Optional: Sociology
First attempt: 2021
First prepared attempt: 2022
hopefully this time i will not get lost. :)
For current affairs, I am going through important articles of The Hindu and Explained page of Indian Express. Apart from this, I am listening to Mrunal's daily newspaper summary. For notes, I am following multiple sources like Insights Daily CA, Civilsdaily Editorial Summary, Sleepyclasses, Rau's IAS, Shankar IAS daily news summary videos.
Doing multiple sources but in this way, I am getting multiple dimensions and approach towards the important articles of the news and it becomes easy to take notes and retain them.
This takes almost 3 hrs daily.
GS Weekly Targets (Day wise):
- NCERT Class XI
- Laxmikanth Chapter 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14
- Laxmikanth Chapter 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
- Laxmikanth Chapter 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30
- Laxmikanth Chapter 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39
- Laxmikanth Chapter 51, 54, 55, 56, 69, 70, 77
- Revision and Answer Writing
Laxmikanth Other Chapters (Later - Week 9 / Week 10):
- 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 (5)
- 9, 10, 16, 29, 36, 37 (6)
- 40 - 50 (11)
- 52, 53, 78, 79, 80 (5)
- 57 - 68 (12)
- 71 - 76 (6)
- Revision and Answer Writing
Sociology Weekly Targets (Day wise):
- (a) Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
- (b) Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
- (c) Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
- (d) Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
- (e) Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups
- (f) Mead - Self and identity.
- Revision and Answer Writing
@chitti19 Yes, this is becoming a bit time taking but I want to finish the syllabus quickly and then revise it multiple times. Also, I am only sticking to Sleepy Classes videos and reading Ritzer/Haralambos correspondingly. For thinkers:
Ritzer:
- Chapter 2: Karl Marx
- Chapter 3: Emile Durkheim
- Chapter 4: Marx Weber
- Chapter 10: Symbolic Interactionism
- Functionalism and Neo Functionalism from other chapters.
Haralambos:
- Chapter 0: Introduction
- Chapter 15: Sociological Theory (pages 953-998, 1013-1015)
I think this much content along with Sleepy Classes videos can be done in a week.