Unit I: Basic Concepts:
Society, community, association, institution. Culture-culture change, diffusion,
Cultural tag, Cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, acculturation.
Social Groups - Primary, secondary and reference groups.
Social structure, social system, social action.
Status and role, role conflict, role set.
Norms and values - conformity and deviance.
Law and customs.
Socio - cultural processes: Socialisation, assimilation, integration, co-operation, competition, conflict, accommodation, Social distance, relative deprivation.
Unit II: Marriage, Family and Kinship:
Marriage: Types and norms, marriage as contract, and as a sacrament.
Family: Types, functions and changes.
Kinships: Terms and usages, rules of residence, descent, inheritance.
Unit III: Social Stratification: Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant caste, sanskntisation.
Unit IV: Types of Society: Tribal, agrarian, industrial and post-industrial.
Unit V: Economy and Society: Man, nature and social production, economic systems of simple and complex societies, non-economic determinants of economic behaviour, market (free) economy and controlled (Planned) economy.
Unit VI: Industrial and Urban Society: Rural - Urban Continuum, urban growth and urbanisation - town, city and metropolis; basic features of industrial society; impact of automation on, society; industrialisation and environment.
Unit VII: Social Demography: Population size, growth, composition, and distribution in India; components of population growth - births, deaths and migration; causes and consequences of population growth; population and social development; population policy.
Unit VIII: Political Processes: Power, authority and legitimacy; political socialisation; pojitical modernisation, pressure groups; caste and politics.
Unit IX: Weaker Section and Minorities: Social justice - equal opportunity and special opportunity; protective discrimination; constitutional safeguards.
Unit X: Social Change: Theories of change; factors of change; science, technology and change. Social movements - Peasant Movement, Womens Movement, Backward Caste Movement, Dalit Movement.