The CUET UG Sociology syllabus for 2026 is designed to evaluate students’ understanding of how societies are structured and change over time, and it is aligned with the Class 12 Sociology curriculum referenced by the National Testing Agency.
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The CUET UG Sociology syllabus for 2026 typically covers topics such as the Structure of Indian Society (including demographic patterns and rural–urban linkages), Social Institutions like family, caste and tribal systems, and Social Inequality and Exclusion looking at caste prejudice, marginalisation and gender issues. It also includes themes on Unity in Diversity, the processes of social change through industrialisation and secularisation, the role of polity and economy in social transformation, and social movements and new arenas of change such as media and globalisation. This structured coverage helps aspirants develop a conceptual grounding and analytical insight needed to answer domain-specific multiple-choice questions in the CUET UG exam.
Indian Society
Unit-I: Structure of Indian Society
- Demographic Structure
- Rural – Urban Linkages and Divisions
Unit – II: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change
- Family and Kinship
- The Caste System
- Tribal Society
- The Market as a Social Institution
Unit – III: Social Inequality and Exclusion
- Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Class
- Marginalisation of Tribal Communities
- The Struggle for Women’s Equality
- The Protection of Religious Minorities
- Caring of the Different Abled
Unit – IV: The Challenges of Unity in Diversity
- Problems of Communalism, Regionalism and Casteism and Patriarchy
- Communities, Nations & Nation States
- Role of the State and Civil Society in a Plural and Unequal Society
Change and Development in India
Unit – I: Process of Social Change in India
- Process of Structural Change: Colonialism, Industrialisation, Urbanisation
- Process of Cultural Change: Modernization, Westernisation, Sanskritisation, Secularisation
- Social Reform Movements and Laws
Unit- II: Social Change and the Polity
- The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
- Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
- Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation
Unit – III: Social Change and the Economy
- Land Reforms, the Green Revolution and Agrarian Society
- From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation
- Changes in the Class Structure
Unit – IV: New Arenas of Social Change
- Media and Social Change
- Globalisation and Social Change
Unit – V: Social Movements
- Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
- Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses
- Women’s Movements in Independent India
- Tribal Movements
- Environmental Movements