Paper I : Teaching/ research aptitude
Unit-I Teaching Aptitude
1. Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.
2. Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.
3. Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.
4. Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
5. Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.
6. Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.
Unit-II Research Aptitude
1. Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Postpositivistic approach to research.
2. Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.
3. Steps of Research.
4. Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
5. Application of ICT in research.
6. Research ethics.
Unit-III Comprehension
A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.
Unit-IV Communication
1. Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.
2. Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.
3. Barriers to effective communication.
4. Mass-Media and Society.
Unit-V Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
1. Types of reasoning.
2. Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.
3. Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).
Unit-VI Logical Reasoning
1. Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.
2. Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.
3. Analogies.
4. Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.
5. Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.
6. Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).
7. Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).
Unit-VII Data Interpretation
1. Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.
2. Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
3. Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.
4. Data Interpretation.
5. Data and Governance.
Unit-VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
1. ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
2. Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.
3. Digital initiatives in higher education.
4. ICT and Governance.
Unit-IX People, Development and Environment
1. Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.
2. Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.
3. Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.
4. Impacts of pollutants on human health.
5. Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.
6. Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.
7. Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.
Unit-X Higher Education System
1. Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.
2. Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India.
3. Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India.
4. Professional, Technical and Skill Based education.
5. Value education and environmental education.
6. Policies, Governance, and Administration.
Paper II : Domain knowledge - Sociology (Samajsastra)
Unit -1: Sociological Theory
1. Classical Sociological Traditions
2. Emile Durkheim
3. Max Weber
4. Karl Marx
5. Structure- Functionalism and Structuralism
6. Bronislaw Malinowski
7. R. Radcliffe- Brown
8. Talcott Parsons
9. Talcott Parsons
10. Claude Levi Strauss
11. Hermeneutic and Interpretative Traditions
12. H. Mead
13. Karl Manheim
14. Alfred Schutz
15. Harold Garfinkel
16. Erving Goffman
17. Clifford Geertz
18. Post Modernism, Post Structuralism and Post Colonialism
19. Edward Said
20. Pierre Bourdieu
21. Michel Foucault
22. Jurgen Habermas
23. Anthony Giddens
24. Manuel Castells
25. Indian Thinkers
26. K. Gandhi
27. R. Ambedkar
28. Radha Kamal Mukherjee
29. S. Ghurye
30. N. Srinivas
31. Irawati Karve
Unit – 2: Research Methodology and Methods
1. Conceptualizing Social Reality
2. Philosophy of Science
3. Scientific Method and Epistemology in Social Science
4. Hermeneutic Traditions
5. Objectivity and Reflexivity in Social Science
6. Ethics and Politics
7. Formulating Research Design
8. Reading Social Science Research, Data and Documents
9. Induction and Deduction
10. Fact, Concept and Theory
11. Hypotheses, Research Questions, Objectives
12. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
13. Ethnography
14. Survey Method
15. Historical Method
16. Comparative Method
17. Techniques
18. Sampling
19. Questionnaire and Schedule
20. Statistical Analysis
21. Observation, Interview and Case study
22. Interpretation, Data Analysis and Report Writing
Unit -3: Basic Concepts and Institutions
1. Sociological Concepts
2. Social Structure
3. Culture
4. Network
5. Status and Role
6. Identity
7. Community
8. Diaspora
9. Values, Norms and Rules
10. Personhood, Habitus and Agency
11. Bureaucracy, Power and Authority
12. Social Institutions
13. Marriage, Family and Kinship
14. Economy
15. Polity
16. Religion
17. Education
18. Law and Customs
19. Social Stratification
20. Social Difference, Hierarchy, Inequality and Marginalization
21. Caste and Class
22. Gender, Sexuality and Disability
23. Race, Tribe and Ethnicity
24. Social Change and Processes
25. Evolution and Diffusion
26. Modernization and Development
27. Social Transformations and Globalization
28. Social Mobility
Unit – 4: Rural and Urban Transformations
1. Rural and Peasant Society
2. Caste-Tribe Settlements
3. Agrarian Social Structure and Emergent Class Relations
4. Land Ownership and Agrarian Relations
5. Decline of Agrarian Economy, De-Peasantization and Migration
6. Agrarian Unrest and Peasant Movements
7. Changing Inter-Community Relations and Violence
8. Urban Society
9. Urbanism, Urbanity and Urbanization
10. Towns, Cities and Mega-Cities
11. Industry, Service and Business
12. Neighbourhood, Slums and Ethnic Enclaves
13. Middle Class and Gated Communities
14. Urban Movements and Violence
Unit – 5: State, Politics and Development
1. Political Processes in India
2. Tribe, Nation State and Border
3. Bureaucracy
4. Governance and Development
5. Public Policy: Health, Education and Livelihoods
6. Political Culture
7. Grass-root Democracy
8. Law and Society
9. Gender and Development
10. Corruption
11. Role of International Development Organizations
12. Social Movements and Protests
13. Political Factions, Pressure Groups
14. Movements based on Caste, Ethnicity, Ideology, Gender, Disability, Religion and Region
15. Civil Society and Citizenship
16. NGOs, Activism and Leadership
17. Reservations and Politics
Unit – 6: Economy and Society
1. Exchange, Gift , Capital, Labour and Market
2. Mode of Production Debates
3. Property and Property Relations
4. State and Market: Welfarism and Neoliberalism
5. Models of Economic Development
6. Poverty and Exclusion
7. Factory and Industry Systems
8. Changing Nature of Labour Relations
9. Gender and Labour Process
10. Business and Family
11. Digital Economy, E-Commerce
12. Global Business and Corporates
13. Tourism
14. Consumption
Unit – 7: Environment and Society
1. Social and Cultural Ecology: Diverse Forms
2. Technological Change, Agriculture and Biodiversity
3. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Ethno-Medicine
4. Gender and Environment
5. Forest Policies, Adivasis and Exclusion
6. Ecological Degradation and Migration
7. Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation
8. Water and Social Exclusion
9. Disasters and Community Responses
10. Environmental Pollution, Public Health and Disability
11. Climate Change and International Policies
12. Environmental Movements
Unit – 8: Family, Marriage and Kinship
1. Theoretical Approaches: Structure-Functionalist, Alliance and Cultural
2. Gender Relations and Power Dynamics
3. Inheritance, Succession and Authority
4. Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction
5. Children, Youth and Elderly
6. Emotions and Family
7. Emergent Forms of Family
8. Changing Marriage Practices
9. Changing Care and Support Systems
10. Family Laws
11. Domestic Violence and Crime against Women
12. Honour Killing
Unit – 9: Science, Technology and Society
1. History of Technological Development
2. Changing notions of Time and Space
3. Flows and Boundaries
4. Virtual Community
5. Media: Print and Electronic, Visual and Social Media
6. E-Governance and Surveillance Society
7. Technology and Emerging Political Processes
8. State Policy, Digital Divide and Inclusion
9. Technology and Changing Family Relations
10. Technology and Changing Health Systems
11. Food and Technology
12. Cyber Crime
Unit – 10: Culture and Symbolic Transformations
1. Signs and Symbols
2. Rituals, Beliefs and Practices
3. Changing Material Culture
4. Moral Economy
5. Education: Formal and Informal
6. Religious Organizations, Piety and Spirituality
7. Commodification of Rituals
8. Communalism and Secularism
9. Cultural Identity and Mobilization
10. Culture and Politics
11. Gender, Body and Culture
12. Art and Aesthetics
13. Ethics and Morality
14. Sports and Culture
15. Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism
16. Religion and Economy
17. Culture and Environment
18. New Religious Movements
