MA Sociology Part I Notes (Sem II) Paper I Contemporary Social Theories

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Contemporary Social Theories

 Unit I: Structural Functionalism and Micro Sociology

• Structural Functionalism and Conflict Theories

- Functionalism

- Herbert Spencer

- Emile Durkhiem

- Robert Merton

- Malinowski

- Radcliff Brown

- Talcott Parsons

- Conflict Theory

- Classical Theorist - Conflict Theory

- Conflict Schools of the Modern Era

- Elite Theory - Conflict Theory

- Current trends in Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

- Criticisms of Symbolic Interactionism

- George Herbert Mead

- Blumer and the Chicago School

- Geoffman & Dramaturgical Perspective

• Ethnomethodology, Garfinkle & Ethnomethodological Enquiry

- Conversational Analysis

- Ethnomethodologists and Mainstream Sociology

• Narrative Analysis

Unit II: The Critical and Postmodern Turn

• Western Marxism

• Critical Theory

- Ideas of Jurgen Habermas

• The Frankfurt School

• Post-structuralist and Postmodern theories

Unit III: Theorizing Structure, Network and Risk

• Theories of Structuration

• Habitus and Practice

• Theories of Networks

• Risks and Liquidity

Unit IV: Plural Registers

• Post-colonial critique

• Standpoint Theories and Beyond

• The Feminist Critique

• Sociology from Below: Dalit Sociological Perspectives

- The Book View and the Field View

- Major Trends of Social Transformation