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 4. Herbert Spencer 5. Emile Durkheim 6. Max Weber 7. Karl Marx 8 .G. S. Ghurye (1893-1984) 9. Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968) 10. D. P. Mukerjee (1894-1962).

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.

Chapterwise Objective Type Questions.