Sociology Optional for UPSC Mains 2019

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Sociology Optional for UPSC Mains 2019

Vani Mehra

In this course, Vani Mehra will be taking Sociology Optional for UPSC CSE in detail. Sociology being a generalized topic, it helps in all the four papers of the General Studies. The course will be conducted in E... Read more

Ended on Apr 25

Feb 5 - Apr 25, 2019

82 lessons

12 quizzes

0 practices

0 questions by educators

Week 1

Feb 4 - 10

9 lessons • 1 quiz

Feb

5

Sociology - The Discipline:Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology

Lesson 1 • Feb 5 • 2h

Feb

5

Scope of the subject

Lesson 2 • Feb 5 • 1h 53m

Feb

6

Comparison with other social sciences; Sociology and common sense

Lesson 3 • Feb 6 • 2h 3m

Feb

7

Doubt Clearing Session

Lesson 4 • Feb 7 • 1h 55m

Feb

7

Sociology as Science

Lesson 5 • Feb 7 • 2h 1m

Feb

8

Major theoretical strands of research methodology

Lesson 6 • Feb 8 • 3h 49m

Feb

9

Positivism and its critique; Fact value and objectivity,Non - positivist methodologies

Lesson 7 • Feb 9 • 3h 55m

Feb

9

Doubt Clearing Session

Lesson 8 • Feb 9 • 1h 55m

Weekly Quiz

Quiz 9 • Missed • Feb 9

Feb

10

Research Methods and Analysis,Techniques of data collection

Lesson 10 • Feb 10 • 1h 58m

Week 2

Feb 11 - 17

10 lessons • 1 quiz

Feb

11

Sociological Thinkers:Karl Marx

Lesson 11 • Feb 11 • 1h 56m

Feb

11

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

Lesson 12 • Feb 11 • 1h 55m

Feb

12

Doubt Clearing Session

Lesson 13 • Feb 12 • 1h 54m

Feb

13

Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables

Lesson 14 • Feb 13 • 1h 58m

Feb

14

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

Lesson 15 • Feb 14 • 1h 54m

Feb

15

Doubt Clearing Session

Lesson 16 • Feb 15 • 1h 58m

Feb

15

Mead - Self and identity

Lesson 17 • Feb 15 • 1h 53m

Feb

16

Max Weber-Social action, Ideal Types, Authority, Bureaucracy, protestant ethic and Capitalism

Lesson 18 • Feb 16 • 1h 56m

Weekly Quiz

Quiz 19 • Missed • Feb 16

Feb

17

Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory

Lesson 20 • Feb 17 • 1h 55m

Feb

17

Doubt Clearing Session

Lesson 21 • Feb 17 • 1h 53m

Week 3

Feb 18 - 24

8 lessons • 1 quiz

Feb

18

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

Lesson 22 • Feb 18 • 3h 57m

Feb

18

Stratification and Mobility:Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion and poverty.

Lesson 23 • Feb 18 • 1h 54m

Feb

19

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

Lesson 24 • Feb 19 • 1h 58m

Feb

20

Works and Economic Life

Lesson 25 • Feb 20 • 1h 31m

Feb

21

Doubt Clearing Session

Lesson 26 • Feb 21 • 1h 57m

Feb

22

Labour and society

Lesson 27 • Feb 22 • 1h 56m

Feb

23

Politics and Society

Lesson 28 • Feb 23 • 1h 59m