Mizoram Public Service Commission Syllabus for Mains 2021

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The Mizoram Public Service Commission is the State Public Service Commission is provided under Article 315 of the Constituion of India to have a Public Service Commission to be consulted by the State Government on the matters of appointment to Civil Services and posts under the Government of Mizoram. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for Mizoram Civil Services Main Exam.

Mizoram Civil Services Examination Syllabus

Optional Paper - Sociology

PAPER – I

(Fundamentals Of Sociology )

PART A

1. SOCIOLOGY - THE DISCIPLINE:

• Social conditions in Europe for the emergence of Sociology
• Nature and subject matter of Sociology
• Scope and theoretical perspectives of Sociology
• Relations with other social science

2. SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS:

• Culture: elements, Transmission, Diffusion, Cultural lag
• Socialization : Stages, agencies
• Social Control: Functions, types, agencies
• Social Grolups: Primary, Secondary, Reference Groups

3. MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND KINSHIP:

• Marriage, types of marriage, functions of marriage
• Family, types of family, functions of family, changing family structure
• Kinship, types of kinship, rules of descent, lineage

4. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY:

• Social stratification, features, determinants
• Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation
• Theories of social stratification, Functionalist Theory, Marxist Theory, Weberian Theory
• Social mobility, open and closed systems, types of mobility,
• Factors and barriers of social mobility.

PART B

1. SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHTS:

• Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, religion and society
• Karl Marx- Historical materialism, alienation, class struggle
• Max Weber-Ideal types, social action, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
• Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
• Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, reference groups

2. RESEARCH METHODS:

• Research design
• Types of research
• Variables, hypothesis, sampling
• Elements and steps of scientific research
• Techniques of data collection
• Problem of objectivity and value neutrality

3. ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS:

• Politics: Nation, state, democracy, civil societySociological theories of power
• Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
• Economies: Features of primitive economy, work and occupation in society
• Organization of work in industrial/capitalist society
• Religioin: Types of religious practices - animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
• Religion and science, contemporary trends in religion

4. SOCIAL CHANGE :

(a) Social change, nature and characteristics, development, progress

(b) Theories of social change, Evolutionary, Functional, Conflict, Cyclical

(c) Factors of social change: Education, Science and technology, Social legislation

(d) Resistance to social change.

PAPER - II

(Indian Society: Structure And Change)

PART B

1. PERSPECTIVES ON INDIAN SOCIETY:

• Indology : GS. Ghurye’s perspectives on the study of Indian society
• Marxist Sociology : A R Desai’s view on the relevance of Marxist Sociology in India
• Social background of Indian nationalism.
• Modernization of Indian tradition.
• (c) Social reforms

2. RURAL AND AGRARIAN SECTORS:

• The idea of Indian village and village studies
• Land tenure system before independence
• Land reforms after independence
• Develpment planning and mixed economy
• Green Revolution
• Programmes for rual development
• Community Development Programme
• Recent schemes for poverty alleviation

3. TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN INDIA:

• Definitional Problems
• Features
• Geographical distribution
• Colonial politics and tribes
• Issues of integration and autonomy
• Tribal Welfare Programmes and Constitutional Safeguards

4. CASTE AND CLASSES IN INDIA

• Features of Caste System
• Untouchability - forms and perspectives
• Chases in the Caste System
• Agrarian class structure
• Industrial class structurfe
• Middle classes in India

PART B

1. POPULATION DYNAMICS AND URBANIZATION

• Population size, growth, composition and distribution, literacy, density, longevity.
• Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
• Population policy and family planning.
• Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
• Urbanization, factors of unranization, rural-urban contunuum and contrast

2. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN MODERN INDIA

• Characteristics and types of social movements
• Peasant movements
• Women movements
• Backward classes meovements
• Ethnic movementes

3. RELIGION AND SOCIETY

• Religious communities in India
• Problems of religious minorities
• Communalism
• Secularism

4. CHALLENGES TO INDIAN SOCIETY

• Caste conflicts
• Violence against women
• Poverty
• Illiteracy
• Bonded labour
• Regionalism
• Corruption
• Child labour

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