(Books) Sociology - 2014 (English) 24th Edition Author by Navneet Anand

Sociology - 2014 (English) 24th Edition Author by Navneet Anand

BOOK DETAILS

Publisher Spectrum Books Pvt Ltd

ISBN-10 8179305139

Edition 24th

Number of Pages 495 Pages

Publication Year 2014

Language English

ISBN-13 9788179305133

Binding Paperback

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Note to the Readers


1. Perspectives - Evolutionary, Functionalist, Conflict, Interactions

2. Social Thinkers - Forerunners of Sociology, Founding Fathers of Sociology, Modern Contributors to Sociology

3. Society - Some Definitions, Evolutionary Model, Organismic Model (Structure Factionalism),Equilibrium vs. Conflict Models, Characteristics of Society, Types, Important Terms

4. Community, Association and Institution - What is a Community? Bases of Community, Great and Small Communities, Community Sentiment, Association, Associations as Agencies and Corporate Character, What is an Institution? Institutionalization, Institutions and Associations, Institutes and Communities, Important Terms

5. Culture - Culture and Society, Culture as a system of Norms - Folkways, Mores, Institutions, Laws, Values, Norms and Values, Cultural Lag, The Structure of Culture - Traits and Complexes, Subcultures and Countercultures, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism and Ethnocentrism, Culture in Anthropological Perspective, Attributes of Culture, Belief System, Theories of Culture Growth - Evolutionism, Diffusion ism, Cultures School, Area Approach, Acculturation, Theories of Culture Integration, Important Terms

6. Race - Some Definitions, Major Races of the World,Determinants, Races in India, Culture and Race, Breaking Some Myths,Important Terms

7. Human Evolution

8. Group - Primary, Secondary, Reference Concept of Group, Group and Society, Group and Institution, Classification of Groups, In group-Out group, Group and Community, Tribe and Clan, Primary and Secondary Groups, Reference Group, Other Types of Groups

9. Social Structure and Social Organization Concept, Social Structure in Anthropology, Social Organization, Important Terms

10. Structure and Function

11. Status and Role - Role, Role Behavior, Role - Taking, Role Conflict, Status, Scripted and Role Conflict, Status Inconsistency and Status Crystallization, Important Terms
12. Deviance and Sanctions, Laws and Customs Deviance, Theories of Deviance, Types of Deviants, Factors Responsible for Deviance, Sanction, Custom, Law, Difference between Custom and Law, Important Terms

13. Socio - Cultural Processes - Concept, Assimilation, Accommodation, Integration, Cooperation, Competition, Conflict, Relative Deprivation, Social Distance, Important Terms

14. marriage - Definitions, Rules of Marriage, Forms, How Mates are Acquired, Preferential Forms, Prohibitory Category and Incest, Marriage in India, Important Terms

15. Family Basic Characteristics, Types, Functions, Future, Important Terms

16. Kinship - Concept, Role of Residence, Descent, Types of Kin, Range, Kinship Usages, Kinship Terms

17. Social Stratification - What it is, Slavery, Caste, Dominant Caste, Sensitization, Westernization, Pollution and Purity, Jasmin System, Class, Important Terms

18. Types of Society - Definitions, Tribal Society, Agrarian Society, Industrial Society, Post - Industrial Society

19. Economy and Society Man, Nature and Social Production, Non - Economic Determinants of Economic Behaviorism in Simple Societies, Economies in Complex Societies, Division of Lab our, Property, Types of Exchange, Free Market Economy, Centrally Planned or Controlled Economy, Important Terms

20. Industrial and Urban Society Urbanization, Rural - Urban Continuum, Urban Social Structure and Stratification, Urban Life in India, Structures of Towns and Cities, Impact of Automation on Society, Industrialization and Environment

21. Social Demography - Scope and Importance, Population Controversy, Demographic Transition Theory, Demographic Concepts - birth rate, death rate, fertility etc. Population Size, Growth, Composition and Distribution in India, Population and Social Development, Population Policy, Glossary

22. Political Processes - Power, Authority, Legitimacy, Political Sociology, Types of Political Systems, Nation State, Democracy, Socialism, Communism, Contemporary Political Institutions and Political Behavior, Modernization, Case of India, Politics in Developing Countries, Pressure Groups, Caste and Politics

23. Religion - Origin, Theories, Religion in Simple Societies, Religion in Modern Societies, Religious Organizations, Religion and Secularization, Manifest and Latent Functions of Religion, Magic, Religion and Science, Important Terms

24. Weaker Sections and Minorities - Social Justice, Protective Discrimination, Equal Opportunity and Special Opportunity, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Constitutional Provisions, Backward Classes

25. Social Change - Definitions, Social and Cultural Change, Theories of Social Change, Process, Factors in Rate of Change, Science and Technology and Social Change, Social Movements, Types of Social Movement, Dal it Movement Backward Classes Movement, Women’s Movement, Peasant Movement

26. Rural Sociology

27. Glossary

Appendices

I. Objective Facts
II. Extracts from India - Social Structure by M.N. Srinivas
III. Important Concepts
IV. Important Case Studies

Multiple Choice Questions
Question Review
Answers
Explanatory Notes

Solved UPSC Preliminary Sociology Papers
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1994 279
1995 289
1996 300
1997 312
1998 326
1999 339
2000 349
2001 361
2002 375
2003 387
2004 401
2005 414
2006 426
2007 440
2008 453
2009 467
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