Morning!
Can anyone please tell me what are the approaches to the study of society?

The basic approaches to the study of sociology are the three main paradigms; structural functionalism, conflict and symbolic interaction. You must learn sociology with its own concepts and theories and develop a "sociological perspective". I highly recommend giving time to these paradigms and also giving a good thorough study to part II-Sociological theory of the FPSC sociology course before preparing the other parts because it'll help you develop a sociological outlook and thinking.

This year's paper was highly conceptual. I enjoyed attempting it but that was only because I took the time earlier to carefully and methodically learn about the FPSC recommended sociologists and their theories. You need to immerse yourself in the subject. Once you know the basic theories you can apply them everywhere and even a seemingly general question will gain more weight if you can back it up with respected sociologists' theories and views.

For example; question number 4 from CSS-2019 was How cultural ethnocentrism promotes social change and maintain social order. Comment.

I attempted this question by first defining the term then giving examples of ethnocentrism and how "generally" it can maintain social order and also promote social change (social order: ethnocentrism promotes a feeling of solidarity amongst the members of the group against "others" and they develop cultural, social and legal measures to maintain an order where they are superior. e.g. European Colonialism and their "civilize the savages" campaign, apartheid in south Africa etc. Social change the oppressed class gets tired of the discrimination and fights for change. e.g Martin Luther King Jr. and his marches, Black panther movement, freedom struggle of the Muslims against double ethnocentrism of both British colonizers and Hindu Mahasbha.) After this part I supported my stance with theories. Ibn Al-Khaldun and the concept of Assabiya (tribalism), Karl Marx and the fall of capitalism and W. E. B Dubois and racial discrimination in America.

From where did you cover major portion of Sociology?

And second thing is that developing sociological thinking and attempting like a sociologist, does this approach is applicable to other subjects too??? Like attempting IR with diplomatic thinking and town planning like an engineer??? Will it yield higher marks??? You must have an idea after looking at your DMC.

I covered all of sociology from the internet. I took it topic by topic and just google searched and read articles until I felt I understood the topic. I had previously made a google doc with all the past paper questions seperated into headings according to the topic e.g all culture questions under culture heading, all social integration questions together. I looked at these questions and tried to solve them. I have a good friend who has a Masters in Sociology and she would help if I got stuck (lots of economics and sociology topics overlap but they mean different things so I got confused sometimes). Youtube and especially Crash course videos helped a lot. It's not about how many books you read, its about how wisely you can structure and make use of the knowledge already at your disposal. This was my appraoch for all the subjects. Think like a specialist-because your paper is going to be judged and compared against people who have masters in these subjects, you need to beat them.

As for the mark sheet, i cleared css 2019 we don't have our marks yet. Only the mark sheets of the failed candidates was uploaded so I assume they'll release our finals marks with the allocation. But in any case I cleared so we know that at least these tips can get one a 33!!