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The syllabus of MA Sociology Program offered by the School of Studies in Distance Education Jiwaji University, Gwalior is as follows:

PAPER – I

M. A. Sociology Previous (Compulsory)

CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION

Unit – 1
Historical Socio-economic back ground of the emergence of sociology.
(a) Traditional feudal economy and social structure.
(b) Impact of industrial Revolution and of new modo of Production on society and economy.
(c) The emergence of capitalistic modo of Production Nature and features of capitalism.
(d) The enlightenment and its impact on thinking and reasoning.

Unit – 2 Karl Marx
(a) Marx’s Theory of social change.
(b) Marxian Dialectical materialism as a philosophical perspective of change and its laws.
(c) Materialistic interpretation of history: As a perspective of explaining Transformation of Human Society Through
different stages. Economic determinism modo of production and social structure basic structure and super structure.
(d) Marx’s analysis of emergence and development of capitalism in term of low of increasing accumulate and
concentration of capital and of increasing misery concepts of surplus value and exploitation.
(e) Emergence of classes and class conflict. Proletariat Revolution and future of capitalism classless society.
(f) Alienation in the capilalist society: Factors Responsible for alienation and its social implications.
(g) Theory of Ideology

Unit – 3 Emile Durkheim
(a) Intellectual backgrounds his preoccupation with the order and disintegration of society social disintegration as a legacy of
industrial revolution. Increasing division of labour in the capitalist society, mechanical and organic solidarities, Pathological
form of division of labour.
(b) Theory of suicides: Review of earlier theories of suicide rate. His distinctive sociological approach, types of suicides
problem of integration of the individual with society.
(c) Theory of Religion: Earlier Theories of the emergence and role of religion – Structure of religion – sacred and profane –
source of sacredness of the sacred things as symbols of ultimate values. Society as a supreme God, Religions rituals – their
types social role of religions beliefs and rituals.
(d) Contribution of methodology of sociology – Sociology as a science – concept of social facts – sociologism.

Unit – 4 Max Weber
(a) Intellectual background Analysis of modern capitalism views on the role of ideas and values in social change with
reference to the relationship between protestant ethic and emergence of capitalism.
(b) Theory of social action – Types of social action
(c) Theory of Authority – Authority and Power-Types of authority and bases of their legitimacy- Their distinctive features.
(d) Theory of Bureaucracy: capitalism and growing rationalism and emergence of modern bureaucracy. His model of
bureaucracy relationship between Political Leader and Bureaucracy.
(e) Contribution of the methodology of social science – Distinctive nature of social realities because of meanings a hechcal
them sociology as an interpretative science concepts of versthen and Ideal Types.

Unit – 5 Vilzredo Pareto
(a) Intellectual background contribution to the methodology – Hislogico – experimental method.
(b) Logical and non logical actions.
(c) Explanation of non logical action in terms of his theory of residues and Derivatives.
(d) Classification of Residues and derivations.
(e) Theory of social change: Slites and masses type of elites their classification circulation of elites.


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