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Sociology Optional Crash Course & Test Series 2025
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Crack 2025 with Sociology answers that reflect 2025 thinking

Exclusive and unique static content updates, Current-Affairs Integration & Answer Structures: Every year, the question paper changes, the mindset of examiner changes, and so does our crash course. The focus areas, content, and strategies evolve with each passing year. E.g last year, we covered exclusive content on Beteille’s Agrarian class structure & Political elites in India which were not discussed in previous sessions. Every year , we do rigorous analysis and try to deliver the most expected areas for the given year.

Program Details

  • Start Date: 4th June 2025
  • Batch Timing: 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Validity: Till Mains 2025
  • Total 8 Tests: 6 Sectional + 2 Full Length Tests

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  • Test Discussion: Online/Live & Recorded
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Who Should Join?

This program is ideal for aspirants who:

  • Want a structured and exam-ready revision of Sociology Optional (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
  • Are preparing for UPSC Mains 2025 and need a performance-focused preparation plan
  • Seek regular answer writing practice with expert feedback
  • Require mentorship and personalised guidance to overcome learning gaps
  • Need support in integrating Paper 1 and 2 and adding contemporary relevance to their answers

Why Join This Program?

  • Focused and Timely Revision: Revise the complete syllabus across 22 classes scheduled before each test to maintain momentum.
  • Answer Writing Skill Development: Build clarity and precision through countdown sessions, writing drills, and continuous feedback.
  • Exam-Aligned Test Strategy: Prepare with 8 tests (5 thematic and 3 comprehensive) that simulate the UPSC environment and test application of concepts.
  • Integration and Current Affairs Support: Learn how to interlink themes across papers and effectively incorporate current social issues into your answers.
  • Most Probable Questions Practice: Work on faculty-identified questions based on PYQ trends and topical relevance.

Program Highlights

  • 22 crash course lectures from 4th June to 1st August, covering the full Sociology syllabus
  • Model answers and detailed test discussions after every paper
  • Countdown writing sessions to sharpen speed and structure
  • Exclusive classes on contemporary sociological issues
  • Concise summaries of important EPW articles
  • One-on-one mentoring and academic support
  • Timely evaluation with multi-layered feedback within 7 days

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  • Date of Commencement : 14th Oct 2024
  • Validity : 31st Dec 2024
  • Test and Mentorship: Online / Offline
  • Lectures and Test Discussions: Recorded (Online + 2 Views)
  • Sectional Test: 6 Tests
  • Full Length Test: 2 Tests
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  • Crash Course classes to help students revise the syllabus before each test.
  • Answer writing classes with countdown are included in the crash course to inculcate exam-centric writing style.
  • Time-bound and multi-level evaluation -within 7 days
  • Select Previous Year Questions are discussed in the crash course classes.
  • Techniques to write in crisp 250/130 words are discussed.
  • Most probable questions, based on Faculty’s PYQ analysis, will be discussed in the crash course class.
  • Skills to integrate Paper 1 with Paper 2 are inculcated.
  • Value Addition through current issues in the Test discussion.
  • End to end comprehensive Revision of the Mains Syllabus

Sociology Crash Course & Test Series Schedule 2025

Crash Course Class #1

4th June

PAPER-1

1. Sociology - The Discipline
a. Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology.
b. Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
c. Sociology and common sense.

2. Sociology as Science:
a. Science, scientific method and critique.
b. Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
c. Positivism and its critique.
d. Fact value and objectivity.
e. Non-positivist methodologies.

3. Research Methods and Analysis:
a. Qualitative and quantitative methods.
b. Techniques of data collection.
c. Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.

Crash course Class #2

5th June

Crash Course Class #3

6th June

 

 

Test #1

8th June

 

 

Test Discussion

10th June

 

 

Crash Course Class #4

18th June

4. Sociological Thinkers:
a. Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
b. Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
c. Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
d. Talcott Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
e. Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
f. Mead - Self and identity.

5. Stratification and Mobility:
a. Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
b. Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
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 mobility.

6. Works and Economic Life:
a. Social organization of work in different types of society- slave society, feudal society, industrial /capitalist society.
b. Formal and informal organization of work.
c. Labour and society.

Crash course Class #5

19th June

Crash Course Class #6

20th June

Crash Course Class #7

21st June

 

 

Test # 2

22nd June

 

 

Test Discussion

24th June

  

Crash Course Class #8

25th June

7. Politics and Society:
a. Sociological theories of power.
b. Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
c. Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
d. Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.

8. Religion and Society:
a. Sociological theories of religion.
b. Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
c. Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.

9. Systems of Kinship:
a. Family, household, marriage.
b. Types and forms of family.
c. Lineage and descent.
d. Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
e. Contemporary trends.

10. Social Change in Modern Society:
a. Sociological theories of social change.
b. Development and dependency.
c. Agents of social change.
d. Education and social change.
a. Science, technology and social change.

Crash Course Class #9

26th June

Crash Course Class #10

27th June

Crash

Course

Class # 11

28th June

 

 

Test #3

29th June

 

 

Test Discussion

1st July

 

 

Crash Course Class #12

9th July

PAPER- 2
A. Introducing Indian Society:
(i) Perspectives on the study of Indian society:
a. Indology (G.S. Ghurye).
b. Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas).
c. Marxist sociology (A R Desai).
(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society:
a. Social background of Indian nationalism.
b. Modernization of Indian tradition.
c. Protests and movements during the colonial period.
d. Social reforms.

B. Social Structure:

(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
a. The idea of Indian village and village studies.
b. Agrarian social structure - evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
(ii) Caste System:
a. Perspectives on the study of caste systems: GS Ghurye, M N Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
b. Features of caste system.
c. Untouchability - forms and perspectives.

Crash Course Class #13

10th July

Crash Course Class #14

11th July

Crash Course Class # 15

12th July

 

 

Test # 4

13th July

 

 

Test Discussion

14th July

 

 

Crash Course Class # 16

16th July

(iii) Tribal communities in India:
a. Definitional problems.
b. Geographical spread.
c. Colonial policies and tribes.
d. Issues of integration and autonomy.

(iv) Social Classes in India:
a. Agrarian class structure.
b. Industrial class structure.
c. Middle classes in India.
(v) Systems of Kinship in India:
a. Lineage and descent in India.
b. Types of kinship systems.
c. Family and marriage in India.
d. Household dimensions of the family.
(vi) Religion and Society:
a. Religious communities in India.
b. Problems of religious minorities.
c. Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour

C. Social Changes in India:

(i) Visions of Social Change in India:
a. Idea of development planning and mixed economy.
b. Constitution, law and social change.
c. Education and social change.
(ii) Rural and Agrarian transformation in India:
a. Programmes of rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty alleviation schemes.
b. Green revolution and social change.
c. Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture .
d. Problems of rural labour, bondage,migration.

Crash Course Class #17

17th July

Crash Course #18

18th July

 

 

Test # 5

20th July

 

 

Test Discussion

21st July

 

 

Crash Course Class #19

23rd July

(iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
a. Evolution of modern industry in India.
b. Growth of urban settlements in India.
c. Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.
d. Informal sector, child labour.
e. Slums and deprivation in urban areas.

(iv) Politics and Society:
a. Nation, democracy and citizenship.
b. Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.
c. Regionalism and decentralization of power.
d. Secularization

(v) Social Movements in Modern India:
a. Peasants and farmers movements.
b. Women's movement.
c. Backward classes & Dalit movement.
d. Environmental movements.
e. Ethnicity and Identity movements.
(vi) Population Dynamics:
a. Population size, growth, composition and distribution.
b. Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
c. Population policy and family planning.
d. Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation:
a. Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.
b. Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.
c. Violence against women.
d. Caste conflicts.
e. Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
f. Illiteracy and disparities in education.

Crash Course Class #20

24th July

Crash course Class # 21

25th July

 

 

Test #6

27th July

 

 

Test Discussion

28th July

 

 

Crash Course Class #22

1st August

Class on Important current affairs for sociology

Test # 7 &

Test # 8

3rd August

Comprehensive Test

Sociology Paper 1: 9 am to 12 pm

Sociology Paper 2: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

No Test Discussion

Only model answers shall be given

 

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