👥 CUET Sociology (Section II)

Chapters

1. Introducing Indian Society — Unlearning, Social Maps, Colonialism and Community
   Every other subject you have studied began from zero: nobody arrives at chemistry already knowing about chemical bonds. Sociology is different, because you have lived…
2. The Demographic Structure of Indian Society — Malthus, Transition and India's Population
   How many people live in a society, how fast their numbers change, and how they are divided by age, sex, place and literacy shape almost every other social question —…
3. Social Institutions: Continuity and Change — Caste, Tribe, Family and Kinship
   Institutions are the patterned, lasting arrangements through which a society organises marriage, work, inheritance and belonging. This chapter takes three of the most…
4. The Market as a Social Institution — Exchange, Caste, Capitalism and Consumption
   To an economist a market is a mechanism: buyers and sellers meet, prices adjust, and goods go to those who value them most. To a sociologist a market is also a social…
5. Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion — Caste, Tribe, Gender and Disability
   Some inequalities look natural — the result of individual talent or effort. Sociology asks why access to resources, respect and opportunity is distributed in patterned…
6. The Challenges of Cultural Diversity — Community, Nation, Region, Religion and the State
   India is one of the most culturally diverse societies in the world, with many languages, religions, sects, regions, castes and tribes. Diversity in this sense means…
7. Structural Change — Colonialism, Industrialisation and Urbanisation
   The second Class-12 book turns from the structure of Indian society to the forces that changed it. This first chapter deals with structural change — change in the basic…
8. Cultural Change — Reform Movements, Sanskritisation, Westernisation, Modernisation and Secularisation
   Structural change altered how Indians worked and where they lived; cultural change altered what they believed, valued and practised. This chapter follows the social…
9. The Story of Indian Democracy — the Constitution, Panchayati Raj and Democratic Politics
   India adopted universal adult franchise at independence, in a society deeply divided by caste, class, gender and religion and with low literacy — an experiment many…
10. Change and Development in Rural Society — Land, Labour, Reform and the Green Revolution
    For most of India's history, and for a large part of its population still, life has been organised around land and agriculture. Who owns land, who works it and on what…
11. Change and Development in Industrial Society — Work, Workers and the Organised Sector
    Industrialisation promised a new kind of society: factories, cities, wages, unions and the chance to escape the hierarchies of the village. This chapter asks what…
12. Social Movements — Theories, Types and the Movements That Shaped India
    Many of the rights Indians take for granted — the vote, the abolition of untouchability, protection for tenants and workers, laws against dowry — were won through social…

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