Maharashtra HSC Sociology study plan

Define family, marriage, kinship, education, religion and economy and state one Indian example of each from your own observation

Distinguish the eight types of Hindu marriage (forms such as Brahma, Asura, Gandharva) and map each to a one-line example

Outline the agencies of social change (education, legislation, industrialisation, urbanisation, social movements) in a two-column table of 'agency' and 'Indian illustration'

Explain how the family has shifted from joint to nuclear in urban India and list three consequences you can defend

Describe the functions and dysfunctions of religion and education using sociological vocabulary (integration, socialisation, mobility, hidden curriculum)

Trace two government measures aimed at social change (for example anti-dowry law and reservation policy) and state the intended change and one criticism of each

Explain Sanskritisation, Westernisation and modernisation with a distinct Indian example for each

Answer two 4-mark questions on social institutions under timed conditions

Define social stratification, caste, class, gender and slavery and separate achieved from ascribed status with examples

Explain the caste system's features (hereditary, endogamy, hierarchy, purity-pollution) and contrast it with class

Summarise the sociological perspective of at least two thinkers (for example Comte, Durkheim, Marx, Weber) and what each contributed to the discipline

Identify three forms of gender inequality in Indian society and the concept that describes each

Define the basic concepts of status, role, norm, value, group, association and institution and show how each links to another

Distinguish primary from secondary groups and in-group from out-group with everyday examples

Explain the debate on caste in contemporary India: reservation, caste-based politics and urbanisation's effect on caste ties

Solve a set of 20 objective questions on basic concepts and stratification and log every error with its cause

Define culture, material and non-material culture, cultural lag, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism

Explain the agencies of socialisation (family, school, peer group, mass media) and the role each plays at different life stages

Describe the stages of socialisation and how re-socialisation occurs in adult life

Analyse how mass media and social media shape youth socialisation in India today

Classify major Indian social problems (poverty, unemployment, dowry, domestic violence, child labour, alcoholism, corruption) by cause and consequence

Explain the difference between a social problem and a personal trouble using two examples

Connect two current events from the past year (for example a welfare scheme, a court ruling or a protest) to a syllabus concept and state the link explicitly

Draft a 4-point answer structure for 'suggest measures to reduce a social problem' questions

Distinguish scientific from common-sense knowledge and list the steps of the scientific method in social research

Compare survey, observation, interview and case study as methods and state one strength and one limitation of each

Explain the difference between pure and applied sociology and give one applied example from Indian policy or NGO work

Design a short 8-question survey on a local social problem and note how you would avoid bias

Revise all nine domains through a self-made one-page summary sheet per domain

Attempt two full-length mock papers under exam timing and score them honestly against the board pattern

Re-teach the three weakest concepts aloud in under two minutes each without notes

Compile a final list of recurring mistakes and the exact correction for each