Eminent Sociologists and their different views of social life:St simon: Positivism;Herbert Spencer: Functionalism, Organic analogy; Talcott. Parsons: System analysis; Robert K. Merton: Codification of Functional analysis; Max Weber: Social action and Rationality, Types of social groups; Emile Durkheim: Forms of Solidarity and Division of Labour; Political Sociology: Power and Authority, Consensus and Conflict, State and Stateless societies: Nuer and Zulu political systems of Africa, Elites and Masses; Economic Sociology: Division of Labour, Occupational specialization ,Property.
Texts:
1. R. Aron, Main Currents in Sociological Thoughts, Pelican Books, 1980.
2. T. B. Bottomore, Sociology-A Guide To Problems and Literature, Blackie and Son Publishers Pvt Ltd, 1978.
3. M. Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Allen & Unwin, London, 1976.
References:
1. T. Parsons and E. A. Shils, Towards a General Theory of Action, Harper and Row, New Work, 1952.
2. M. Gluckman, Custom and Conflict in Africa, Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1960. 3. C. W. Mills, The Power Elite, Oxford University Press, 1956.
