Rise and development of sociology...........

Main themes of sociology...........

Theorization in sociology...........

Levels of theorization...........

Three major perspectives of classical sociology...........

The symbolic interactionist perspective...........

The functionalist perspective...........

The conflict perspective...........

Major sociological theories...........

Interpretive sociology...........

Auguste Comte - Life and works, Positivistic philosophy , The law of three stages, The hierarchy of the sciences , Comte's

conception of sociology, The religion of humanity...........

Karl Heinrich Marx - Life and works, Theory of historical or dialectical materialism, Application of dialectical materialism, Base and

superstructure of society, The notion of class , Theory of class consciousness , Fetishism of commodities , Labour theory of value,

Theory of surplus value , Theory of alienation , Theory of class conflict class struggle, Critique...........

Herbert Spencer - Life and works, Spencer's sociology, Survival of the fittest, The theory of evolution, Evaluation of evolutionary

theory, Theory of organismic analogy...........

Vilfredo Pareto - Life and works, Logico-experimental method, Circulation of élites, Pareto's concepts of residues and derivations

The 80-20 rule or principle of Pareto ...........

Émile Durkheim- Life and works, Division of labour, The theory of social solidarity, Collective consciousness, Durkheim's

sociological method, The theory of anomie, Theory of suicide, Theory of religion, Critical remarks...........

Max Weber - Life and works, Weber's sociology, Weber's methodology, The concept of verstehen, The concept of ideal type, The

theory of bureaucracy, Power, domination, legitimation and authority, Social action theory, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of

Capitalism, Weber on Hinduism...........

George Herbert Mead - Life and works, Theory of the self, Concept of social acts

Table of Conten...........

Charles H. Cooley - Life and works, Perspective, The theory of looking-glass self, The concept of primary groups,

Characteristics of a primary group...........

Alfred Schütz - Life and works, Phenomenological sociology, Social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz, Constructs and models of

social science, Phenomenology and ethnomethodology, Criticisms of phenomenological sociology...........

Talcott Parsons - Life and works, Parsons and functionalism, Functional prerequisites, Theory of social action, Types of social action

systems, Theory of social systems, The AGIL paradigm, Pattern variables, Evolutionary universals of T. Parsons, Primitive or

archaic societies, Intermediate societies, Modern societies...........

George C. Homans - Life and works, Theoretical agenda, The exchange theory, Assumptions of social exchange theory, Five key

propositions, Comparison level/283 Evaluation...........

Robert K. Merton - Life and works, Merton's theory of social structure, Structural-functional theory, Functional analysis, Theory of

deviance and anomie, Typology of models of adaptation, Implication for criminal policy,Theories of the middle range, Theory of

reference group, Group membership, Theory of relative deprivation...........

Claude Lévi-Strauss - Life and works, Major theoretical contributions, The structuralist approach to myth, The savage mind:

bricoleur and engineer, Theories of kinship, Criticisms...........

Harold Garfinkel - Life and works, Garfinkel's ethnomethodology...........

Erving Goffman - Life and works, Major contributions, Dramaturgical approach, Symbolic interaction perspective...........

Paul-Michel Foucault - Life and works, Historical and philosophical orientation, Madness and civilization, Theory of power,...........

Power-knowledge, Post-modernity, Foucauldian discourse analysis, Discipline and punish, The body and sexuality...........

Jürgen Habermas - Life and works , Contributions to sociology/philosophy, Habermas's critique of Marxism, Habermas on

structure of public sphere, The critique of science, Legitimation crises in society, Theory of communicative action...........

Jacques Derrida - Life and works, Derrida's special terminology, Structuralism and Derrida, Derrida's structuralism, Theory of

deconstruction, Characteristics of deconstruction/post-structuralism...........

Pierre Bourdieu - Life and works, Theory of cultural reproduction and social reproduction Notion of class and types of capital

Types of cultural capital, Bourdieu on social status and social stratification...........

Anthony Giddens - Life and works, Theoretical contributions to sociology, Modernity and identity theory, Contemporary politics

and social justice, Theory of reflexivity, Theory of structuration, Major features of structuration theory...........