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PAPER – I
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY
1. INTRODUCTION
i. Definition of Sociology
ii. Culture and Society
iii. Socialization, Norms, Values, Status and Roles
iv. Sociological Perspectives
a. Structuralism
b. Interpretive theories
c. Modernism And Postmodernism
Structural-Functional Analysis
Social-conflict analysis
vi. Feminism
4. Health
Funding
Geography
Social Class
Disability
The owners
Making a profit
Organizational constraints
Agenda-setting
Gate-keeping
Norm-setting
‘Mass culture’
‘High culture’
A Marxist view of mass culture
Criticism of the idea of a ‘mass culture’
6. EDUCATION
Socialization
Culture Innovation
Social Integration
Social Placement
Latent Functions of Schooling
Social control
Standardized testing
School tracking
Inequality among schools
Access to higher education
Credentialism
Privilege and personal merit
3. Social Movement
2. Environmental Issues
Structural-functional analysis
Cultural ecology
Social-conflict analysis
Alternative dispute resolution
Environmental racism
PAPER-II
APPLIED SOCIOLOGY
Total Marks: 100
1. SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS
1) Influences on the choice of research method
Validity
Reliability
Ethics
9) Questionnaires
10) Interviews
Structure of formal interviews
Unstructured or informal interviews
General problems of interviews
Concluding remarks on interviews
Hypothesis or aim
Context and concepts
Main research methods and reasons for their use
Potential problems
1. Globalization
3. Innovations
i. International tourism
ii. Conflict
3. GLOBAL INEQUALITY
High-income countries
Middle-income countries
Low-income countries
Is global economic inequality increasing?
Health
Hunger, malnutrition and famine
Education and Literacy
Theories of development
Evaluating theories of development
The role of international organizations and global inequality
Global economic inequality in a changing world
1. Basic concepts