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Recently You-Gov mint centre for policy research conducted a Survey on indian middle class.

- 88% of urban netizens consider them as middle class. This shows a lack of definition on middle class.

- PRICE report (private survey)defines middle class individual as one who earns between 1.09 lakh to 6.46 lakh per year.

- From social perspective this survey depicts…. There are no fixed boundaries to ascertain …who are haves and have nots of society…Rather there is a tendency to depict oneself simply as middle-class.

- “New middle class” ( Revise it )

Size: India's middle class is over 250 million people. 

Growth: The middle class is expected to nearly double to 61% of the population by 2046-47.

Economic impact: The middle class contributes about 50% of India's total income.

Consumer potential: The middle class is a powerhouse of global economic activity and brands can expect a surge in consumption.

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Remember try to end your sociology syllabus by December along with revision.
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Paper 2

Target 2…..🎯

🅰️ Chapter 3 ( Rural and Agrarian Social Structure )

- Idea of Indian village.

- Agrarian Social Structure - Evolution of Land Tenure System and Land Reforms .

🅱️ Chapter 4. (Caste System)

- Caste - Origin Theories.

- Features of Caste System.

- Untouchability - Forms.

- Untouchability - Perspectives.

- State and Non - State Steps towards Abolition of caste and Tribal Discrimination.

You will be provided 2 tests on friday that you will write on Saturday and sunday.

On resources - Refer Nitin sangwan and Ram Ahuja.

You can follow resources that you are already using don’t change it.

📌 Most important…. Those who have missed their targets…. This is a wake up call for you… Finish Sociology syllabus by December.. So that you will get enough time for Prelims preparation.📌

#latent_function #merton #manifest_function #structural_functionalism

Latent function of Self Help Groups. SHGs are formed to give easier access to credit and other facilities especially to women. It is a notable achievement that apart from its manifest function, SHGs have also been able to reduce the incidences of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
In Bihar, SHGs under the Jeevika programme reported a 40% decrease in domestic violence cases due to collective action and legal awareness campaigns from 2016 to 2019 (Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society Report 2019).

Positivism is a theoretical paradigm which states that society is governed by fixed set of laws and hence predictable. It believes in application of methods and assumptions of natural sciences to make a “positive” science of society.

Features of Positivism - mnemonic **UT SECT DOPE

UT - Universality of Law & Theory Building Ex. Grand theories by Parsons
S - Scientific Methods Ex. Use of statistical analysis by Durkheim
E - External Reality and not internal meanings and motives. Ex. Social Facts
C - Cause & Effect deduction Ex. Merton in his theory of Deviance
T - Testability Ex. Durkheim tested his theory of suicide among different societies
D - Deductive approach instead of Inductive
O - direct Observation of behavior & not hidden motives Ex. Social Facts
P - Predictability Ex. Spencer predicted evolution of the society in his theory of Organismic Evolution. Marx predicted future societies in terms of socialism & communism
E** - Empiricism & not Common Sense Ex. Durkheim rejected Common sense

#positivism #functionalism #society #Durkheim #comte #spencer #Marx

Ghurye was catholic in his interests as well as methods. A few of his students, K. M. Kapadia, Irawati Karve, and S. V. Karandikar carried his approach and concepts to materials in the sacred texts and other literature in Sanskrit. M. N. Srinivas, a structural-functionalist, A. R. Desai, a Marxist, obtained their Ph.D. in Sociology under Ghurye’s supervision. Ghurye founded the Indian Sociological Society in 1952 and was the first editor of its journal, Sociological Bulletin.
#Ghurye #indiansociology

In 1905 Shyamaji Krishna Verma, a non-resident Indian political and social revolutionary in Britain, deeply influenced by Herbert Spencer, started publishing a journal, Indian Sociology.#indiansociology

Francis Buchanan undertook the ethnographic survey of Bengal in 1807.
Abbe Dubois, a French Missionary, wrote in 1816 Hindu manners, Customs and Ceremonies, which is considered valuable by sociologists even today (Srinivas, 2000).

#ethnography #survey #indiansociology