UNIT - I 

1. The Emergence of Sociology : Transition from Social Philosophy to Sociology-The Intellectual Context 2. Renaissance : The Social, Economic and Political Forces-The French and Industrial Revolutions 3. August Comte : Positivism 4. Herbert Spencer : Social Drawinism and Super Organic Evolution 5. The Classical Tradition : Emile Durkheim-Social Solidarity and Suicide 6.Karl Marx : Materialistic Conception of History, Dialectical Materialism and Class-Struggle 7. Max Weber : Authority and Concept of Ideal Type 8. Vilfredo Pareto : Circulation of Elites 9. Schools of Sociological Theory 10. Functionalism 11. Conflict School 12. Social Action Perspective 13 .Development of Sociological Thought in India 14. Various Perspectives or Trends of Sociological Studies in India

UNIT II 

1. Social Research : Meaning, Scope and Significance 2. Hypothesis : Concept and Formulation 3. Scientific Study of Social Phenomena 4. Scientific Method : Logic in Social Science 5. Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Science 6. Positivism and Phenomenology 7. Methods of Social Research : Quantitative (Social Survey) 8. Observation 9. Cash Study 10. Contents Analysis 11. Types of Research : Basic Applied, Historical and Empirical 12 .Types of Social Research : Exploratory, Descriptive or Explana-tory, Diagnostic and Experimental 13. Techniques of Data Collection 14. Sampling Technique 15. Questionnaire 16. Schedule 17. Interview 18. Primary and Secondary Data 19. Classification of Data, Tabulation and Presentation 20. Graphical Presentation of Data 21. Measurement of Central Tendency : Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation 22. Mean Deviation. 

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