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'SOCIOLOGY PAPERItalic text PRINCIPLES, THEORIES AND METHODS CHAPTER I - BASIC CONCEPTS 1. Social Structure – Components and inter relations. 2. Social Change – Types and Theories 3. Social Processes – Cooperation, conflict, acculturation, socialization, modernization, sanskritization, westernization, Urbanization and Industrialization. 4. Social Institutions – Family, marriage, religion, economy, polity and education. 5. Social Stratification and mobility – Nature types and theories. CHAPTER II - SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES 1. Nature and types 2. Classical theories – Comte, Spencer, Durlheim, Marx, Weber and Pareto. 3. Modern Sociological Theories – Sorokin, Cooley, Simmel Mead and Homans. 4. Contemporary Sociological Theories – Structuralism, Functionalism, Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism, Exchange,  Ethnomethodology,  Phenomenology,  Critical  Sociology,  Neopositivism and Neofuctionlaism. CHAPTER III - SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS 1. Science, Scientific method, Objectivity and value neutrality. 2. Research Design Types and Functions. 3. Tools of Research – Concepts, Facts, Theories and Hypothesis. 4. Tools of Data Collection – Observation, Interview, Questionnaire, Interview Schedule, Survey and Case Study. 5. Methods of  Analysis  –  Data  Processing,  Quantitative  Techniques,  Measures  of  central  tendency, Measures of Dispersion, Measures of association, Testing of Hypothesis and Sociometry. 6. Methods of Presentation – Graphs, Diagram’s, Time series, Index Numbers and Report Writing. CHAPTER IV - STUDY OF INDIAN SOCIETY 1. Approaches to the study of Indian Society Indological, Structural Functional, Subaltern. 2. Characteristics of Indian Society – Unity in Diversity, Caste System, Joint Family, Village Society, recent Trends. 3. Contemporary Social  Processes  –  Urbanization,  Industrialization,  Modernisation,  Westernisation, liberalisation, Secularisation, Globalisation and Monetisation. CHAPTER V - CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 1. Social Inequities – nature, extent and implications. 2. Problems of marginalized groups – SC / ST’s, OBC’s, Minorities, Women and Aged. 3. Ameliorative Measures. 4. Role of State and NGO’s. 5. Problems of fundamentalism, terrorism, corruption and moral decay and crisis.