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Part 1: Introduction to Sociology

Unit 1: Sociology: A Discipline

• Sociology:
  • Definition, Nature and Scope of Sociology
  • Origin and development
  • Schools of thought
  • Relevance of Sociology for the study of Law
• Major Sociological Perspectives:
  • Structural-Functional
  • Social Conflict
  • Symbolic Interactionism
  • Feminist Perspective

Unit 2: Basic Concepts in Sociology

• Man and society: relationship
• Social groups: Meaning, Characteristics, Functions and Classification (cooley’s classification; Reference Group
• Status and Roles: Meaning and Characteristics; determinants and types of status
• Social organization and disorganization: meaning; characteristics; causes; and difference between organization and disorganization
• Culture: meaning and definitions, structure and types, functions, difference between culture and civilization

Unit 3: Family Marriage and Kinship

• Family: Definitions, Characteristics, Types and Functions; Future Of Family
• Marriage: Concept of Marriage; Forms or Types of Marriage; Hindu Muslim and Christian Marriage an Overview
• Kinship: Meaning, Types, Categories or Degrees of Kinship, Kinship Terms, and Kinship Usages; Descent: Rules of Descent, Concepts: Phratry, Moiety, Clan, and Lineage

Unit 4: Socialization and Stratification

• Socialization: Meaning and Stages; Agencies of Socialization; theories of socialization
• Social Stratification: Characteristics and functions; forms of social stratification: estate system, caste system, class system.
• Social mobility: Definition and types; horizontal mobility; vertical mobility; intra and intergenerational mobility; consequences of social mobility

Part 2: Sociological Thought

Unit 1: Classical Social Thinkers

• Auguste Comte (1798-1857): Biographical Sketch, Methodology, Law of Three Stages, Hierarchy of the Sciences, Scientific Theory of Morality & Religion of Humanity, Positivism
• Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): Biographical sketch, Rules of Sociological Method, Division of Labour, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Theory of Suicide
• Karl Marx (1818-1883): Biographical Sketch, Historical Materialism, Theory of Capitalism, Theory of Alienation, Theory of Class & Class Struggle, Law of Dialectics
• Max Weber (1864-1920): Biographical Sketch, Methodology, Social Action, Theory of Religion, Ideal Types, Power, Authority
• Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832): Biographical Sketch; concept of justice and utilitarianism

Unit 2: Modern Social Thinkers

• Roscoe Pound (1870-1964): Biographical Sketch, Theory of Social Engineering, Jural Postulates (l- 5), Social Justice, Values, A Consensus Model of Society, End or Purpose of Law, Theory of Interest, and Classification of Interest.
• Immanuel Wallerstein (1930- ): Biographical Sketch, Dialectics of Capitalism, Division of Labour, Exploitation, Accumulation, Overproduction, World Empires, World Economics, Kondratieff Waves, Modern Crisis, Structural and Cultural Signs
• M.N. Srinivas (1916-1999): Biographical sketch, Theoretical and Methodological orientation, Religion and Society, Village, Caste & Dominant Caste, Sanskritization, and Westemization & Legitimacy
• Jean Baudrillard (1929- 2007): Biographical Sketch, Simulation Society, Hyper Reality, Orders of Simulation, Consumer Society
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002): Biographical Sketch, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Economic Capital, Human Capital & Theory of Cultural Reproduction
• Jurgen Habermas (1929- ): Biographical Sketch, Liberal Capitalism, Organized Capitalism, Colonization of the Life world, Public Sphere, Critical theory, Speech Communities, Civil Society

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