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