Sociology Optional Syllabus for UPSC - Faridabad (New Township)

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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 Durkhteim – 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.