Description
UGC NET Sociology, now in its fourth edition, is a comprehensive resource for aspiring Sociology teacher-scholars. The book is designed as per the latest UGC NET Sociology syllabus and provides thorough coverage of all topics.
KEY FEATURES
- Updated with January 2026 and June 2025 papers
- Previous Years’ Questions tagged unit-wise
- Exam-relevant practice questions for extensive preparation
- Access to eLibrary with previous years’ papers and mock tests
UNIT-WISE COVERAGE
- Unit I: Sociological Theory
- Classical Sociological Traditions
- Structure–Functionalism and Structuralism
- Post Modernism, Post Structuralism and Post Colonialism
- Indian Thinkers
- Unit II: Research Methodology and Methods
- Conceptualizing Social Reality
- Formulating Research Design
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
- Techniques
- Unit III: Basic Concepts and Institutions
- Sociological Concepts
- Social Institutions
- Unit IV: Rural and Urban Transformations
- Rural and Peasant Society
- Urban Society
- Unit V: State, Politics and Development
- Political Processes in India
- Unit VI: Economy and Society
- Relationship between Economy and Society
- Unit VII: Environment and Society
- Culture, Society and Environment
- Unit VIII: Family, Marriage and Kinship
- Evolution of Family, Marriage and Kinship
- Unit IX: Science, Technology and Society
- Evolution of Society with Science and Technology
- Unit X: Culture and Symbolic Transformation
- Signs and Symbols, Rituals, Beliefs and Practices
- Changing Material Culture and Moral Economy
- Education – Formal and Informal, Religious Organizations
- Piety and Spirituality, Commodification of Rituals
- Communalism and Secularism
- Art and Aesthetics
- Ethics and Morality, Sports and Culture
- Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism, Religion and Economy
- Culture and Environment, New Religious Movements
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