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SYLLABUS FOR THE JUNIOR LECTURERS (ODISHA EDUCATION SERVICE)

General English
The question paper in General English will be designed to test the candidate’s understanding of English and workmanlike use of words. The pattern of questions would be as follows :
1. Precis writing of a passage of around 300 words - 10 marks
2. Translation from Oriya to English - 10 marks
3. Grammar, uses and Vocabulary - 15 marks
4. Short Essay within 400 words - 15 marks Total- 50 marks
The standard of questions of General English may be equal to Higher Secondary Level (+2 Level).

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General Knowledge
The paper in General Knowledge will include knowledge of current events and matters as of everyday observation and experience in the scientific aspects of life as may be expected of an educated person. The paper will also include questions on History of India and Geography of such standard which the candidates should be able to answer without special study. Total 50 marks.

Subject Paper- The examination in the concerned subject will cover 400 marks consisting two papers i.e. PAPER-I & PAPER-II having 200 marks each.

Anthropology
PAPER – I
Unit – I - History and Development of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Basic Concepts: Simple Society, Complex Society, Community, Culture, Civilization, Primary and Secondary Groups, Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism, Ethnicity, Globalization, and Postmodern Anthropology. Social Organization, Social System, Social Structure, Social Process, Social Function, Values and World View. Types of Marriage: Monogamy, Polygamy, Preferential and Prescriptive, Endogamy, Exogamy, Parallel and Cross Cousin. Types and Functions of Family. Types of Kinship Terms, Types and Structure of Descent Groups. Types of Kin Group, Alliance Theory.

Unit – II - Definition, Nature and Characteristics of Culture. Paradoxes of Culture. Types of Culture Change: Innovation, Invention, Diffusion, Acculturation, Assimilation, Attenuation, Integration. Cultural Adaptation: Enculturation and Socialization. Concepts and Theories of Religion, Religion, Magic and Science, Religious Functionaries. Types of Political Organization, State and Stateless Societies. Forms and Agencies of Social Control, Social Sanction, Law and Justice, Concepts of Production, Consumption, Exchange and Distribution. Primitive And Peasant Economy, Reciprocity And Redistribution, Types And Technological Levels Of Economy: Foraging, Hunting, Pastoralism, Shifting Cultivation. Terrace Cultivation, Dry and Wet Cultivation, Horticulture and Industrial.

Unit – III - Methodological Perspectives in Anthropology. Field Work And Field Work Traditions In Anthropology, Methodological Approaches In Anthropology: Holistic, Emic And Etic, Synchronic And Diachronic, Testing Of Hypothesis. Types of Research Design. Techniques of Data Collection and Their Types: Observation, Interview, Case Study, Schedule and Questionnaire. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods. Types of Sampling and Their Application. Methods of Comparison, PRA And RRA Techniques, Sociogram, Projective Techniques, Type of Scaling Techniques, Methods of Visual Anthropology, Measurement of Central Tendencies, Frequency Distribution, Standard Deviation, Standard Error, Chi-Square Test, Coefficient of Co Variation And Co-Efficient of Correlation.

Unit – IV - Emergence Of Anthropology As An Empirical Discipline, Anthropology As Natural Science And Natural History, Classical Evolutionism, Diffusionism, Structuralism, Structural-Functionalism, Functionalism, Neo-Evolutionism, Configurational Approach And Culturological Approach To The Study of Culture, Post-Structuralism, Symbolic And Interpretive Anthropology, Postmodern Anthropology, Concepts of Culture And Personality. Individual, Culture and Society, Types of Personality Formation and Determinants, Types of Personality, Personality and Social Structure, Functions of Personality, Psychology of Culture Change, Diachronic And Synchronic Study of Culture and Personality. Relation between Language and Culture, Classification of Language, Functional Study of Language, Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology, Language and Communication.

Unit – V - Approaches to the Study of Indian Civilization. Concepts of Little Tradition and Great Tradition, Unity and Diversity, Universalization and Parochialisation. Relevance of Village Studies, Types of Village. Caste as a Concept and System, Origin of Caste, Jajmani System, Dominant Caste, Caste and Politics, Problems of Scheduled Caste. Folk-Urban and Tribe-Caste Contrast and Continuum. Sacred Complex Studies in India. Scheduled Tribes and Their Types, Distribution and Classification of Tribal Languages, Peasant Society and Culture. Problems of Minorities.

Unit – VI - Problems in Tribal Society: Land Alienation, Shifting Cultivation, Housing, Health, Nutrition and Sanitation, Indebtedness, Alcoholism, Bonded Labour, Child Labour, Education, Poverty and Gender Issues. Problems of Displacement and Rehabilitation. Development Strategies, Policies, Plans and Programmes of Tribal Development. Approaches to Tribal Development, Role of Anthropology in Tribal and Rural Development, Types of Tribal Movement in India. New Panchayati Raj System: PESA Act and Gram Sabha. Role of N.G.Os in Development.

Unit – VII – The New Development Paradigm: Anthropology of Development and Anthropology in Development. Applied and Action Anthropology. Meanings & Characteristics and Indices of Economic Development, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Economic Development, Development and Under-development. The Third World profile. Regional Imbalances and Regional Development in India. Poverty Alleviation Programmes in India, Agricultural and Industrial Development in Rural India. Regional Development in India. Quality of life and Collective Well being. Resources (Human and Natural) and their utilization in Odisha.

Unit – VIII – Problems of Development. Socio-cultural Barriers and Stimulants to Development. Economic Development and Social change, Modernization and Development. Culture of Development & Development of Culture. Planned Development in India, Planning in India: Centralised, De-centralised, Top-bottom, Bottom-top, Sectoral and Integrated. Constitutional safequards and protective legislations for SCs and STs in India. Gender and Development. Environment and Development, Health and Development, Education and Development. Theories of Economic Development (Adam Smith, Devis Richarod, Thomas Malthus, J.S. Mills Myrdal, Schumacher, Marx, Schumpteter and Amartya Sen) Globolization, Liberlisation and Development.

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Please intimate whether the pattern consists multiple choice question in this time or it will same as like that of the previous years pattern but in this time the total mark in each subject paper increased to 400 from 100

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What course on political science in o.p.s.c. Junior lectureship and what is imortant topic in englishand general awerness.

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