CUET Syllabus: Sociology | CUET UG Mock Test Series 2026 PDF Download

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For the year 2025 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SOCIOLOGY – 
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Syllabus for CUET 
(UG) 
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For the year 2025 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SOCIOLOGY – 
326               
Syllabus for CUET 
(UG) 
 
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Indian Society  
 
Unit - I: Structure of Indian Society   
? 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, Schedule Castes and Other Backward Class 
? Marginalisation of Tribal Communities  
? The Struggle for Women’s Equality  
? The Protection of Religious Minorities  
? Caring of the Different 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  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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For the year 2025 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SOCIOLOGY – 
326               
Syllabus for CUET 
(UG) 
 
1 | P a g e 
 
Indian Society  
 
Unit - I: Structure of Indian Society   
? 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, Schedule Castes and Other Backward Class 
? Marginalisation of Tribal Communities  
? The Struggle for Women’s Equality  
? The Protection of Religious Minorities  
? Caring of the Different 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  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Change and Development in India. 
  
Unit – I: 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- II: 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 - III: Social Change and the Economy  
  
? Land Reforms, the Green Revolution and Agrarian Society 
? From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation 
? Changes in the Class Structure 
   
Unit - IV: New Arenas of Social Change 
 
? Media sand Social Change 
? Globalisation and Social Change 
 
Unit - V: Social Movements  
  
? Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants  
? Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste 
Responses 
? Women’s Movements in Independent India 
? Tribal Movements 
? Environmental Movements