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Book Description

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

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. About the Author
  5. Preface
  6. I. Invitation to Sociology
    1. 1. What is Sociology?
    2. 2. Sociology in India
  7. II. Conceptual Framework
    1. 3. Defining Society
    2. 4. Contours of Culture
    3. 5. Social Groups: Conceptual Framework
    4. 6. Communities, Associations and Formal Organizations
    5. 7. Social Interactions and Social Structure: Status and Role
    6. 8. Structural-Functional Analysis
  8. III. Recruitment Dimension
    1. 9. Family, Marriage and Kinship
    2. 10. Prelude to Family: Marriage
    3. 11. Marriage, Family and Kinship in India
  9. IV. Growing Up in a Society
    1. 12. Socialization and Enculturation
    2. 13. From Socialization to Schooling: The Broader Canvas of Education
  10. V. Internal Ranks and Divisions
    1. 14. Social Stratification: Theories and Related Concepts
    2. 15. Race, Tribe, Caste and Class
    3. 16. Poverty and the Poor
  11. VI. Change in Society
    1. 17. Social Change—I: Situating Change in Sociological Theory
    2. 18. Social Change—II: Reconstructing the Past
    3. 19. Social Change—III: Focus on the Present
    4. 20. Fashioning the Future
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. Copyright
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