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Public Administration: ( UPSC Syllabus ) Main Examination Syllabus - Subject : Public Administration Paper-I (Administrative theory) Section-A · Introduction Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration, Public and Private Administration, Wilson's vision of Public Administration, Evolution of the discipline and its present status. New Public Administration. Public choice approach and New Public Management perspective. Features of Entrepreneurial Government, Good Governance : concept and application. · Theories of Administraiton Nature and typologies; Scientific Management (Taylor and the Scientific Management Movement), Classical Theory (Fayol, Urwick, Gulick and others), Bureaucratic Theory. (Marxist view, Weber's model and its critique, post-Weberian developments.) Ideas of Mary Parker Follett and (C.I. Barnard) Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and and others). Behavioral Approach to Organizational Analysis. Participative ...

Sociology Syllabus: ( UPSC Syllabus ) Main Examination Syllabus - Subject : Sociology Paper-I General Sociology/Foundations of Sociology/Fundamentals of Sociology Sociology-The Discipline Sociology as a science and as an interpretative discipline; impact of industrial and French Revolution on the emergence of sociology; sociology and its relationship with history, economics, political science, psychology and anthropology. Scientific Study of Social Phenomena Problem of objectivity and value neutrality; issue of measurement in social science; elements of scientific method-concepts, theory and fact, hypothesis; research designs-descriptive, exploratory and experimental Techniques of data collection and analysis Participant and quasi-participant observation; interview, questionnaire and schedule case study, sampling-size, reliability and validity, scaling techniques-social distance and Likert scale. Pioneering contributions to Sociology Karl Marx : Historical materialism, mode of pr...