FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
- Research Methods and Analysis:
- Qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Renaissance period
- Techniques of data collection.
- Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability, and validity.
- (a) Karl Marx
- Historical Materialism
- Mode of production
- Alienation
- Class struggle
- Fetishism of Commodities
- Neo Marxism
- (b) Emile Durkheim
- Religion and its functions
- Sacred and Profane
- Totemism
- Conscious collective
- Criticism
- Religion and its functions
- Division of labour
- Simple and Complex society
- Material and Moral density
- Anomie
- Functions of DOL
- Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft types of communities
- Criticism
- Social facts
- Characteristics of social facts
- Types of social facts
- Normal and pathological social facts
- Material and Non material social facts
- Criticism of social fact theory
- Suicide
- Egoistic suicide
- Altruistic suicide
- Anomic suicide
- Fatalistic suicide
- (c) Max Weber
- Social Action
- Ideal types
- Ideal types
- Authority and power
- Bureaucracy
- Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
- Class,status and power
- Criticism
- (d) Talcolt Parsons
- Social system and its functional pre requisites
- AGIL paradigm and its corresponding systems
- Pattern variables and its criticism
- Cybernatic Hierarchy of control Moving Equilibrium
- Social actions
- (e) Robert K. Merton
- Manifest and Latent functions
- Reference Groups
- Anticipatory socialisation
- Conformity and deviance
- Forms of Deviance(Homosexuality etc)
- (f) Mead-Self and identity
- Self Stages of socialisation Generalised other Identity: and Me Symbolic Interactionism Criticism
- (a) Concepts
- Equality,
- Inequality
- Hierarchy
- Vertical and Horizontal mobility
- Social Exclusion and its types
- Deprivation Poverty and its theories
- Solutions to tackle poverty
- Deprivation.
- (b) Theories of social stratification
- Structural functionalist theory
- Marxist theory
- Weberian theory
- (c) Dimensions
- Social stratification of class
- status groups
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Race
- (d) Social mobility
- Open and closed systems,
- Types of mobility,
- Sources and causes of mobility
- Social organization of work in different types of society - slave society, feudal society, industrial capitalist society
- Formal and informal organization of work.
- Gig Economy
- Self Help groups
- Alienation of workers
- Feminization of labour
- Human Relations school by Elton Mayo
- Labour and society
- Ideology and Identity politics
- Sociological theories of power
- Types of power
- Power elite,Circulation of Elites,Modern Elite theory.Pluralism
- Bureaucracy
- Functions and dysfunctions Formal and informal structure of bureaucracy
- Pressure groups and Political parties
- Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology
- Protest, agitation
- Social movements (theories of social movements, life cycle of movements, Challenges faced by social movements, New social movements, Millenarian movement)
- Collective action, revolution
- Sociological theories of religion
- Functionalist
- Marxist
- Feminist Weber' perspective(Protestant ethics) and criticism
- Symbolic interactionists
- Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults
- Religion in modern society
- Functions and dysfunctions of religion
- Sects and Cults
- Secularization
- Religious revivalism
- Fundamentalism
- Religious pluralism
- Corelation between religion and science
- Family, household, marriage
- Scholarly views on family(Functionalist view marxist view,feminist view etc)
- Changes in family structures after Industrialization
- Types and forms of family
- Lineage and descent
- Patriarchy and sexual division of labour
- Patriarchal bargain
- Feminist ideas to deal with patriarchy
- Contemporary trends
- Relevance of marriage in current times Different types of marriage Increased divorce rates
- Sociological theories of social change. (Functional,post modernist,conflict, evolutionary theories like Social darwinism and cyclical theories)
- Development and dependency.(Metro satellite model, World system theory of Wallerstein, Development of underdevelopment)
- Agents of social change
- Education and social change
- Science, technology, and social change
- Cultural lag
- Nationalism, Citizenship, Civil society
- Globalization and Modernization
- Social media, its advantages and disadvantages, Social media activism
- Digital Divide
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