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UPSC Mains Sociology Optional Syllabus 2017. You can also Download UPSC Mains Sociology Optional Syllabus PDF SOCIOLOGY PAPER – I FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY   Sociology – The Discipline: Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology. Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences. Sociology and common sense. Sociology as Science: Science, […]

UPSC Mains Public Administration Optional Syllabus 2018. You can also Download UPSC Mains Public Administration Optional Syllabus PDF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PAPER – I Administrative Theory   Introduction: Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration; Wilson’s vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice approach; Challenges of liberalization, […]

PSYCHOLOGY PAPER – I Foundations of Psychology Introduction: Definition of Psychology; Historical antecedents of Psychology and trends in the 21st century; Psychology and scientific methods; Psychology in relation to other social sciences and natural sciences; Application of Psychology to societal problems. Methods of Psychology: Types of research: Descriptive, evaluative, diagnostic and prognostic; Methods of Research: Survey, observation, […]

UPSC Mains Political Science optional Syllabus is available for Download as PDF. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PAPER – I Political Theory and Indian Politics Political Theory: meaning and approaches. Theories of the State: Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial, and feminist. Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its […]

UPSC Mains Physics optional Syllabus is available for Download as PDF. PHYSICS PAPER – I (a) Mechanics of Particles: Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, applications to rotating frames, centripetal and Coriolis accelerations; Motion under a central force; Conservation of angular momentum, Kepler’s laws; Fields and potentials; Gravitational field and potential due to […]

UPSC Mains Philosophy optional Syllabus is available for Download as PDF. PHILOSOPHY PAPER – I Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain 44 www.employmentnews.gov.in Employment News 31 May – 6 June 2014 Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory […]