UPHESC Assistant Professor Syllabus 2025 – Overview
| Organization |
Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Services Commission |
| Vacancy Name |
Assistant Professor |
| No of vacancy |
981 |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Location |
Uttar Pradesh |
| Official website |
www.uphesc.org |
UPHESC Assistant Professor Sociology Syllabus 2025
Part I:
General Knowledge :
Unit-1 : Current Affairs :
1. Major events & Current Affairs : National/International
2. Personalities in News
3. Sports News
4. Current Research in the field of Science.
Unit-2 : Teaching and Research Aptitude :
1. Teaching : Nature, Objectives, Need, Methods Evaluation and Factor Affecting Teaching
2. Research : Meaning and Methods
3. Data : Source, Collection and Analysis
4. Role of UGC in Qualitative Development in Higher Education.
Unit-3 : Information and Communication Technology (ICT) :
1. ICT : Meaning, Advantages and Disadvantages
2. Basics of Internet & E-mailing
3. General Abbreviation and Terminology.
Unit-4 : People and Environment :
1. People & Environment Interaction
2. Environmental Depredation : cause & Solution
3. National and International affairs for better Environment
4. Environmental Control.
Unit-5 : Indian History and Geography :
1. Salient Features of Indian Culture
2. Indian National Movement (1857-1950)
3. Origin of Universe and Solar System
4. Indian Geography (General).
Unit-6 : Indian Constitution and Economy :
1. Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
2. Indian political system : Legislative Executive and Judiciary
3. Election Commission and Public Service Commission
4. Population, Poverty, Unemployment; Planning and Development; Income Tax
5. Agriculture, Industry, Trade; Money, Currency, Banking and Capital Market.
Part II-Optional Subject :-
Sociology :
Unit-1 : Basic Sociological Concepts and Institutions :
1. Sociology- Definition, Nature and Scope
2. Sociological Concepts, Sociological Perspective
3. Basic Concepts-Community, Institution, Association, Culture, Custom, Norms and Values
4. Social Structure: Meaning of Social Structure; Status and role
5. Social Group: Primary & Secondary, Formal – Informal, Ingroup – Outgroup, Reference group
6. Social Institutions : Marriage, Family, Kinship, Economy Polity, Religion, Education
7. Social Stratification : Social differentiation, Hierarchy and Inequality, Exclusion
8. Forms of stratification : Caste, Class, Gender and Ethnicity
9. Theories of social stratification
10. Social mobility : Meaning and types
11. Socialization-Meaning, agencies and theories
12. Social change and its types
13. Evolution, Diffusion, Progress, Revolution, Transformation
14. Theories of Social change
15. Social reform and Social movement
Unit-2 : Sociological Theories and Perspectives :
1. Structural functional : Radcliffe Brown; Levi – Strauss; S.F. Nadel.; Malinowski, Durkheim, Parsons, Merton; J. Alexander
2. Interactionist : Social action : Max Weber, Pareto
3. Symbolic Interactionism : G. H. Mead, Blumer
4. Conflict – Karl Marx, Dahrendorf, Coser, Collins, Althusser.
5. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology : Alfred Shultz, Peter Berger and Luckmann; Garfinkel and Goffman
6. Structuration, Post – Modernism; Post Structuralism & Post-Colonialism; Bourdieu, Haberamas, Giddens, Derrida, Foucault
Unit-3: Research Methodology, Methods and techniques :
1. Meaning and Nature of Social Research
2. The scientific method
3. Objectivity and subjectivity, Theory, fact and value
4. Critique of positivism
5. Ethical values in research
6. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
7. Historical method, Comparative method, Hermenautic method, Survey, Research Design, Hypothesis
8. Sampling and its types
9. Techniques of data collection : Observation, Questionnaire, Schedule, Interview Qualitative Methods : Observation; Case study; Content analysis
10. Statistics in Social Research – Mean, Median and Mode
Unit- 4: Sociology of Development :
1. Theories of Development : Human development, Social development
2. Sustainable development : Ecological and Social
3. Modernization
4. Science, Technology and Society
5. Globalization
6. Issues related to Development
7. Regional disparity
8. Displacement
9. Ecological degradation and environmental pollution
10. ICT and Network Society
Unit-5: Urban and Industrial Society :
1. Urban- Industrial Society in the Classical Sociological Tradition
2. Urbanization & urban problems
3. Division of labour
4. Bureaucracy
5. Alienation
6. Industrialization and Social Change in India
7. Impact of industrialization on society
8. Class and class conflict in industrial society
9. Limitations of industrialization and urbanization
Unit-6: Tribal and Rural Society :
1. Meaning of Tribe, Tribe and Development, Tribal Studies
2. Approaches to the study of Rural Society
3. Rural – Urban differences
4. Peasant and village studies
5. Agrarian Institutions
6. Caste and Jajmani system
7. Agrarian class structure
8. Land ownership and its types
9. Panchayati Raj System
10. Agrarian unrest, Peasant movements and formers movement
Unit-7: Crime, Population and Gender Issues :
1. Meaning and Theories of Crime and Punishment
2. Crime and delinquency
3. Deviance and its forms
4. White collar crime, Corruption, Nepotism, Terrorism, Cyber crime, Probation, Parole and Justice
5. Concepts of Fertility, Mortality, Morbidity and Migration
6. Theories of Population Growth
7. Gender as a Social Construct, Patriarchy and Matriarchy, Theories of Gender; Gender and Development; Women and Development
Unit-8: Environment and Society :
Social ecology, Indigenous knowledge, gender and environment, development induced
displacement & rehabilitation; ecological degradation and environmental pollution
Environmental movements
Unit-9: Indian Sociological Perspectives :
1. Conceptualizing Indian Society
2. Cultural diversity : Regional, linguistic, religious and tribal
3. Indological / Textual Perspective : G. S. Ghurye, Louis Dumont
4. Structural – Functional Perspective : M.N. Srinivas, S. C. Dube
5. Marxian Perspective : D. P. Mukherjee, A. R. Desai
6. Subaltern : B.R. Ambedkar; D. Hardiman
7. Sociology in India and Sociology for India and Indigenization of Sociology
Unit-10: Contemporary debates in Sociology :
1. Debates on Tradition and Modernity in India
2. Issues of Nation Building : Fundamentalism, Secularism
3. Pluralism and Nation building; Democracy, Citizenship and Civil Society
4. Ethnicity and Identity
5. Challenges of LPG
6. Contemporary movements in India
UPHESC Assistant Professor (Sociology) Exam Pattern 2025
Duration : 120 Minutes
| S.No |
Subject |
No.of Question |
Marks |
| 1. |
General Knowledge |
30 |
60 |
| 2. |
Optional Subject (Sociology) |
70 |
140 |
|
Total |
100 |
200 |
