Your roadmap · आपका रोडमैप
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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: Auguste ComteUnit 2: Herbert SpencerUnit 3: Emile Durkheim
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Part 2 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 2Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 4: Max WeberUnit 5: Karl Marx
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Unit tests & assignmentsयूनिट टेस्टRegular tests in the university / board pattern.
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Semester 5 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 · 24 topics
01Unit 1: Auguste Comte
5 टॉपिक+
- Life and works
- Law of three stages
- Positivism
- Hierarchy of sciences
- Social statics and social dynamics
02Unit 2: Herbert Spencer
5 टॉपिक+
- Life and works
- Theory of social evolution
- Organic analogy
- Militant and industrial societies
- Survival of the fittest
03Unit 3: Emile Durkheim
4 टॉपिक+
- Social facts and rules of sociological method
- Division of labour: mechanical and organic solidarity
- Theory of suicide: egoistic, altruistic, anomic, fatalistic
- Elementary forms of religious life: sacred and profane
04Unit 4: Max Weber
5 टॉपिक+
- Social action and its types
- Ideal type
- Types of authority
- Bureaucracy
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
05Unit 5: Karl Marx
5 टॉपिक+
- Historical and dialectical materialism
- Base and superstructure
- Class and class struggle
- Alienation
- Surplus value
About this course
आप यह कर पाएँगे
- Explain Comte's positivism, law of three stages and hierarchy of sciences
- Explain Spencer's social evolution and organic analogy
- Explain Durkheim's social facts, division of labour, suicide and religion
- Explain Weber's social action, ideal type, authority, bureaucracy and the Protestant ethic
- Explain Marx's historical materialism, class struggle, alienation and surplus value
- Compare the classical thinkers and write critical answers
यह किसके लिए है
- B.A Semester 5 students with Sociology as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
- UPSC / UPPSC aspirants with sociology as an optional subject
आपको क्या चाहिए
- Sociology papers of Semesters 1-4
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Student login →
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 5. 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.
Do I need to read the original books?
Not for the B.A exam. Summaries of the key works are given, with names, years and core ideas.
