Syllabus

Course Code: B-SOC/ 201    Course Name: Foundation of Sociological Thought

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Positivism: Comte’s Law of Three Stages; Durkheim: Social Fact; Karl Popper: Post-Positivism
2 Functionalism: Radcliffe Brown’s Structural Functional Approach; Merton’s Social Structure; Parson’s Social System
3 Conflict: Marx’s Class Conflict; Coser’s Approach of Social Conflict’ Dahrendorf’’s Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
4 Interactionism: Weber’s theory of Social Action; Herbert Blumer’s Rational Interpretation; Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy
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