UGC NET Population Studies Syllabus 2024, UGC NET Syllabus PDF Download

UGC NET Population Studies Syllabus 2024 Unit Wise

• History, definition, nature, and scope of Population studies; relationship with other social sciences with population studies, Social structure, Social and Racial Groups, Society and Culture and its role in Population studies, Social Institutions and their role in influencing population studies, Social change in India, Tribes in India and their culture, etc.

• Rates, Ratio, Proportion, percentages, density, incidence and prevalence, person-years
• Rate of Population Growth: Arithmetic, Geometric and Exponential growth rates, Decadal growth rate Doubling time, concept of population stabilization and net reproduction rate unity, etc.

• Spatial and temporal changes in the size and distribution of population-global perspective with focus on India
• Age and sex structure of the population in developed and developing countries, etc.

• Nuptiality: Concepts and sources of data; Measures- crude marriage rate, age specific marriage rates, order specific marriage rates, singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM).
• Marriage patterns in India: levels, trends and differentials in age at marriage, divorce, widowhood, widow remarriage, etc.

• Basic concepts and terms used in the study of fertility.
• Fertility Indicators: sources of data and their computation, Cross-sectional or Period indicators: CBR, GFR, ASFR, ASMFR, TMFR, TFR, GRR, Net Reproduction Rate (NRR), Replacement level Fertility, Birth order statistics, Child Women ratio, Order Specific Fertility Measures

• Mortality
• Infant Mortality
• Morbidity
• Health
• Burden of Disease Estimates, etc.

• Urbanization
• Process of urbanization, measures and sources of data.
• Inter-relationship between urbanization and migration in developed and developing countries
• Migration
• Direct and indirect measures of migration, etc.

• Environment in the context of development, interrelationship between population growth, environment and development.
• Concepts of Development and its Measures: Limitations of per capita income as an indicator of development, human centered development-welfare approach, investment in human capital approach, HDI, PQLI, Concepts of Social Development, Social capital and Social change; SDI, GDI, MDG, Concept of Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), etc.

• Gender inequality and status of women:- social, economic, cultural, health and domestic violence, women autonomy and empowerment and its demographic implications, gender empowerment measure (GEM).
• Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST): size, growth, composition and distribution in India, development plans and programmes for SC and ST and their impact on population, etc.

• Evolution and Development of Population, Health, and Related Policies viz., National Population Policy 1977, National Health Policy 1983, National Population Policy 2000, National Health Policy 2002, National Health policy 2017, National Nutrition Policy, National Policy on Older Persons, etc.