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Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Civil Services Examination 2007Unit 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, cooperation, competition, conflict, accommodation, Social distance, relative deprivation. Unit II : Marriage, Family and Kinship :Marriage : types and norms, marriage as contract, and as a sacrament. Unit III : Social Stratification :Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant caste, sanskritisation. 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; political modernisation, pressure groups; caste and politics. Unit IX : Weaker Sections-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, Women's Movement, Backward Caste Movement, Dalit Movement. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Civil Services Examination 2007 | |
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