Wise IAS Academy

Home » Courses » Sociology Paper-1

What you’ll learn

Gain a better understanding of Sociology Paper-1

Interactive video lectures in every lesson will help you better understand a lesson.

Daily Evaluate your own performance by writing and practicing two answers given after each lessons

Wise IAS notes covers Complete Syllabus for UPSC CSE Examination

Course Content

Expand All

Books and Syllabus Sample Lesson

Previous Years Questions Paper Sample Lesson

FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY

1. Sociology - The Discipline Sample Lesson

Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology 4 Topics Sample Lesson

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/4 Steps

2. Enlightenment

3. French revolution: (Political revolution)

4. Industrial revolution: (Economic revolution)

Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences. Sample Lesson

Differences between Sociology and Common sense Sample Lesson

2. Sociology as Science

3. Research Methods and Analysis

Data Collection Methods 7 Topics

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/7 Steps

1. Closed-ended Surveys and Online Quizzes

Open-Ended Surveys and Questionnaires

Open-Ended Surveys and Questionnaires

1-on-1 Interviews

Direct observation

Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity

4. Sociological Thinkers 6 Topics

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/6 Steps

Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.

Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society

Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism

Talcott Parsons- Social system, pattern variables

Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups

Mead - Self and identity

5. Stratification and Mobility 4 Topics

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/4 Steps

Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation

Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.

Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race

Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility

6. Works and Economic Life

Labour and society

7. Politics and Society 3 Topics

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/3 Steps

Sociological theories of religion.

Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults

Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism

8. Religion and Society

9. Systems of Kinship 5 Topics

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/5 Steps

Family, household, marriage

Types and forms of family

Lineage and descent

Patriarchy and sexual division of labour

CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON all three facets

10. Social Change in Modern Society 5 Topics

Expand

Lesson Content

0% Complete 0/5 Steps

Sociological theories of social change

Development and dependency

Agents of social change

Education and social change

Science, technology and social change

+51 enrolled

Not Enrolled

Take this Course

Course Includes

18 Lessons
34 Topics

Responses

You must be logged in to post a comment.