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1. What is Sleepy Classes?

• Sleepy Classes is a one-stop solution for students across regions and diverse backgrounds to prepare for UPSC, which is one of the toughest competitive examinations in the country through video lectures and doubt resolution.
• Over the past so many years, sleepy classes have successfully helped over 3,70,000 students to study for their UPSC dream.
• Sleepy Classes has mentored numerous toppers, including Jagarati Awasthi AIR 2 UPSC 2021, Srushti Deshmukh AIR 5 UPSC 2018, Raunak Agarwal AIR 13 UPSC 2019, Swati Sharma, AIR 17 UPSC 2019, Ruchi Bindal AIR 37 UPSC 2019 and many more.

2. Sleepy classes strategy of teaching Sociology

The UPSC examination is one of the toughest examinations in the country owing to its low conversion rate and the sheer vastness of the syllabus. Keeping this in mind, Sleepy classes have created high-quality content which caters to most portions of the syllabus:

• All subjects within General Studies for both Prelims and Mains 
• Sociology Optional
• Political Science Optional
• Dedicated Answer writing.

(i) Study from the mentor of Toppers

• Understanding concepts of Sociology is the key to scoring well in Sociology Optional, while there are so many authors you can refer to, it becomes hard to study them all for students. 
• Shekhar Sir, the mentor of Srushti Deshmukh AIR 5 2018, and Ruchi Bindal AIR 39 2019, has complied, all the educational resources that you will need to score high marks in your UPSC Sociology Optional examination.

(ii) Learn through real life scenarios all around you

• There are a huge number of concepts that are to be covered in sociology and remembering them all can be troublesome and tiring. 
• Sleepy Classes teaches you all the concepts through powerful video lectures with examples and anecdotes you see all around yourself for you to grasp every concept properly. 
• These examples will fetch you brownie points in essay writings. 

(iii) Prepares you for Answer Writing

• Preparing for Prelims and Mains go hand in hand, students need to give attention to both of them simultaneously while preparing for UPSC Prelims requires you to know a lot of things, Mains test how you present all that you know. Thus, answer writing is one of the key elements one must prepare for.  
• One of the best parts about Sleepy Classes lectures is that they teach answer writing for each topic. This saves your time and makes a student understand topics in a much more comprehensive way.

3. What is offered by Sleepy Classes on EduRev?

In the course of Polity, you would find detailed video lectures of each topic, whose material has been compiled from the best resources in the market taught by an experienced teacher in a way to help you retain all you have learnt, with PDFs of each lecture available for a quick revision.

(i) Paper 1: Fundamentals of Sociology - The Discipline, Sociology as Science, Research Methods & Analysis, Sociological Thinkers, Stratification & Mobility, Works & Economic Life, Politics & Society, Religion & Society, Systems of Kinship, Social Change in Modern Society

(ii) Paper 2: Indian Society - Introduction to Sociology,

• Sociology: A1 - GS Ghurye - Indology, MN Srinivas with Criticisms, A. R. Desai - Marxist Sociology, Marxists & India
• Sociology: A2 - Impact of Colonial Rule of Indian Society, Modernisation of Indian Tradition, Colonial Hangover, Nationalism with Caste & Religion
• Sociology: B1 - Social Structure 
• Sociology: B2 - Caste System 
• Sociology: B3 - Tribal Communities in India
• Sociology: B4 - Social classes in India
• Sociology: B5 - Systems of Kinship in India
• Sociology: B6 & C4 - Communalism 
• Sociology: C1 - Vision of Social Change in India 
• Sociology: C2 - Rural Agrarian transformation in Indian, Cooperatives, Poverty Alleviation Schemes, Green Revolution & changing modes of production in Indian agriculture, Rural Labour, Migration 
• Sociology: C3 - Evolution of modern industry in India, Child Labour, Informal Sector, Slums, Urbanisation, Growth of Urban settlements in India, Working Class Structure, Growth, Class Mobilization
• Sociology: C5 - Peasants Movement, Women Movement, Backward Caste & Dalit Movement, Environment Movements, Ethnic Movements, Why are the Farmers Protesting, Emerging Issue - Aging Problems & Solutions, Population Dynamic, Age Structure of the Indian Population
• Sociology: C7 - Displacement, Poverty, Deprivation & Inequality, Violence Against Women, Sustainable Development

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• Geography for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Polity for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Ethics for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Economy for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Social Issue for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Environment for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Sociology Mains Optional for UPSC 2022
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