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ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME 2025
2026
ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME 2026
2025
2026
ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME 2025
2026
ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME 2025
ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME2026
2026
2025
ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME - 2026
SOCIOLOGY AWP (ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME) - 2026
Course Features:
Ensure the coverage of the UPSC syllabus addressing sociology in
both the papers.
Model answers with detailed explanations for enriching your
answer content.
UPSC previous year questions will be thoroughly dealt with by
peer members.
Special focus on your answer structure and presentation, which will enhance your marks.
Total of 120 test questions with evaluation and model answers.
Two FLT (Full Length Test) marathon discussion sessions.
Doubts clearing sessions by the Socio Mentor Team on demand of the students.
Note- This initiative is absolutely flexible as per the aspirant’s comfort and level of
preparation.
Key Highlights:
Basic orientation session (must be attended)
Questions strictly based on the UPSC pattern
Detailed feedback within 48 hours
After each test, model answers will be provided the same day.
For enrollment, contact us on - 9893806131
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Socio AWP (ANSWER WRITING PROGRAMME) - 2026
Sl No. DATE TOPIC
21st Jul 2025 BASIC ORIENTATION SESSION (7 - 9pm)
1. Sociology – The Discipline
(a) Modernity and Social Changes in Europe and Emergence of
27th Jul
Sociology.
TEST - 1 2025
(b) Scope of the Subject and Comparison with other Social
Sciences.
(c) Sociology and Common Sense.
2. Sociology as Science
Science, Scientific Method and Critique.
01st Aug Major Theoretical Strands of Research Methodology.
TEST - 2
2025 Positivism and its Critique.
Fact Value and Objectivity.
Non-Positivist Methodologies.
3. Research Methods and Analysis
05th Aug Qualitative and Quantitative Methods.
TEST - 3
2025 Techniques of Data Collection.
Variables, Sampling, Hypothesis, Reliability and Validity.
4. Sociological Thinkers
09th Aug
TEST - 4 Emile Durkheim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion
2025
and society.
4. Sociological Thinkers
13th Aug
TEST - 5 Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production,
2025
alienation, class struggle.
4. Sociological Thinkers
17th Aug
TEST - 6 Max Weber - Social action, ideal type, authority, bureaucracy,
2025
protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
21st Aug 4. Sociological Thinkers
TEST - 7
2025 Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
4. Sociological Thinkers
25th Aug
TEST - 8
2025 Robert K Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and
deviance, reference groups.
Mead - Self and identity.
5. Stratification and Mobility
(a) Concepts- Equality, Inequality, Hierarchy, Exclusion, Poverty
and Deprivation.
(b) Theories of Social Stratification - Structural functionalist
31st Aug
TEST - 9 theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
2025
(c) Dimensions – Social Stratification of Class, Status Groups,
Gender, Ethnicity and Race
(d) Social Mobility- Open and Closed Systems, types of mobility,
sources and causes of mobility.
6. Works and Economic Life
(a) Social Organization of Work in Different Types of Society -
04th Sep Slave society, feudal society, industrial capitalist society.
TEST - 10
2025
(b) Formal and Informal Organization of Work.
(c) Labour and Society.
7. Politics and Society (PAPER-1)
(a) Sociological Theories of Power.
(b) Power Elite, Bureaucracy, Pressure Groups, and Political
Parties.
(c) Nation, State, Citizenship, Democracy, Civil Society, Ideology.
10th Sep (d) Protest, Agitation, Social Movements, Collective Action,
TEST - 11 Revolution.
2025
C. (iv). POLITICS AND SOCIETY (PAPER-2)
(a) Nation, Democracy and Citizenship.
(b) Political Parties, Pressure Groups, Social and Political Elite.
(c) Regionalism and Decentralization of Power.
(d) Secularization.
8. Religion and Society (PAPER-1)
(a) Sociological Theories of Religion.
(b) Types of Religious Practices: Animism, Monism, Pluralism,
Sects, Cults.
15th Sep
TEST - 12 (c) Religion in Modern Society: Religion and Science,
2025
Secularization, Religious Revivalism, Fundamentalism.
B. (vi). RELIGION AND SOCIETY (PAPER-2)
(a) Religious Communities in India.
(b) Problems of Religious Minorities.
9. Systems of Kinship (PAPER-1)
(a) Family, Household, Marriage.
(b) Types and Forms of Family.
(c) Lineage and descent.
(d) Patriarchy and Sexual Division of Labour.
20th Sep (e) Contemporary Trends.
TEST - 13
2025 C. (v). SYSTEMS OF KINSHIP IN INDIA (PAPER-2)
(a) Lineage and Descent in India.
(b) Types of Kinship Systems.
(c) Family and Marriage in India.
(d) Household Dimensions of The Family.
(e) Patriarchy, Entitlements and Sexual Division of Labour.
10. Social Change in Modern Society (PAPER-1)
(a) Sociological Theories of Social Change.
(b) Development and Dependency.
(c) Agents of Social Change.
25th Sep (d) Education and Social Change.
TEST - 14
2025 (e) Science, Technology and Social Change.
C. (i). VISIONS OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA (PAPER-2)
(a) Idea of Development Planning and Mixed Economy.
(b) Constitution, Law and Social Change.
(c) Education and Social Change.
Discussion 27th Sep
2025 UPSC Mains Sociology Paper - 1
Session 2025
A. INTRODUCING INDIAN SOCIETY
(i). PERSPECTIVES ON THE STUDY OF INDIAN SOCIETY
a) Indology (G. S. Ghurye)
b) Structural Functionalism (M. N. Srinivas)
02nd Oct
TEST - 15 c) Marxist Sociology (A. R. Desai)
2025
(ii). IMPACT OF COLONIAL RULE ON INDIAN SOCIETY
a) Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
b) Modernization of Indian Tradition.
c) Protests and Movements During The Colonial Period.
d) Social Reforms
B. SOCIAL STRUCTURE
(i). RURAL AND AGRARIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE
06th Oct
TEST - 16 a) The Idea of Indian Village and Village Studies.
2025
b) Agrarian Social Structure —Evolution of Land Tenure System,
Land Reforms.
(ii). CASTE SYSTEM
a) Perspectives on the study of Caste Systems: G. S. Ghurye, M.
N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
b) Features of Caste System.
c) Untouchability-Forms and Perspectives.
11th Oct
TEST - 17
2025 (iii). TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN INDIA
a) Definitional Problems
b) Geographical Spread
c) Colonial Policies and Tribes
d) Issues of Integration and Autonomy
(iv). SOCIAL CLASSES IN INDIA
15th Oct a) Agrarian Class Structure
TEST - 18
2025 b) Industrial Class Structure
c) Middle Classes in India
(ii). RURAL AND AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION IN INDIA
a) Programmes of Rural Development, Community Development
Programme, Cooperatives, Poverty Alleviation Schemes.
19th Oct
TEST - 19
2025 b) Green Revolution and Social Change
c) Changing Modes of Production in Indian Agriculture
d) Problems of Rural Labour, Bondage, Migration
(iii). INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANISATION IN INDIA
a) Evolution of Modern Industry in India.
24th Oct b) Growth of Urban Settlements in India
TEST - 20
2025 c) Working Class: Structure, Growth, Class Mobilization
d) Informal Sector, Child Labour
e) Slums and Deprivation in Urban Areas
TEST - 21 28th Oct v). SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN MODERN INDIA
2025
a) Peasants and Farmers Movements
b) Women’s Movement
c) Backward Classes & Dalit Movements
d) Environmental Movements
e) Ethnicity and Identity Movements
vi). POPULATION DYNAMICS
a) Population Size, Growth, Composition and Distribution
01st Nov b) Components of Population Growth: Birth, Death, Migration
TEST - 22
2025
c) Population Policy and Family Planning
d) Emerging Issues: Ageing, Sex Ratios, Child and Infant
Mortality, Reproductive Health
vii). CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
a) Crisis of Development : Displacement, Environmental
Problems and Sustainability.
b) Poverty, Deprivation and Inequalities
05th Nov
TEST - 23
2025 c) Violence against Women
d) Caste Conflicts
e) Ethnic Conflicts, Communalism, Religious Revivalism
f) Illiteracy and Disparities in Education
Discussion
06th Nov
Session - Current Affairs and miscellaneous topics Paper - 1
2025
24
Discussion
07th Nov
Session - Current Affairs and miscellaneous topics Paper - 2
2025
25
Discussion 08th Nov
2024 UPSC Mains Sociology Paper - 2
Session 2025
Discussion 10th Nov
2025 UPSC Mains Sociology Paper - 2
Session 2025
INITIATIVE CONCLUDED
