UNIT - I   GENERAL Sociology

1. Culture : Meaning, Characteristics, Types, Cultural Lag and Culture and Civilization, 2. Components, Patterns and Configuration of Culture, 3. Culture and Personality, 4. Social Stratification, 5. Caste and Class, 6 .Social Change : Meaning, Types and Factors, 7. Progress and Development, 8.Theories of Social Change, 9.Social Mobility, 10. Social Control, 11. Norms and Values, 12. Socialization, 

UNIT - II   INDIAN SOCIAL SYSTEM

1. Indian Society : Cultural, Ethnic and Historically Embedded Diversities (Language, Caste, Religious Beliefs and Practices and Cultural Patterns), 2. Basic Institutions of Indian Society : Caste, 3. Kinship-System, 4. Family : Hindu Family, 5. Marriage : Hindu Marriage, 6 .Muslim Family and Marriage, 7. Christian Family and Marriage, 8. Family and Marriage in Tribes,, 9. Religion, 10. Caste and Class : Social Class, 11. Sanskritization, 12. Westernization, 13. Modern Social Reform Movements : Brahm Samaj, Prarthana Samaj and Arya Samaj