COURSE OUTLINE
SOCIOLOGY- 100 MARKS
Week
Plan:
Week 1: General
Sociology
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Individual:
Sociability or the sociality of man.
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Culture:
Meaning and Characteristics (Culture is variable, learnt, social, shared,
Transmissive, dynamic and adaptive), types (Material, Non –material), functions
(transfer of knowledge, define situation, provide Behaviour pattern, moulds
personality) and elements of culture (norms, values, beliefs, sanctions,
customs).Culture and Socialization; formal and non-formal socialization,
transmission of culture, cultural relativism. Sub-cultures. Ethnocentrism and
xenocentrism, Cultural lag, High culture and popular culture. Multiculturalism,
assimilation, and acculturation.
Week 2: General
Sociology
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Society:
Meaning and characteristics. Community; meaning and characteristics. Individual
and society. Relationship between individual and society. Two main theories
regarding the relationship of man and society (i) the social contact theory and
(ii) the organismic theory. Social and cultural evolution of society (Hunting
and Gathering Society, Herding and Advance Herding Society, Horticultural
Society, Agrarian Society, Industrial Society, Post modern Society).
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Social
Interaction: Caste and classes, Forms of social
classes, Feudal system in Pakistan, Social Mobility-nature of social mobility
and its determinants in Pakistani society, Culture of poverty.
Week 3: General
Sociology
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Social
Control: Mechanisms of social control-formal and informal
means of social control, Anomie, Alienation and social Integration-Means of
social integration in Pakistani Society.
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Social
and Cultural Change and Social Policy: Processes of Social
and Cultural Change-discovery, inhibitions to social and cultural change in
Pakistan Social planning and directed social and cultural change, effect of
Industrialization, Urbanization, Modernization and Modern Means of
Communication on Social Change.
Week 4: General
Sociology
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Public
Opinion: Formation of Public, Opinion, Concept of opinion
leader, characteristics of opinion leadership.
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Community:
The rural community, Traditional Characteristics of rural life, the urban
community, Rural – Urban convergence, Urbanism, Future of cities in Pakistan.
Week 5: General
Sociology
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Social
Institutions: The nature and genesis of institutions,
the process of institutionalization, Functions of Social Institutions: Family,
Religion, Education, Economy and Politics.
Week 6: General
Sociology
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Social
Problems in Pakistan: High population growth rate, Rural
–urban migration. Issues of technical/vocational training, Deviance and street
crime, Unemployment, illiteracy and School drop out, Smuggling, Prostitution,
Poverty, Drug Addiction, Child Labour and Abuse Bonded Labour, Social Customs
and Traditions effecting Women in Pakistan, Violence Against Women’s and
Domestics Violence, Issues concerning the Elderly’s in Pakistan.
Week 7: Sociological
Theory
Three
sociological perspectives: Structural Functionalism, Symbolic interactions and
Conflict. Theorists: Ibn-i-Khaldun Spencer, August Comte, Emile Dukheim, Max
Weber, Kari Marx, Parson.
Week 8: Methods of
Sociological Research
Scientific
Method, Steps in research, Types of Questionnaire Research Design, Surveys,
Observation and Case Studies.
