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Part 1: Introduction to Sociology
Unit 1: Sociology: A Discipline
- Sociology:
- Major Sociological Perspectives:
Unit 2: Basic Concepts in Sociology
- Man and society: relationship
- Social groups: Meaning, Characteristics, Functions and Classification (cooley’s classification; Reference Group
- Status and Roles: Meaning and Characteristics; determinants and types of status
- Social organization and disorganization: meaning; characteristics; causes; and difference between organization and disorganization
- Culture: meaning and definitions, structure and types, functions, difference between culture and civilization
Unit 3: Family Marriage and Kinship
- Family: Definitions, Characteristics, Types and Functions; Future Of Family
- Marriage: Concept of Marriage; Forms or Types of Marriage; Hindu Muslim and Christian Marriage an Overview
- Kinship: Meaning, Types, Categories or Degrees of Kinship, Kinship Terms, and Kinship Usages; Descent: Rules of Descent, Concepts: Phratry, Moiety, Clan, and Lineage
Unit 4: Socialization and Stratification
- Socialization: Meaning and Stages; Agencies of Socialization; theories of socialization
- Social Stratification: Characteristics and functions; forms of social stratification: estate system, caste system, class system.
- Social mobility: Definition and types; horizontal mobility; vertical mobility; intra and intergenerational mobility; consequences of social mobility
Part 2: Sociological Thought
Unit 1: Classical Social Thinkers
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857): Biographical Sketch, Methodology, Law of Three Stages, Hierarchy of the Sciences, Scientific Theory of Morality & Religion of Humanity, Positivism
- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): Biographical sketch, Rules of Sociological Method, Division of Labour, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Theory of Suicide
- Karl Marx (1818-1883): Biographical Sketch, Historical Materialism, Theory of Capitalism, Theory of Alienation, Theory of Class & Class Struggle, Law of Dialectics
- Max Weber (1864-1920): Biographical Sketch, Methodology, Social Action, Theory of Religion, Ideal Types, Power, Authority
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832): Biographical Sketch; concept of justice and utilitarianism
Unit 2: Modern Social Thinkers
- Roscoe Pound (1870-1964): Biographical Sketch, Theory of Social Engineering, Jural Postulates (l- 5), Social Justice, Values, A Consensus Model of Society, End or Purpose of Law, Theory of Interest, and Classification of Interest.
- Immanuel Wallerstein (1930- ): Biographical Sketch, Dialectics of Capitalism, Division of Labour, Exploitation, Accumulation, Overproduction, World Empires, World Economics, Kondratieff Waves, Modern Crisis, Structural and Cultural Signs
- M.N. Srinivas (1916-1999): Biographical sketch, Theoretical and Methodological orientation, Religion and Society, Village, Caste & Dominant Caste, Sanskritization, and Westemization & Legitimacy
- Jean Baudrillard (1929- 2007): Biographical Sketch, Simulation Society, Hyper Reality, Orders of Simulation, Consumer Society
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002): Biographical Sketch, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Economic Capital, Human Capital & Theory of Cultural Reproduction
- Jurgen Habermas (1929- ): Biographical Sketch, Liberal Capitalism, Organized Capitalism, Colonization of the Life world, Public Sphere, Critical theory, Speech Communities, Civil Society
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