UPMSP Intermediate Sociology study plan

Distinguish varna, jati and caste in writing, listing at least eight points of contrast between scriptural classification and lived caste groups.

Classify tribal societies by descent and residence pattern, and note two features each of tribal family, marriage and kinship with one Indian example per feature.

Map eight forms of marriage - endogamy, exogamy, monogamy, polygamy, cross-cousin, levirate, sororate, hypergamy - onto a labelled chart with one Indian illustration each.

Compare patrilineal and matrilineal kinship systems and state three functions the family performs in rural and in urban settings.

Read the demographic profile - sex ratio, literacy rate, urban-rural distribution, age structure - and write two social implications of each indicator.

Differentiate caste, class, gender and ethnic inequality, giving one concrete Indian illustration for each axis.

Explain the economic, cultural and political dimensions of social exclusion and apply all three to the Dalit and Adivasi experience.

Trace the constitutional and legal safeguards - Article 17, Article 46, the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, reservation policy - and state precisely what each addresses.

Analyse one case of unequal access to schooling or health care using the exclusion framework, naming the mechanism that produces the gap.

Summarise how the zamindari, ryotwari and mahalwari revenue systems reshaped rural stratification and land ownership.

Outline the phases of Indian industrialisation from the 1950s licence regime to the 1991 liberalisation, attaching a date to each phase.

List five social consequences of urbanisation - migration, slums, nuclearisation of households, informal labour, urban anonymity - with one example each.

Explain how colonial de-industrialisation of handicrafts produced both a new middle class and new mass poverty.

Define globalisation and identify its four channels - trade, capital, technology and migration - with one Indian example per channel.

Weigh two gains and two costs of liberalisation for Indian agriculture, industry and culture, stating which groups gained and which lost.

Describe how mass media shapes identity, consumerism and public opinion, using one print example and one digital example.

Classify social movements as old or new, reformist or revolutionary, peasant, tribal, women's or environmental, and name one Indian movement for each type.

Explain the link between globalisation and the rise of identity-based and regional movements.

Distinguish diversity, plurality and inequality using Indian examples drawn from language, religion, region and tribe.

Define communalism in its everyday, political and religious forms, then list four causes and three remedies.

Explain regionalism, its positive and negative faces, and distinguish it from secessionism using two case examples.

State the constitutional meaning of secularism under Articles 25 to 28 and contrast Indian secularism with the Western separation model.

Explain the market as a social institution by contrasting market exchange with reciprocity and redistribution using a tribal or peasant example.

Describe how caste historically regulated occupation and exchange, and identify the points at which that link has weakened.

Evaluate land reforms - abolition of intermediaries, tenancy reform, ceiling laws - stating what each achieved and where each fell short.

Assess the Green Revolution's social consequences for regional disparity, class differentiation, groundwater and the gender division of labour.

Explain how panchayati raj and rural employment guarantee schemes have altered rural power relations.

Classify work as formal or informal and organised or unorganised, then state three social consequences of informality for Indian workers.

Describe the shift from guild and artisan production to factory industry and its effects on family and community life.

Explain Fordism, Taylorism and post-Fordist flexible production in plain terms with one Indian example each.

Summarise citizenship as a bundle of civil, political and social rights, and describe how Indian democracy widened participation.

Identify three channels - elections, panchayati raj, social movements - through which democratic participation has produced social change.

Re-attempt every item in your error log and rewrite each corrected answer in five lines without referring to notes.

Condense all ten domains onto a 30-point revision sheet, three points per domain, ranked by how often each appears in the paper.

Write two full-length model answers under timed conditions of 18 minutes each on caste institutions and on social inequality.

Complete two full mock papers and tabulate domain-wise accuracy to isolate your last two weak areas.

Recite from memory the core definitions - caste, tribe, kinship, communalism, secularism, globalisation, social movement, citizenship - in one sitting.