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The document outlines the syllabus for sociology in the KPK PMS exam, which covers 9 topics over 100 total marks. It lists the topics as: 1) individual, culture and society, 2) sociological theory, 3) methods of sociological research, 4) social interaction, 5) social control, 6) social and cultural change and social policy, 7) community, 8) social institutions, and 9) social problems in Pakistan. For each topic it provides a brief 1-2 sentence description of the concepts and issues that will be covered.

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Sociology PMS

The document outlines the syllabus for sociology in the KPK PMS exam, which covers 9 topics over 100 total marks. It lists the topics as: 1) individual, culture and society, 2) sociological theory, 3) methods of sociological research, 4) social interaction, 5) social control, 6) social and cultural change and social policy, 7) community, 8) social institutions, and 9) social problems in Pakistan. For each topic it provides a brief 1-2 sentence description of the concepts and issues that will be covered.

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38. SOCIOLOGY
Total Marks – 100

1. Individual, culture and society: Individual as a social product. The variety of social forms, methods of socialization, ethnocentrisms, norms and values, cultural
patterns, varieties of sub-cultures

2. Sociological theory: The sociological perspectives – Evolutionary, order and conflict, evolutionary theorists – Ibn-i-Khaldun, Spencer and Tannis. Order theorists –
August Comte, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber. Conflict theorists – George Hegel, Karl Marx, Lewis Coser, Mills

3. Methods of sociological research: Research design, surveys, participant observation, experiments, case studies

4. Social interaction: Significance of social classes, forms of social classes – tribes, biradaris, castes, classes and feudal system in Pakistan. Social mobility –
nature of social mobility. Mobility determinants in Pakistan society, social immobility, culture in poverty

5. Social control: Mechanism of social control – internal and external means of social control. Alienation, integration – integrative patterns in Pakistani society

6. Social and cultural change and social policy: Processed of social and culture change – discovery, invention, diffusion, factors in rate of social and cultural
change. Incentives and inhibitions to social and cultural change in Pakistan. Social planning and directed social and cultural change

7. Community: The rural community, traditional characteristics of rural life, the urban community, rural – urban convergence, urbanism, future of cities in Pakistan

8. Social institutions: The nature and genesis of institutions, the process of institutions, functions and trade of social institutions. Family, religion, educational,
economic and political institutions

9. Social problems in Pakistan: Population growth, demographic transition – deviant behaviour, institutionalized evasions, social conflicts, internal and international
migration, aging, drug abuse, prostitution, smuggling, illiteracy and poverty
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