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Date Day General Studies ( 3 Hours ) + PYQs Practicing (30 mins)

1 July Monday Understanding the Syllabus + Watching Toppers Talks
2 July Tuesday Resource collection - Primary and Reference Material
3 July Wednesday Resource collection - Primary and Reference Material
4 July Thursday Textbook for Class-XI (Introducing Sociology)
5 July Friday Textbook for Class-XI (Understanding Society)
6 July Saturday Textbook for Class-XII (Indian Society)
7 July Sunday Break
8 July Monday Textbook for Class-XII (Indian Society)
9 July Tuesday Textbook for Class-XII (Indian Society)
10 July Wednesday Textbook for Class-XII (Social Change and Development In India)
11 July Thursday Textbook for Class-XII (Social Change and Development In India)
12 July Friday Textbook for Class-XII (Social Change and Development In India)
Sociology - The Discipline:
13 July Saturday (a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of Sociology.
14 July Sunday Break
15 July Monday (b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
16 July Tuesday (c) Sociology and common sense.
Sociology as Science:
17 July Wednesday (a) Science, scientific method, and critique.
18 July Thursday (b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
19 July Friday (b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
20 July Saturday (c) Positivism and its critique.
21 July Sunday Break
22 July Monday (d) Fact value and objectivity.
23 July Tuesday (e) Non-positivist methodologies.
Research Methods and Analysis:
24 July Wednesday (a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
25 July Thursday (b) Techniques of data collection.
26 July Friday (c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability, and validity.
Sociological Thinkers:
27 July Saturday (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
28 July Sunday Break
29 July Monday (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
30 July Tuesday (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
31 July Wednesday (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
1 August Thursday (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
2 August Friday (b) Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
3 August Saturday (b) Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
4 August Sunday Break
5 August Monday (b) Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
6 August Tuesday (b) Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
(c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the
7 August Wednesday spirit of capitalism.
(c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the
8 August Thursday spirit of capitalism.
(c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the
9 August Friday spirit of capitalism.
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(c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the
10 August Saturday spirit of capitalism.
11 August Sunday Break
12 August Monday (d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
13 August Tuesday (d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
14 August Wednesday (d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference
15 August Thursday groups.
(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference
16 August Friday groups.
(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference
17 August Saturday groups.
18 August Sunday Break
19 August Monday (f) Mead - Self and identity.
20 August Tuesday (f) Mead - Self and identity.
Stratification and Mobility:
21 August Wednesday (a) Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty, and deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification - Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian
22 August Thursday theory.
23 August Friday (c) Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
(d) Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of
24 August Saturday mobility.
25 August Sunday Break
Works and Economic Life:
(a) Social organization of work in different types of society - slave society, feudal society,
26 August Monday industrial capitalist society.
(b) Formal and informal organization of work.
27 August Tuesday (c) Labour and society.
Politics and Society:
28 August Wednesday (a) Sociological theories of power.
29 August Thursday (b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties.
30 August Friday (c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology
31 August Saturday (d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
1 September Sunday Break
2 September Monday (d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
Religion and Society:
3 September Tuesday (a) Sociological theories of religion.
4 September Wednesday (b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
(c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism,
5 September Thursday fundamentalism.
Systems of Kinship:
6 September Friday (a) Family, household, marriage.
(b) Types and forms of family.
7 September Saturday (c) Lineage and descent.
8 September Sunday Break
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
9 September Monday (e) Contemporary trends.
Social Change in Modern Society:
10 September Tuesday (a) Sociological theories of social change.
11 September Wednesday (b) Development and dependency.
12 September Thursday (c) Agents of social change.
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13 September Friday (d) Education and social change.

14 September Saturday (e) Science, technology, and social change.
15 September Sunday Buffer Day
16 September Monday Buffer Day
17 September Tuesday Buffer Day
18 September Wednesday Buffer Day
19 September Thursday Buffer Day
20 September Friday Buffer Day
21 September Saturday Buffer Day
22 September Sunday Break
Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society:
23 September Monday (a) Indology (G.S. Ghure).
24 September Tuesday (b) Structural functionalism (M. N. Srinivas).
25 September Wednesday (c) Marxist sociology (A. R. Desai).
Impact of colonial rule on Indian society:
26 September Thursday (a) Social background of Indian nationalism.
27 September Friday (b) Modernization of Indian tradition.
28 September Saturday (c) Protests and movements during the colonial period.
29 September Sunday Break
30 September Monday (d) Social reforms.
Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
1 October Tuesday (a) The idea of Indian village and village studies
2 October Wednesday (b) Agrarian social structure— evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
Caste System:
(a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont,
3 October Thursday Andre Beteille.
(a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont,
4 October Friday Andre Beteille.
(a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont,
5 October Saturday Andre Beteille.
6 October Sunday Break
7 October Monday (b) Features of caste system.
8 October Tuesday (c) Untouchability-forms and perspectives
Tribal Communities in India:
(a) Definitional problems.
9 October Wednesday (b) Geographical spread.
10 October Thursday (c) Colonial policies and tribes.
11 October Friday (d) Issues of integration and autonomy.
12 October Saturday Buffer Day
13 October Sunday Break
14 October Monday (c) Colonial policies and tribes.
15 October Tuesday (d) Issues of integration and autonomy.
Social Classes in India:
16 October Wednesday (a) Agrarian class structure.
17 October Thursday (b) Industrial class structure.
18 October Friday (c) Middle classes in India.
Systems of Kinship in India:
19 October Saturday (a) Lineage and descent in India.
20 October Sunday Break
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(b) Types of kinship systems.

21 October Monday (c) Family and marriage in India
(d) Household dimensions of the family.
22 October Tuesday (e) Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.
Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India:
(a) Programmes of rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives,
23 October Wednesday poverty alleviation schemes.
(b) Green revolution and social change.
24 October Thursday (c) Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture.
25 October Friday (d) Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration.
Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
26 October Saturday (a) Evolution of modern industry in India.
27 October Sunday Break
28 October Monday (b) Growth of urban settlements in India.
29 October Tuesday (c) Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.
30 October Wednesday (d) Informal sector, child labour.
31 October Thursday (e) Slums and deprivation in urban areas.
Politics and Society:
1 November Friday (a) Nation, democracy and citizenship.
2 November Saturday (b) Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.
3 November Sunday Break
(c) Regionalism and decentralization of power.
4 November Monday (d) Secularization.
Social Movements in Modern India:
(a) Peasants and farmers' movements.
5 November Tuesday (b) Women’s movement.
(c) Backward classes & Dalit movements.
6 November Wednesday (d) Environmental movements.
24 October Thursday (e) Ethnicity and Identity movements.
Population Dynamics:
25 October Friday Population size, growth, composition and distribution.
26 October Saturday Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
27 October Sunday Break
28 October Monday Population Policy and family planning.
29 October Tuesday Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
Challenges of Social Transformation:
30 October Wednesday (a) Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.
(b) Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.
31 October Thursday (c) Violence against women.
(d) Caste conflicts.
1 November Friday (e) Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
2 November Saturday (f) Illiteracy and disparities in education.
3 November Sunday Break
4 November Monday Buffer week
5 November Tuesday Buffer week
6 November Wednesday Buffer week
7 November Thursday Buffer week
8 November Friday Buffer week
9 November Saturday Buffer week
10 November Sunday Break