Sectional 1
SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS:
• Karl Marx – Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
• Emile Durkheim – Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
• Max Weber – Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
• Talcott Parsons – Social system, pattern variables.
• Robert K. Merton – Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
• Mead – Self and identity.
STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY:
• Concepts – equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
• Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status group, gender, ethnicity and race.
• Theories of social stratification – Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
• Social mobility – open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
POLITICS AND SOCIETY:
• Sociological theories of power.
• Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
• Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
• Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
RELIGION AND SOCIETY:
• Sociological theories of religion.
• Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
• Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, religious fundamentalism.