IGNOU BOOK | Sociological Thinkers-I[ English medium] BSOC-111

Product Overview & Details

BSOC-111: Sociological Thinkers-I is a sociology course that introduces students to the major classical sociological thinkers and their ideas. The course helps you understand how sociology developed as a discipline and how different thinkers explained society, social order, conflict, change, and modernity.

Major Thinkers and Concepts

1. Auguste Comte

• Father of Sociology
• Law of Three StagesTheological stage
• Metaphysical stage
• Positive stage
• Positivism
• Social statics and social dynamics

2. Karl Marx

• Historical materialism
• Class and class conflict
• Bourgeoisie and proletariat
• Capitalism
• Alienation
• Exploitation
• Base and superstructure
• Revolution and social change

3. Émile Durkheim

• Social facts
• Division of labour
• Mechanical and organic solidarity
• Collective conscience
• Anomie
• Suicide
• Religion and society

4. Max Weber

• Social action
• Types of social action
• Verstehen
• Ideal type
• Authority:
• Traditional
• Charismatic
• Legal-rational
• Bureaucracy
• Protestant ethic and capitalism

What BSOC-111 Mainly Teaches

The course examines questions such as:

• What is society and how should it be studied?
• How does social order develop?
• Why do societies experience conflict and change?
• How did capitalism and modernity emerge?
• What causes social inequality?
• How do individuals and institutions interact?
• How can sociology scientifically study social life?