HTET PGT Sociology Syllabus 2026 Subject-wise Syllabus, Exam Pattern and Eligibility

HTET PGT Sociology Syllabus 2026 Subject-wise Syllabus, Exam Pattern and Eligibility

The PGT Sociology paper is one of the more current-affairs-sensitive papers in the HTET structure. It explicitly mentions topics like Smart Cities, the Virtual Market, and demographic data up to the 2011 Census, along with the classical theory (Marx, Durkheim, Weber). This means that a purely textbook-based revision misses content that BSEH has clearly designed to keep track of contemporary Indian society.

This guide covers the HTET PGT Sociology syllabus exactly as BSEH has structured it, along with the exam weightage and the eligibility conditions for this paper.

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HTET PGT Sociology Exam Pattern and Weightage 2026

The paper has 150 multiple-choice questions for 150 marks, completed in two and a half hours, with one mark per question and no negative marking.

Qualifying marks:

• General category candidates: 60% (90 marks)
• SC and differently-abled candidates of Haryana domicile: 55% (82 marks)
• SC and differently-abled candidates from other states: 60% (90 marks)

Topics come from the Class 9-12 syllabus prescribed by the Haryana Education Department, with the difficulty standard reaching postgraduate level.

Common Syllabus for HTET PGT (Child Development, Languages, General Studies)

These three sections are identical across every PGT subject and make up 90 of the 150 marks.

Child Development and Pedagogy

Covers the psychology of teaching and learning for the 14-17 age group. Alongside the standard ground — development and its relationship with learning, heredity and environment, socialisation, and the perspectives of Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky — this PGT-level syllabus specifically adds Freud’s Psychosexual Development Theory, Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development, and Bandura’s Social Learning Theory.

Languages — Hindi and English

Each carries 15 marks: one unseen passage tested for comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability, combined with the pedagogy of language development, relevant to the 14-17 age group.

General Studies — Haryana GK, Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude

Haryana GK (10 marks) covers state history, current affairs, geography and welfare schemes. Reasoning (10 marks) spans verbal and non-verbal types. Quantitative Aptitude (10 marks) covers number systems, percentages, interest, mensuration and data representation.

HTET PGT Sociology: Subject-Specific Syllabus

The 60-mark section is organised into three parts.

Part 1: Basic Concepts

The development of Sociology in the West and in India, and the meaning, scope and subject matter of Sociology as a discipline — including its relationship with other social sciences. Society and the social group. Social stratification — the caste and class systems, and the Varna system. Status and role, social control, culture, socialisation, and social structure. Social process and social deviance, social change and mobility, and family, marriage and kinship.

Part 2: Indian Society and Social Change in India

Tribe, national development and tribal development, and tribal identity today. Capitalism, commoditisation and consumption, and globalisation, liberalisation and marketisation. Social inequality and exclusion — covering prejudice and discrimination, the exclusion of SC/ST communities, women and Divyangjan, the poverty line, untouchability, the Other Backward Class Commission, Adivasi struggles and displacement, rehabilitation, and the struggles of women and differently-abled persons for equality and rights.

Cultural diversity and India as a national state, the difference between assimilationist and integrationist policies, minority rights and nation-building, and communalism, secularism and the nation state. Structural change — colonialism and capitalism, urbanisation and industrialisation, the impact of British industrialisation, industrialisation and urbanisation in independent India, metropolitan cities, the urban population growth rate, and Smart Cities.

Cultural change and social reform movements of the 19th and early 20th century. The Constitution and social change — fundamental rights, social justice, Panchayati Raj and Gram Swarajya, and political parties and pressure groups. Change and development in rural and urban society — agrarian social structure, land reforms, the Green Revolution, migration, contract farming, the globalisation of agriculture, and rural and agricultural development programmes.

Mass media and communication — from the beginnings of modern mass media through to print and social media today. Social movements — their concept and features, and specific movements including ecological, peasant, worker, caste-based, backward-class, tribal and women’s movements, along with the role of NGOs.

Part 3: Sociological Thought and Social Research

Classical theorists: Karl Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber — their introduction and theories. Indian sociologists: G.S. Ghurye, D.P. Mukerji, A.R. Desai and M.N. Srinivas — their introduction and theories. Social research — its meaning, stages and types, data and data types, and the tools and theories of data collection.

Demography — theories of population, and key concepts including birth rate, death rate, natural increase, fertility rate, infant mortality, life expectancy, sex ratio, age structure, dependency ratio, demographic dividend, and literacy rate. The size and growth of the Indian population from 1901 to 2011, epidemic and pandemic diseases, the age structure of the Indian population, rural-urban linkages and divisions, and population policy in India.

Social ecology — social environments, the interaction between environment and society, major environmental problems and risks, natural and man-made environmental disasters, and sustainable development. The sociological perspective on markets and the economy — the concept of the market, the weekly tribal market, caste-based markets, the Jajmani system, traditional business communities, and the virtual market.

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Given how much of Part 2 and Part 3 ties into current Indian social and economic trends — Smart Cities, the virtual market, 2011 Census data — it’s worth pairing textbook theory with up-to-date reading on contemporary Indian society rather than treating this as purely historical theory.

Who Is Eligible for HTET PGT Sociology? Qualification Details

You need to satisfy all of the following:

1. A Post Graduate degree in Sociology with at least 50% marks from a recognised university, along with a B.Ed. from a recognised university.
2. Matric with Hindi or Sanskrit as a subject, or Senior Secondary/Graduation/Post Graduation with Hindi as one of the subjects.
3. A consistent good academic record.

What counts as “Good Academic Record”

For direct recruitment, “Good Academic Record” means averaging at least 50% marks across any three of your 10th, 12th, Graduation and Post-Graduation results — but you must separately have at least 50% marks in your Post-Graduation itself.

Relaxation for SC, BC and differently-abled candidates

Where the minimum qualifying mark is 50%, SC, BC and differently-abled candidates get a 5% relaxation, bringing it to 47.5%. Where the minimum is 45%, the relaxed figure is 42.75%, per the Supreme Court’s 2011 ruling in P.V. Indiresan vs Union of India.

A qualification detail worth checking twice

Only a B.Ed. recognised by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) counts. For the B.Ed. (Special Education) route specifically, the course needs recognition from the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) instead.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does PGT Sociology test Indian sociologists as thoroughly as Western theorists like Marx and Weber?

Yes. Part 3 explicitly names G.S. Ghurye, D.P. Mukerji, A.R. Desai and M.N. Srinivas alongside Marx, Durkheim and Weber, with equal billing as “introduction and theories” — Indian sociological thought isn’t a minor addendum here.

Is demography a major topic, or a minor subtopic within Part 3?

It’s substantial — demographic concepts, Indian population data through 2011, and population policy are all explicitly listed, making demography one of the more fact-dense portions of the paper.

Does the syllabus cover current social movements, or only historical ones?

Both. Part 2 lists ecological, peasant, worker, caste-based, backward-class, tribal and women’s movements together, without restricting the scope to any particular era, so recent developments in these movements are fair ground.

How is PGT Sociology eligibility different from a general Social Science teaching qualification?

PGT Sociology specifically requires a Post Graduate degree in Sociology with at least 50% marks, plus a B.Ed. — this is distinct from TGT Social Studies, which covers Sociology only as one of six possible elective subjects within a broader Social Science degree.

Because this syllabus blends classical sociological theory with explicitly contemporary content, candidates who studied Sociology some years ago should refresh the Part 2 material — urbanisation trends, Smart Cities, and current social movements — rather than relying solely on what they covered during their postgraduate coursework.