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IGNOU BA Sociology Book Pdf Download – 3000+ Pages Materials

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Sociology – The Discipline

  • Emergence of Sociology: Link 1
  • Scope of the subject & comparison with other social sciences: Covered in NCERT
  • Sociology and Common Sense: Covered in NCERT also.

Sociology as Science

  • Science, scientific method and critique: Link 1   Link 2   Link 3   Link 4
  • Major theoretical strands of research methodology: Post modernism
  • Positivism and its critique
  • Fact value and objectivity: Fact and Value

Research Methods and Analysis

  • Qualitative and quantitative methods: Link 1
  • Techniques of data collection: Survey     Participatory methods    Comparative methods
  • Variables,    sampling,    hypothesis,    reliability and validity

Sociological Thinkers

  • Karl Marx- Historical Materialism 1,  Link 1, Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, Link 1(class struggle), class struggle
  • Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, Link 2 (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

Stratification and Mobility

  • Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty ( Link 2) and deprivation
  • Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist 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

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: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

Politics and Society

  • Sociological theories of power    Link 2
  • Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties 1 political parties 2
  • Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology
  • Protest, agitation, social movements 1 social movements 2 , collective action, revolution

Religion and Society

  • Sociological theories of religion:   Link 1  Link 2  Link 3  Link 4
  • Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults
  • Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism

Systems of Kinship

  • Family, household, marriage
  • Types and forms of family
  • Lineage and descent
  • Patriarchy and sexual division of labour
  • Contemporary trends

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 [Covered in above PDFs]

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