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Public Administration Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Public Administration: Meaning, Nature, Scope & Significance; Evolution and Present Status of the Discipline; Politics-Administration Dichotomy. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 2. Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm shift from Government to Governance; Principles of Organization: Division of work, Hierarchy, Coordination, Unity of Command, Span of Control. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 3. Principles of Organization: Authority, Power and Responsibility, Delegation, Centralization and Decentralization; Line, Staff and Auxiliary Agencies; Leadership and Supervision; Decision-making and Communication. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 4. Personnel Administration: Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration, including Classification, Recruitment, Training, Promotion, Compensation and service conditions, Discipline; Civil Service Neutrality, Anonymity and Commitment; Professional Associations and Unionism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 5. Approaches to the study of Public Administration: Oriental – Kautilya; Classical – F W Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 6. Human Relations Approach to Administrative Thought: Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; Behaviouralism – Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 7. Motivation Theories: Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, Douglas McGregor; Organizational Humanism – Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 8. Writers on Administration: Dwight Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter Drucker; Minnobrook Perspective, New Public Service and Post Modernism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 9. Evolution of Indian Administration: Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; Constitutional Framework: Parliamentary and Federal Features; Union Government: President, Prime Minister & Council of Ministers, Cabinet Committees. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 10. Union Government structure: Central Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat, and Prime Minister Office; Union State Relations; Election Commission and Electoral Reforms. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 11. Accountability mechanisms: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial; Citizen Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Lok Pal, Lok Ayukta, Central Vigilance Commission and Regulatory Authorities. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 12. Issue Areas in Indian Administration: Politician and Civil Servant relations, Generalists and Specialists debate, and Combating Corruption; Civil Services: Classification – All India Services, Central Services and State Services. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 13. Recruitment Agencies: Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service Commissions and other Commissions and Boards; Capacity Building of Civil Servants and Civil Service Reforms; Planning: Planning Commission, National Development Council, NITI Aayog, State Planning Commissions / Boards and Planning Departments. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 14. Judiciary: Indian Constitution and Independence of Judiciary, Supreme Court, High Courts, Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Reforms; Police Administration and Reforms; E- Governance Initiatives in Indian administration. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 15. Constitutional Framework of State Administration: State Legislature, Governor – Role and Functions, Chief Minister – Powers and Functions, Council of Ministers, Role and Functions of Chief Secretary, State Secretariat, Directorates and Commissionerate. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 16. District Administration: Concept and Evolution, District Collector - Power, Functions and Changing role; Autonomous District Councils - Structure, Powers and Functions, District Rural Development Agency; Evolution of Local Governance in India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 17. Local Governance: 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts; State Election Commission; State Finance Commission; District Planning Committee; Rural Governance - Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 18. Finance in PRIs, Personnel administration at local level; Policies and Programmes of Rural Development – MGNAREGA; Growth of Urbanization; Urban Governance - Structure, Composition, Functions of Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Metropolitan Governance - Sources of Finance; Personnel Administration; Reforms in Urban Governance -Solid Waste Management, Smart and AMRUT cities. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 19. Comparative Public Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance of Comparative Public Administration; Public Administration and its Environment; Approaches and Methods to the study of Comparative Administration: Institutional, Behavioural, Structural-Functional, Ecological and Systems Approaches. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 20. Fred Riggs’s Typology of Societies and Features; Problems of Comparative Research; Comparative Studies –Influence of Globalization; Salient Features of the administrative systems of UK, USA, France and Japan. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 21. Development Administration: Development and its Dimensions, Development and Modernization; Approaches to Development - Sustainable Development and Anti- Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 22. Development Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope, Objectives, Features and Significance; Ecology of Development Administration, Contribution of Fred Riggs, Dwight Waldo and Edward Widener; Role of Bureaucracy in Development; Globalization and Development Administration; Emergence of Non-State actors in Development Administration; Public-Private Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Development Indicators and Social Audit. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 23. Economic Policies: Mixed Economy to Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG), New Economic Policy (NEP), Industrial Policy since Independence; Government in Business - Public Enterprises- Concept, Growth and Forms of Public Enterprises, Management, Problem of Accountability and Autonomy, Disinvestment Policies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 24. Financial Administration: Public Finance – Revenue and Expenditure: Nature, Scope and Significance of Financial Administration; Budget – Meaning, Purpose and Significance; Budgetary Process – preparation, enactment and execution. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 25. Types of Budget – PPBS, Performance Budget, Zero-Based Budget and Gender Budget; Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBMA) and Sunset legislation; Fiscal Federalism – Union-State Financial Relations, Finance Commission. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 26. Financial Control- Legislature and Executive; Parliamentary Committees and Comptroller and Auditor General of India; Taxation policies – Principles of Taxation –Progressive and Proportional taxation – Reforms in Taxation policies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 27. Social Welfare Administration: Concept of Social Welfare, Social Justice and Social Change; Concept of Equity and Inclusiveness in Social Justice; Concept of Affirmative action-Reservations; Institutional arrangement for Social Welfare & Social Justice Administration; NGOs, Civil Societies and Voluntary Agencies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 28. Policies, Programmes and Institutional Framework for the Protection and Welfare of SCs/ STs / OBCs/ Women/ Children, Aged, Differently-abled (Divyang); Minorities Commissions – Women, SC/ST, Minority- Role and Functions. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 29. Disaster Management: Nature and Types of Disaster; Institutional Arrangements for Disaster Management; Role of State and Non-State actors. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 30. Public Policy: Nature, Scope and Importance of Public Policy; Evolution of Public Policy and Policy Sciences; Public Policy and Public Administration; Approaches to Public Policy – Process Approach, Logical Positivism, Phenomenological Approach, Participatory and Normative Approaches. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 31. Theories and Models of Policy Making – Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Yehezkel Dror; Institutions of Policy Making - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 32. Types of Policy Analysis - Empirical, Normative, Retrospective and Prospective, Prescriptive and Descriptive; Policy Implementation, Outcomes and Evaluation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 33. Constraints on Public Policy – Socio-economic, Political, Institutional and Cultural; Role of Media, Public Opinion, Civil Society and Pressure Groups on Policy Making. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 34. Governance and Good Governance: Ancient Discourse – Kautilya, Plato and Aristotle on Good Governance; Elements and Forms of Good Governance; Theories and Concepts of Governance – World Bank and UNDP; State, Market and Civil Society. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 35. Governance Theories and Approaches: Public Choice Theory, New Public Management, Public Value Theory, Governance as Theory, Governance and Public Governance; Networking and Collaborative Governance, Business Process Re-engineering. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 36. ICT and Governance – e-Government and e-Governance, e-Readiness and Digital Divide; Accountability, Openness and Transparency; Gender and Governance; Citizen and Governance: Civil Society – Role and Limitations, Citizen Participation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 37. Right to Information – RTI Act and Administrative Reforms, National Information Commission; Citizen Charter – Concept, Objectives and Significance; Ethics and Public Accountability in Governance: Rule of Law and Administrative Law, Delegated Legislation and Administrative Adjudication; Ethical Foundations of Governance: Constitutional Values, Family, Society and Education. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 38. Social Science Research- Meaning and Significance; Distinction between Methodology and Method; Facts and Values in Research; Role of Research in Theory-Building; Scientific Method; Objectivity in Social Research. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 39. Research Process: Types of Research; Identification of Research Problem; Hypotheses and Null- Hypotheses; Validation of Hypothesis; Research Design; Methods of Data Collection- Primary and Secondary sources- ( Observation; Questionnaire and Interview, Use of Library and Internet). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration) Chpater 40. Data Management and Reporting: Sampling and Sampling Techniques; Scales of Measurement; Analysis of Data and Use of Computers in Social Science Research- SPSS; Citation patterns and Ethics of Research ; Bibliography; Report Writing. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Public Administration)

Political Science Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Political Theory Concepts (Part 1): Liberty, Equality, Justice, and Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 2. Political Theory Concepts (Part 2): Democracy, Power, and Citizenship. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 3. Political Traditions (Part 1): Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, and Marxism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 4. Political Traditions (Part 2): Feminism, Ecologism, Multiculturalism, and Postmodernism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 5. Political Thought (Ancient to Early Modern): Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 6. Political Thought (Social Contract and Enlightenment): Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Hegel. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 7. Political Thought (19th and 20th Century): Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Gramsci. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 8. Political Thought (Contemporary): Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, Mao Zedong, and John Rawls. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 9. Indian Political Thought (Ancient and Medieval Texts & Thinkers): Dharamshastra, Kautilya, Aggannasutta, Barani, and Kabir. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 10. Indian Political Thought (Social Reformers and Early Nationalists): Pandita Ramabai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Swami Vivekanand, Rabindranath Tagore, and M.K Gandhi. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 11. Indian Political Thought (Diverse Modern Thinkers): Sri Aurobindo, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Muhammad Iqbal, M.N.Roy, and V D Savarkar. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 12. Indian Political Thought (Post-Independence Thinkers and Leaders): Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, J L Nehru, Ram Manohar Lohia, Jaya Prakash Narayan, and Deendayal Upadhyaya. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 13. Comparative Political Analysis Approaches: Institutional, Political Culture, Political Economy and New Institutionalism; alongside Comparative Methods. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 14. Colonialism, Decolonization, and Nationalism: Covering forms of colonialism, anti-colonial struggles and decolonization; and Nationalism: European and non-European. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 15. State Theory in Comparative Analysis: The debate over the nature of state in capitalist and socialist societies; the post-colonial state; the welfare state; and globalization and nations-states. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 16. Political Regimes in Comparative Analysis: democratic (Electoral, Liberal, Majoritarian and Participatory) and non-democratic regimes (Patrimonialism, Bureaucratic authoritarianism, Military dictatorship, Totalitarianism, and fascist). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 17. Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Comparative Politics: forms of constitutions, rule of law, judicial independence and liberal constitutionalism; emergency powers and crisis of constitutionalism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 18. Democratisation and Development in Comparative Politics: Democratisation, including democratic transition and consolidation; and Development, covering Underdevelopment, Dependency, Modernization, World Systems Theory, development and democracy. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 19. Structures of Power and Key Political Actors in Comparative Politics: Structures of Power, including ruling class, power elites, democratic elitism; and Actor and Processes, specifically Electoral Systems, Political Parties and Party System, and Interest groups. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 20. Social Mobilization and Change in Comparative Politics: Actor and Processes continued, covering Social movements, new social movements, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and civil society campaigns; and Revolutions. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 21. Approaches to the study of International relations (Part 1): Idealism, Realism, Structural Marxism, Neoliberalism, and Neorealism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 22. Approaches to the study of International relations (Part 2) and Core Concepts: Social Constructivism, Critical International Theory, Feminism, Postmodernism; and Concepts: State, state system and non-state actors, Power, Sovereignty, Security: traditional and non- traditional. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 23. Conflict and Peace in International Relations: Changing Nature of Warfare; Weapons of mass destruction; deterrence; conflict resolution, conflict transformation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 24. The United Nations, International Law, and Justice: United Nations: Aims, Objectives, Structure and Evaluation of the Working of UN; Peace and Development perspectives; Humanitarian intervention. International law; International Criminal Court. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 25. Political Economy of IR and Regional Organisations: Political Economy of IR; Globalisation; Global governance and Bretton Woods system, North-South Dialogue, WTO, G-20, BRICS. Regional Organisations: European Union, African Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, ASEAN. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 26. Contemporary Challenges in International Relations: International terrorism, Climate change and Environmental Concerns, Human Rights, Migration and Refugees; Poverty and Development; Role of Religion, Culture and Identity Politics. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 27. Perspectives, Continuity, Change, and Policies in India’s Foreign Policy: Perspectives on India’s Foreign Policy: India’s Identity as postcolonial, development, rising power and as emerging political economy; Continuity and change in India’s Foreign Policy: Principles and determinants; Non-Alignment movement: historical background and relevance of Non Aligned Movement; India’s Nuclear Policy. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 28. India’s Relations with Major Powers and Engagement with a Multipolar World: India’s relations with major powers: USA, USSR/Russia, People’s Republic of China; India’s Engagement with multipolar world: India’s relations with European Union, BRICS, ASEAN, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, African Union, Southern African Development Community, Gulf Cooperation Council. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 29. India’s Neighbourhood Relations and Negotiation Strategies: India’s relations with neighbourhood: SAARC, Gujaral doctrine, Look East / Act East, Look West. India’s Negotiation Strategies in International Regimes: The United Nations, World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 30. Contemporary Challenges to India’s Foreign Policy: maritime security, energy security, environmental security, migrants and refugees, water resources, international terrorism, cyber security. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 31. Foundations of the Indian Polity: Making of the Indian Constitution: Colonialism heritage and the contribution Indian National Movement to the making of the Indian Constitution; Constituent Assembly: Composition, Ideological Moorings, Constitutional Debates; Philosophy of the Constitution: Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles; Constitutionalism in India: Democracy, Social Change, National Unity, Checks and Balances, Basic Structure Debate, Constitutional Amendments. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 32. Key Political Institutions in India (Union and State Level): Union Executive: President, Prime Minister and Council of Ministers; Union Parliament: Structure, Role and Functioning, Parliamentary Committees; Judiciary: Supreme Court, High Court, Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Judicial Reform; Executive and Legislature in the States: Governor, Chief Minister, State Legislature. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 33. Federalism, Elections, Local Governance, and Oversight Bodies in India: Federalism in India: Strong Centre Framework, Asymmetrical Federal Provisions and Adaption, Role of Intergovernmental Coordination Mechanisms, Inter-State Council, Emerging Trends; Electoral Process and Election Commission of India: Conduct of Elections, Rules, Electoral Reforms; Local Government Institutions: Functioning and reforms; Constitutional and Statutory Bodies: Comptroller and Auditor General, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Human Rights, National Commission for Women, National Commission for Minorities. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 34. State, Economy, Development, and Globalisation in India: State, Economy and Development: Nature of Indian State, Development Planning model, New Economic Policy, Growth and Human Development; Process of globalisation: social and economic implications. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 35. Identity Politics, Social Movements, and Civil Society in India: Identity Politics: Religion, Tribe, Caste, Region, Language; Social Movements: Dalit, Tribal, Women, Farmers, labour; Civil Society Groups: Non-Party Social Formations, Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Action Groups. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 36. Regionalisation, Gender, Political Parties, and Electoral Dynamics in India: Regionalisation of Indian Politics: Reorganisation of Indian States, States as Political and Economic Units, Sub-State Regions, Regional disparities, Demand for New States; Gender and Politics in India: Issues of Equality and Representation; Ideology and Social basis of Political Parties: National Parties, State Parties; Electoral Politics: Participation, Contestation, Representation, Emerging trends. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 37. Fundamentals and Approaches in Public Administration: Public Administration: meaning and evolution; public and private administration; Approaches: System Theory, Decision Making, Ecological Approach; Public administration theories and concepts: Scientific Management Theory, Rational Choice theory, New Public Administration, Development Administration, Comparative Public Administration, New Public Management, changing nature of Public Administration in the era of liberalisation and Globalisation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 38. Organisational Theories and Management in Public Administration: Theories and Principles of Organization: Scientific Management Theory, Bureaucratic Theory, Human Relations Theory; Managing the organization: Theories of leadership and motivation; Organisational Communication: Theories and Principles, Chester Bernard Principles of Communication, Information Management in the organization; Managing Conflict in the Organization: Mary Parker Follett; Management by Objectives- Peter Drucker. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 39. Governance, Accountability, and Control Mechanisms in India: Governance, good governance and democratic governance, role of state, civil society and individuals; Accountability and control: Institutional mechanism for checks and balances, legislative control over executive, administrative and budgetary control, control through parliamentary committees, judicial control over legislature and executive, administrative culture, corruption and administrative reforms; Institutional mechanisms for good governance: Right to Information, Consumer Protection Act, Citizen Charter; Grievance redress system: Ombudsman, Lokpal, Lokayukta. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science) Chpater 40. Grassroots Governance, Planning, Public Policy, and Evaluation in India: Grassroots Governance: Panchayati Raj Institutions and their functioning; Planning and Development: Decentralised planning, planning for development, sustainable development, participatory development, e-governance; NITI Aayog; Public policy as an instrument of socio-economic development: public policies with special reference to housing, health, drinking water, food security, MNREGA, NHRM, RTE; Monitoring and evaluation of public policy; mechanisms of making governance process accountable: jansunwai, social audit. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Political Science)

Social Work Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Social Work Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors written by Mocktime Publication and has been published by by Mocktime Publication this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 101-01-01 with Study Aids categories.

Chpater 1. Core Concepts of Social Work: Definition, Scope, Principles, Nature, Goals, and Process of Social Work. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 2. Historical Evolution of Professional Social Work: Development of Professional Social Work across the world (U.K., U.S.A., and India), including the Contribution of Social Reformers in the 19th and 20th Century in the development of Professional Social Work in India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 3. Social Work as a Profession in India & Theoretical Foundations: Values, Competencies, and Code of Ethics for Social Work Practitioners, alongside Theories for Social Work Practice. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 4. Changing Contexts and Settings of Social Work Practice: Emerging Perspectives, Trends, and Challenges of Social Work for Practice, including Social Work Practice in various settings (Family, Child and Youth welfare, Industry, Older Persons, Persons with Disabilities, Environment, Women and Welfare, Healthcare, and Disaster Management). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 5. Fundamental Sociological Concepts: Social Structure, Social Institutions and Social Groups, Socialization, Social Control, and Social Change. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 6. Theoretical Approaches to Society & Social Systems: Functionalist, Conflict/Dialectical, Structuralism, and Post Modernism approaches to the study of Society; Major Social Systems (Family and Religion); Social Stratification approaches (Marxist, Functionalist, and Weberian). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 7. Human Behavior and Development: Normal and Abnormal Behaviour Determinants, Lifespan perspective of Human Development (including Development Tasks and Hazards during Pre Natal Period, Infancy, Babyhood, Childhood, Puberty, Adolescence, and Adulthood), and Theories of Personality (Psycho Analytic Theory of Personality, Behavioral theories, and Humanistic theories). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 8. Social Psychology and Community Dynamics: Social Perception, Attitude formation, Change and Measurement, Communication, Theories of Collective Behavior; Types of Communities (Rural, Urban, Tribal, and Virtual Communities), various Vulnerable Groups/sections (viz. Women, Child, Aged, Dalits etc.), and Caste and Class – Their Characteristics. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 9. Fundamentals of Social Case Work: Basic Social Case Work Concepts (Social Roles, Social Functioning, Need Assessment, Adaptation, Social environment, Person-in-Environment Fit), Principles, and Components. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 10. Social Case Work Intervention: Approaches to Social Case Work Practice (Diagnostic and Functional Approach, Problem Solving, Task Centered, and Radical Approach), Process and Techniques (Phases of Case Work Intervention, Techniques of Case Work Intervention), Principles of Interviewing, and Case Work Recording. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 11. Social Group Work Foundations & Dynamics: Social Group Work (Definition, Characteristics, Functions, Group Structure), Classification of Groups and making of Social Groups, Issues of Identity, Diversity, and Marginalization; Social Group Work Process and Group Dynamics (Principles, Determinants, Indicators, and Outcomes), Decision making and Problem Solving Process, Theories of Leadership, and Roles and Responsibilities of Group Leaders. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 12. Group Development and Application in Practice Settings: Stages of Group Work, Techniques and Skills in Group Work, Group Climate, Communication in Groups, Use of Programme Media, Group Work Recording, Monitoring and Evaluation; and Practice Sites of Social Case Work and Social Group Work with client groups and various settings (Children, Correctional, Health, Women, Persons with Disabilities, Older Persons, Oppressed Groups, Religious Minorities, Persons who are Gay & Lesbian, and other Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Groups). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 13. Community Organization Essentials: Concept, Definition, Scope, and Historical Perspective in India, UK, and USA; The Role of Community-Based Organizations, Human Capital, & Social Capital. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 14. Community Organization Process and Practice: Steps in Community Organization, Methods, Principles, Skills, Assumptions, Record Maintenance, Involving NGOs in Community Organization; Approaches in Community Organization Practice – Models, Strategies, the role of Community-Based Organizations, Leadership Development and Leaders, Building Partnerships and coalitions. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 15. Social Action as a Social Work Method: Concept, History, Social Action as a Method of Social Work; Models of Social Action (Conscientisation model of Paulo Freire, Role of ideology, Saul Alinsky as a radical community organizer, Liberation Theology). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 16. Social Movements and Social Change Analysis: Origin, Nature, Types of Movements, Theories of Movement, and new Social Movements; Social Movements, Social Action and Social Change, Movement Analysis (Ideology, Structure, Leadership, Process and Outcomes), and Analysis of ideology and approach of (Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Frantz Fanon). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 17. Foundations of Social Work Research: Meaning of Research; Social Science and Social Work Research: Meaning, Nature, and Scope. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 18. Quantitative Research Process in Social Science: Steps (Identifications and Formulations of Research Problem, Literature Review, Objectives and Hypothesis Formulation, Research Design, Sample Design), Sources, Methods and Tools of Data Collection, Processing and Analysis of Data, and Writing Research Reports including Presentations and Styles of References, Citing and Paraphrasing. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 19. Basic Statistical Concepts in Quantitative Research: Process of statistical Enquiry and dealing with Descriptive and Inferential Statistical Methods, Parametric and Nonparametric Tests. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 20. Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Approaches: Qualitative Research (Meaning, Basic tenets, Difference between Quantitative and Qualitative Approach in social Work); Designing Qualitative Research (Steps, Methods: Field study, Case Study, Focus Group Discussions, Narratives, Observation, and Theoretic Research); Managing Qualitative Data (Procedures and Techniques of Analyzing Qualitative Data and Report Writing); and Mixed Method Research (Components, Procedures of Combing Quantitative and Qualitative research). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 21. Social Welfare Administration Overview: Meaning, History, Principles, Nature, and Type of Organizations; Distinction between Social Welfare Administration, Public administration, and Social Security administrations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 22. Welfare Agency Management and Structure: Registration of Welfare Agencies (Laws relating to Societies, Trust and Non – Profit organizations, Challenges); Structure of Social Welfare Administration (Service Providers, Administrative structures: Government and Non - Government), Organization and Management of Institutional Welfare Services. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 23. Core Administrative Components in Welfare Services: Planning, Coordination, Staff Recruitment, Training and Development, Recording and Documentation, Budgeting, Monitoring and Evaluation, Networking, and Maintaining Public Relations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 24. Administrative Strategies and Resource Management: Role of Social Workers in Decision Making Process, Communication, Role Description and Functioning, Sustainability of Programmes; Fund raising and Resource Mobilization (Grant-in-aid: Principles and Procedures), Resource Mobilization, Financial Administration, and Social Marketing – Process and Models. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 25. Social Policy Framework and Application: Social Policy (Concept, Goals, Scope, Context, Models, and applicability in Indian context); Historical Development (Evolution and Historical perspective of various Policies, Implementation of Social Policies especially for Marginalized and Vulnerable sections of the society). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 26. Policy Formulation and Social Planning Processes: Process of Policy Formulation (Determinants and Steps, Approaches to Social Policy formulation, Impact of changing Political Scenerio in a country); Social Planning (Concept, Objectives, Scope, Models, Interrelationship between Social and Economic Planning, Social Planning in India). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 27. Planning in India and Social Development Context: Five Year Plans (Changes in Social Planning with Five Years Plans in India, Social Planning and Social Change, Factors leading to development of planning in India), Roles and functions of Niti Aayog; Social Development (Positive and Negative Dimensions, Concept, Models and Theories, Historical and Social Context of Development in India). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 28. Sustainable Development Strategies and Indicators: Sustainable Development (Concept, Strategies, Critical issues, Salient Features of Social Development), Approaches to Social Development (Similarities and Differences); Strategic Development Goals, Human Development Index, and Indicators for Policies and Programmes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 29. Indian Constitution and Social Justice Foundations: Indian Constitution (Characteristics, Features, Preamble, Directive Principles of State Policy and Articles); Social Justice (Concept, Definition, Historical Development, Dimensions, Manifestations, and Social Justice as a Core value of Social Work Profession). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 30. Social Justice in Action: Leadership and Instruments: Social Justice and Leadership (Community Building, Personal and Community Empowerment, Social Justice and Technology, Promoting a Plan and Vision for Change, Reflections and Connection, Social Reconstructions, Paradigms, Policies, Privileges, Implications of Social Justice for Policy Formulation); Instrument of Social Justice (Constitutional Base and Indian Legal System, Legal and Public Advocacy, Role of Civil Society as a Pressure group, Statutory bodies). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 31. Human Rights Framework and Indian Context: History of Human Rights (Concept and Historical Context), Human Rights Declarations, Treaties and Conventions, Human Rights and Protection Systems, and Human Rights in the Indian Context. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 32. Human Rights in Social Work Practice and Activism: Code of Ethics of Social work and Protection of Human Rights, Human Rights perspective in Social Work Practice, Ethnic sensitive practice, Feminist Practice, Social Work with Diverse Groups; Violation of Human Rights and Social work practice (Social Work with the Victims of Human Rights Violations and Human Rights Activism), Role of UNHCR, National Human Rights Commission, and International Human Rights Agencies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 33. Health Care Social Work and Mental Health: Medical Social Work and Psychiatric Social Work (Concept, Evolution, Roles, Functions / Responsibilities); Mental Health and Disease (Normal and abnormal behaviour, Epidemiology, Etiology, Types, Clinical Manifestation and Management of Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders, Neurotic Disorders, stress related Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Problems, Legislations related to Mental Health). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 34. Social Work with Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities: Theories of Aging and Vulnerability (Psychological and Sociological Theories of Aging, Psychological, Social, Physical needs and problems of Older Persons, Rights of Older Persons against Neglect, Abuse, Violence and Abandonment) and Social Work Interventions; Persons with Disabilities (Models of Disability, Disability Movement – Historical Perspective, National and International Milestones from Welfare to Right based Approach, Legislative Measures and Social Work Interventions). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 35. Gender, Development, and Social Work Interventions: Gender and Development (Expressions of Gender Disparity in Education, Health, Property, Employment and Livelihood, Decision Making, Feminization of Poverty and Manifestations of Gender based Violence), Constitutional & Legislative Safeguards, and Social work Interventions. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 36. Labour Welfare, HRM, Personnel Management & Industrial Relations: Historical background of Industrial Development as a sub-system of society; Concept of Labour Welfare (Nature, Objectives, Principles, Theories, Principles of labour welfare, Labour Legislations); Human Resource Management (HRM) (Concept, Scope, Evolution, Theories, Models, Sub-systems, Human Resources Development (HRD) - Performance Management System, Types, Six Sigma, ISO, Total Quality Management); Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Concept, Issues, Practices, Models, Components, Approaches and Corporate Governance); Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (Concept, Definition, Objectives, Scope, Functions, Determinants and Reflectors of Industrial Relations, Models of Industrial Relations, Globalization and Industry, International Labour Organization (ILO) Role, Functions; Collective Bargaining, Job Analysis, Manpower Planning, Organization Behaviour and Organization Development Interventions). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 37. Social Defence, Correctional Services, and Criminal Justice System: Social Defence (Concept, Philosophy and Changing Dimensions), Children in Need of Care and Protection, Juveniles in Conflict with law, Street and Working Children and Young Offenders, Probation and Parole, Emerging issues in Social Defence; Legislations and Criminal Justice System (Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, Immoral Traffic prevention Act 1986, Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, Beggary Prevention Act, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act 1986, Prison Act, and Criminal Justice System). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 38. Social Work with Families and Child Development Principles: Social Work with Families (Functions, Developmental Stages and Family patterns, Family Dynamics and Theoretical Models of Family Functioning: Circumflex model, Mc Master Model and Structural Model) and Social Work Interventions; Child Development (Concept, Philosophy and Historical context, State of Children in India - Demographic Profile, Education, and Protection). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 39. Policies, Programmes for Children, and Environmental Social Work: Policies & Programmes for Children (Constitutional Provisions, National Policy on Children, International perspective and UN convention an rights of children, Programmes and Legislative Measures related to Female Feticide, Adoption, Foster Care, Guardianship and Child Marriage) and Social Work Interventions; Environment and Social Work (Causes and Consequences, Differential impact on Women, Poor, Marginalised Groups and Indigenous Populations, Environment in the Human Rights Perspective, Environmental Movements and social work interventions in the management, protection and promotion of the environment). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work) Chpater 40. Social Work and Disaster Management: Disaster related concept and Definitions (Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster), different forms of natural & manmade disasters, Impact of Disaster and Disaster Management Initiatives, Pre and Post Disaster Interventions. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Social Work)

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Chpater 1. Introduction to Population Studies: History, definition, nature, and scope of Population Studies, and its relationship with other social sciences; understanding Social structure, Social and Racial Groups, Society and Culture, and its integral role in (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 2. Social Dynamics in Population Studies: The role of Social Institutions (family, marriage, kinship, and religion) in influencing population studies; Social change in India, the study of Tribes in India and their culture; the relevance of Social-Psychological concepts and communication concepts, processes in the context of Population studies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 3. Population Trends and Data Fundamentals: Global and Indian population trends, including global variation in population size and growth, the history of Population in India, the Current Population Scenario, and the Demographic profile of India and States; an introduction to basic demographic concepts and the components of population change. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 4. Sources of Population Data and Appraisal: Population census (History of population; definition, scope, Indian census: Historical background, coverage, features, uses; Strengths and weaknesses of various data sources in India); Vital Statistics (Historical background, Civil Registration System in India: history, coverage, problems, Sample Registration System (SRS): advantages, limitations); Population Surveys (Meaning, Scope, uses, limitations; Major surveys: National Sample Surveys (NSS), World Fertility Survey (WFS), Demographic Health Surveys (DHS), Reproductive and Child Health Survey (RCHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), Comprehensive Nutrition Survey; Aging survey); and Data appraisal (Evaluation and Adjustment of Data), including types and sources of errors, Adjustment in Age data (Whipple’s Index, Myer’s Index, United Nations Age Sex Accuracy Index-Assumptions, Applications, Limitations), assessing Completeness of Vital Registration Data using Chandrasehkaran - Deming formula, and methods for Smoothing of Age Data. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 5. Basic Demographic Analysis Measures: Understanding and applying Rates, Ratio, Proportion, percentages, density, incidence and prevalence, and person-years in population analysis. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 6. Population Growth and Projection Techniques: Calculating Rate of Population Growth (Arithmetic, Geometric, and Exponential growth rates, Decadal growth rate), Doubling time, understanding the concept of population stabilization and net reproduction rate unity; Crude and Standardized methods for fertility and mortality estimates; Location of event in time and the Lexis diagram; and Methods of Population Projection including Mathematical methods (Linear, Exponential, Polynomial, Gompertz, and Logistic Growth Curves for Population Projection), the Component method of Population projection, Sub-national population projection, and Projection methods for labour force, school enrolment, workforce, and households etc. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 7. Official Population Projections and Estimates: Examining Population Projections by United Nations, World Bank, and the Expert Committee of Government of India; understanding Population estimates such as Inter censual/Post-censual estimates of population, and the construction and interpretation of the population pyramid. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 8. Statistical Methods in Population Studies: Introduction to Population and sample parameters, sampling distribution of mean and standard error; application of Statistical Methods including Frequency distribution, descriptive and inductive statistics, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), measures of dispersion (range, variance and standard deviation), correlation and linear regression, introduction to testing of statistical hypothesis and test of significance, and techniques of interpolation and extrapolation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 9. Population Composition and Distribution Dynamics: Analyzing Spatial and temporal changes in the size and distribution of population from a global perspective with a focus on India; examining the Age and sex structure of population in developed and developing countries. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 10. India's Population Composition and Spatial Factors: Understanding the Composition of India’s population, including Demographic, social, economic, and Cultural factors affecting age-sex structure of population and its relevance in population dynamics from global and India perspectives; analyzing Spatial distribution of population using measures of concentration of population such as density, distribution-dissimilarity index, tempo of urbanization, Rank-size rule, Gini’s concentration ratio, and Lorenz curve, etc. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 11. Factors of Population Distribution and Ageing Trends: Identifying Factors affecting spatial distribution, density, and concentration of population using global, national, and regional patterns; understanding Population Ageing, including its Concepts and measures, components of population ageing, and Trends and pattern of ageing in India and States, alongside the concept of Demographic dividend. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 12. Key Demographic Ratios and Ageing Aspects: Defining and analyzing Sex-ratio, Sex-ratio at birth, Child-Women ratio, Median Age, Age- Sex Pyramid, and Dependency Ratio (Child Dependency Ratio, Old Dependence Ratio, Total Dependency Ratio); exploring Social, economic, and health aspects of Ageings, including Living arrangements, family support, dependency, and Emerging issues related to elderly. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 13. Nuptiality Analysis: Understanding Nuptiality through its Concepts and sources of data; utilizing Measures such as crude marriage rate, age specific marriage rates, order specific marriage rates, and singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM), including a. Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM) - Synthetic Cohort and Decadal Synthetic Cohort Method, and b. Indices of Nuptiality (Coale’s Indices). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 14. Marriage Patterns and Widowhood in India: Examining Marriage patterns in India, focusing on levels, trends, and differentials in age at marriage, divorce, widowhood, and widow remarriage; analyzing Levels and trends in widowhood in India and States, and the Impact of changes in widowhood/ divorce on fertility, and calculating the mean age of widowhood/divorce from Census data. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 15. Fertility Concepts and Indicators: Defining Basic concepts and terms used in study of fertility; understanding Fertility Indicators, their sources of data and their computation, including Cross-sectional or Period indicators such as Crude Birth Rate (CBR), General Fertility Rate (GFR), Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR), Age Specific Marital Fertility Rate (ASMFR), Total Marital Fertility Rate (TMFR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR), Gross Reproduction Rate (GRR), Net Reproduction Rate (NRR), Replacement level Fertility, Birth order statistics, Child Women ratio, and Order Specific Fertility Measures. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 16. Cohort Fertility, Standardization, Determinants, Frameworks, Estimation and Transition: Analyzing Cohort Indicators like Children ever born and completed family size; applying Age Standardization or Adjustment, Direct and Indirect Standardized Birth Rates, and Sex-Age Adjusted Birth Rate; identifying Levels, Trends and Differentials of Fertility in India and its Determinants (Post-Partum Amenorrhoea (PPA), Breast feeding, Sterility, Fecundity and other factors); utilizing Frameworks of fertility analysis (Davis and Blake Intermediate Variable Framework, Bongaart’s Proximate Determinants, Lee and Bulatoo Framework of Fertility); applying Indirect Methods of Estimation of Fertility (Coale-Trussell’s Model for Age Pattern of Fertility, Reverse Survival Technique of Fertility Estimation, Rele Technique, P/F Ratio Technique, Brass P1/F1Ratio Technique); and studying Fertility transition in developed and developing countries with special reference to India, and the Implications of below replacement level of fertility. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 17. Mortality Fundamentals and Indicators: Understanding Mortality through its Basic concept, definitions and measures of pregnancy wastage (miscarriage, abortion, fetal death, still birth), live birth; early, late and post neo-natal deaths; and infant and child death; utilizing Mortality Indicators such as Crude Death Rate (CDR), Age Specific Death Rate (ASDR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Under-five mortality Rate, Neo-natal mortality rate, Post-natal mortality rate; and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 18. Infant Mortality and Data Quality: Analyzing Infant Mortality, including Levels and determinants of Infant and Child mortality in India, causes of Infant mortality (Endogenous and Exogenous), and Mosley and Chen’s Framework for Child Survival; assessing Sources of Mortality Data and its Quality, including Measures of mortality, the need and importance of the study of mortality for policy and public interventions, and the relative merits and demerits of mortality measures; examining Levels and Trends in mortality by developed and developing regions with special reference to India, age and sex specific mortality, differentials in mortality by place of residence and socio-economic characteristics, factors responsible for high mortality in the past and reasons for mortality decline in developing countries. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 19. Mortality Estimation, Standardization, and Life Tables: Applying Indirect method of estimation of Infant and Child mortality rates, and Direct and Indirect standardization of mortality rates; understanding the Life Table, including Basic concepts, types and forms of life tables and Model Life Table, the need of Model Life Table (MLT), UN Model Life Table, computation of life table, construction of life table based on age-specific deaths rates (ASDR), underlying assumptions of life table construction using ASDRs of community during specified period, and the use of life table application of life table in demographic analysis. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 20. Morbidity, Health, and Disease Burden: Defining Morbidity through Concepts and definitions of health and morbidity, sources of data and measures of morbidity, and Morbidity Indicators (Incidence, Prevalence and Case-fatality ratio), with an Overview of epidemiological transition in developed and developing countries with special reference to India; understanding Health, particularly Reproductive Health (Definition, rationale, approach, evolution of ideas about reproductive health; Maternal morbidity, Emergency obstetric care, Adolescent reproductive morbidity, Strategies to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in India, Abortion related issues, Reproductive Tract Infection (RTI)/Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI), HIV/AIDS and their implications, Reproductive Rights and Ethical Issues); analyzing Causes of Deaths Statistics (Definition and sources of causes of death statistics, Introduction to International Classification of Diseases (ICD – X (1990), Global leading causes of death with special reference to Asia and India; Distribution of deaths by main causes and by age, life expectancy); and estimating Burden of Disease Estimates (Need for the study of burden of disease; Basic concepts; Measures of Burden of Disease; and current scenario of burden of disease in India by States/UTs, Ageing and Burden of Diseases, Life expectancy and disability free life expectancy). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 21. Urbanization Concepts and Indian Context: Understanding Urbanization through its Concept and definition of ‘Urban’ in India and other countries, the Process of urbanization, its measures and sources of data, and the Inter-relationship between urbanization and migration in developed and developing countries; analyzing Trends, patterns, characteristics and differentials of Urbanization in India, Classification of settlements, their characteristic, evolution and growth, morphology, land use patterns and functions, spatial organisations, principles of centrality and hierarchy, methods of measuring centrality, the central place region, and the contribution of Christaller and Losch. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 22. Urban Change and Development Models: Studying Urbanisation and Urban Change, including the changing distribution of world’s urban population, principles and causes of urban growth, urban hierarchy (rank size rule), characteristics of primate city, the cycle of urbanization, economic and social theories of formation of urban centres, stages of urban development models, and demographic and social change in post World War-II urban system in developed and developing countries. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 23. Consequences of Urbanization and World Cities: Examining Socioeconomic and environmental consequences of urbanization and urban growth in developed and developing countries, covering employment, urban informal sector, basic amenities, housing, health, education, elderly population, environment, sustainability, smart cities and urban future; and understanding World Cities, including the hierarchy of world cities, and the growth and activities of the institutions of global capital. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 24. Migration Concepts, Data, Types, and Measures: Defining Migration through Basic concepts and definitions such as circulation, mobility, commutation and migration; identifying Sources of data including their nature, coverage and limitations; distinguishing Types of migration (internal and international); analyzing Trends, Patterns and differentials of Internal and international migration, their Determinants and consequences, and issues related to Refugees – issues and implications; applying Direct and indirect measures of migration such as estimation of lifetime and inter-censal migration rates from census data, indirect measures of net internal migration using Vital Statistics Method, National Growth Rate Method, Census and Life Table Survival Ratio methods, and Methods of estimating international migration. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 25. Theories of Migration: Exploring Theories of Internal and International Migration, including Ravenstein, Everett Lee, Lewis-Fei-Ranis model, Todaro, Stouffer, Zelinsky, Neoclassical Economic Theory, New Household Economic Theory, Duel Labour Market Theory, World System Theory, Social Network Theory, and Cumulative Causation Theory. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 26. Population, Development, and Environment Interlinkages: Examining the Environment in the context of development, and the interrelationship between population growth, environment and development; understanding Concepts of Development and its Measures, including Limitations of per capita income as an indicator of development, human centered development-welfare approach, investment in humancapital approach, Human Development Index (HDI), Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI), Concepts of Social Development, Social capital and Social change; Social Development Index (SDI), Gender Development Index (GDI), Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Concept of Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and Concepts and Measures of Poverty, Human Poverty Index (HPI). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 27. Development's Impact and Population-Development Views: Analyzing the Effect of development on population dynamics, age structure transition, demographic transition, demographic dividends and population ageing; exploring Views regarding the relationship between population and development, including (i) Views of different religions on pro-natalist and prosperity argument: Greek philosophers’ views, Chinese philosopher Confucius writings on optimum population, Classical Mercantilist and Physiocrats views, Socialist and Marxist views etc.; (ii) Pessimistic perspective: Population growth viewed as an obstacle to development, Malthus theory, Coale and Hoover study, Tragedy of commons, Limits to growth study and Enke's investment model etc. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 28. Optimistic and Neutralist Population-Development Views, and Resource Management: Continuing with (iii) Optimistic perspective: Population growth is conducive to development – Mercantilist views, Colin and Condorcet views, views of Colin Clark, Ester Boserup and Julian Simon etc.; and (iv) Neutralist/revisionist perspective: Need to study linkages between population change and development- views of Simon Kuznets, Allan Kelly and Robert Schmidt, Bloom and Williamson etc.; understanding Population and Resources, including Natural resources (types of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable resources, resources scarcity and resource depletion) and Capital resources (effect of demographic factors on savings and investments, technology and development; importance of technology to improve the productivity of physical assets). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 29. Human Resources, Population Growth Implications, and Environmental Degradation: Analyzing Human resources, including quantitative aspects such as concepts of labour force, economically active population, unemployment, types of unemployment (disguised, seasonal, frictional and chronic), Factors affecting demand and supply of labour, and the effect of population growth and development on structure of employment; assessing Implications of population growth on food supply, water, sanitation, housing, employment, health, education, energy, etc; and environmental degradation such as air pollution, greenhouse effect – global warming, climate change; and pressure of population growth on land use like soil erosion, desertification, deforestation, and soil salinity etc. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 30. Human Eco-systems and Environmental Policies in India: Understanding Human Eco-systems, including ecological imbalance caused by natural and human factors and their impacts on human ecological systems, human perception and adjustment to imbalance, and sustainable human eco-systems; reviewing Guidelines for environmental protection, international protocols; and examining Developmental plans, polices and strategies in India in the context of Population and environment. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 31. Gender Concepts and Population Components: Defining Gender through its Concept and meaning, its evolution in historical perspective, and Gender and its relationship with components of population: Age-sex structure, Fertility, Mortality, Migration; analyzing Major morbidity and mortality burden in the developing world with major focus on India, Sex ratio at births, major health problems experienced by women and men, reproductive health of women and men in developing world, and differentials in use of male and female methods of contraception. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 32. Adolescent Health, Men's Health, and Gendered Economic Development: Addressing Health and Nutrition issues of adolescent boys and girls, including abuse and maltreatment, puberty, sexual debut, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, women and family planning programs, and contraceptive technology; identifying Major risk factors of men’s health such as masculinity, alcoholism, tobacco and drug consumption, accident etc.; and exploring the Gender dimension of economic development, including women’s access to economic resources, entitlements, land ownership, inheritance laws, access to credit, measurements of women’s work, profiling women’s work, informal sector involvement, working condition, maternity benefits, wage differentials, and gender and poverty. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 33. Globalization, Household Environment, Gender Mainstreaming, and Inequality: Analyzing Globalization, including the changing pattern of economic activity, issues of marginalization and vulnerability along with agency, negotiation and spaces of power, gender divisions in urban labor markets, and gender and migration; assessing Housing, household environment and its differential impact on men and women’s life, and Environmental degradation (changes in climate, water table and land use) and their differential impact on men and women; understanding The Concept of gender mainstreaming in various health and development sectors e.g. Agriculture, Health, Education, gender in work place (public & private) etc.; and examining Gender inequality and status of women, including social, economic, cultural, health and domestic violence, women autonomy and empowerment and its demographic implications, and the gender empowerment measure (GEM). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 34. Special Groups: SC/ST and Disabled Populations: Studying Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), including their size, growth, composition and distribution in India, and development plans and programmes for SC and ST and their impact on population; and understanding the Disabled / Physically challenged population, including their size, growth and distribution in India, classification of physically challenged population, and Development Plans and Programmes for physically challenged population in India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 35. National Population and Health Policies Overview: Reviewing National Policies, including the Evolution and Development of Population, Health and related Policies viz., National Population Policy 1977, National Health Policy 1983, National Population Policy 2000, National Health Policy 2002, National Health policy 2017, National Nutrition Policy, National Policy on Older Persons, Social Security for Elderly, Legislations to protect Elderly in India, National Youth Policy, National Policy on HIV/AIDS, National Environment Policy etc., their Purpose, Goals & Objectives, Thematic areas and Strategies; Population and Policies on special groups, Ageing and Disabilities, Ageing and Quality of Life, Ageing and Mental Health problems, Social Gradients of health for Ageing Population, Healthy Ageing, WHO Frame Work for Healthy Ageing, and Geriatric care in India; and the Role of NITI Ayog in Health and Population related policies and programme. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 36. State Policies, Family Welfare, and Health Missions: Examining Population, Health and related Policies and Programme at State levels; the Evolution of Family Welfare Programme in India since 1952, Population control strategies under different Five Year Plans; Recommendations of various Experts Committee viz., Bhore Committee, Mudaliar Committee, Chadha Committee, Mukherjee Committee, Jungalwalla Committee, Kartar Singh Committee, Shrivastav Committee, Bajaj Committee etc.; the National Heath Mission (NHM): History and Evolution, various schemes under NHM: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Adolescent (RMNCHA) Programme etc.; and Policies, Programmes and Legislations in India: related to Age at Marriage, Medical Termination of Pregnancy, Sex Selected Abortion (PCPNDT Act), COTPA Act-2003 (Tobacco Control Act). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 37. Reproductive Health Programmes, Family Planning, and Elderly Care: Detailing Policies, Programmes and Programme related to Reproductive and Child Health, Adolescent Health, Child Health, Ante Natal, Natal and Post Natal Care, Immunization, Vitamin Deficiency, Diarrhoea and Acute Respiratory Infection, Family Planning, RTIs/STDs; HIV/AIDS, Public Health Nutrition; Causes of Infertility and its Treatment in government programme, Social and Psychological consequences of Infertility, Socio-Psychological and Health problems of menopausal women; Family Planning Methods-Traditional vs Modern Methods, Advantages/Disadvantages, Effectiveness of various methods, Achievements of various components of RMNCH+A Programme; the National Programme for Health care of Elderly, Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases, programme; and Methods and approaches of impact assessment of different policies and programme on Population and Health of people. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 38. Health Infrastructure, Delivery, and Public Financing: Understanding Health Infrastructure and Delivery System in India, including Health System functioning in India, Organizational Structure- Sub Heath Center, Primary Health Center, Community Health Center, Health System of District ,State and Center levels, Role and Responsibilities of various categories of health personnel in Family Welfare Programme, Concept and Implementation of Universal Health Care in India; Decentralization Strategies in Health, Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Health, Health Systems Reforms in India, Public-Private Partnership in Health and Family Welfare services, Role of ICDS in reducing malnutrition and coordination with health sectors, Intersectoral Coordination for improving hygiene, water and Sanitation etc; and Basic Concepts in Public Financing in Health: equity, efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery, basic concept of investment in health, public goods and private goods, externalities, public sector spending on health, Basic Concepts in National Health Accounting, Need & Concepts in Social Health Insurance, Schemes in Social Health Schemes, principles and methods of economic evaluation of population & health programmes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 39. Global Population/Health Issues and International Efforts: Addressing Global Issues and Challenges in Population and Health, including the Concept of global health, global demographic, health and epidemiological Transition, Role of United Nations and Other International Agencies like UNFPA, Population Council,WHO etc in Health and Population; UN World Population Conferences: Bucharest (1974), Mexico (1984), Cairo (1994) Conferences, Alma Ata Declaration (1978)-Health for all by 2000, Components of Primary Health Care, Millennium Development Goals (2000), Sustainable Development Goals (2016); and Health Policies and Health System in developed and developing countries. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies) Chpater 40. Research Methodology, Programme Evaluation, and GIS Applications: Covering the Principle and methods of Social Science Research, Scientific Research-conceptual, empirical and analytical framework of research, Types of Research: action research, operations research, formative research, programme evaluation research; Research Design: Observational Study (Descriptive and Exploratory Study) and Experimental Studies (Quasi Experimental and True Experimental Study, Longitudinal and Panel Study Design, Issues relates to reliability and validity in research design; Method of Data Collection and Analysis: Quantitative and Qualitative methods of data collection, quality of data in evaluation research, concept and application of odds ratio and relative risks, concept and application of probability in analysis of population data, laws of probability and concept of Baye’s Theorem, Concept and application of Binomial, Exponential and Normal Distributions in population data analysis, concept of statistical hypothesis, concept and application of correlation, association and regression, concept of pvalue (level of significance),concept of confidence interval, concept and application of logistics regression analysis; Sampling: Sampling concept, concept of sampling unit, sampling frame and sampling design, sampling and non-sampling errors, standard error, sample size determination, Sampling Methods and Techniques: Simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, systematic random sampling, cluster sampling, purposive sampling, multi-stage sampling, Design effect in sampling; Research Problem and Formulation of Research Hypotheses: defining the research problem; components of the research problem; Formulating the research hypothesis; Research Report Writing and Ethics in Research: Types of research reports – Brief reports and Detailed reports; Report writing: Structure of the research report, Interpretations of Results and suggested recommendations; Ethics in Research; Client’s Ethical code; Researcher’s Ethical code; Ethical Codes related to respondents; Monitoring and Evaluation of Programme: Basic concept of monitoring and evaluation, difference between monitoring and evaluation, monitoring of health Programme:- data requirements and Indicators, Health Management Information System (HMIS) as tool of programme monitoring, Indicators based on service statistics based on:- Input, Process, Output; acceptance/utilization rate of various services, strength and limitations of HMIS data, Types of Evaluation-Formative and summative evaluation, concurrent evaluation, Framework for the evaluation of the programme, Types and levels of indicators in programme evaluation- (Input process, output, outcome, and impact indicators), role of service statistics and surveys in programme evaluation; and Concepts and applications of GIS in Population Studies including Spatial Concepts: Spatial parameters- site and location, scale, plane and spherical coordinate; Map projections, types of maps, digital representations of spatial and non spatial data, Introduction to GIS: Types of data, discrete and continuous data, raster and vector data, Geo-referencing/Geo-coding and basics of digitization, layouts preparation, and Spatial Data Representations and Analysis: Bar and line diagram, frequency polygon, frequency curve; spatial uni-variate and multivariate statistics: spatial correlation and regression, Matrix algebra; auto-correlation; spatial interpolations, kriging, Moran’s I index. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Population Studies)

Sociology Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Exploring Classical Sociological Traditions with Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 2. Understanding Structure-Functionalism, featuring Bronislaw Malinowski, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, and Structuralism with Claude Levi Strauss. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 3. Delving into Hermeneutic and Interpretative Traditions including G.H. Mead, Karl Manheim, Alfred Schutz, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman, and Clifford Geertz. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 4. Analyzing Post Modernism, Post Structuralism and Post Colonialism (Edward Said, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Anthony Giddens, Manuel Castells) alongside contributions of Indian Thinkers: M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Radha Kamal Mukherjee, G. S. Ghurye, M.N. Srinivas, Irawati Karve. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 5. Conceptualizing Social Reality: Philosophy of Science, Scientific Method and Epistemology in Social Science, Hermeneutic Traditions, Objectivity and Reflexivity in Social Science, incorporating Ethics and Politics. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 6. Formulating Research Design: Reading Social Science Research, Data and Documents, understanding Induction and Deduction, Fact, Concept and Theory, and defining Hypotheses, Research Questions, Objectives. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 7. Employing Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Ethnography, Survey Method, Historical Method, and Comparative Method. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 8. Mastering Techniques: Sampling, Questionnaire and Schedule, Statistical Analysis, Observation, Interview and Case study, including Interpretation, Data Analysis and Report Writing. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 9. Understanding Sociological Concepts: Social Structure, Culture, Network, Status and Role, Identity, Community, Diaspora, Values, Norms and Rules, Personhood, Habitus and Agency, Bureaucracy, Power and Authority. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 10. Examining Social Institutions: Marriage, Family and Kinship, Economy, Polity, Religion, Education, Law and Customs. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 11. Analyzing Social Stratification: Social Difference, Hierarchy, Inequality and Marginalization, Caste and Class, Gender, Sexuality and Disability, Race, Tribe and Ethnicity. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 12. Studying Social Change and Processes: Evolution and Diffusion, Modernization and Development, Social Transformations and Globalization, Social Mobility. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 13. Rural and Peasant Society: Caste-Tribe Settlements, Agrarian Social Structure and Emergent Class Relations, Land Ownership and Agrarian Relations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 14. Dynamics in Rural Society: Decline of Agrarian Economy, De-Peasantization and Migration, Agrarian Unrest and Peasant Movements, Changing Inter-Community Relations and Violence. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 15. Urban Society: Urbanism, Urbanity and Urbanization, Towns, Cities and Mega-Cities, Industry, Service and Business. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 16. Urban Social Fabric: Neighbourhood, Slums and Ethnic Enclaves, Middle Class and Gated Communities, Urban Movements and Violence. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 17. Political Processes in India: Tribe, Nation State and Border, Bureaucracy, Governance and Development, Public Policy concerning Health, Education and Livelihoods. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 18. Further Political Processes in India: Political Culture, Grass-root Democracy, Law and Society, Gender and Development, Corruption, and the Role of International Development Organizations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 19. Social Movements and Protests: Political Factions, Pressure Groups, and Movements based on Caste, Ethnicity, Ideology, Gender, Disability, Religion and Region. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 20. Dynamics of Protest and Civil Action: Civil Society and Citizenship, NGOs, Activism and Leadership, Reservations and Politics. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 21. Fundamental Economic Concepts and Debates: Exchange, Gift, Capital, Labour and Market, alongside Mode of Production Debates, and Property and Property Relations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 22. State, Market, and Development Models: State and Market dynamics including Welfarism and Neoliberalism, Models of Economic Development, and issues of Poverty and Exclusion. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 23. Labour, Industry and Social Relations: Factory and Industry Systems, the Changing Nature of Labour Relations, Gender and Labour Process, and the intersection of Business and Family. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 24. Modern and Global Economic Forms: Digital Economy, E-Commerce, Global Business and Corporates, Tourism, and patterns of Consumption. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 25. Ecology, Technology and Knowledge Systems: Social and Cultural Ecology including Diverse Forms, Technological Change, Agriculture and Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Ethno-Medicine. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 26. Environment, Gender, and Social Exclusion: Gender and Environment, Forest Policies, Adivasis and Exclusion, Ecological Degradation and Migration, and Water and Social Exclusion. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 27. Development Impacts and Community Responses: Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation, Disasters and Community Responses, Environmental Pollution, Public Health and Disability. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 28. Global Environmental Challenges and Activism: Climate Change and International Policies, and Environmental Movements. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 29. Theoretical Approaches and Power Dynamics in Family Studies: Structure-Functionalist, Alliance and Cultural perspectives on Marriage and Kinship, Gender Relations and Power Dynamics, Inheritance, Succession and Authority. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 30. Life Course, Sexuality and Emotions within Families: Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction, experiences of Children, Youth and Elderly, and the role of Emotions and Family. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 31. Evolving Family Structures and Systems: Emergent Forms of Family, Changing Marriage Practices, Changing Care and Support Systems, and Family Laws. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 32. Familial Challenges and Social Issues: Domestic Violence and Crime against Women, and the issue of Honour Killing. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 33. Foundations of Technological Impact: History of Technological Development, Changing notions of Time and Space, Flows and Boundaries, and the concept of Virtual Community. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 34. Media, Governance, and Political Processes in the Digital Age: Media encompassing Print and Electronic, Visual and Social Media, E-Governance and Surveillance Society, and Technology and Emerging Political Processes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 35. Societal Implications of Technological Advancement: State Policy, Digital Divide and Inclusion, Technology and Changing Family Relations, and Technology and Changing Health Systems. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 36. Technology's Role in Sustenance and Security: The relationship between Food and Technology, and the challenge of Cyber Crime. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 37. Core Cultural Elements and Economic Dimensions: Signs and Symbols, Rituals, Beliefs and Practices, Changing Material Culture, and Moral Economy. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 38. Education, Religion, and Identity Formation: Education (Formal and Informal), Religious Organizations, Piety and Spirituality, Commodification of Rituals, Communalism and Secularism, Cultural Identity and Mobilization. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 39. Culture, Politics, Body and Aesthetics: Culture and Politics, Gender, Body and Culture, Art and Aesthetics, Ethics and Morality, and Sports and Culture. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology) Chpater 40. Intersections of Culture with Contemporary Life: Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism, Religion and Economy, Culture and Environment, and New Religious Movements. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Netsyllabus Sociology)

Law Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Nature and sources of law, alongside schools of jurisprudence. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 2. Law and morality, encompassing the concept of rights and duties and legal personality. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 3. Concepts of property, ownership and possession, linked with the concept of liability. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 4. Law, poverty and development, considered with global justice, modernism and post-modernism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 5. Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles of state policy. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 6. Union and State executive and their interrelationship, and Union and State legislature and distribution of legislative powers. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 7. The Judiciary, emergency provisions, temporary, transitional and special provisions in respect of certain states, and the Election Commission of India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 8. Nature, scope and importance of administrative law, the principle of natural justice, and judicial review of administrative actions – Grounds. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 9. International law – Definition, nature and basis, and sources of International law. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 10. Recognition of states and governments; Nationality, immigrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs); Extradition and asylum. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 11. The United Nations and its organs, settlement of international disputes, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 12. International humanitarian law (IHL) - Conventions and protocols, and the implementation of IHL - Challenges. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 13. General principles of criminal liability – Actus reus and mens rea, individual and group liability and constructive liability, along with stages of crime and inchoate crimes - Abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 14. General exceptions to criminal liability, offences against human body, and offences against state and terrorism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 15. Offences against property, offences against women and children, drug trafficking and counterfeiting, and offences against public tranquility. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 16. Theories and kinds of punishments, and compensation to the victims of crime. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 17. Nature and definition of tort, general principles of tortious liability, and general defenses. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 18. Specific torts – Negligence, nuisance, trespass and defamation; Remoteness of damages; Strict and absolute liability; and Tortious liability of the State. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 19. The Consumer Protection Act 1986 - Definitions, consumer rights and redressal mechanism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 20. The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - No fault liability, third party insurance and claims tribunal, and The Competition Act, 2002 - Prohibition of certain agreements, abuse of dominant position and regulation of combinations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 21. Essential elements of contract and e-contract; Breach of contract, frustration of contract, void and voidable agreements; Standard form of contract and quasi-contract. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 22. Specific contracts - Bailment, pledge, indemnity, guarantee and agency, and the Sale of Goods Act, 1930. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 23. Partnership and limited liability partnership, and the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 24. Company law – Incorporation of a company, prospectus, shares and debentures; Company law – Directors and meetings; and Corporate social responsibility. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 25. Sources and schools of family law; Marriage and dissolution of marriage; Matrimonial remedies - Divorce and theories of divorce; and Changing dimensions of institution of marriage – Live-in relationship. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 26. Recognition of foreign decrees in India on marriage and divorce, alongside maintenance, dower and stridhan. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 27. Adoption, guardianship and acknowledgement; Succession and inheritance; Will, gift and wakf. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 28. The Uniform Civil Code. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 29. Meaning and concept of ‘environment’ and ‘environmental pollution’; International environmental law and UN Conferences; and the Constitutional and legal framework for protection of environment in India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 30. Environmental Impact Assessment and control of hazardous waste in India, and the National Green Tribunal. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 31. Concept and development of human rights, universalism and cultural relativism, and the International Bill of Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 32. Group rights – Women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly persons, minorities and weaker sections, and the protection and enforcement of human rights in India – National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Commission for Women, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Schedule Tribes and National Commission for Backward Classes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 33. Concept and meaning of intellectual property, theories of intellectual property, and International conventions pertaining to intellectual properties. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 34. Copyright and neighboring rights – Subject matters, limitations and exceptions, infringement and remedies; Law of patent – Patentability, procedure for grant of patent, limitations and exceptions, infringement and remedies; and Law of trademark – Registration of trademarks, kinds of trademarks, infringement and passing off, remedies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 35. Protection of Geographical Indications, and Bio-diversity and Traditional Knowledge. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 36. Information technology law- digital signature and electronic signature, electronic governance, electronic records and duties of subscribers, alongside Cyber crimes, penalties and adjudication. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 37. Comparative Law – Relevance, methodology, problems and concerns in Comparison, and forms of governments – Presidential and parliamentary, unitary and federal. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 38. Models of federalism – USA, Canada and India; Rule of Law – ‘Formal’ and ‘substantive’ versions; and Separation of powers – India, UK, USA and France. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 39. Independence of judiciary, judicial activism and accountability – India, UK and USA; Systems of constitutional review – India, USA, Switzerland and France; and Amendment of the Constitution – India, USA and South Africa. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law) Chpater 40. Ombudsman –Sweden, UK and India, and Open Government and Right to Information - USA, UK and India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Law)

Human Rights And Duties Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Foundational Concepts and Human Values: The Basic Concepts (Individual, Group, State, Non-State Actors, Civil Society, Liberty, Freedom, Equality, Rights, Justice) and Human Values (Humanity, Compassion, Virtues, Human Dignity and Human Duties). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 2. Nature and Debates in Human Rights: Human rights as universal, inherent, inalienable rights and moral rights; the debate of Universal human rights vs. Cultural Relativism, the Naturalist-Positivists Debate, and the concept of Different Generations of Human Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 3. Indian and Liberal Perspectives: Indian Concepts (Raj Neeti, LokNeeti, DandaNeeti, Nyaya, Dharma) and the Liberal Perspective on human rights (Locke, Rousseau, Thomas Paine, J.S. Mill, Classical Liberalism, Neo-liberalism). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 4. Critical and Diverse Perspectives: Marxian Perspective (Marx, Gramsci, Rosa Luxemberg), Gandhian Perspective (Ruskin, Thoreau, Tolstoy) on State, Power, Swaraj, Rights and Duties, Dalit Perspective (Phule, Narayna Guru, Ambedkar), Religious Perspectives, and Feminist Perspective. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 5. Early Evolution of Human Rights: Human Rights in Ancient Thoughts, Human Rights in Middle Ages, including Magna Carta. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 6. Modern Human Rights Movements and Philosophical Underpinnings: The Modern Movement of Human rights, Lockean Philosophy: Theory of Natural Rights, the American Declaration of Independence, American Bill of Rights, The French Revolution and its goals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, Marxist Revolutions, Anti-Colonial Movements, and the Freedom Movement in India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 7. Universal Declaration and Core International Conventions: International Standard Setting—Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and its Impact of the UDHR on the Constitutions of the „New? States; UN Sponsored or „Core? International Conventions on Human Rights: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Convention on the Elimination of ALL Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Convention against Torture, Rights of Child Convention, Convention on the Rights of Migrant workers, Convention against Racial Discrimination (CRD), Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 8. State Responsibility and Key Declarations: State Responsibility for Protection of Human Rights: The Concept of the “Responsibility to Protect”; the Vienna Declaration on Human Rights 1993; the Helsinki Declaration; and the ASEAN Declaration. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 9. Social Structures, Values, and Modernizing Forces: Impact of Social Structure on Human Behaviour; Role of Socializations in Human Values, Human Rights and Duties; and the effects of Science and Technology, Modernization, Globalization and Dehumanization. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 10. Stratification, Discrimination, and Vulnerable Groups (Women and Children): Social Stratification: Racial and Caste Prejudice and Discrimination; Human Rights Issues of Weaker Sections and Ethnic Minorities; Women: Gender Discrimination, Domestic Violence and Offences against Women; Gender Sensitive Laws; and Children: Child Abuse, Child Labour, Street Children. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 11. Social Problems, Poverty, and Deprivation: Social Structure and Social Problems: Social and Communal Conflicts and Social Harmony; Rural Poverty, Unemployment, Bonded Labour, Modern Forms of Slavery; and Urban Poverty, Slums, Lack of Basic Civil Amenities, Sex Workers. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 12. Rights of Specific Vulnerable Populations and Major Human Rights Challenges: Rights of Refugees, Rights of Indigenous People, Aged Persons, Migrant Workers and Human Rights Violations, Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 Rights of Displaced Persons; and Challenges in Human Rights: Religious Fundamentalism, Terrorism, Underdevelopment, Human trafficking International Crimes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 13. The Evolving State and its Relationship with Human Rights: The Changing Nature of State with Special Reference to the Developing Countries, encompassing Soft State, Interventionist State, Welfare State, Repressive State, and Political Regimes and Human Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 14. Technology, International Politics, and Global Order in Human Rights: Impact of Science and Technology on Human Rights and Duties; Human Rights and International Politics: Emergence of a New Global Order— Tehran Conference (1968)—Vienna Conference (1993). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 15. International Law for Protection and Accountability: International Humanitarian Law: 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols of 1977—International Red Cross Society and International Criminal Tribunals (Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 16. Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Citizen Action: International Intervention: The Question of Nation-State, Citizenship and Sovereignty; the Right of Self-Determination: Autonomous Movements, Secessionist Movements; and Grassroots Movements and Human Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 17. United Nations Framework for Human Rights: UN: Establishment, Objectives, and the Charter Provisions, along with its UN Principal Organs: General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, Security Council. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 18. Key UN Human Rights Bodies and Specialized Agencies: Subsidiary Organ: Human Rights Council, The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Specialized Agencies: UNICEF, UNESCO, ILO, WHO. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 19. UN Commissions and International NGOs: UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Commission on the Status of Women; and INGOs such as the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 20. National Human Rights Organizations in India: People?s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), People?s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and Other Civil and Democratic Rights Organizations in India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 21. Development Models, Sustainability, and Environmental Declarations: Models of Development: Growth Approach, Basic Needs Approach, Sustainable Human Development, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992, Rio +20, Conservation of Natural Resources, Agenda 21, Bio-Diversity Convention 1992. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 22. Globalization, Information Age, and Economic Strategies: Globalization and Human Rights: Dynamics of Globalization, Emergence of Market Forces, Assertion of Civil Society, Retreat of State, Privatization, Liberalization; Emergence of Information Age; and Economic Growth Strategies (Developing Countries): Implications for Poverty Eradication, Employment issues, Planned Development and Social Inequality. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 23. WTO, Intellectual Property, and TNCs: World Trade Organization: Implication for Human Rights, Impact on Developing Countries with special reference to India; Intellectual Property Rights: Patents Law, Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMS), General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), Agreement On Agriculture (AOA); and Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Human Rights Situation in Developing Countries. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 24. Right to Development and Rights of Marginalized Groups in India: Right to Development: The Third World Concerns, Working Group Recommendations, UNDP—initiatives, UN Declaration on the Right to development; State and Development of the Marginalized/Disadvantaged Groups in India: The Poor, the Unemployed and the Socially Dislocated People; and Workers? Rights, Minimum Wages Act—Problems of Implementation, Right to Security of Food, Health, Education. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 25. Collective Social Action and Resource Management: Need for Collective Action in Developing Societies and Methods of Social Action; and Land, Water and Forest Issues with special reference to India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 26. Diverse Social and Reform Movements: Social Movements: Political, Social and Religious Reform; Backward Class, Dalit and Women Movements; and Agrarian and Peasant Movements. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 27. National Commissions and Environmental Rights Advocacy: National Commission for Women, Children, Minorities, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; the Right to a Healthy Environment, the Principle of Sustainable Development, and Ecological and Environment Movements. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 28. Role of Civil Society and NGOs: Civil Societies and NGOs, NGOs of India. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 29. Foundations and Vision of the Indian Constitution: Indian Civilization: Change and Continuity; Indian Constitution: Freedom Movement and Indian Constitution: Sociological Foundation; and the Constitutional Vision of Role of the State. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 30. Constitutional Guarantees of Freedom and Justice: Constitutional Vision of Freedom: Fundamental Rights and the International standards; and Constitutional Vision of Justice: Directive Principles of State Policy and international standards. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 31. Judicial Role in Upholding Human Rights: Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Indian Judiciary and Human Rights, and Judicial Interpretations: Landmark Judgments. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 32. Constitutional Amendments and Fundamental Duties: Constitutional Amendments and Fundamental Duties. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 33. Principles and Structures of Constitutional Governance: Rule of law, Good Governance; and Constitutional Organs: Inter-and intra-Relationships/Conflict and Cooperation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 34. Rights, Repressive Laws, and National Emergency: Fundamental Rights and Repressive Laws: Preventive Detention and Anti- Terrorist Legislations, Armed Forces Special Power Act; and Imposition of National Emergency: The Societal Experience. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 35. Criminal Justice, Socio-Economic Rights, and Weaker Sections: The Criminal Justice System: Crime, Punishment and Human Rights with Special Reference to IPC &Cr. P.C.and Indian Evidence Act; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Directive Principles of State Policy: The Question of Effectiveness and Enforcement; their relationship with Fundamental Rights; and Legislation for the Weaker Sections: The Questions of Enforcement. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 36. Law Enforcement, Human Rights Mechanisms, and Education: Law Enforcing Agencies: Police, Military and Para-Military Forces—Emerging Experience; Human Rights Enforcement: The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, NHRC, State Human Rights Commissions, Human Rights Courts; and Human Rights Education: Problems and Prospects. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 37. UN Treaty-Based Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms: Treaty Bodies under the „Core? Human Rights Conventions: General Overview; and “Universal Periodic Review” and “Special Procedures”. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 38. Key UN Human Rights Committees: Human Rights Committee (HRC); Committee on Economic and Social Rights (CESCR); and Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 39. Regional Human Rights Enforcement in Europe and the Americas: European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; and Inter-American Court of Human Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties) Chpater 40. Regional Human Rights Enforcement in Africa: African Commission on Human and Peoples? Rights; and African Court of Justice and Human rights 2008. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Human Rights And Duties)

Archeology Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Introduction to Archaeology: Definition; aims, scope and ethics of archaeology; history and growth of Archaeology, and History of Indian archaeology; Relationship of archaeology with social and natural sciences. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 2. Archaeological Data Management: Type and nature of archaeological data; Retrieval of archaeological data: Methods of explorations and excavations (Random and systematic prospections; subsurface investigations using modern techniques such as remote sensing, resistivity surveys); Recording and documentation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 3. Artefact Analysis and Interpretation: Methods of artefact analysis: categorization, classification and characterization; Methods of interpretation and related issues: Application of sociological and anthropological models: Ethnography and experimental replication studies; Traditional, Processual and Post-Processual approaches. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 4. Reporting and Preservation: Preparation of archaeological reports; Conservation and preservation of archaeological remains/sites: Aims and Methods; Antiquarian laws. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 5. Chronology and Dating Methods: Encompassing Relative dating: Cultural stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, typology, Fluorine, Nitrogen and Phosphate analysis; Soil analysis, and Chronometric methods: Radiocarbon (C14), Potassium/Argon, Fission track, Luminescence dating (TL and OSL), Dendrochronology, Palaeomagnetic dating Varve analysis, ESR dating, Obsidian hydration, Cosmogenic nuclides method of dating. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 6. Introduction to Prehistory: Prehistoric beginning encompassing geological, biological and cultural dimensions of humans; Human origin and Geological time scale covering Late Tertiary (Miocene and Pliocene) and Quaternary Periods; Plio-Pleistocene boundary, Paleomagnetic records, Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 7. Pleistocene Environment and Biostratigraphy: Major environment and climatic changes of Pleistocene; Pleistocene and Marine Isotopic Stages (MIS); Biostratigraphy of the Pleistocene, including Pleistocene flora and Fauna. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 8. Human Evolution and Dispersal: Main stages of human evolution and important fossil records: Hominin ancestors of the Late Miocene, Pliocene and the Pleistocene, specifically Pre-Australopiths, Australopiths and Homo; alongside Hypotheses on modern human dispersal. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 9. Prehistoric Lithic Technologies: The Cultural backdrop to prehistory: Evolution of stone implements and development of lithic technologies, including The Oldowan, Acheulian and the Flake and Blade based industries of the Stone Age. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 10. Global Palaeolithic Developments and Art: Palaeolithic cultural development in the world context focusing on Africa, Europe and South East Asia and China; detailing Early Stone Age, Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age of Africa; Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Palaeolithic of Europe and West Asia; and Palaeolithic cultural developments in China and South East Asia, concluding with Prehistoric Art: antiquity, significance, distribution. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 11. Indian Stone Age Geo-chronology and Key Sites: Geo-chronology and Stone Age cultures of India, exemplified by The Sohan Valley and the Potwar Plateau sites in the Sivalik hills, The Belan and Son valleys, Didwana dune 16R in Rajasthan, Kortlayar valley/Attirampakkam in Tamilnadu and Jwalapuram in Andhra Pradesh. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 12. Indian Lower Palaeolithic Culture: Tool types and lithic technology; The Sohan industry and its antiquity; The Acheulian industry and its spread into major river valleys, with sites in the Narmada and the Sabarmati valleys, the Belan and the Son valley sites, sites in the Hunsgi and Baichabal valleys, sites in the Krishna and the Godavari valleys, sites in the Kortlayar valley; and sites associated with the Playas of Rajasthan. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 13. Indian Middle Palaeolithic Culture: Culture and geographical spread; Tool types and lithic technology of the Middle Palaeolithic, specifically the prepared core techniques/Levallois technique. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 14. Indian Upper Palaeolithic Culture and Art: The Upper Palaeolithic culture: Tool types and lithic technologies of the Upper Palaeolithic, including Blade and bone implements; its geographic distribution and major sites; and Prehistoric Art in the Indian context: Antiquity, significance and distribution. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 15. Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Wider Context: Mesolithic in Europe and Epi-Palaeolithic developments in West Asia; coupled with an understanding of Neolithic and Food Production, focusing on the Neolithic stage in West Asia and China. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 16. Indian Mesolithic Culture and Adaptation: Mesolithic culture of the Indian subcontinent: Characteristic features; Tool types and micro-blade technology; regional variations in tool assemblages; Evidence of incipient stages of food production; and Patterns of ecological adaptation and distribution, including Sites in the alluvial plains, horseshoe lakes, coastal sites, sand-dune sites, sites in the plateaus and rock-shelter sites. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 17. Early Neolithic Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent: Beginning with Early farming communities of Baluchistan: Mehrgarh and Kili-Gul-Muhammad; Neolithic culture in Kashmir; and Neolithic culture in the Central Ganga and Vindhyan region: Koldihwa, Mahagara, Lahuradewa etc. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 18. Regional Neolithic Developments in India: Eastern Neolithic sites: Chirand, Chechar Senuwar, Kuchai, and Baidyapur, and the Neolithic culture of the North-Eastern region: Sarutaru, Selbalgiri, Daojali Hading, Marakdola; alongside Neolithic cultural development in the southern peninsular India: Sanganakallu, Pikhlihal, Uttnur, Kodekal, Teklakota, Hallur, Nagarjunakonda and Ash-mound sites. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 19. Proto-history and Harappan Formative Stages: Proto-history considerations: Courses towards urbanization focusing on The Harappa culture; its Formative stages: Emergence of village farming/ Chalcolithic settlements and beginning of regional cultures in the North and North-Western India and Pakistan; and Contemporary developments in the Gagghar- Saraswati system and in Gujarat (Pre-Urban /Pre and Early Harappan cultural development). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 20. Urban Harappan Emergence and Characteristics: Early Harappan phase and the emergence of the Urban Harappan cultural ethos; Urban Harappan characteristics: geographical spread; settlement features; town planning and architecture; and Economic production: the urban-rural dichotomy, agriculture and craft production. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 21. Urban Harappan Society, Trade, and Sites: Urban Harappan society: Trade and subsistence; standardisation of craft and the Harappan script, evidence of overseas contacts; Socio-political organization; art and evidence of religious beliefs; Authors?; and Important excavated sites: Mohanjodaro, Harappa, Kalibangan, Lothal, Dholavira, Surkotada, Banawali, Rakhigarhi, Bagasra, Rojdi, Rangpur. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 22. Harappan Regional Variations and Decline: Regional variations within the Harappan material culture: the concept of Sorath and Sindhi/Classical Harappan in Gujarat; Post-Urban Harappan phenomena: Decline of the Urban Harappan, including causes of decline and different theories on decline; and the Post-Urban phase with evidence from the Indus valley, Gagghar-Saraswati system and from Gujarat (Post-Urban or Late Harappa cultures of Sindh, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Western Uttar Pradesh). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 23. Other Chalcolithic Cultures of India: The Copper Hoard and Ochre Coloured Pottery; Chalcolithic cultural remains in the Ganga plain; The Banas/Ahar cultural developments in southern Rajasthan and its antiquity and distribution; The Kayatha assemblage of Madhya Pradesh; The Malwa culture of the Narmada valley and its geographic distribution; and Chalcolithic cultures of the Deccan region (Savalda, Malwa, Jorwe cultures). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 24. Indian Iron Age and Early Evidence: The Iron Age and growth of new urban centres: Antiquity of Iron in India, covering Early stages of Iron Age, and new evidence from Malhar, Dadupur, Raja Nal-ka-tila, Hallur, Kumaranahalli and Kodumanal. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 25. Key Iron Age Potteries: Painted Grey Ware culture: Extent, and Chronology and characteristic traits; and Northern Black Polished Ware culture: Extent, chronology and characteristic traits. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 26. Peninsular Indian Iron Age and Megalithic Culture: Iron Age in Peninsular India: The Megalithic culture in peninsular India and beyond, detailing its Geographical spread, typology, chronological contexts, cultural artefacts and authors of Megalithic tradition. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 27. Early Historic Urbanization and Sites: The beginning of Early Historic period and the emergence of Urban centres in the Ganga Valley and Peninsular India; Multiple modes of economic production, expansion of trade and development of trade routes, Maritime trade, and the emergence of new Urban centres including Important city sites: Rajghat, Ujjain, Vaisali, Taxila, Mathura, Sravasti, Kausambi, Sisupalgargh etc., and Important sites of Historical period: Sringaverpura, Ahichhatra, Atiranjikhera, Hasthinapur, Khairadih, Chandarketugarh, Nasik, Adam, Satanikota, Nagarjunakonda, Arikamedu, Kodumanal, Pattanam. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 28. Architecture as Historical Source: Stupa and Rock-cut: Architecture as a significant source of Indian history; The Stupa architecture: Structural Stupas encompassing Origin and development, and North and South Indian stupas; and the Development of Rock-cut architecture: Origin and Development covering Buddhist Brahmanical and Jain traditions. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 29. Temple Architecture: Styles and Examples: Origin and development of temples, Main features of the temple architecture, features and development of distinct architectural styles of Nagara, Vesara, Dravida and Bhumija temples; specific examples including Gupta, Chalukyan, Pallava and Rashtrakuta temples, and Regional styles such as Khajuraho temples, Temples of Odisha and Chola temples. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 30. Indian Sculptural Art Traditions: Sculptural Art in Stone and Bronze: Antiquity and development, featuring The Mauryan pillar capitals, early Yaksha-Yakshi images, Shunga, Western Kshatrapa, Satvahana sculptures; the Kushana sculptures: Mathura and Gandhara Schools; Gupta sculptures: Saranath school; and Chalukya, Pallava; Pala, Chandela, Chola and Hoysala sculptures. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 31. Iconography, Terracotta Art, and Paintings: Iconography covering Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Kartikeya, Ganesha, Surya, Shakti, Tirthankara (Rishabh dev, Parshvanath and Mahavira), Buddha, Bodhisattva and Tara; Terracotta Art from Mauryan to the Gupta period; and Paintings, specifically Rock-cut cave paintings: Ajanta, Bagh and Sittanavasal. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 32. Epigraphy and Scripts: Epigraphy as a source of Indian history: Origin and antiquity of writing in India; and Origin and development of Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts, including Various theories. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 33. Selected Inscriptions (Part 1): Asokan Edicts: Rock Edicts II, X, XII, XIII; Lumbini inscription of Asoka; Minor rock edict of Bairat; Besnagar Garuda pillar inscription; Hathigumpha inscription of Kharvela; and Ushavadata inscription in Nasik cave (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 10. 34. Selected Inscriptions (Part 2): Junagadh inscription of Rudradaman; Nasik cave III inscription of Vasishtaputra Pulmavi Year 19; Swat relic casket inscription; Saranath Buddha image inscription; Lucknow museum Jain image inscription of the time of Huviska; and Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 35. Selected Inscriptions (Part 3): Bhitri inscription of Skandagupta; Aihole pillar inscription of Pulkesin II; Gwalior inscription of Mihir Bhoja; Khalimpur copper plate of Dharmpala; Sanjan copper plate of Amoghavarsha; Mandsor inscription of Yeshovaran; Truvalangad copper plates of Rajendra Chola year 6 and Sangli copper plate of Govinda IV; and Tharsapalli copper plates. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 36. Numismatics: Origins and Coin Manufacturing: Coins as an important source of history; Origin and antiquity of coinage in ancient India; and Technique/Methods of manufacturing coins using Silver, copper, gold and alloys. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 37. Types of Ancient Indian Coins: Main type of coins: Punch marked coins, inscribed and un-inscribed cast coins; Janpada and tribal coins; and Indo-Greek coins. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 38. Major Dynastic Coinage and Early Medieval Coins: Saka-Kashtrapa, Kushana and Satavahana coinage; Coins of the Gupta dynasty; Roman coins; and a Brief account of Early Medieval Indian coinage. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 39. Methodology of Archaeological Research: Foundations: Role and characteristics of research, research ethics, methods of research; case studies and field investigations; Hypothesis formulation and research design. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology) Chpater 40. Archaeological Research: Data Management and Presentation: Data collection and processing: Primary and secondary sources, use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in archaeological research; Methods of systematic referencing; and Systematic presentation of data and results. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Archaeology)

Women Studies Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Key concepts in Gender studies; Need, Scope and challenges of Women’s Studies as an academic discipline. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 2. The transition from Women’s Studies to Gender Studies, and the fundamental Need for Gender Sensitization. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 3. A historical overview of Women’s Movements, both global and local, encompassing Pre-independence, Post-independence periods, and Contemporary Debates. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 4. The role and functions of National Committees and Commissions specifically established for Women. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 5. Core Feminist Theories: Liberal Feminism, Marxist Feminism, Radical Feminism, and Socialist Feminism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 6. Diverse Feminist Perspectives: Indian Feminism, Black Feminism, and Eco-Feminism. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 7. Emerging New Feminist Debates including Post Colonial /Post Modern approaches, LGBT studies, and Masculinity Studies. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 8. Contemporary Contestations such as Intersex and Transgender Movements, alongside influential Feminist thinkers in 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 9. Women’s Education: Analyzing Gender diversities and disparities in enrolment, curriculum content, and Dropouts. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 10. The intersection of profession and Gender in education; Understanding Gendered Education through Family, Culture, Gender roles, and Gender Identities. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 11. Addressing Education for the Marginalized Women; Reviewing Recent Trends in Women’s Education including key Committees and Commissions on Education. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 12. The importance of Vocational education and skill Development initiatives specifically for women. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 13. Theoretical Perspectives on Women, Work, and Employment: Contributions of Fredrick Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Sandra Whiteworth, and Boserup Esther. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 14. Defining the Concept of Work: Differentiating between Productive and non – productive work, and understanding Use value and market value. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 15. Analyzing the Gender Division of Labour across different Modes of Production, focusing on Women in organized and unorganized sector. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 16. The New Economic Policy and its impact on Women’s Employment, including the effects of Globalization and Structural Adjustment Programs. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 17. Entrepreneurship: Exploring its Concept and meaning, Importance, essential Entrepreneurial traits, and Factors contributing to Entrepreneurship. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 18. Creating an enabling environment for entrepreneurship, focusing on small Enterprises and the role of women in agri-business. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 19. Examining Gender and emerging Technology and its Impact; The role of Self-help Groups and Micro Credit in empowering women. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 20. Implementing Gender mainstreaming, Gender budgeting, along with effective planning and Analysis for women's entrepreneurship. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 21. The Life Cycle Approach to Women’s Health, assessing the Health status of women in India, and identifying factors influencing their health and Nutritional status. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 22. Evolution of health approaches from Maternal and Child Health (MCH) to comprehensive Reproductive and Child health strategies, and addressing critical issues like the declining Child Sex Ratio. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 23. Addressing challenges related to Widowhood and old age; Focusing on Occupational and mental health for women. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 24. The importance of Health, Hygiene, and Sanitation, alongside an overview of National Health and Population Policies and Programmes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 25. Theories of Development and Alternative approaches: Women in Development (WID), Women and Development (WAD), and Gender and Development (GAD). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 26. Empowerment: Understanding its Concept and key indices such as the Gender Development Index (GDI), Gender Inequality Index (GII). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 27. The Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI); Examining Women Development approaches as outlined in Indian Five – Year Plans. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 28. Women and leadership, particularly in Panchayati Raj; The Role of NGOs in Women Development, and alignment with Sustainable Development Goals, Policies and Programmes. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 29. Fundamental Rights: Exploring Gender Equality, addressing Gender Discrimination, and affirming Women’s Rights as Human Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 30. Key Constitutional provisions for Women in India; Understanding the framework of Personal laws and Labour Laws. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 31. The role and functioning of Family Courts, and the critical responsibilities of Enforcement machinery such as the Police and Judiciary. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 32. Combating Crime against Women and Child (including Child Abuse, Violence, Human Trafficking), the Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act, 2013, legal protection mechanisms, and relevant International Conventions and Legislations Related to Women’s Rights. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 33. Critical Discourse on Women and Media Studies, differentiating between Mainstream Media and Feminist Media approaches. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 34. Analyzing the Coverage of Women’s issues and the portrayal of issues of women in Mass Media and Media Organizations, across Audio-Visual and Print media. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 35. The role of Digital Media and associated legal protection concerning women; Exploring Alternative Media forms like Folk Art, Street Play, and Theatre. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 36. The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, and assessing the overall Impact of media on women. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 37. Understanding Feminist Research: Its core Concepts, ongoing Debates, and inherent Limitations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 38. Exploring Feminist Epistemology, the Feminist Standpoint theory, and methodologies for Sexist and Non-Sexist Research Methodology. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 39. Key research approaches: Ethnography and Queer Theories; Overview of Research Design and Methods including Survey, Exploratory, Diagnostic, Experimental, and Action Research. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies) Chpater 40. Understanding Case Studies as a research method, and the distinctions between Qualitative verses Quantitative Research paradigms. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Women Studies)

Linguistics Question Bank Ugc Nta Net Assistant Professors

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Chpater 1. Nature of Language: Language in spoken and written modes, language as written text—philological and literary notions i.e., norm, purity and their preservation; language as a cultural heritage—codification and transmission of cultural knowledge and be (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 2. Ancient and Semiotic Approaches to Language Study: Ancient approaches to the study of language: Indian and Greco-Roman, semiotic approach— interpretation of sign; language as a system of social behaviour—use of language in family, community and country; language as a system of communication—communicative functions—emotive, conative, referential, poetic, metalinguistic and phatic. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 3. Cognitive Approaches and Saussurean Dichotomies: Language as a cognitive system; relation with culture and thought (Linguistic Relativity); Saussurean dichotomies: signifier and signified, langue and parole, synchronic and diachronic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 4. Language Analysis and Interdisciplinary Relevance: Levels and their hierarchy—phonetic/phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic/pragmatic; their interrelations; linguistic units and their distribution at different levels; notions of contrast and complementation; -emic and -etic categorisation; notion of rule at different levels; description vs. explanation of grammatical facts. Relevance of Linguistics to other fields of enquiry—Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Neurology, Speech Sciences, Geography, Psychology, Education, Computer Science and Literature. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 5. Foundations of Phonetics and Articulatory Processes: Phonetics as a study of speech sounds: articulatory, auditory, and acoustic phonetics. Articulatory Phonetics: Processes of speech production: airstream process, oro-nasal process, phonation process, and articulatory process; classification of speech sounds: vowels and consonants, cardinal vowels (primary and secondary); complex articulation: secondary articulation, coarticulation; syllable; suprasegmentals—length, stress, tone, intonation and juncture; phonetic transcription: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 6. Acoustic Phonetics: Sound Waves and Speech Cues: Sound waves— simple and complex, periodic and aperiodic; harmonics; frequency and fundamental frequency, amplitude, duration; resonance, filters, spectrum, spectrogram; formants, transition, burst; voice onset time; aspiration; noise spectra; cues for speech sounds: vowel (monophthong and diphthong), semivowel, stop, fricative, nasal, lateral, glide, places of articulation of consonants. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 7. Descriptive Phonology: Phonemes and Phonemic Analysis: Phonetics vs. phonology; concept of phoneme, phone and allophone; principles of phonemic analysis— phonetic similarity, contrastive distribution, complementary distribution, free variation, pattern congruity; notions of biuniqueness, neutralization and archiphoneme. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 8. Generative Phonology: Rules, Features, and Theories: Linear and non-linear approaches: levels of phonological representation; phonological rules; distinctive features (major class, manner, place, etc.); abstractness controversy; rule ordering and types of rule ordering, markedness; principles of lexical phonology; principles of optimality theory. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 9. Basic Morphological Concepts and Morpheme Types: Scope and nature of morphology; concepts of morpheme, morph, allomorph, zero allomorph, conditions on allomorphs; lexeme and word; Types of morphemes—free and bound; root, stem, base, suffix, infix, prefix, portmanteau morpheme, suppletive, replacive; affixes vs. clitics. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 10. Grammatical Categories and Models of Morphological Description: Grammatical categories – tense, aspect, mood, person, gender, number, case; case markers and case relations; pre- and post-positions; models of morphological description: item and arrangement, item and process, word and paradigm. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 11. Morphological Analysis and Initial Word-Formation Processes: Identification of morphemes; morphological alternation; morphophonemic processes; internal and external sandhi; inflection vs. derivation; conjugation and declension. Derivation (primary vs. secondary derivation, nominalization, verbalization, etc.), compounding (types of compounds: endocentric, exocentric, etc.). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 12. Further Word-Formation Processes and Morpho-syntax: Reduplication, back-formation, conversion, clipping, blending, acronyms, folk etymology, creativity and productivity, blocking, bracketing paradoxes, constraints on affix ordering. Morpho-syntax: Nominalization and lexicalist hypothesis; grammatical function changing rules: causatives, passives. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 13. Traditional and Structural Syntax: Units and Relations: Parts of speech: Indian classification (naama, aakhyaata, upasarga, nipaata); basic syntactic units and their types: word, phrase, clause, sentence, karaka relations; grammatical relations and case relations; construction types (exocentric, endocentric, etc.), immediate constituent analysis. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 14. Generative Syntax: Foundations, Principles, and Theories: Parameters and universal grammar, null subject parameter, innateness hypothesis, meaning of the term 'generative', transformational generative grammar, structure and structure-dependence, diagnostics for structure; complements and adjuncts, principles and parameters theory, X-bar theory, theta theory, binding theory. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 15. Generative Syntax: Movement Phenomena and Advanced Concepts: Pro-drop, NP-movement, wh-movement, head movement, adjunction and substitution, constraints on movement, subjacency, government and proper government, small clauses, topicalization; unergatives and unaccusatives, VP-internal subject hypothesis; split VP and VP-shell hypothesis, cross-over phenomena; checking theory of case, copy theory of movement, inclusiveness principle. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 16. Minimalist Programme and Transformational Components: Some Key Concepts in the Minimalist Programme: Spell-out, greed, procrastination, last resort, AGR-based case theory, multiple-spec hypothesis, strong and weak features; interpretable and noninterpretable features. Transformational Components: The copy theory of movement, its properties, checking devices and features of convergence. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 17. Semantics: Types of Meaning and Sense Relations: Types of meaning; descriptive, emotive and phatic; sense and reference, connotation and denotation, sense relations (homonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, synonymy, etc.); types of opposition (taxonomic, polar, etc.); ambiguity, sentence meaning and truth conditions, contradictions, entailment; ‘abhidha’, ‘laksana’, ‘vyanjana’. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 18. Semantics: Formal Notions, Propositions, and Compositionality: Notions of membership, union, intersection, cardinality; mapping and functions; propositions, truth values, sentential connectives; arguments, predicates, quantifiers, variables; componential analysis; definiteness, mood and modality, specific vs. generic; definite and indefinite; compositionality and its limitations. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 19. Pragmatics: Language Use in Context and Communication Models: Language use in context; communication: message model and inferential model of communication, sentence meaning and utterance meaning; speech acts. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 20. Pragmatics: Deixis, Implicature, and Discourse Structure: Deixis; presupposition and implicature: Gricean maxims; information structure; indexicals, politeness, power and solidarity, discourse analysis. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 21. Sound Change: Neogrammarian Laws and Types of Changes: Neogrammarian laws of phonetic change: Grimm’s, Verner’s, Grassmann’s Laws; genesis and spread of sound change; split and merger; conditioned vs. unconditioned change; types of changes—phonetic vs. phonemic changes; assimilation and dissimilation, coalescence, metathesis, deletion, epenthesis; lexical diffusion of sound change. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 22. Analogy, Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sound Change, and Morphosyntactic/Semantic Change: Analogy and its relationship to sound change; reconstructing the proto-stages of languages; tree and wave models; relative chronology of different changes. Sociolinguistic approach to language change: social motivation of language change; study of sound change in progress. Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change: Phonological change leading to changes in morphology and syntax; syncretism, grammaticalisation and lexicalisation; principles of recovering grammatical categories and contrasts; semantic change and processes of semantic change—extension, narrowing, figurative speech. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 23. Linguistic Reconstruction Methods and Principles: External vs. internal reconstruction: comparative method, collection of cognates, establishing phonological correspondences; reconstruction of the phonemes of the proto-language based on contrast and complementation; morphophonemic alternations as the source for reconstruction; recovering historical contrasts by comparing, alternating and non-alternating paradigms; accounting for exceptions to sound change— analogy, borrowing, onomatopoeia, the interplay of analogy and sound change; lexicostatistics. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 24. Language Contact, Borrowing, and Dialect Geography: Linguistic borrowing, lexical and structural; motivations, loan translation, loan blend, calque, assimilated and unassimilated loans: tadbhava and tatsama; different types of borrowing-- cultural, intimate and dialect; classification of loanwords; impact of borrowing on language; pidgins and creoles; bilingualism as the source for borrowing; dialect geography: dialect atlas; isogloss; focal area, transition area and relic area. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 25. Basic Sociolinguistic Concepts and Language in Society: Sociolinguistics and sociology of language; micro-and macro approaches to language in society; linguistic repertoire: language, dialect, sociolect, idiolect; diglossia, taboo, slang; elaborated and restricted codes; speech community, communicative competence, ethnography of speaking; language of wider communication; lingua franca; language and social inequality; language in diaspora; new linguistic world orders. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 26. Linguistic Variability and Outcomes of Language Contact: Patterns in linguistic variation, linguistic variables and their co-variation with linguistic dimensions, social class / social network / age / gender/ ethnicity; language loyalty, social identity and social attitudes, stereotypes. Language Contact: Bilingualism, multilingualism; code-mixing and code-switching; outcomes of language contact: language maintenance, borrowing, convergence, substratum effect, pidginization and creolization; language loss. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 27. Language Development Planning and Language Ecology/Endangerment: Language planning, corpus and status planning, standardisation and modernisation; language movements – state and societal interventions; script development and modifications; linguistic minorities and their problems. Language Ecology and Endangerment: Superdiversity; linguistic landscaping, linguistic vitality, language endangerment, parameters of endangerment, documentation of endangered languages, revitalisation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 28. Sociolinguistic Methodology: Data Collection and Analysis: Sampling and tools; identification of sociolinguistic variables and their variants; data processing and interpretation; quantitative analysis of data; variable rules; ethnomethodology; participant observation. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 29. Language Typology, Universals, and Linguistic Relatedness Classifications: Language typology and language universals; morphological types of languages— agglutinative, analytical (isolating), synthetic fusional (inflecting), infixing and polysynthetic (incorporating) languages; formal and substantive universals, absolute and statistical universals; implicational and non-implicational universals; linguistic relatedness—genetic, typological and areal classification of languages. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 30. Approaches to Typological Study and Salient Features of South Asian Language Families: Inductive vs deductive approaches; universals of language and parametric variation; word order typology; Greenberg's characteristics for verb final and verb medial languages and related features in the context of South Asian Languages. Salient Features of South Asian Languages: Phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic features of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman language families of South Asia; Linguistic Survey of India as a source of information; contact induced typological change; convergence and syntactic change. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 31. India as a Linguistic Area: Concept and Defining Features: The notion of linguistic area; language contact and convergence with special reference to the concept of 'India as a Linguistic Area'; features of retroflexion, vowel harmony, aspiration, reduplication, echo formation, onomatopoeia, explicator compound verbs, anaphora. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 32. India as a Sociolinguistic and Semantic Area, and Microlinguistic Areas: India as a sociolinguistic area, India as a semantic area; notion of microlinguistic area. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 33. Psycholinguistics: Basic Concepts, Theoretical Orientations, and Language Processing: Basic issues in psycholinguistics, brain language relationship, the different theoretical orientations: empiricist-behaviourist, biological-nativist, and cognitive-interactionalist, biological foundations of language; language acquisition and stages; critical period hypothesis. Language Processing: The processes of perception, comprehension and production; evidence of language production; steps in comprehension; mental representation of language and lexicon; relationship between comprehension and production. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 34. Clinical Psycholinguistics and Foundations of Language Learning/Teaching: Clinical Psycholinguistics: Normal and pathological language; aphasia; dyslexia; stuttering; language in the hearing-impaired; language in mental retardation. Language Teaching and Language Learning: First and second language learning; behaviouristic and cognitive theories of language learning; social and psychological aspects of second language acquisition. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 35. Language Teaching: Methods, Materials, Aids, Testing, and Interlanguage: Methods of language teaching; materials and teaching-aids in language teaching; computer assisted language teaching (CALT); language testing: types of tests; validity, reliability and standardization of tests; Interlanguage. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 36. Language Teaching Analysis, Syllabus Design, and Contrastive Analysis: Goals of language teaching; factors in the preparation of a language teaching syllabus: linguistic theory, social and psychological factors, needs analysis, class-room presentation; text-book evaluation; types of syllabus: structural, communicative, notional; the role of the teacher and teacher training; role of self-access packages; socio-linguistic and psychological aspects of language teaching and learning. Contrastive Analysis: Error analysis and interlanguage; basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive advanced language proficiency (CALP). (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 37. Translation: Principles, Processes, and Types: Paraphrase, translation and transcreation; translation of literary text and technical text; use of linguistics in translation; linguistic affinity and translatability; untranslatability; units of translation; equivalence of meaning and style; translation loss and gain; problems of cultural terms; scientific terms; idioms, metaphors and proverbs; false friends and translation shifts; evaluation of translation; fidelity and readability; types of translation—simultaneous interpretation, machine aided translation, media translation (dubbing, copyediting, advertisement, slogans, jingles, etc.) (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 38. Lexicography: Dictionary Making and Types of Dictionaries: Making of a Dictionary: Linguistics and lexicography, dictionary entries— arrangement of information; meaning descriptions—synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, antonymy and hyponymy; treatment of technical terms vs. general words. Types of Dictionaries: Literary, scientific and technical; comprehensive and concise, monolingual and bilingual; general and learner's; historical and etymological, dictionary of idioms and phrases, encyclopaedic dictionary, electronic dictionary, reverse dictionary, thesaurus and other distinguishing purposes and features of various types; computational lexicography. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 39. Computational Linguistics: NLP, Corpus Linguistics, and Indian Initiatives: Artificial intelligence and language; natural language processing (NLP); computational linguistics and its relation to allied disciplines; machine language; parsing and generation; parsers; compilers; interpreters—information processing, structuring and manipulating data; corpus building; attempts of NLP and corpus work in India: Anus?raka parsing: morphological recognizers, analyzers and generators for Indian languages; designing code, building of machine translation systems (MTS); hyper grammars, building of word nets, The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English, the TDIL Corpus Project. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics) Chpater 40. Stylistics and Language in Mass Media: Style— individual style, period style; style as choice, style as deviation, style as ‘r?ti’, style as ‘alank?ra’; style as ‘vyanjan?’ (‘vakrokti’); Foregrounding; Parallelism; Text as grammar: structure and texture, cohesion and coherence; semiotic aspects of a literary text; stylistics of discourse; levels of stylistic analysis—phonological, lexical, syntactic and semantic; stylistic devices in literary texts. Language and Media: Mass media: print and electronic, types of language used in mass media: news, editorials, advertising, writing and editing for print and electronic media, impact of mass media on language. (in context of UGC NTA NET Exam Subject Linguistics)

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