एम.ए. (I सेमेस्टर)
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M.A. (I Semester)
SOCIOLOGY
Paper-I
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION

SYLLABUS

Unit 1:

Historical Socio-Economic Background of the Emergence of Sociology.

Unit 2:

Emile. Durkheim; Intellectual Background, Contribution to the Methodology of Sociology. Concept of Social facts. Theory of Suicide: Review of earlier Theories of Suicide; Rates of Suicide; the Distinctive Sociological Approach Types of Suicide; the Causes of Different Types of Suicide: the Problem of Integration of the Individual with Society. Theory of Religion: Earlier Theories of the Emergence and Role of Religion, Durkheim's Concept of Religion: Sacred and Profane; Society as a Supreme God; Religious Rituals and their Types.

Unit 3:

Karl Marx Intellectual background, Materialistic Interpretation of History; Dialectical Historical Materialism as a Perspective of Social Change; Mode of Production and Social Structure; Concepts of Surplus Value and Exploitation. Classes and Class Conflict: Proletariat revolution and future of Capitalism, Classless society.

Unit 4:

Max Weber: intellectual Background; Concept of Sociology, Concept of Social Action; Types of Social Action; Verstehen; Ideal Type: Theory of Stratification: Class, Status and power Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Power and Authority, Types of Authority Traditional, and Rational legal; bureaucracy.

Unit 5:

Vilfredo Pareto : Contribution to the methodology, Logico- experimental Method. Logical and Non-logical Action; Residues and Derivations and their Classifications; Theory of Social Change: Elites and Massès; Types of Elites; the Circulation of Elites.

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