Major Paper-V (Sociology): Sociological Thought

Unit 1 — August Comte:

1.1 Law of three stages, positivism and hierarchy of science · 1.2 Herbert Spencer: Concept of social evolution and socio organism.

• August Comte: Positivism, Law of three stages, Social Staticsand Social Dynamics

Unit 2 — Karl Marx :

2.1 Historical materialism, · 2.2 Class struggle, · 2.3 Alienation.

• Karl Mar: Historical and Dialectical Materialism, Theory of Social

Unit 3 — Emile Durkheim :

3.1 Division of Labour · 3.2 Social fact · 3.3 Theory of religion · 3.4 Suicide

• Emile Durkheim: Theory of Religion, Theory of Suicide, Division

Unit 4 — Max Weber :

4.1 Social action, · 4.2 Ideal types · 4.3 Authority · 4.4 Capitalism.

• Max Weber: Social Action and types, Power and Authority, Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, Bureaucracy

Unit 5 — Talcott Parsons:

5.1 Theory of action · 5.2 Social system · 5.3 Pattern variables.