Introducing Sociology
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Paper
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212009
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Marks
: 100
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Credits
: 4
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Class
Hours : 60
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Introducing Sociology
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Exam
Duration : 4 Hours
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- Definition, Nature & Scope of Sociology, relationship with other social sciences. Development of Sociology: Contributions of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber
2. Culture, Beliefs & Values: Norms,
sanctions, symbols, language, subculture, counterculture, hegemony &
resistance
3. Globalization, Culture and Society: Globalization
and its different dimensions, Cultural globalization, global culture and social
change
4. Urbanization and Social Formation: Definition
of urbanization and urbanism, Process of urbanization
in developing societies and social formation, over urbanization, growth of slum
& poverty in mega cities
5. Gender and Society: DisPaper of WID, WAD
and GAD, Why gender is important in the disPaper
of development, Gender inequality & women’s subjugation in developing
societies.
- Environmental Problems, Natural Disasters and Social Crisis: Climate change and its impact on society, Natural disaster, social crisis and vulnerabilities, Climate change, deforestation and mal-development.
7. Social Inequality: Dimensions of social
inequality: Class, gender, age, minority group (religious and indigenous), economic vulnerability, Social inequalities
in developed & developing countries.
8. Types of societies: Marxist view on
classifying societies on the basis of type of control over economic resources
and Lenski’s view on classifying societies by their main means of Subsistance.
- Deviance & Social Control: Definition of deviance, theories of deviance. Crime & justice system, agencies of social control.
- Health, Illness and Society: Nature & scope of the problem, Urbanizations, acute, chronic & life style diseases, Social, environmental & behavioural factors affecting health, Communicable & behavioural diseases: STD, HIV/AIDS, TB, Hep-B etc
Tony Bilton et al Introductory Sociology