CUET Exam Syllabus for Sociology - Commerce PDF Download

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SOCIOLOGY 
 
 
Indian Society  
                      Unit I: Structure of Indian Society  
• Introducing Indian Society: Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community 
• Demographic Structure 
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions 
 
Unit II: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change  
• Family and Kinship 
• The Caste System 
• Tribal Society 
• The Market as a Social Institution 
 
Unit III: Social Inequality and Exclusion  
• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes 
• The marginalization of Tribal Communities 
• The Struggle for Wo m e n ’s Equality 
• The Protection of Religious Minorities 
• Caring for the Differently Abled 
 
    Unit IV: The Challenges of Unity in Diversity  
• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism, and Patriarchy 
• Role of the State in a Plural, and Unequal Society 
• What We Share 
 
                Unit V: Process of Social Change in India 
 
• Process of Structural Change: Colonialism, Industrialisation, Urbanisation 
• Process of Cultural Change: Modernization, Westernisation, Sanskritisation, Secularisation 
• Social Reform Movements and Laws 
  
Unit VI: Social Change and the Polity 
  
• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change 
• Parties, Pressure Groups, and Democratic Politics 
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation 
 
Unit VII: Social Change and the Economy 
• Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society 
• From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation 
• Changes in the Class Structure 
 
Unit VIII: Arenas of Social Change 
 
• Media and Social Change 
• Globalization and Social Change 
 
 
 
 
Note:  
There will be one Question Paper which will have 50 questions out of which 40 questions need to be 
attempted. 
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SOCIOLOGY 
 
 
Indian Society  
                      Unit I: Structure of Indian Society  
• Introducing Indian Society: Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community 
• Demographic Structure 
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions 
 
Unit II: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change  
• Family and Kinship 
• The Caste System 
• Tribal Society 
• The Market as a Social Institution 
 
Unit III: Social Inequality and Exclusion  
• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes 
• The marginalization of Tribal Communities 
• The Struggle for Wo m e n ’s Equality 
• The Protection of Religious Minorities 
• Caring for the Differently Abled 
 
    Unit IV: The Challenges of Unity in Diversity  
• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism, and Patriarchy 
• Role of the State in a Plural, and Unequal Society 
• What We Share 
 
                Unit V: Process of Social Change in India 
 
• Process of Structural Change: Colonialism, Industrialisation, Urbanisation 
• Process of Cultural Change: Modernization, Westernisation, Sanskritisation, Secularisation 
• Social Reform Movements and Laws 
  
Unit VI: Social Change and the Polity 
  
• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change 
• Parties, Pressure Groups, and Democratic Politics 
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation 
 
Unit VII: Social Change and the Economy 
• Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society 
• From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation 
• Changes in the Class Structure 
 
Unit VIII: Arenas of Social Change 
 
• Media and Social Change 
• Globalization and Social Change 
 
 
 
 
Note:  
There will be one Question Paper which will have 50 questions out of which 40 questions need to be 
attempted. 
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Unit IX: New Arenas of Social Change  
• Media and Social Change 
• Globalization and Social Change 
 
Unity X: Social Movements  
• Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants 
• Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses 
• Wo m e n ’s Movements in Independent India 
• Tribal Movements 
• Environmental Movements