FAQs - Sociology

“Sociology is the study of human social relationships and institutions. Sociology’s subject matter is diverse, ranging from crime to religion, from the family to the state, from the divisions of race and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture, and from social stability to radical change in whole societies. Unifying the study of these diverse subjects of study is sociology’s purpose of understanding how human action and consciousness both shape and are shaped by surrounding cultural and social structures.”

Topics covered under this module are as follows:

• Introduction to sociology
• Structure of Indian Society
• Social Institutions and Processes of change
• Indian Social system
• Social Research Methods
• Sociology of Deviant Behaviour
• Statistical Reasoning In Sociology
• Indian Social Problems
• Classical Social Thinkers
• Social Anthropology
• Indian Social Thinkers
• Rural Sociology
• References