Sociology – Syllabus | BBA (Pokhara University) Third Semester
Pokhara University (PU)
Sociology ? Syllabus
BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration)
For: Second Year | Third Semester
SOC 101.3 | Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives:
This course aims to provide students with the basic concepts of sociology along with the knowledge about cultural and social institutions and processes.
Course Contents:
- Introduction to Sociology: 4 hours
Meaning of sociology, Nature of sociology, Methods of sociology (Scientific methods and limitations, Sociology as a science), Subject matter of sociology - Theories: 8 hours
Meaning of perspective and their uses in sociology, Major theoretical perspectives of sociology: Functionalist, Conflict and Interactions: Basic assumptions their strength and weakness. Relationship of business management with social sciences (Sociology/ anthropology) - Basic Concepts in Sociology: 14 hours
Society: meaning, nature and types (Pre-industrial and industrial society), Community: meaning and nature. Culture: meaning, characteristics and functions, Cultural contents (Material and non material culture) and Elements of culture (Norms values, beliefs, knowledge, technology, signs). Group: meaning, nature, importance, and classification of groups (Primary and secondary) and factors enforcing group formation. Organization: meaning, nature, formal organization and Weber’s bureaucracy. Social institutions: meaning, nature, functions and types (primary and secondary) - Basic social institutions: 10 hours
Marriage: meaning, characteristics, function and types (Monogamy, polygamy, endo and exogammy), factors effecting marriage (Industrialization, organization, education, legislation). Family: meaning, characteristics, types (Nuclear and joint, patriarchal and matriarchal, functions, nuclearization and changing functions of family. Kinship: meaning, rule of descent, kinship usages (Rule of avoidance and joking relationships)
Education System: meaning of education, function of education (Functionalists view and conflict view). Religion: meaning (Religion as a system of beliefs and practices), sacred and profane, functions of religions (functionalist and conflict approach). Political system: meaning and basic features of democracy and totalitarianism, meaning and functions of welfare state. Economic System: capitalism and socialism, meaning and basic features with their strengths and limitations - Socialization: 3 hours
Meaning of socialization, Primary socialization (Theory of Frued, Mead, Cooley and Piaget), Agents of socialization, Impact of man on society and impact of society on man. Personality: meaning, static and dynamic nature of personality, factors determining personality (Biological and environmental i.e socio-cultural) - Social Stratification: 3 hours
Meaning of social differentiation, inequality and social stratification, Nature and types of social stratification (meaning and characteristics of caste, class, ethnic and gender inequality with reference to Nepal) - Social Control: 3 hours
Crime and deviance: meaning and their differences. Merton’s type of Anomie.
Concept of social sanction, conformity, meaning and nature of social control, types of social control (formal and informal): Agencies of social control (formal and informal i.e law, education, coercion, norms and values, religion) - Social Change: 3 hours
Meaning, nature, causal factors (population, social organization, environment, technology) and Conflict approach to social change
Text Book:
- Shankar Rao, C.N.: (2000), Sociology: Primary Principles (3rd edition), New Delhi: S. Chand & Company.
Reference Books:
- Calhoun, Light, Keller: Sociology (6th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
- R.M Mac Iver and C.H. Page: Society: An introductive analysis
- M. Heralamabous with RM Held: Socialogy:Themes and Perspectives
- Rishikeshav Raj Regmi: The essentials of Sociology
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