Serial No. Test No.

Date of Test Discussion Date Syllabus

1 Test – 01 10th July 2023 16th July 2023 Sociology - The Discipline:
(a) Modernity and social changes in
Europe and emergence of Sociology.
(b) Scope of the subject and
comparison with other social sciences.
(c) Sociology and common sense.
2 Test – 02 17th July 2023 23rd July 2023 Sociology as Science:
(a) Science, scientific method, and
critique.
(b) Major theoretical strands of
research methodology.
(c) Positivism and its critique.
(d) Fact value and objectivity.
(e) Non-positivist methodologies.

3 Test – 03 24th July 2023 30th July 2023 Research Methods and Analysis:
(a) Qualitative and quantitative
methods.
(b) Techniques of data collection.
(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis,
reliability, and validity

4 Test – 04 31st July 2023 06th August 2023 Sociological Thinkers:

(a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism,
mode of production, alienation, class
struggle.
(b) Emile Durkheim - Division of labour,
social fact, suicide, religion and society.
5 Test – 05 07th August 13th August 2023 Sociological Thinkers:
2023 (c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal
types, authority, bureaucracy,
protestant ethic and the spirit of
capitalism.
(d) Talcott Parsons - Social system,
pattern variables.
6 Test – 06 14th August 20th August 2023 Sociological Thinkers:
2023 (e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and
manifest functions, conformity and
deviance, reference groups.
(f) Mead - Self and identity.

7 Test – 07 21st August 27th August 2023 Stratification and Mobility:

2023 (a) Concepts - equality, inequality,
hierarchy, exclusion, poverty, and
deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification -
Structural functionalist theory,
Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
8 Test – 08 28th August 03rd September Stratification and Mobility:
2023 2023 (c) Dimensions - Social stratification
of class, status groups, gender,
ethnicity and race.
(d) Social mobility - open and closed
 systems, types of mobility, sources
and causes of mobility
9 Test – 09 04th 10th September Works and Economic Life:
September 2023 (a) Social organization of work in
2023 different types of society - slave society,
feudal society, industrial capitalist
society.
(b) Formal and informal organization of
work.
(c) Labour and society
10 Test – 10 11th 17th September Politics and Society:
September 2023 (a) Sociological theories of power.
2023 (b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure
groups and political parties.
(c) Nation, state, citizenship,
democracy, civil society, ideology.
(d) Protest, agitation, social
movements, collective action,
revolution.
11 Test – 11 18th 24th September Religion and Society:
September 2023 (a) Sociological theories of religion.
(b) Types of religious practices:
2023 animism, monism, pluralism,
sects, cults.
(c) Religion in modern society:
religion and science,
secularisation, religious
revivalism, fundamentalism.

12 Test – 12 25th 01st October 2023 Systems of Kinship:

September (a) Family, household, marriage.
2023 (b) Types and forms of family.
(c) Lineage and descent.
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of
labour.
(e) Contemporary trends.
13 Test – 13 02nd October 08th October 2023 Social Change in Modern Society:
2023 (a) Sociological theories of social
change.
(b) Development and dependency.
(c) Agents of social change.
(d) Education and social change.
(e) Science, technology, and social
change.
14 Test – 14 09th October 15th October 2023 Perspectives on the Study of Indian
2023 Society:
(a) Indology (G.S. Ghurye).
(b) Structural functionalism (M. N.
Srinivas).
(c) Marxist sociology (A. R. Desai).
15 Test – 15 16th October 22nd October 2023 Impact of colonial rule on Indian
2023 society:
 (a) Social background of Indian
nationalism.
(b) Modernization of Indian tradition.
(c) Protests and movements during the
colonial period.
(d) Social reforms.
16 Test – 16 23rd October 29th October 2023 Rural and Agrarian Transformation in
2023 India:
(a) Programmes of rural development,
Community Development Programme,
cooperatives, and poverty alleviation
schemes.
(b) Green revolution and social change.
(c) Changing modes of production in
Indian agriculture.
(d) Problems of rural labour, bondage,
migration.
17 Test – 17 30th October 05th November Caste System:
2023 2023 (a) Perspectives on the study of caste
systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas,
Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
(b) Features of caste system.
(c) Untouchability-forms and
perspectives
18 Test – 18 06th November 12th November Tribal Communities in India:
2023 2023 (a) Definitional problems.
(b) Geographical spread.
(c) Colonial policies and tribes.
(d) Issues of integration and
autonomy.
19 Test – 19 13th November 19th November Social Classes in India:
2023 2023 (a) Agrarian class structure.
(b) Industrial class structure.
(c) Middle classes in India.
20 Test – 20 20th November 26th November Systems of Kinship in India:
2023 2023 (a) Lineage and descent in India.
(b) Types of kinship systems.
(c) Family and marriage in India.
(d) Household dimensions of the
family.
(e) Patriarchy, entitlements, and
sexual division of labour.
21 Test – 21 27th November 03rd December Visions of Social Change in India:
2023 2023 (a) Idea of development planning and
mixed economy.
(b) Constitution, law, and social change.
(c) Education and social change.
22 Test – 22 04th December 10th December Rural and Agrarian Transformation in
2023 2023 India:
(a) Programmes of rural
 development, Community
Development Programme,
cooperatives, poverty alleviation
schemes.
(b) Green revolution and social
change.
(c) Changing modes of production in
Indian agriculture.
(d) Problems of rural labour, bondage,
migration.
23 Test – 23 11th December 17th December Industrialization and Urbanisation in
2023 2023 India:
(a) Evolution of modern industry in
India.
(b) Growth of urban settlements in
India.
(c) Working class: structure, growth,
class mobilization.
(d) Informal sector, child labour.
(e) Slums and deprivation in urban
areas.
24 Test – 24 18th December 24th December Politics and Society:
2023 2023 (a) Nation, democracy and
citizenship.
(b) Political parties, pressure groups,
social and political elite.
(c) Regionalism and decentralization
of power.
(d) Secularization.
25 Test – 25 25th December 31st December Social Movements in Modern India:
2023 2023 (a) Peasants and farmers'
movements.
(b) Women’s movement.
(c) Backward classes & Dalit
movements.
(d) Environmental movements.
(e) Ethnicity and Identity movements.

26 Test – 26 01st January 07th January Population Dynamics:

2024 2024 Population size, growth, composition
and distribution.
Components of population growth:
birth, death, migration.
Population Policy and family planning.
Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios,
child and infant mortality, reproductive
health.
27 Test – 27 15th January 21st January Challenges of Social Transformation:
2024 2024 (a) Crisis of development:
displacement, environmental problems
and sustainability.
(b) Poverty, deprivation and
inequalities.
(c) Violence against women.
(d) Caste conflicts.