INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
CSOC 101
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;

CO1: Contrast various sociological perspectives and use sociological imagination for better understanding of society.

CO2: Analyze the relationship between status and role.

CO3: Analyze the nature and agencies of social control.

CO4: Develop a broad overview about how individuals and groups are shaped through basic social processes like socialization, social control etc.

CO5: Identify various factors and processes of social change

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
  • Nature and Scope of Sociology: Philosophical roots of Sociology,
    Scope and Subject Matter
  • The Scientific perspective to Sociological Understanding (Nature).    
  • Relationship of Sociology with other Social Sciences: Anthropology, Psychology, History, Political Science, Economics

 

18.00
Unit II: 
Sociological Concepts:
  • Status and Role: Concept, Types and Relationship
  • Social Groups- Meaning, Types and Features

 

 

18.00
  • Society, Culture, Community and Association: Concept and Features
  • Socio-cultural processes: Competition, Co-operation and conflict
18.00
  • Socialization: Concept, Stages, Agencies and Theories.
  • Social Control: Concept, Nature and Agencies
18.00
  • Social Change: Concept, Factors and Types.                                                            
  • Sub-Processes of Social Change: Social Evolution, Social Progress and Social Development, Theories of Social Change.

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  • Haralambos, M. 2004 (6th Edition). Sociology: Themes and Perspective. New York: Collins.
  • Giddens, Anthony. 1989.  Sociology U.K.: Polity

 

References: 

 

 

 

  • Inkeles, Alex.1987. What is Sociology? New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India.
  • Jayaram, N. 1988. Introductory Sociology. Madras: Macmillan India.
  • Schaefer, Richard T. and Robert P. Lamm 1999. Sociology. New Delhi: Tata-McGraw Hill. 
  • Johnson, Harry M. 1995. Sociology: A Systematic Introduction, New Delhi: Allied Publishers.
  • Davis, Kingsley. 1995. Human Society, Delhi: Surjeet Publications.
  • Maciver, R.M. and Page C.H. 1974.  Society: An Introductory Analysis, McMillan.

 

e-RESOURCES:

 

 REFERENCE  JOURNALS:

 

  • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Emerald Group Publishing
  • American Sociological Review, Sage Publications

 

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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