IGNOU BOOK | Sociological Thinkers- II[English medium] BSOC 113

Product Overview & Details

BSOC-113 (Sociological Thinkers–II) is a sociology course that introduces students to the major sociological thinkers and their important theories, especially thinkers who developed sociology after the classical period.

Main focus of the course

The course generally helps you understand:

1. Major sociological thinkers and their backgrounds.
2. Their key concepts and theories.
3. How these thinkers explained society, social structure, culture, power, inequality and social change.
4. The relevance of their ideas to contemporary society.

Important thinkers usually covered

Depending on the university syllabus, BSOC-113 commonly deals with thinkers such as:

• George Herbert Mead — self, mind, society and symbolic interactionism.
• Talcott Parsons — structural functionalism and social system.
• Robert K. Merton — manifest/latent functions, dysfunctions and theories of the middle range.
• C. Wright Mills — sociological imagination and the power elite.
• Erving Goffman — dramaturgical approach and presentation of self.
• Pierre Bourdieu — habitus, field and different forms of capital.
• Michel Foucault — power, knowledge, discourse and discipline.
• Jürgen Habermas — communicative action and the public sphere.