SOCIOLOGY PAPER– I : FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
📁 1. Sociology - The Discipline:
📁 Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of Sociology.
📁 Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
📁 Sociology and common sense.
📁2. Sociology as Science:
📁 Science, scientific method and critique.
📁 Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
📁 Positivism and its critique.
📁 Fact value and objectivity.
📁 Non-positivist methodologies.
📁3. Research Methods and Analysis:
📁 Qualitative and quantitative methods.
📁 Techniques of data collection.
📁 Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.
📁4. Sociological Thinkers:
📁 Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
📁 Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
📁 Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
📁 Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
📁 Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
📁 Mead - Self and identity.
📁5. Stratification and Mobility :
📁 Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
📁 Theories of social stratification - Structural func tionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
📁 Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
📁 Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
📁6. Works and Economic Life :
📁 Social organization of work in different types of society - slave society, feudal society, industrial capitalist society.
📁 Formal and informal organization of work.
📁 Labour and society.
📁7. Politics and Society:
📁 Sociological theories of power.
📁 Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and political parties.
📁 Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
📁 Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
📁8. Religion and Society :
📁 Sociological theories of religion.
📁 Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
📁 Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamen talism.
📁9. Systems of Kinship:
📁 Family, household, marriage.
📁 Types and forms of family.
📁 Lineage and descent.
📁 Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
📁 Contemporary trends.
📁10. Social Change in Modern Society :
📁 Sociological theories of social change.
📁 Development and dependency.
📁 Agents of social change.
📁 Education and social change.
📁 Science, technology and social change.
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