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SOCIOLOGY
PAPER I
PRINCIPLES, THEORIES AND METHODS

CHAPTER I - BASIC CONCEPTS
1. Social Structure – Components and inter relations.
2. Social Change – Types and Theories
3. Social Processes – Cooperation, conflict, acculturation, socialization, modernization, sanskritization,
westernization, Urbanization and Industrialization.
4. Social Institutions – Family, marriage, religion, economy, polity and education.
5. Social Stratification and mobility – Nature types and theories.

CHAPTER II - SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
1. Nature and types
2. Classical theories – Comte, Spencer, Durlheim, Marx, Weber and Pareto.
3. Modern Sociological Theories – Sorokin, Cooley, Simmel Mead and Homans.
4. Contemporary Sociological Theories – Structuralism, Functionalism, Conflict, Symbolic
Interactionism, Exchange, Ethnomethodology, Phenomenology, Critical Sociology, Neopositivism
and Neofuctionlaism.

CHAPTER III - SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS
1. Science, Scientific method, Objectivity and value neutrality.
2. Research Design Types and Functions.
3. Tools of Research – Concepts, Facts, Theories and Hypothesis.
4. Tools of Data Collection – Observation, Interview, Questionnaire, Interview Schedule, Survey and
Case Study.
5. Methods of Analysis – Data Processing, Quantitative Techniques, Measures of central tendency,
Measures of Dispersion, Measures of association, Testing of Hypothesis and Sociometry.

6. Methods of Presentation – Graphs, Diagram’s, Time series, Index Numbers and Report Writing.
CHAPTER IV - STUDY OF INDIAN SOCIETY
1. Approaches to the study of Indian Society Indological, Structural Functional, Subaltern.
2. Characteristics of Indian Society – Unity in Diversity, Caste System, Joint Family, Village Society,
recent Trends.
3. Contemporary Social Processes – Urbanization, Industrialization, Modernisation, Westernisation,
liberalisation, Secularisation, Globalisation and Monetisation.

CHAPTER V - CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Social Inequities – nature, extent and implications.
2. Problems of marginalized groups – SC / ST’s, OBC’s, Minorities, Women and Aged.
3. Ameliorative Measures.
4. Role of State and NGO’s.
5. Problems of fundamentalism, terrorism, corruption and moral decay and crisis.

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Kerala Public Service Commission Sociology Exam paper contains questions from following syllabus:

Paper - I: Sociology Syllabus

FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY

1. Sociology - The Discipline:
(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology.
(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
(c) Sociology and common sense.

2. Sociology as Science:
(a) Science, scientific method and critique.
(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
(c) Positivism and its critique.
(d) Fact value and objectivity.
(e) Non- positivist methodologies.

3. Research Methods and Analysis:
(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
(b) Techniques of data collection.
(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.

4. Sociological Thinkers:
(a) Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
(b) Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
(c) Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
(d) Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
(e) Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
(f) Mead - Self and identity.

5. Stratification and Mobility:
(a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
(c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
(d) Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.

6. Works and Economic Life:
(a) Social organization of work in different types of society- slave society, feudal society, industrial /capitalist society.
(b) Formal and informal organization of work.
(c) Labour and society.

7. Politics and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of power.
(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.

8. Religion and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of religion.
(b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
(c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.

9. Systems of Kinship:
(a) Family, household, marriage.
(b) Types and forms of family.
(c) Lineage and descent.
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
(e) Contemporary trends.

10. Social Change in Modern Society:
(a) Sociological theories of social change.
(b) Development and dependency.
(c) Agents of social change.
(d) Education and social change.
(e) Science, technology and social change.

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