edited vinayak tripathi (3 Ergebnisse)

Contents Preface 1 Ideology of social change 2 Social action 3 Theories of social change 4 Social power 5 Endogenous and exogenous sources of change 6 Sociological traditions 7 Social change and formal organizations 8 Socio-cultural evolution 9 Kinship and structural principles 10 Capitalist system and class conflict 11 Culture and approaches Index Sociologists to begin with adopted the words evolution and progress but changed over to the word development and new accept change as the most satisfactory word The word progress was first chosen by intellectuals and writers of history in the 19 century The classic statement of the 19 century was that the study of history revealed the progress of freedom This idea of progress was equally popularized by the biological theory of evolution in the nineteenth century According to Darwin the evolution of organic species clearly shows that there is an ascent towards better and better species 276 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Socialization and Social Control 2 Social Mobility 3 Agrarian Class Stratification and Change 4 Communalism and Secularism 5 Social Evils and Societies 6 Sanskritization and Westernization 7 Origin of Social Theories 8 Max Weber and Society 9 Impact of Urbanization on Family 10 Social Stratification 11 Selected Glossary of Sociology Index Socialization is predominately an unconscious process by which a new born child learns the values beliefs rules and regulations of society or internalises the culture in which it it born Socialization in fact includes learning of three important processes cognitive affective and evaluate In other words socialization includes the knowledge of how things are caused and the establishment of emotional links with the rest of the members of the society Socialization therefore equips an individual in such a way that he can perform his duties in his society jacket 292 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Individualistic social thought 2 Psycho sociologic thought 3 Trend of applied sociology 4 Social thought of plato and Grecian 5 Social thought of aristotle and Grecian 6 Herbrews and social thought 7 Positive social thought of comte 8 Marx and social thought 9 Buckle and social thought 10 Early Christian social thought 11 Spencer and organic social thought 12 The sociology of lester F Ward 13 More and Utopian social thought 14 Malthus and population concepts 15 Eugenic sociology 16 Anthropologic sociology 17 The rise of educational sociology 18 Co operation theories in sociology 20 The sociology of modern Christianity IndexSociety according to trade is a group of people who display many resemblances produced either by imitation or by counter imitation Again he says that society is a group of distinct individuals who render one another mutual services Societies are groups of people who are organized because of agreement or disagreement of beliefs Society is imitation The outstanding element in social life is a psychological process in which inventions are followed by imitations which when coming into inevitable oppositions produce new inventions 289 pp.