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Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकातEnquire at your nearest NDSS centre, meet the teacher, fix the batch time and get your study material.
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Part 1 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 1Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 1: Nature and Scope of SociologyUnit 2: Basic ConceptsUnit 3: Culture and Socialisation
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Part 2 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 2Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 4: Social InstitutionsUnit 5: Stratification and Social Control
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Unit tests & assignmentsयूनिट टेस्टRegular tests in the university / board pattern.
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Semester 1 exam (university / board)विश्वविद्यालय / बोर्ड परीक्षाPrevious papers and full revision before the exam.
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Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्टTake the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
सिलेबस · पाठ्यक्रम
1 subject · 5 chapters · 26 topics
01Unit 1: Nature and Scope of Sociology
5 टॉपिक+
- Meaning and definitions of sociology
- Origin of sociology; Auguste Comte
- Nature of sociology as a science
- Scope: formalistic and synthetic schools
- Relation with history, economics, political science, psychology and anthropology
02Unit 2: Basic Concepts
5 टॉपिक+
- Society and community
- Association and institution
- Social groups: primary and secondary (Cooley), in-group and out-group (Sumner), reference group
- Status and role
- Social structure and social system
03Unit 3: Culture and Socialisation
6 टॉपिक+
- Meaning and characteristics of culture
- Material and non-material culture; cultural lag
- Folkways, mores and norms
- Socialisation: meaning and stages
- Agencies of socialisation
- Theories: Cooley's looking-glass self, Mead's I and Me, Freud
04Unit 4: Social Institutions
5 टॉपिक+
- Family: types and functions
- Marriage: forms and rules
- Kinship: types and usages
- Religion
- Education, polity and economy as institutions
05Unit 5: Stratification and Social Control
5 टॉपिक+
- Social stratification: meaning and bases
- Caste and class
- Social mobility: vertical and horizontal
- Social control: meaning and need
- Formal and informal agencies of social control
About this course
आप यह कर पाएँगे
- Explain the meaning, origin, nature and scope of sociology and its relation with other social sciences
- Define society, community, association, institution, social group, status and role
- Explain culture, cultural lag and the process and agencies of socialisation
- Describe family, marriage, kinship, religion and education as social institutions
- Explain social stratification, mobility and the means of social control
- Write university-pattern answers using the definitions of standard sociologists
यह किसके लिए है
- B.A Semester 1 students with Sociology as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
- Students taking Sociology as a minor paper
- Aspirants of UPSC / UPPSC with sociology as an optional or GS topic
आपको क्या चाहिए
- Passed Class 12 (any stream)
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
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सवाल
Which syllabus does this course follow?
It follows the UP State Universities NEP 2020 common minimum syllabus (MGKVP, VBSPU, Lucknow University and others) for B.A Sociology, Semester 1. Where your own university's syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.
How will I be tested?
Unit-wise MCQ tests, short and long answer practice in university exam pattern, and a final mock paper.
Is sociology scoring?
Yes, if answers use correct definitions and names of sociologists; the course gives model answers for each unit.
