Edition – 2025 – 26

With pleasure I present the Tenth Edition of Gc11cml Sociology, Gt:11era/ Sociology has been revised in accordance with the new syllabus announced by U.P.S.C. Besides the other ch,m􀁭es, severc1I new chapters and topics — Sociology as Science, Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology, sQciology and common sense, Science, scientific method and critique. Stratification and Mobility, Works and Economic Life, Systems of Kinship, Sociological theories of social change and Development and dependency have been incorporated. I am confident that the students will find General Sociology instructive, useful and rewarding.
in preparing this volume, I have drawn upon the learned works of the renowned authors. I owe them a debt of gratitude.

I must express my thanks to the publishers for their earnestness to bring out the revised and enlarged edition in a very short time.