Here is how I approached Sociology paper-1. I began with the old edition of Haralambos.
It is a fantastic book for understanding the subject and its scope. I did not read the book from cover to cover and confined myself strictly to the syllabus. This initiated me into the realm of sociology. I then moved on to IGNOU’s BA notes which are an extremely useful compilation of sociological knowledge. I also scanned through a few chapters of Giddens to get a hang of the subject.
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Before Prelims, I had made some notes for the first 3 chapters of paper 1 and had read some of the thinkers. I had by then acclimatized myself with the subject and also understood that the old edition of Haralambos was necessary but insufficient. After prelims, I started filling the gaps and expanding my notes.I began referring to the new updated version of Haralambos, internet, etc. (The topic-wise sources are given below). Though my notes were pretty extensive, I remained alive to the problems associated with inclusion of every topic in the notes.
Therefore, at certain places, I left “flags” - page nos. Or references in my notes so that the topics best read whole from the book could be referred in a logical and sequential manner during revision – (For example, Talcott Parson’s pattern variables – to be read from new Haralambos, pg.xxx). The end result was that by the end of my preparation, I had a bunch of notes that could be revised in a single day – It consisted of my notes of around 200 pages, old and new Haralambos (for referred pages), and a couple of booklets of IGNOU BA (out of many).
I must have revised this bunch 4-5 times. I must also emphasize the importance of keeping a copy of previous 10 years’ questions handy, along with the syllabus. I made sure that there wasn’t a question asked in previous 10 years that I couldn’t answer. Hi Prudhvi 1. The old Haralambos was a smaller version (Haralambos and Heald I suppose orange cover, published by oxford). The new version is a 1000 page tome (Haralambos and Holborn if I remember correctly) - I had its photocopy bought from Jawahar Book Depot. The new version has many contemporary case studies and extra topics which are of relevance to the exam.
But some topics are best read from the old version since you do not have much time by your side if you want to finish it off in two odd months. For initiation into the subject, NCERTs and Haralambos are good enough. I also watched a few videos of IGNOU uploaded on the net for some of the topics. Maddy Sir, You mentioned that you read Haralambos not ' from cover to cover and confined myself strictly to the syllabus'. Plz explain me in details. Haralambos me se konse topics / chapters karne hai?
Aur konse nahi karne hai. Also I am confused with some of the topics. Like Work and Economic Life, Politics and society which are mentioned in syllabus. Which chapters of haralambos covers these topics. Also Books has few chapters not explicitly mentioned in syllabus like Women, poverty, education.
To which topics of syllabus do they correspond. Anonymous Hi Kshitij, So exams are just around the corner and i was hoping if you could give me a few suggestions on how to write an answer for sociology. Basically in terms of case studies that have been cited in Haralambos and Heald which pertain to the western context and are quite outdated - for eg.
Goldthorpe and Lockwood and STephen Hill's studies on the working class in Britain. I have not taken any coaching and so am at a loss if these studies can be cited. Thanks in anticipation!:) Radhika.