CSS-Anthropology-Syllabus-2025 Multan Kitab Ghar

CSS Anthropology Syllabus 2025

CSS Anthropology 2025 Group 7

CSS Anthropology Syllabus 2025

This article covers the CSS Sociology complete Syllabus.

The syllabus of CSS Sociology consists of 7 parts of a collective 100 marks.

The examination for CSS Sociology is the Group 7 exam for CSS candidates.

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CSS Anthropology Syllabus 2025

Paper (100-Marks)

    • Anthropology: 

      • Definition 
      • Historical development and recent trends 

    • Social Anthropology: 

  • Definition of culture, its characteristics and functions 
  • Relationship of anthropology with other social sciences 
  • Subfields of anthropology:
        • Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology & SocioCultural Anthropology 
  • Institution of Family and Marriage: 
        • Definitions, types, structures, functions, family organization 
  • Kinship and Social Organization: 
        • Definitions, types, functions, kinship terminology etc. 
  • Economic Organization: 
        • Definitions, evolution, substantivism versus formalism, reciprocity, production, consumption, distribution, barter and primitive economic systems) 
  • Political Organization: 
        • a) Definitions & evolution of the political system 
        • b) Characteristics of band, tribal, chiefdom and state societies 
        • c) Theories of the origin of state societies: internal conflict theories, external conflict theories, population and irrigation theories, the institutionalization of leadership and the emergence of state, system theories 
        • d) The origin of civilization, the politics of identity
        • e) Ethnicity and ethnic relations
        • f) Nationalism, Modernism, post-modernism etc.
  • Religion: 
        • Definitions, the evolution of primitive religions, functions of religion, comparison of divine religions and other world religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism etc. 
  • Contemporary Human Problems: 
        • Poverty, social inequality, political instability, population problems, ethnic violence and terrorism etc

    • Urban Anthropology:

      • Rural-urban migration 
      • Expansion of cities 
      • Major environmental issues & sanitation problems 
      • Urbanization and Development 
      • The establishment of slums and squatter settlements 
      • Refugees, Yankees, betties, gypsies, wars and conflict 
      • Conversion of power from feudal to industrialists 
      • Institutionalization & education system 
      • Change in the mode of production: agriculture to capitalists 
      • Poverty: theories and remedies 
      • Management of city life: psychological, cultural, economic, political, religious, physical, environmental, ecological, demographical, lingual etc. 
      • Karl Marx and conflict theory 
      • Problems created by mechanization and automation. 

    • Socio-Cultural Change: 

      • Definitions & difference between social and cultural change 
      • Various dimensions of cultural change 
      • Barriers to cultural change including culture, psychological and political 
      • Internal & external dynamics for change 
      • Population increase and change 
      • Diffusion of innovations 
      • Socio-religious barriers in accepting the innovations and new ideas 
      • Media and cultural change 
      • Dynamics of change in Pakistan (Trends and prospects) 

    • Ethnicity and Race: 

      • Theories related to ethnicity and race 
      • Ethnicity and Racism 
      • Nations and Nationality 
      • Ethnic conflict 
      • Degree of social variation 
      • Rank societies, caste and class societies and social stratification etc. 

    • Anthropological Theories: 

  • Contributors: 
        • Edward Burnett Taylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, James Frazer, Karl Marx, Edmund Leach, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alfred L.Krobber, Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, Clifford Geertz, Talal Asad, Akbar S. Ahamd, Ibn Khaldun, Shah Waliullah 
  • Classical Theories: 
        • Degenerations, Evolutionism, Neo-Evolutionism, Diffusions 
  • Modern Theories: 
        • Functionalism, Structural-functionalism, Class struggle, Structuralism, Historical Particularism, Feminism, Culture and personality 
  • Current Trends in Anthropological Thoughts: 
      • Postmodernism, Romanticism, Poetics and Politics of Ethnography 

  • Anthropological Research Methods: 

    • Meaning, definition, types and aims of anthropological research 
    • Qualitative and Quantitative research 
    • Purpose of research, research question, variables, hypothesis, Research objective(s), research design 
    • Sampling, field data collection, tools of data collection (questionnaire, interview, participant observation), data classification, data analysis, and reporting


This is the complete syllabus for preparation of CSS Sociology.

The Candidates should prepare thoroughly to succeed in the examination.

Therefore, here are a few suggested books you can buy for better learning about CSS Sociology from your favorite Multan Kitab Ghar online bookstore.

Suggested Reading Books for CSS Anthropology 2025

  • Anthropology by William A Haviland 
  • Cultural Anthropology by Onrad Philip Kottak 
  • Diffusion of Innovation by Everett M. Roger 
  • Socio Cultural Dynamics and impact of Technological Change by G. M. Foster 
  • Pakistani Society by Akber S. Ahmed 
  • Economic Anthropology by Sutti Ortiz 
  • Political Anthropology: An introduction by Ted. C. Lawellen 
  • Pukhtun economy and society by Akber S. Ahmed 
  • Principles of Anthropology by Eliot Dismore Chapple andCarleton Stevens Coon 
  • Anthropology and Modern life by Franz Boas 
  • Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problem by John H. Bodley 
  • Sindh and the Races that inhabit the Valley of the Indus by Richard Burton 
  • The People of Pakistan by Yu. V. Gankorvsky 
  • Anthropology and Development by Jean-Pierre Olivier deSardan
  • An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology by Robert Layton 
  • Anthropological Theory by John R. McGee and Richard L. Warms 
  • Anthropology in Pakistan by Stephen Pastner and Louis Flam 
  • Anthropology (13th edition) by Carol R. Ember, Melvin R Ember and Pet N Peregrine 
  • Other Cultures by John Beattie 
  • A Hand Book of Social Science Research Beverly R. Dixon, Gary D Bouma and G.B.J. Atkinson 
  • Frontier Perspectives: Essays in Comparative Anthropology by Clarlies Lindholm G
  • Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan by Clarlies Lindholm 
  • Friend by Day and Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community by Lincoin Keiser 
  • A Punjabi Village in Pakistan by Zekiye Eglar 
  • The social organization of the Marri Baluch by Robert Niel Pehrson 
  • Introducing Anthropology by Park, MA 2007 
  • Peoples and Cultures of Asia by Scupin, R 2005 
  • Outlines and Highlights for Anthropology by Scupin, R and Decorse, CR 2010 
  • Economic Anthropology by Stuart plattner 
  • Economies and Culture by Richard Wilk 
  • Introduction to Anthropology of Religion by Brian Morris
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