SOCIOLOGY

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 IXPopulation analysis: Variables of populations fortility - mortality - migration - size, distribution - Composition - Population policy of India - population control - small family norm. UNIT XSocial Disorganization - Individual and social disorganization deviance - problems of minorities, BCs and SCs problems of women.