समाजशास्त्र (Sociology)

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक उत्तर प्रदेश के विभिन्न विश्वविद्यालयों के बी.ए. (समाजशास्त्र) सेमेस्टर Vth हेतु नए पाठ्यक्रमानुसार प्रकाशित की गई है | पुस्तक की अव्दितीय विशेषता यह है की इसमें पाठ्यक्रम के सभी शीर्षकों का समावेश किया गया है

समाजशास्त्र (Sociology) Syllabus For B.A. 5th Semester of Various Universities of Uttar Pradesh

• 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.
  PAPER II : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Unit-I : Social Research : Concept, Nature and Types of Social Research, Importance of Social Research. Steps of Scientific Research : Formulation of Research Problem.
Unit-II : Research Design : Meaning, Types and Importance. Hypothesis: Its Types and Sources.
Unit-III : Problems of Objectivity. Objectivity Versus Subjectivity, Value Neutrality. Ethical Issues in Social Research. Plagiarism and Copy Right.
Unit-IV : Types of Research, Basic and applied : Historical and Comparative; Descriptive, Exploratory, Explanatory and Diagnostic.
Unit-V : Data Collection : Primary and Secondary Sources : Census : Observation; Case Study; Content Analysis.
Unit-VI : Techniques of Data Collection; Sampling, Questionnaire, Schedule and Interview, Primary and Secondary Data.
Unit-VII : Classification and Presentation of Data : Coding; Tables; Graphs; Diagrams; Bar; Chart, Pictorial and Histogram and Report Writing.
Unit-VIII: Overview of Statistics in Sociology, Measures of Central Tendency (Simple Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode).