UNIT I
Sociology and social enquiry - scope of sociology -
scientific status - methods - limitation - research
design - Sources of data - tools of data collection.
UNIT II
Sociological theories - major contribution of Comte
- spencer - Durkheim - Weber, Marx - Parsens and Merton
UNIT III
Social organization and social institution - society
- origin - theories of origin - individual and society
major social institutions - Marriage - family - religion
- Culture.
UNIT IV
Social groups and social stratification - primary and
secondary groups - in group and out group - reference
group - ethnocentrism - form of stratification - caste
and class.
UNIT V
Social process and social change:- socialisation associative
and disassociative process - social control - factors
of social change process of social change.
UNIT VI
Rural Societyand Rural Development - Chracterristics
of rural society - rural problem of in India - land
reforms - rural development - panchayath Raj.
UNIT VII
Tribal society:- Tribal community and their distributions
- disabilities of tribal peoples - welfare and development
- constitutional measures and safe guards.
UNIT VIII
Urban society:- Chareteristics of urban society - urban
social problems - slum - alcoholism - crime - prostitutuion
- urban development and planning.
UNIT IX
Population analysis: Variables of populations fortility
- mortality - migration - size, distribution - Composition
- Population policy of India - population control -
small family norm.
UNIT X
Social Disorganization - Individual and social disorganization
deviance - problems of minorities, BCs and SCs problems
of women.
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