CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT

Paper Code: 
CSOC 301
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO11: Examine the writings of prominent classical social thinkers.

CO12: Recognize the theoretical foundations of sociology.

CO13: Develop insights for interpreting social phenomena

CO14: Interpret social phenomena on the basis of views of classical thinkers.

CO15:Investigate the relevance of classical social thinking in the contemporary scenario

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

18.00
  • August Comte: Positivism, Law of Three Stages

 

18.00
  • Karl Marx: Materialist Conception of History, Class and Class Struggle,
    Concept of alienation

 

18.00
  • Emile Durkheim: Social Facts, Division of Labour in Society

 

18.00
  • Max Weber: Ideal Types and Social Action, Types of Authority,
    Bureaucracy

 

 

18.00
  • Herbert Spencer: Evolutionary Approach, Types of societies

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Jayapalan, N. 2001. Sociological Theories. Atlantic Publisher, pp.97-115.
  • Calhoun, J. Craig, 2007. Classical Sociological Theory. 2nd Edition. Blackwell, pp.205-274.
  • Ritzer, George, 2010(8th edition). Sociological Theory, New York: Mc Graw Hill

 

References: 

 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

  • Marx,K.   and  Friedrich Engels.2002. The Communist Manifesto, Harmondsworth :Penguin.
  • Aron, R. 1967. Main Currents in Sociological Thought. London: Weidenfield
    and Nicholson, Vol. 1. pp. 107-180.
  • Durkheim, E. 1958. The Rules of Sociological Method. Glencoe: Free Press, Chapters 1 and 3.
  • Jones R.A. 1986, Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works.

London: Sage. Chapters 3 and 4.

  • Gerth, H.H. and C. Wright Mills (eds.) 1948. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Introduction.

 

e-RESOURCES:

 

REFERENCE JOURNALS:

  • Journal of Sociology, Sage Publications
  • Sociological Bulletin, Sage Publications

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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