UGC NET Paper 2 Sociology (Master Batch 2026)
Comprehensive NTA UGC NET Master Batch for Sociology covering full updated 2026 syllabus with unit-wise mock test series and mentorship.
Created by Boostabrain Senior Academic Faculty & JRF Panel
What You Will Get In This Batch
Live & Recorded Classes
Interactive lectures with full HD recordings & multi-speed control
Daily Practice Problems (DPPs)
Unit-wise question sets with step-by-step solutions
Handwritten Notes & Mind Maps
Crisp chapter summaries for rapid last-minute revision
All India CBT Mock Tests
Real NTA test interface with percentile & ranking analysis
Direct Faculty Doubt Clearance
Daily live doubt sessions directly with subject mentors
Full Course Validity
Unrestricted video access and PDF downloads for the batch validity period
Course Description & Overview
Boostabrain Academy's flagship UGC NET Sociology Master Program provides complete conceptual clarity, unit-wise structured modules, live doubt resolution, and high-yield previous year question solvers.
Syllabus & Unit-Wise Structure
100% NTA Exam pattern aligned syllabus
- Classical theorists – Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Pareto
- Structural-functionalism and structuralism – Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Parsons, Merton, Lévi-Strauss
- Interpretative perspectives – Mead, Blumer, Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Garfinkel, Goffman
- Conflict theory – Dahrendorf, Coser, Frankfurt school
- Post-modern and post-structural – Foucault, Derrida, Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu
- Indian thinkers – Ghurye, D.P. Mukerji, A.R. Desai, M.N. Srinivas, S.C. Dube, Irawati Karve, Ambedkar, Dumont
- Philosophical foundations – positivism and interpretivism
- Research design
- Quantitative and qualitative methods
- Techniques – survey, interview, observation, case study, focus group
- Sampling
- Statistics – central tendency, dispersion, correlation, regression, hypothesis testing
- Reliability and validity
- Society, community, association, institution
- Social structure, status and role; groups
- Socialisation and culture
- Stratification – caste, class, gender, ethnicity; social mobility
- Social change
- Religion, education, polity and economy as institutions
- Rural sociology; peasant studies; agrarian relations
- Land reforms; Green Revolution; rural development programmes
- Urban sociology – Chicago school and other theories
- Urbanisation; slums; migration
- Urban planning; smart cities
- State – nature and theories; power, authority, legitimacy
- Democracy and citizenship
- Political parties, pressure groups, social movements, civil society
- Development theories – modernisation, dependency, world-systems, human development
- Globalisation; sustainable development
- Development-induced displacement
- Economic sociology
- Forms of economy – hunting-gathering, pastoral, agrarian, industrial, post-industrial
- Gift, exchange and market – Mauss, Polanyi
- Work, labour and occupation; informal sector
- Industrialisation and globalisation
- Consumption
- Environmental sociology – perspectives
- Resource conflicts – water, forest, land
- Environmental movements – Chipko, Narmada Bachao, Silent Valley
- Environment and development; climate change
- Risk society; disasters
- Approaches – descent and alliance theories
- Kinship terminology; kinship in North and South India
- Family – types and changes; household
- Marriage – forms and rules
- Gender and family; dowry, divorce, domestic violence
- Sociology of science – Merton, Kuhn
- Technology and social change
- ICT and the network society – Castells
- Digital divide and new media
- Biotechnology and society; ethical issues
- Culture – concept and theories; symbols and meaning
- Popular culture and media
- Religion – theories, secularisation, fundamentalism
- Language and society
- Identity, ethnicity and nationalism
- Globalisation of culture
Frequently Asked Questions
All live classes are streamed directly inside the Boostabrain App and Web Portal. If you miss a live session, high-quality recorded backup videos with multi-speed controls will be made available within 2 hours.
Yes! You will receive downloadable unit-wise PDF study notes, handwritten mind maps, and Daily Practice Problems (DPPs) after every class.
This course comes with 6 Months full access validity from the date of enrollment.
You can ask live text/audio doubts during classes. Additionally, our faculty mentors provide daily direct doubt resolution sessions.
Yes, you can watch classes on Android mobile app, iOS app, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers.
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