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Sociology: A Study of the Social Sphere

Sociology: A Study of the Social Sphere

Author(s):
  • Yogesh Atal
    • Author: Yogesh Atal
    • ISBN:9788131760796
    • Price: Rs. 315.00
    • Pages:536
    • Imprint:Pearson Education
    • Binding:Paperback
    • Status:Available


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    Any growing discipline continuously adds to the corpus of factual knowledge about the phenomena being studied and enriches its conceptual apparatus. Over time, some themes are dropped, and new concerns incorporated. This makes older and classical texts less relevant, and necessitates a process of selection and reprioritization of themes to meet changing times. Hence the need for new textbooks, especially one as detailed and concise as Sociology: A Study of the Social Sphere.

    Table of Content

  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Images
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments Part I. Invitation to Sociology
    1. What is Sociology?
    2. Sociology in India
    Part II. Conceptual Framework
    1. Defining Society
    2. Contours of Culture
    3. Social Groups: Conceptual Framework
    4. Community, Associations, and Formal Organizations
    5. Social Interactions and Social Structure: Status and Role
    6. Structural-Functional Analysis
    Part III. Recruitment Dimension
      Family, Marriage and Kinship
    1. Prelude to Family: Marriage
    2. Marriage, Family and Kinship in India
    Part IV. Growing up in a Society
    1. Socialization and Enculturation
    2. From Socialization to Schooling: The Broader Canvas of Education
    Part V. Internal Ranks and Divisions
    1. Social Stratification : Theories and related concepts
    2. Race, Tribe, Caste, and Class
    3. Poverty and the Poor
    Part VI. Change in Society
    1. Social Change : sociological perspective
    2. Reconstructing the Past
    3. The Present as a processual product
    4. Anticipating and Fashioning the Future
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Index

    • Salient Features

    • The book serves as an invitation to sociology.
    • It helps the reader to learn the language that sociologists employ, and the way commonly used words (such as family, marriage, caste) are given distinct definitions.
    • It follows the logic of scientific research that governs sociological analysis.
    • Professor Atal takes care in this book to guard against ideological and theoretical biases.
    • The various topics covered in the book are illustrated with examples taken from everyday life, and from studies conducted in India.