Paper -I

1. Concept of Development : Political and Social 2. Approaches of Development : Ideal, Historical and Marxist 3. Definition and Scope of Sociology of Development and Change 4. Patterns of Social Change 5. Planned Change and Development 6. Development and Under Development7. Sociological Perspective of Development

Paper - II 

UNIT - I The Pioneers

1. Auguste Comte 2. Herbert Spencer : Social Darwinism and Super Organic Evolution, 

UNIT - II The Classical Tradition

3. Emile Durkheim 4. Max Weber 5. Karl Marx : Materialistic Conception of History, Dialectical Materialism and Class-Struggle 6. Vilfredo Pareto.

UNIT - III Schools of Sociological Theory

7. School of Sociological Theory 8. Functionalism 9. Conflict School 10. Social Action Perspective.

UNIT - IV Development of Sociological Thought in India : Gandhi and Ambedkar

11. Development of Sociological Thought in India 12. Mahatma Gandhi 13. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956).

Paper - III 

1. Meaning, Scope and Significance of Social Research 2. Conceptualisation and Formulations of Hypothesis 3. Methods of Research : Quantitative and Qualitative 4. Observation 5. Case Study 6. Content Analysis 7. Techniques of Data Collection 8. Survey 9. Sampling Techniques 10. Questionnaire 11. Schedule 12. Interview Guide 13. Primary and Secondary Sources of Data 14. Classification, Tabulation and Presentation of Data 15. Graphical and Histogram and Diagrammatical Presentation of Data 16. Measurement of Central Tendency : Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation 17. Statistical Analysis of Correlation, Variance and Co-Variance.