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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: Development of Sociology in IndiaUnit 2: G.S. GhuryeUnit 3: M.N. Srinivas
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Part 2 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 2Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 4: A.R. DesaiUnit 5: Radhakamal Mukerjee, D.P. Mukerji and Others
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Unit tests & assignmentsयूनिट टेस्टRegular tests in the university / board pattern.
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Semester 6 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: Development of Sociology in India
5 टॉपिक+
- Colonial ethnography and census
- Bombay school and Patrick Geddes
- Lucknow school
- Indological and field-view approaches
- Indigenisation of sociology
02Unit 2: G.S. Ghurye
5 टॉपिक+
- Life and works
- Indological approach
- Caste and Race in India: features of caste
- Views on tribes
- Studies of sadhus, culture and urbanisation
03Unit 3: M.N. Srinivas
5 टॉपिक+
- Life and works
- Field view versus book view
- Sanskritisation and Westernisation
- Dominant caste
- The Remembered Village
04Unit 4: A.R. Desai
5 टॉपिक+
- Life and works
- Marxian (dialectical-historical) approach
- Social Background of Indian Nationalism
- Peasant struggles and rural sociology
- State and society in India
05Unit 5: Radhakamal Mukerjee, D.P. Mukerji and Others
4 टॉपिक+
- Radhakamal Mukerjee: social ecology, values, regional sociology
- D.P. Mukerji: tradition and modernity, Indian culture
- Irawati Karve: kinship organisation
- S.C. Dube: village studies and development
About this course
आप यह कर पाएँगे
- Trace the growth of sociology in India and the Bombay and Lucknow schools
- Explain Ghurye's Indological approach and his views on caste and tribes
- Explain Srinivas' field view, Sanskritisation, Westernisation and dominant caste
- Explain A.R. Desai's Marxian analysis of Indian nationalism and peasant struggles
- Explain the ideas of Radhakamal Mukerjee, D.P. Mukerji, Irawati Karve and S.C. Dube
- Compare Indological, structural-functional and Marxian perspectives on Indian society
यह किसके लिए है
- B.A Semester 6 students with Sociology as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
- UPSC / UPPSC aspirants with sociology as an optional subject
आपको क्या चाहिए
- Indian Society and Classical Sociological Thinkers papers of earlier semesters
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 6. 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.
Which books should I remember?
A list of each thinker's main books with years is given; most objective questions are on these.
