SYLLABUS

Unit I

Emergence of Sociology, Intellectual Sources : Enlightenment, Philosophy of History, Political History, Social and Political Reform Movements.
Revolution : French Revolution and Industrial Revolution.

Unit II

August Comte : Positivism, The Hierarchy of Sciences, Law of Three Stages. Herbert Spencer Social Evolution and Social Darwinism

Unit III

Emile Durkheim : Social Fact, Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity, Suicide.

Unit IV

Vilfredo Pareto : Action - Logical and Non Logical Action, Residues and Derivatives.

Unit V

Karl Marx : Dialectical Historical Materialism, Class Struggle, Theory of Alienation.

Unit VI

Max Weber : Social Action, Power and Authority, Protestant Ethics and Spirit of Capitalism.

Unit VII

G.H.Mead : Symbolic Interaction, Concept of 'Self and 'Me.'

Unit VIII

Talcott Parsons : Action and Behaviour; Social System, Pattern Variables.
R.K.Merton : Middle Range Theory, Manifest and Latent Function.

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