Enhance your preparation for UPSC Sociology Optional Mains 2024 with Sociology Optional Daily Answer Writing (DAW). If you're aiming for a score of 300+ marks in sociology optional or securing a Top rank in UPSC 2024, then AspireIAS DAW module is what you need to give you a competitive edge over others. This module offers a structured and supportive learning environment, ensuring full coverage of the entire syllabus and timely completion in a crash course style, through answer writing practice.

You will receive questions three days a week, along with in-depth discussions and mentorship directly from our experienced mentor, Jannardhan Sir, every Saturday. In addition to syllabus coverage and mentorship, we also provide guidance on essential reference books, topics, and strategies to enhance your preparation through the use of flowcharts and keywords.

Expert Guidance in Sociology answer writing will not only ensure a better score in sociology optional but also help aspirants in GS paper 1 and provide insightful content for Essay in UPSC.

Learn the sociology answer writing with a teacher who has 9 years of experience in Sociology teaching and has helped many aspirants to score 300+ in sociology.

Key Features of Sociology Optional Daily Answer Writing (DAW)

Course commences on July first week

• Schedule
  • Test conducted 3 days a week
• Question Paper
  • Includes the Most Probable questions of UPSC
  • Comprises of 8 questions
    • 3 questions of 10 marks each
    • 3 questions of 15 marks each
    • 2 questions of 20 marks each
• Discussion Session
  • Every Saturday
  • By Jannardhan Sir
  • Timing – 12pm -5pm ( may vary as per availability of Sir)
• Student Intake
  • Maximum of 20 students
  • First cum First serve basis

• Fee

  ₹ 7,999/- (+GST)

  Class Mode

  Online and Recorded

  Validity

  3 months

Schedule For Sociology Optional Daily Answer Writing

The first two weeks of july will cover the following topics

Paper - 1

Section - A

Fundamentals of Sociology

• Sociology - The Discipline
  1. Modernity and social changes in Europe and the emergence of Sociology
  2. Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
  3. Sociology and common sense.
• Sociology as Science
  1. Science, scientific method, and critique.
  2. Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
  3. Positivism and its critique.
  4. Fact value and objectivity.
  5. Non-positivist methodologies.
• Research Methods and Analysis
  1. Qualitative and quantitative methods.
  2. Techniques of data collection.
  3. Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability, and validity.
• Sociological Thinkers
  1. Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
  2. Emile Durkheim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion, and society.
  3. Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethics, and the spirit of capitalism.
  4. Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
  5. Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
  6. Mead - Self and identity.
• Stratification and Mobility
  1. Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty, and deprivation.
  2. Theories of social stratification - Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
  3. Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity, and race.
  4. Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources, and causes of mobility.

Last two weeks of july the last two weeks of july will cover the following topics

PAPER - 1

Section - B

• Works and Economic Life
  1. Social organisation of work in different types of society - slave society, feudal society, industrial capitalist society.
  2. Formal and informal organisation of work.
  3. Labour and society.
• Politics and Society
  1. Sociological theories of power.
  2. Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
  3. Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
  4. Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
• Religion and Society
  1. Sociological theories of religion.
  2. Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
  3. Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularisation, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.
• Systems of Kinship
  1. Family, household, and marriage.
  2. Types and forms of family.
  3. Lineage and descent.
  4. Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
  5. Contemporary trends.
• Social Change in Modern Society
  1. Sociological theories of social change.
  2. Development and dependency.
  3. Agents of social change.
  4. Education and social change.
  5. Science, technology, and social change.

The first two weeks of august will cover

Paper - 2, Section - A

Indian Sociaty: Structure and Chance

Introducing Indian Society

• (i) Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society
  1. Indology (G.S. Ghure).
  2. Structural functionalism (M. N. Srinivas).
  3. Marxist sociology (A. R. Desai).
• (ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society
  1. Social background of Indian nationalism.
  2. Modernization of Indian tradition.
  3. Protests and movements during the colonial period.
  4. Social reforms.

Social Structure

• (i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
  1. The idea of Indian village and village studies.
  2. Agrarian social structure—evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
• (ii) Caste System
  1. Perspectives on the study of caste systems: G. S. Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
  2. Features of caste system.
  3. Untouchability- forms and perspectives
• (iii) Tribal Communities in India
  1. Definitional problems.
  2. Geographical spread.
  3. Colonial policies and tribes.
  4. Issues of integration and autonomy.
• (iv) Social Classes in India
  1. Agrarian class structure.
  2. Industrial class structure.
  3. Middle classes in India.
• (v) Systems of Kinship in India
  1. Lineage and descent in India.
  2. Types of kinship systems.
  3. Family and marriage in India.
  4. Household dimensions of the family.
  5. Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.
• (vi) Religion and Society
  1. Religious communities in India.
  2. Problems of religious minorities.

The Last two weeks of august will cover

PAPER - 2, SECTION - B

Social Changes in India

• (i) Visions of Social Change in India
  1. Idea of development planning and mixed economy.
  2. Constitution, law and social change.
  3. Education and social change.
• (ii) Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India
  1. Programmes of rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty alleviation schemes.
  2. Green revolution and social change.
  3. Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture.
  4. Problems of rural labour, bondage, and migration.
• (iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
  1. Evolution of modern industry in India
  2. Growth of urban settlements in India.
  3. Working class: structure, growth, class mobilisation.
  4. Informal sector, child labour.
  5. Slums and deprivation in urban areas.
• (iv) Politics and Society
  1. Nation, democracy, and citizenship.
  2. Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.
  3. Regionalism and decentralisation of power.
  4. Secularization.
• (v) Social Movements in Modern India
  1. Peasants and farmers' movements
  2. Women’s movement.
  3. Backward classes & Dalit movements.
  4. Environmental movements.
  5. Ethnicity and Identity movements.
• (vi) Population Dynamics
  1. Population size, growth, composition, and distribution.
  2. Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
  3. Population Policy and family planning.
  4. Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
• (vii) Challenges of Social Transformation
  1. Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems, and sustainability.
  2. Poverty, deprivation, and inequalities.
  3. Violence against women.
  4. Caste conflicts.
  5. Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
  6. Illiteracy and disparities in education.

Course Duration

The course duration is for 2 months (JULY and AUGUST) but if the syllabus remains, then the course may be extended till September.

Mode of the class

The mode of class is online. Live classes will be conducted. Class timing and class online joining links will be provided to the students via digital media platforms. Recording of the class is available for 24 hours for both online mode ( those who attend live online classes ) and recorded classes mode ( those who have purchased recorded classes and choose not to attend live classes). After 24 hours the recording of the classes will get locked automatically.

Why Choose Sociology Optional DAW for UPSC Mains 2024?

The DAW module provides numerous benefits:

• Focused Preparation: The DAW module carries carefully and systematically crafted questions that assure detailed discussion through answer writing and full coverage of the syllabus along with writing practice.
• Expert Guidance: Direct guidance from our expert Jannardhan Sir, who has 9 years of UPSC sociology teaching experience.
• Detailed Coverage: Ensures full coverage of important topics along with guidance on reference books and how to write answers for the contemporary and analytic questions of sociology in UPSC.
• Edge Over Others: With DAW answer writing practice not only aspirants can practice probable UPSC sociology optional questions but will even get a model answer within the class, along with a detailed discussion on the topic under expert guidance. Through consistent revision and proper attention in class, this approach can ensure 300+ marks in the optional subject, significantly improving the chances of securing or improving a rank in the top 100 in the UPSC exams.

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