CUET 2026 Syllabus Sociology (Code 326)

SOCIOLOGY – 326
For the year 2026

Syllabus for
CUET (UG)

Indian Society

Unit - I: Structure of Indian Society
• Demographic Structure
• Rural – Urban Linkages and Divisions

Unit - II: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

• Family and Kinship
• The Caste System
• Tribal Society
• The Market as a Social Institution

Unit - III: Social Inequality and Exclusion

• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Class
• Marginalisation of Tribal Communities
• The Struggle for Women’s Equality
• The Protection of Religious Minorities
• Caring of the Different Abled

Unit - IV: The Challenges of Unity in Diversity

• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism and Casteism and Patriarchy
• Communities, Nations & Nation States
• Role of the State and Civil Society in a Plural and Unequal Society

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Change and Development in India.

Unit – I: Process of Social Change in India

• Process of Structural Change: Colonialism, Industrialisation, Urbanisation
• Process of Cultural Change: Modernization, Westernisation, Sanskritisation,
Secularisation
• Social Reform Movements and Laws

Unit- II: Social Change and the Polity

• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
• Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation

Unit - III: Social Change and the Economy

• Land Reforms, the Green Revolution and Agrarian Society
• From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation
• Changes in the Class Structure

Unit - IV: New Arenas of Social Change

• Media and Social Change
• Globalisation and Social Change

Unit - V: Social Movements

• Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
• Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste
Responses
• Women’s Movements in Independent India
• Tribal Movements
• Environmental Movements

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