Inequality :
Nature and types; traditional concepts of hierarchy, caste and class; the Backward Classes; concepts of
equality and social justice in relation to traditional hierarchies; education, occupation; changing patterns
of stratification.
Social change in modern India :
Westernization, Sanskritisation and secularization; directed and undirected change; legislative
and executive measures; social reforms; social movements; industrialization & urbanization; associations
and pressure groups.
Women & children :
Demographic profile of women; special problems - dowry, atrocities, discrimination; existing
programmes for women and their impact. Situational analysis of children; child welfare programmes.
Globalisation & ecological crisis in India :
Ecological and Environmental movements in India.
Social problems in India :
1) Poverty in rural and urban areas,
2) Child labour,
3) Problem of youth,
4) Drug addiction,
5) Juvenile delinquency,
6) Problems relating to old age,
7) Population problem,
8) Mass illiteracy,
9) Problem of violence.