The Mizoram Public Service Commission is the State Public Service Commission is provided under Article 315 of the Constituion of India to have a Public Service Commission to be consulted by the State Government on the matters of appointment to Civil Services and posts under the Government of Mizoram. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for Mizoram Civil Services Main Exam.
Mizoram Civil Services Examination Syllabus
Optional Paper - Sociology
PAPER – I
(Fundamentals Of Sociology )
PART A
- SOCIOLOGY - THE DISCIPLINE:
- Social conditions in Europe for the emergence of Sociology
- Nature and subject matter of Sociology
- Scope and theoretical perspectives of Sociology
- Relations with other social science
- SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS:
- Culture: elements, Transmission, Diffusion, Cultural lag
- Socialization : Stages, agencies
- Social Control: Functions, types, agencies
- Social Grolups: Primary, Secondary, Reference Groups
- MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND KINSHIP:
- Marriage, types of marriage, functions of marriage
- Family, types of family, functions of family, changing family structure
- Kinship, types of kinship, rules of descent, lineage
- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY:
- Social stratification, features, determinants
- Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation
- Theories of social stratification, Functionalist Theory, Marxist Theory, Weberian Theory
- Social mobility, open and closed systems, types of mobility,
- Factors and barriers of social mobility.
PART B
- SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHTS:
- Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, religion and society
- Karl Marx- Historical materialism, alienation, class struggle
- Max Weber-Ideal types, social action, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
- Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
- Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, reference groups
- RESEARCH METHODS:
- Research design
- Types of research
- Variables, hypothesis, sampling
- Elements and steps of scientific research
- Techniques of data collection
- Problem of objectivity and value neutrality
- ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS:
- Politics: Nation, state, democracy, civil societySociological theories of power
- Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
- Economies: Features of primitive economy, work and occupation in society
- Organization of work in industrial/capitalist society
- Religioin: Types of religious practices - animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
- Religion and science, contemporary trends in religion
- SOCIAL CHANGE :
(a) Social change, nature and characteristics, development, progress
(b) Theories of social change, Evolutionary, Functional, Conflict, Cyclical
(c) Factors of social change: Education, Science and technology, Social legislation
(d) Resistance to social change.
PAPER - II
(Indian Society: Structure And Change)
PART B
- PERSPECTIVES ON INDIAN SOCIETY:
- Indology : GS. Ghurye’s perspectives on the study of Indian society
- Marxist Sociology : A R Desai’s view on the relevance of Marxist Sociology in India
- Social background of Indian nationalism.
- Modernization of Indian tradition.
- (c) Social reforms
- RURAL AND AGRARIAN SECTORS:
- The idea of Indian village and village studies
- Land tenure system before independence
- Land reforms after independence
- Develpment planning and mixed economy
- Green Revolution
- Programmes for rual development
- Community Development Programme
- Recent schemes for poverty alleviation
- TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN INDIA:
- Definitional Problems
- Features
- Geographical distribution
- Colonial politics and tribes
- Issues of integration and autonomy
- Tribal Welfare Programmes and Constitutional Safeguards
- CASTE AND CLASSES IN INDIA
- Features of Caste System
- Untouchability - forms and perspectives
- Chases in the Caste System
- Agrarian class structure
- Industrial class structurfe
- Middle classes in India
PART B
- POPULATION DYNAMICS AND URBANIZATION
- Population size, growth, composition and distribution, literacy, density, longevity.
- Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
- Population policy and family planning.
- Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
- Urbanization, factors of unranization, rural-urban contunuum and contrast
- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN MODERN INDIA
- Characteristics and types of social movements
- Peasant movements
- Women movements
- Backward classes meovements
- Ethnic movementes
- RELIGION AND SOCIETY
- Religious communities in India
- Problems of religious minorities
- Communalism
- Secularism
- CHALLENGES TO INDIAN SOCIETY
- Caste conflicts
- Violence against women
- Poverty
- Illiteracy
- Bonded labour
- Regionalism
- Corruption
- Child labour
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