A passionate teacher, politics enthusiast, love reading and enjoy doing research projects on social issues.

Vanmala Ramesh

This course focusses on Unit 7, Politics and Society, Paper 1 targeted for aspirants who have taken Sociology as there optional subject. In depth analysis will be done on the topic Politics and Society and along with it other sub topics like Bureaucracy, Nation, Political Parties, Citizenship, Democracy, Protest, Social Movements and many more topics associated with Politics and Society will be covered. Towards the end of the course focus will be shifted towards answer writing, where questions from previous years question papers pertaining to this  topic  will be discussed.

Crack UPSC CSE Prelims and Mains Exams. Know how to prepare for UPSC 2019 and 2020, complete syllabus, exam patterns, latest notifications to join IAS, IFS, IPS and other cadres of Civil Services.

UPSC CSE - GS

UPSC - Civil Services Examination (IAS) Preparation

English

Politics and Society-Summary Analysis: UPSC CSE

Practice & Strategy

Indian Polity 

Polity, Governance & IR

UPSC CSE

Ace the toughest competitive and government exams in India 

Test Preparation

Union Public Service Commission Exams (UPSC)

This lesson briefly discusses the strategy, approach and the topics that will be taught in the course.

Overview Lesson

This lesson gives a short introduction to politics and society, and the how this is studied from the sociological point of view.

Society and Politics. Introduction

This lesson explains the sociological theory of Power from Karl Marx's point of view.

Sociological theory of Power

This lesson explains the Sociological theory of Power by Max Weber.

Sociological Theories of Power. Max Weber

This lesson explains the Sociological theory of Power from Talcott Parsons point of view.

Sociological Theories of Power. Talcott Parsons

This lesson explains the Classical Elite Theory by Pareto.

Classical Elite Theory. Pareto

This lesson explains the Elite Theory by Mosca and C W Wills.

Classical Elite Theory. Part 2

Pluralist Thesis of Power

This lesson explains the concept of Bureaucracy according to Weber.

Bureaucracy

This lesson throws light on pressure groups, a very integral part of democracy.

Pressure Groups. Part 1

This lesson discusses the advantages and limitations of pressure groups.

Pressure Groups. Part 2

This lessons explains the different types of pressure groups.

Pressure Groups. Part 3

This lesson explains what is a political party and it's main objectives.

Political Parties

This lesson explains about the evolution and the development of political parties in India.

Political Parties in India

This lesson explains the concept of Nation and state.

Concept of Nation and state

This lesson explains the theory of state by Karl Marx.

Theory of state by Karl Marx

This lesson explains about the theory by Max Weber.

Theory of state by Max Weber

This lesson explains the theory of state by Emile Durkheim.

Theory of state by Emile Durkheim

This lesson explains the emergence of the concept state.

State

This lesson explains what is Citizenship.

Citizenship

This lesson explains the spirit of Nationalism.

Nationalism

This lesson explains about Democracy and the role of the citizen.

Democracy and Citizen

This lesson explains about the forms of Democracy.

Forms of Democracy

This lesson explains about the characteristics of liberal democracy.

Liberal Democracy

This lesson traces the history of Democracy.

Historical Perspective of Democracy

This lesson explains about civil society.

Civil Society

This lesson explains about the importance of Civil Society.

Civil Society. Part 2

This lesson explains the functions and characteristics of Civil Society.

Civil Society. Part 3

This lesson explains about the concept of Ideology.

Ideology

This lesson explains what is collective action.

Collective Action

This lesson explains about Protests and Agitations.

Protests and Agitations

This lesson explains the features of Social Movements.

Social Movements. Introduction

This lesson explains about the life cycle of Social Movements.

Life cycle of Social Movements

This lesson explains the theories of Social Movements.

Theories of Social Movements. Part 1

This lesson explains Structural Strain Theory.

Theories of Social Movements. Part 2

This lesson explains about the theories of Social Movements.

Theories of Social Movements. Part 3

This lesson explains David Aberle Types of Social Movements.

Types of Social Movements. Part 1

This lesson explains the types of Social  Movements.

Types of Social Movements. Part 2

This lesson explains about the different types of Movements.

Other types of Social Movements

This lesson talks about Old and New Social Movements.

Old and New Movements

This lesson explains the difference between Old and New Social Movements.

Difference between Old and New Social Movements

This lesson explains the old and new Social Movements in context to India.

Old and New Social Movements-India

Revolution

Question and Answers from previous years UPSC papers. Part 1

This lesson answers to a question from 2018 UPSC Paper.

Question and Answers from previous years papers. Part 2

MA in Applied Human Rights from Sheffield Hallam University, BA (Hons.) History from LSR, reader, dancer, love to teach, AIR 42 in 2018 UPSC

Nandini Maharaj

This course describes what a parliamentary democracy entails. It also compares parliamentary and presidential forms of government, and discusses India's parliamentary system.

Laxmikant Summary: The Parliamentary System (Chapter 12)

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Ashna Sisodia

In this course i will elaborately discussed an efficient strategy that students can follow in preparation of the optional paper of UPSC mains. This course will guide the student regarding Political Science and International Relation.

(Hindi) Political Science and International Relations Strategy for UPSC CSE 2019/2020

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Anuj Garg

This course will help you know the best practices to cover Indian Polity for UPSC pre + mains

(Hindi) Strategy to Complete Indian Polity for UPSC 2019, 2020

In this course Ashna will discuss in detail all the important current affairs for the time period May 2017 to May 2018 from the Environment section that can appear in the UPSC CSE 2018.

Environment Current Affairs (May 2017 - May 2018): Module 1

In this course, Ashna will cover the entire part V of the constitution except for the Parliament. This course discusses every minute detail of the chapters that are going to be covered. It starts with the President, its elections, term, impeachment and vacancy. It then goes on to cover the Powers of the president, pardoning power etc. The course then continues to cover the Vice President, Prime Minister, Council of Ministers, Supreme Court, Jurisdiction of Supreme Court, Comptroller and Auditor General and end with the discussion of Attorney General of India.  A must watch Course, as in just 4 hours, you will have understood the nuances of the most important topic in Indian polity. Tags: Indian Polity, UPSC Indian Polity, UPSC Preparation, IAS Indian Polity, UPSC Online study, IAS Online study, UPSC Syllabus, IAS Syllabus, President of India, Prime Minister of India, Supreme Court.

(Hindi) The Union - Part V of the Indian Constitution

In this course, Centre-State relations are dealt in detail. Various committees that have been formed to bring down the tensions between centre & states will be dealt in detail. This course starts from the basics of federal system. How it differentiate with other systems and it goes on to discuss the unique style of federal system in India. After watching this course, Students will have a clarity of the roles of centre & state in the legislative, administrative & financial fields. They will have a clarity of whose authority prevails in matter of law making, executive powers & powers of taxation. In the end, course shed some light on interstate relations & so far what has been done to resolve the conflict between various states as states cannot remain in isolation.

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Overview Lesson

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Society and Politics. Introduction

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Sociological theory of Power

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Sociological Theories of Power. Max Weber

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Sociological Theories of Power. Talcott Parsons

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Classical Elite Theory. Pareto

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Classical Elite Theory. Part 2

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Pluralist Thesis of Power

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Bureaucracy

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Pressure Groups. Part 1

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