CUET PG Sociology

Exam Pattern 

MODE OF EXAMINATION CUET (PG) 2025 will be conducted in Computer Based Test mode only. 

MEDIUM OF QUESTION PAPERS The medium of Question Paper for CUET (PG) 2025 will be English and Hindi (Bilingual). 

STRUCTURE OF QUESTION PAPERS Structure of Examination for CUET (PG) - 2025 

1. There would be no General Section with each paper. 

2. Duration of Exam would be of 105 Minutes. 

3. The Question paper will have 75 Questions. 

4. Four marks would be awarded for each correct answer and one mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. 

5. Languages papers will be in both Hindi and English. 

Syllabus : CUET MA Sociology (HUQP 22) 

Basic Concepts in Sociology: 

• UNIT – I 

  • Sociology: Definition, nature and scope

  • Relationship with other Social Sciences: Psychology, Anthropology, History, Economics and Political Science. 

• UNIT – II Basic Concepts: Social Structure, Society, Social Organization, Community, Association, Norms, Values. 

• UNIT – III  Status and Role: Types of status and role and their interrelationship 

• UNIT – IV Socialization: Meaning, types, processes and agencies, Theories of self (Freud, Cooley and Mead), Culture: Meaning, characteristics; material and non-material culture; cultural lag. Culture and civilization.

Social Processes and Problems: 

• UNIT – I Social Processes: Cooperation, Accommodation, Assimilation, Competition and Conflict. 

• UNIT – II Social Groups: Definition, characteristics, types (primary and secondary; in-group and out-group; Reference group and Peer group). 

• UNIT – III Social Institutions: Marriage; Family; Kinship Education, Religion and Economy: Meaning and Functions

• UNIT – IV Social Control: Meaning, Significance and agencies. Social Deviance: Meaning, characteristics, forms and factors. 

Society, Culture and Social Change: 

• UNIT – I Societies: Types and Characteristics- Tribal, Rural, Urban, Industrial and Post-Industrial. 

• UNIT – II Culture: Definition and Nature; Types- Material and Non- Material. Socialization: Importance, Process and Stages. Social Control: Types and Means 

• UNIT – III Processes of Social Change: Characteristic Features of Industrialization, Modernization,Globalization and Secularization 

• UNIT – IV Social Stratification: Types, theories of stratification social mobility and its types 

Indian Society:

• UNIT – I Evolution of Indian Society: Traditional basis of Indian Society; Unity and Diversity in India; India as a Pluralistic Society.

• UNIT – II Caste, theories of Caste system and its Changing Dimensions in India; Dominant caste.

• UNIT – III Processes of Social Change in India: Sanskritization, Westernization, Modernization, Prophetization and Universalization

• UNIT – IV Social Issues and Problems: Gender Discrimination, Problems of Women; Problems of Dalits,OBCs and Minorities; Affirmative Actions. 

Social Research:

• UNIT – I Social Research: Definition, Nature and Purpose; Steps in Social Research; Problem of Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research

• UNIT – II Research Methods: Research Designs; Social Survey; Hypothesis- Types & significance;Sampling and Sampling Procedure

• UNIT – III Techniques of Data Collection: Observation, Interview, Questionnaire, Schedule and CaseStudy; Types of Data

• UNIT – IV Statistical Analysis and Use of Computer in Social Research: Classification and Tabulation of data; Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode; Use of Computers in SocialResearch. 

Social Problems in India: 

• UNIT – I Social Problem: Meaning and Definition; Importance of the Study of Social Problems; Sociological Perspectives on Social Problem-Anomie and suicide (Durkheim) Labeling (Becker).

• UNIT – II Structural Issues: Inequality of Caste, Class, Gender and Ethnicity

• UNIT – III Problems and Issues: Female Feticide, Dowry, Domestic Violence, Divorce; Problems of Aged.

• UNIT – IV Social Disorganization: Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, Corruption, Communalism, Drug Addiction, Suicide, Nepotism, Prostitution and AIDS

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