Major Paper-VI (Sociology): Modern Sociological Thought

Dibrugarh University · LL.B. Semester 6 · B.A.,LL.B.: 6.1

Unit I — Conflict and critical Thinkers:

1.1 Ralf Darhendorf: Class and Class Struggle. · 1.2 Talcott Parsons: Social Action, Pattern Variables and Functionalism. · 1.3 Max Horkheimer: Critique of Mass Culture.

Unit II — Neo- Marxist Thinkers:

2.1 Louis Althusser: Structural Marxism. · 2.2 Gramsci: Theory of Hegemony. · 2.3 Jurgen Habermass: Theory of Communication and Domination.

Unit III — Interactionism Thinkers:

3.1 Harold Garfinkel: Ethno-methodology · 3.2 G.H. Mead: Mind Self and Society. · 3.3 Herbert Blumer: Social Interaction.

Unit IV — Post modernism Thinkers:

4.1 Jean Baudrillard: Simulation. · 4.2 Jean Francois Loytard: The Postmodern Condition. · 4.3 Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction.

Unit V — Indian Sociologists:

5.1 G.S. Ghurye: Contribution towards Development of Indian Sociology. · 5.2 M.N. Srinivas: Village Study and its Significance. · 5.3 T.K. Oomen: Social Transformation.