Oct, 2025: UPSC Sociology Current Affairs Compilation
| UPSC Sociology News (Oct, 2025) | Link to Article | Related Sociology Syllabus Topics | Related Sociology Thinkers (concepts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marital Disruption | Click here | Paper 1: System of Kinship: Family, household, marriage | Contemporary trends Paper 2: Systems of Kinship in India: Family and marriage in India | Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim |
| Sub-Caste in Census 2027 | Click here | Paper 1: Research Methods and Analysis: Techniques of data collection Paper 2: Caste System: Features of caste system | M.N. Srinivas (Field View), Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Caste as Enclosed Class) |
| Property rights of Minors | Click here | Paper 1: System of Kinship: Family, household, marriage Paper 2: Systems of Kinship in India: Family and marriage in India | Leela Dube, Henry Maine |
| Sociology of Chhath Puja | Click here | Paper 1: Emile Durkheim (Religion) | Religion and Society: Sociological theories of religion | Robert Redfield, McKim Marriott |
| Elderly in India | Click here | Paper 2: Population Dynamics: Emerging issues: ageing | SACRED Portal |
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Sep, 2025: UPSC Sociology Current Affairs Compilation
| UPSC Sociology News (Sep, 2025) | Link to Article | Related Sociology Syllabus Topics | Related Sociology Thinkers (concepts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who silences the dowry victim?| | Click here | Paper 1: Stratification:- Gender | System of Kinship:- Patriarchy and Entitlements Paper 2: Challenges of Social Transformation -Violence against Women | Dipankar Gupta, Utsa Patnaik |
| Elderly Women: The Quiet Majority | Click here | Paper 2: Population Dynamics-Emerging issues: ageing. System of Kinship-Family and kinship, entitlements. | The Demographic Context of Ageing | Clark Tibbitts – Defined ageing. |
| Tribal ‘Change Leaders’ | Click here | Paper 1: Stratification and Mobility:- Ethnicity and race Paper 2: Tribal Communities in India. | Verrier Elwin, GS Ghurye |
| Gender Angle To Economic Vulnerabilities | Click here | Paper 1: Stratification:-Gender Inequality. Work and Economic Life:- gender wage gap Paper 2: Family and Kinship in India (Patriarchy) | Intersectionality of Discrimination, Heidi Hartmann (Capitalism and Patriarchy) |
| Migration and Globalisation| | Click here | Paper 2: Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India:- Problems of rural labour: bondage and migration. | Everett Lee (Push-Pull Factors), Poverty as Capability Deprivation |
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Aug, 2025: UPSC Sociology Current Affairs Compilation
| UPSC Sociology News (Aug, 2025) | Link to Article | Related Sociology Syllabus Topics | Related Sociology Thinkers (concepts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women in Agriculture | Click here | Paper 1: Works & Economic Life Paper 2: Rural & Agrarian Transformation in India | Bina Agarwal, Sylvia Walby, Kimberlé Crenshaw |
| Kerala – Maternal Mortality | Click here | Paper 2: Population Dynamics-child and infant mortality, reproductive health | Ann Oakley, Michael Marmot, Demographic Transition Theory |
| Greying With Grace | Click here | Paper 2: Population Dynamics-Emerging issues: ageing. | Demographic Transition Theory |
| Citizens, Domicile, Migrants | Click here | Paper 1: Politics and Society-citizenship Paper 2: Politics & Society-Nation, democracy, citizenship; | Social Identity Theory Ethnic Mobilisation |
| Untouchability Wall | Click here | Paper 2: Caste System-Untouchability. | Social Closure Theory (Max Weber) |
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