Department of Sociology: BSS (Hons.) Academic Session (2008-2009)

BSS (Hons.
) Academic Session (2008-2009)

Department of Sociology
First Year Semester I

Course Course Title Hours/Week Credits
No. Theory + Lab.
SOC 111 Introduction to Sociology 4+0 4.0
SOC 112 History of Human civilizations 3+0 3.0
SOC 113 Social History of Bangladesh –I 3+0 3.0
MAT 101S Mathematics 3+0 3.0
BNG 101 Bengali Language-I 2+0 2.0
BNG 102 Bengali Language-I Lab 0+2 1.0
Total 17 + 4 =21 19
Semester II
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week Credits
Theory + Lab.
SOC 121 Social Statistics 3+0 3.0
SOC 122 Social Statistics Lab 0+2 1.0
SOC 123 Social History of Bangladesh- II 3+0 3.0
SOC 120 Term Paper and Viva Voce 0+2 1.0
ECO103A Principles of Economics 3+0 4.0
PSS 102 Politics and Administration in Bangladesh 3+0 3.0
ENG 101 English Language-I 2+0 2.0
ENG 102 English Language-I Lab and Viva 0+2 1.0
Total 14 + 6= 20 17.0
Second Year Semester I
Theory + Lab.
SOC 231 Issues and Methods of Social Research 3+0 3.0
SOC 232 Issues and Methods of Social Research Lab 0+2 1.0
SOC 233 Social Thought 4+0 4.0
SOC 234 Social Psychology 4+0 4.0
STA 203 Inferential Statistics 3+0 3.0
ANP 101 Introduction to Anthropology 3+0 3.0
Total 17 + 2 = 19 18.0
Semester II
Theory +Lab.
SOC 241 History of Sociological Theories 4+0 4.0
SOC 242 Rural Sociology 4+0 4.0
SOC 240 Seminar and Viva Voce 0+2 1.0
SCW 223 Social Problem Analysis 3+0 3.0

CSE 205 Data Based Management and Programming 2+0 2.0
CSE 206 Data Based Management and Programming 6+ 2 3.0
Lab
Total 13 + 4 =17 17.0
Third Year Semester I
Theory +Lab.
SOC 351 Quantitative Analysis of Social Data 3+0 3.0
SOC 352 Quantitative Analysis of Social Data Lab 0+2 1.0
SOC 353 Crime and Deviance* 4+0 4.0
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SOC 354 Urban Sociology 4+0 4.0
SOC 355 Social Demography* 3+0 3.0
SOC 356 Social Demography Lab 0+2 1.0
SOC 357 Sociology of Gender* 4+0 4.0
SOC 358 Women and Development* 4+0 4.0
SOC 350 Term Paper and Viva Voce 0+2 1.0
Total 15/14 + 4/6 = 19/20 17.0
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Students have to choose any three of the courses but no one would be allowed to take SOC 357 and SOC 358 simultaneously.
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Semester II
Theory +Lab.
SOC 361 Qualitative Analysis of Social Data 3+0 3.0
SOC 362 Qualitative Analysis of Social Data Lab 0+2 1.0
SOC 363 Social Inequality 4+0 4.0
SOC 364 Sociology of Environment 4+0 4.0
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SOC 365 Sociology of Mass Communication 4+0 4.0
SOC 366 Sociology of Organization* 4+0 4.0
SOC 300 Research Monograph 0+6 3.0
Total 15 + 08 = 23 19.0
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Students have to choose either of the courses.
Fourth Year Semester I

Theory +Lab.
SOC 471
Classical Sociological Theories 4+0 4.0
SOC 472
Theories of Development and 4+0 4.0
Underdevelopment
SOC 473 Marxist Sociology * 4+0 4.0
SOC 474 Discourses of Development* 4+0 4.0
SOC 475 Sociology of Contemporary Bangladesh* 4+0 4.0
SOC 479 Content Analysis 0+4 2.0
SOC 400A Senior Project (Part –A) 0+6 3.0
Total 16+4 or 16+6 18/19
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Students have to choose any two of the courses.
Semester II
Theory + Lab.
SOC 481 Modern Sociological Theories 4+0 4.0
SOC 482 Theory Construction* 3+0 3.0
SOC 483 Theory Construction Lab 0+2 1.0
SOC 484 Theories of Social Change* 4+0 4.0
SOC 485 Comparative Sociology* 4+0 4.0
SOC 486 Political Sociology of Developing Countries* 4+0 4.0
SOC 489 Comprehensive 0+4 2.0
SOC 480 Viva voce 0+2 1.0
SOC-400B Senior Project (Part-B) 0+6 3.0
Total 15+8 or 16+6 or 19/18
12+12 11+14
[ Students who had enrolled for SOC 400A have to complete their senior project by completing SOC 400B]
* Students who has enrolled for SOC 400B have to choose any two of the courses and students who has not
enrolled for SOC 400B have to choose any three of the courses.]
SOC 111: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

Theory: 4 Hours/week, 4 Credits
What is Sociology: Origin and growth of Sociology as a discipline. Doing Sociology: Methods and
techniques of research. Primary Concepts: Society, Community, Association, Institution, Group,
Norms and Values. Social Process: Socialization, Cooperation, Competition and Conflict, Assimilation
and Accommodation. Social Institutions: Family, Marriage, Property, Religion and other Economic
and Political Institutions. Culture and Civilization: Material and non-mat erial Culture,
Acculturation, Cultural Diffusion, Culture and Civilization. Sociological Topologies: Static and
Dynamics, Organic and Mechanical Solidarity, Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft, Anomie and Alienation,
Folkways and Mores, Social Functions and Social Actions. Social Structure: Components of Social
Structure; Stratification; Class, Status and Power; Hegemony and Discourse; Theories of Social
Structure. Population and Environment: Population Growth, Ecological Balance, Ecosystem,
Environmental Problems in Sociological perspectives. Social Change: Theories, Change, Progress, and
Evolution. Social Problems: Nature of Social Problems; Types of social Problems. Deviant Behavior:
Crime, Violence, Substance abuse; Inequality: Poverty, Ethnicity, Gender, Work, Education and
Environmental problems. Social Mobility: Minority groups, Relations and Reactions. Population and
Health: Aging Problems.
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Books Recommended:
Alex Inkels , What is Sociology?
Pascal Gisbert, Introduction to Sociology
T.B. Bottomore, Sociology: A guide to problems and literature.
J.E. Gold Thrope, Sociology of the Third World.
J.E. Goldthrope, An Introduction to Sociology.
Metta Spencer, Foundation of Modern Sociology.
P.B. Horton and C.L. Hunt, Sociology.
R.T. Schaefer and R.P. Lamm, Introducing Sociology
M.S. Bassis, R.J. Gelles and Levine, Sociology
G. Lenski, J. Lenski and P. Nolan, Human Societies
E.W. Steward & J.A. Glynn, Introduction to Sociology
F.R. Scarpitti & M.L. Andersen, Social Problems
Robertson, Sociology
Giddens, Sociology
Vander Zanden, Sociology: The Core
SOC 112 HISTORY OF HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS

History of Human Civilizations: Its meaning, importance and scope- its relation with sociology,
Different approaches to the study of history of human civilizations: Archaeological, Economic,
Anthropological, and Sociological. Origin and Evolution of Society: Primitive, Pastoral, Agricultural,
and Industrial., Various Civilizations : (a) Civilizations in river-valley regions- Egyptian, Babylonian,
Indus and Chinese Civilizations; (b) Greek & Roman Civilizations. Oriental and Occidental
Civilizations: Comparative Perspectives. Ancient Civilizations of Bangladesh: Paharpur, Mainamati
and Mahastangarr. Modes of Production: Ancient (Slavery), Asiatic, Feudal and Modern Bourgeois
(Capitalism). Controversies relating to Asiatic mode of production and feudalism with regard to
the oriental societies.
Books Recommended:
Weber: Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilization.
Webster: World Civilization.
Swain: A History of World Civilization.
Wallbank and Taylor: Civilization: Past and Present.
Manfred (Ed.): A Short History of the world.
Mayers: General History.
Nehru: Glimpses of world History.
Majumder: History of Bengal, Vol.- I.
Childe: What Happened in History.
Kosambi: The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Outline. Dev. Raj Ghorana:
Slavery in Ancient India.
Dange: India from Primitive Communism to Slavery.
Marx: Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Marc Bloch: Feudal Society, 2 Vols.
Steward: Irrigation Civilization.
M. Dobb: Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
Pirenne: Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe.
Piggot: Pre-Historic India.
Shelvankar: Problems of India.
Karim: Changing Society in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Govt. Publication on Mainamati, Paharpur, Mahasthangarr etc
SOC 113 SOCIAL HISTORY OF BANGLADESH-I
Social History: Concept, Scope and its relation with Sociology and History, Historical Development
from Ancient to Mughal Era- An overview of Gupta, Paul and Sen. Origin and Development of
Bengal Village- Origin and Development of Bengal Land Tenure System. Various concepts of Village
Community in Pre-British India: Economic Structure of the Village Community of Pre-British India
and Bengal- Factors responsible for the change during the period of transition from Muslim rule to
British rule- Land Tenure system in Pre-British Bangladesh- Controversies regarding the existence of
private property in land in the Western sense in the Pre-British India and Bengal. Permanent
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Settlement Act of 1793 and its results: Differential spread of Sub- infeudation process in the land
system of East and West Bengal and its impact upon agrarian class structure of different tenancy laws
and their influences upon the peasant society of Bengal.

Books Recommended:
Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire
Maine, Village Communities in the East and West
S. Chandra, Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court
Weber, The Religion of India
S.C. Gupta, Agrarian Relations and early British Rule in India
Hai, The Agrarian System of Mughal India
M.N. Gupta, The Land System of Bengal..
Kosambi, Introduction to the study of Indian History.
D.P. Mukherjee, Modern Indian Culture.
Marx, Articles on India.
Wittfogel, The oriental Despotism.
Dange, India From Primitive Communism to Slavery.
Jainal Raj, The Rural Urban Economy and Social Changes in Ancient India.
B.M. Bhatia, History and Social Development Vol. I.
Jagadish N. Sarker, Studies in Economic Life in Mughal India.
Angus Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan since the Mughals.
Ghyrye, Cast and Class in India.
Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
S. Gopal, Permanent Settlement and its result.
SOC 121 SOCIAL STATISTICS

Introduction to Statistical Analysis: Definition, Function of Statistics, Relationship between statistics
and Sociology, Problems of Generalization and Prediction in Sociology. Meaning and Measurement of
Social Data: Nature and Classification of Data, Meaning and Measurement, Level of Measurement,
Measurement in Sociology. Describing Data: Frequency Distribution; Graphic Presentation: Bar
Diagram, Line Graph, Pie Chart, Histogram and Polygon, Stem and leaf display etc.; Proportion,
Percentage, Ratio and Rates. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion: The Arithmetic Mean,
The Median, The Mode, Quartiles and Percentiles, Range, Inter quartile Range, Mean Deviation,
Standard Deviation, Variance, Coefficient of Variation and Index of Dispersion. Normal Distribution:
The Normal Curve, Area Under the Normal Curve, Use of Normal Curve. Sampling: Logic of
Sampling; Sampling Representative ness, Non-Probability and Probability Sampling procedure, Central
Limit Theorem and the Law of Large Number; Point and interval Estimates of Parameters; Estimating
Sample Size for mean and Proportion. Probability: Basic Principles. The binomial distribution:
Permutation and Combination, Addition and Multiplication Rules.
Books Recommended:
H.M. Blalock, Social Statistics.
H.J. Loether and D.G. McTavish, Descriptive and Inferential Statistics.
Understanding Statistics.
Statistical Techniques of Business and Economics.
Spiegel , Statistics.
Loether & MacTavish: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics.
SOC 122 SOCIAL STATISTICS LAB

Lab: 2 Hours/week, 1 Credit
Laboratory works based on SOC 121
SOC 123 SOCIAL HISTORY OF BANGLADESH-II

3 Hours/week, 3 Credits
English Education and the uneven development of educated middle class among the Hindus and
the Muslims in Bengal- Emergence of various new social classes- Rise of commercial and industrial
capitalist class. Social Movements: Raja Ram Mohan Roy etc. Rise of Nationalism: Indian
Nationalism- Muslim Nationalism- Partition of India and Bengal. Peasant Movement of Bengal in
1946-47: East Pakistan State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 and its effect upon the social
structure of Bangladesh. Language Movement and its implication: Rise of Bengali Nationalism.
Liberation movement of Bangladesh: Election of 1954; Six Point Movement of 1966; Movement of
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1969; Election of 1970; Liberation War of 1971. Socio-economic and Political development during
post- independent Bangladesh- (a) Economic Policies: Nationalization; Denationalization; Structural
Adjustment. (b) Political crisis during different regimes: Role of Bureaucracy and Political Party;
Military Rule and Move towards Democratization; (c) Decentralization policies, An over view of advent
of the British rule.
Books Recommended:
M.N. Gupta, The Land System of Bengal.
N. Karim, The Dynamics of Bangladesh Society.
N. Karim, Changing Society in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Kosambi, Introduction to the study of Indian History.
D.P. Mukherjee, Modern Indian Culture.
Marx, Articles on India.
Jainal Raj, The Rural Urban Economy and Social Changes in Ancient India.
S. Narayan, A Century of Social Reform in India.
James Taylor, A Sketch of the Topography and Statistics of Dhaka Vol. I.
Syed Gulam Hossain Khan: The Seir Mutaquerin (The Views of Modern Times).
B.M. Bhatia, History and Social Development Vol. I.
Angus Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan since the Mughals.
Ghyrye, Cast and Class in India.
Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
Boornfield, Elite Conflict in a rural society: A Twentieth Century Bengal.
B.B. Misra, The Indian Middle Classes: Their Growth in Modern Times.
K.M. Ashraf, Life and Condition of the People of Hindustan.
Synil Sen, Agrarian Struggle in Bengal 1946-47.
G.P. Bhattacharjee, Renaissance and Freedom Movement in Bangladesh.
Colebrooke, Remarks on the Husbandry and Internal Commetc of Bengal.
Tripathi, Trade and Finance in the Bengal 1793-1833.
Aparna Basu, The Growth of Education and Political Development in India 1898-1920.
R.K. Mukherjee, Land Problems of India.
Kumruddin, Social History of Bangladesh,
SOC 120 Term Paper and Viva Voce

Lab: 2 Hours/Week, 1 Credit
The students shall prepare one term paper from their major courses on selected topics. The term paper
will be graded as per university rule. Student will also be evaluated through a viva voce.
SOC 231 ISSUES & METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Nature and Characteristics of Science; Sociology as a Science; Sociology and social Reality;
Problems of Objectivity in Sociology; Question of Values in sociology; Sociology and Code of Ethics;
Reliability & validity of Social data, Scientific Method- Theory and Research. Language and Logic of
Science in Sociology: Basic Elements of Research- Symbols, Concepts, Variables, Propositions,
Statements - forms of theoretical statement. Types of Research: Pure, Applied, Action, Operational,
Evaluation- Monitoring. Research Steps and Design: Research Method and Techniques:
Observation, Survey, Case Study, Content Analysis, PRA, RRA, Historical, Philosophical,
Experimental, Exploratory; Research Instruments: Interview Guide, Interview Schedule; Sampling:
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling; Sample Size Calculations; Data Collection Procedures &
Observation: Participation, Interviews, Questionnaire; Data Measurement in Scales- Nominal, Ordinal,
Interval, Ratio; Preparation of Data for Analysis: editing and coding, Data analysis: (a)Quantitative:
Tabulations: Univariate, Bivariate, Multivariate Data Analysis; Use of Statistics, Measures of Reliability
& Validity, Hypothesis Testing;(b) Qualitative: Content analysis Triangulation. etc. Report writings.
History and philosophy of Research methods.
Books Recommended:
C. Seitig, et el, Research Methods in Social Relations.
W.J.Goode & P.K. Hatt, Methods in Social Research.
P.V. Young, Scientific Social Survey and Research.
B. Philips, Sociological Research Methods: An Introduction.
B. Philips, Social Research Strategy Tactics.
C.A. Moser & G. Dalton, Survey Methods in Social Investigation.
N. Lin, Fundamentals of Social Research.
Babbie, Practice of Social Research.
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Bailly, Methods of Social Research.
T.L. Baker, Doing Social Research
Tim May, Social Research; Issues and Process
SOC 232 ISSUES AND METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH LAB

SOC 233 SOCIAL THOUGHT
Social Thought in the Antiquity: Greek Philosophers- Plato (427-347 BC)- Basis of State-Concept of
Justice Plato's Communism- Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Origin and Nature of the State- Aristotle's
Attitude Towards Slavery- Theory of Property- The Middle Classes- Causes and Prevention of
Revolution; Medieval Social Thought: St. Augustine (354-430 AD) - Foundation of State- The Earthly
and the Heavenly City-St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274)- Natural Law and Human Law; Ibn Khaldun
(1332-1406)- `Assabiyya' (Social Solidarity) and its difference with that of Durkheim- Causes of the
Rise and Fall of Civilization- Modern Social Thought: Machiavelli (1469-1527)- Rise of bourgeois
Ideology- Conception of Evolution of Society- `Material Interest' and `Power' as the driving forces of
History- Conflict of Interests between the Masses and the Ruling Classes- Hobbes (1588-1679)- The
State of Nature- The Meaning of Social Contract; Civil Law and Natural Law; Locke (1632-1704) - The
State of Nature- Conceptions of Slavery, Property and Political Society; Vico (1668-1744) - Theory of
the Evolution of nation- Decline of Human Society- Montesquieu (1689-1755)- The Social Foundations
of Governments- Religions and the Forms of State- Influence of Geography, Rousseau (1712-1778)-
Civil State- General Will- Origin of Private Property and Rise of Social Inequality; Hegel (1770-1831)-
Hegel's Philosophy and Bourgeois Development in Germany- Nature of Hegel's Dialectics;
Books Recommended:
G.H. Mead, History of Political Thought
R. Chambliss, Social Thought
H.E. Barnes, Social Thought from Lore to Science
Plato, Republic (Trans. F. M. Conford)
Aristotle, Politics (trans. Benjamin Jowett)
St. Augustine, The City of God (Trans. Marcus Dods)
Hobbes, Leviathan
Locke, Two Treatises on Social Government
Rousseau, The Social Contact
Kautilya, Arthashastra (Trans. R. Shamashastry)
SOC234 Social Psychology

Definition, Nature and scope of Social Psychology: Place of social psychology in the sphere of sciences-
Relation of sciences- Methods and Data of social psychology. Historical Background of the
development of social psychology as a separate discipline- Schools of modern social psychology.
Psychology of the individual: Socialization of the individual. Social Psychology of the group: Human
group life, Role of mind in group formation, Types of group, Group solidarity and leadership. Social
Psychology of the Crowd: Classification of the crowd, Analysis of crowd behavior. Social Psychology
of Attitudes: Beliefs, Prejudice, Interests and Ideologies. Psychology of Collective Behavior:
Psychology of Fashion, Psychology of Propaganda, Mass Communication. Psychology of Cooperation
and Conflict. Psychology of Cognition: Sensation, Types of social stimulus and response, development
and social factors of perceptions, difference between motivation and drive, difference between motive
and emotion, Types of motive, motivation and social behavior, Learning, Relations between learning
and reflex, types of reflex. Personality: Factors and Structures of Personality, Developmental Theories
of Personality (Jung, Spranger, Hippocrates, Allport, Catcell, Freud and Adler); Personality and Culture
(Horney, Linton, Mead and Kardiner); Personality measurement. Ethnic and rural psychology of
Bangladesh.
Environmental and Social Psychology.Approaches of Social Psychology to Legal Systems.
SOC 241 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Theory: 4 Hours/Week, 4 Credits
Socio-economic and the political situation of the 19th century Europe- Intellectual Development.
Auguste Comte: Positive Science, Law of Three Stages development. K. Marx: Dialectical and
Historical materialism- Alienation, Class and Class Struggle- Labor and Surplus Value. H. Spencer:
Social Darwinism- Evolution. E. Durkheim: Division of Labor- Social Solidarity- Suicide-
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Methodology. Max Weber: Methodology- Protestant ethic and the development of capitalism- Power
and Authority- Rationalization. V. Pareto: Elite and Circulation of Elite- Psychoanalysis- Logico-
experimental Method. K. Mannheim: Sociology of Knowledge. T. Parsons: Social Action- Social
System- Structural-Functionalism; R. Merton: Functionalism- Deviance; G.H. Mead: Symbolic
Interaction Theory. Contemporary Sociological Theory and Schools- Frankfurt School-Critical
theory. Exchange Theory: Homans and Blau. Phenomenology- Schutz, Ethnomethodology- Garfinkel,
Dramaturgy-Goffman, Crisis in Sociology-Gouldner.
Books Recommended:
Thompson and J. Tunstall (ed.), Sociological Perspective
Bottomore and R. Nisbet (ed.), A History of Sociological Analysis
R. Aron, Main Currents in Sociological Thought.
Ritzer, Classical Sociological Theory
Johnson, Sociological Theories
M. Francis Abraham, Modern Sociological Theories
Wallace and Wolf, Contemporary Sociological Theories.
Nachmias & Nachmias, Research Methods in the Social Sciences.
Monette, Sullivan & De Jong, Applied Social Research.
SOC 242 RURAL SOCIOLOGY

Theory : 4 hours/week,4 credits
Rural sociology: Definition, scope and importance, development of rural sociology: theoretical
problems of rural sociology. Rural social structure: Pattern of rural class, land ownership and tenancy
relation; landlessness and wage labor relations. Rural power structure: nature, rural elite ,relationship
between rural elite and national power structure, kinship relationship and rural power structure ,nature
and functions of village community(gram samaj).Rural Institutions formal and informal rural
institutions. Nature of Peasant Society: Definition of peasantry; Theory and Concepts regarding
Peasantry: Organization production school; Lenin’s model of peasant polarization; Shanin’s model of
rural mobility Patnaik’s debate. Rural Development: Definition and importance of rural development;
issues and strategies of rural development, Agricultural Development: Introduction; adoption and
consequences of new programs; technology and institutions.
Books Recommended:
Alamgir, Bangaldesh: A Case of Below Poverty Level Equilibrium Trap.
Alamrir(de) Land Reform in Bangladesh.
Ali, Some Aspects of Peasant Behavior in Bangladesh: A New Classical Analysis.
SOC-240
Seminar and viva voce
lab 2 hours/week, 1 credit
The student shall prepare one seminar paper from the major courses on selected topic. The paper will be
presented in the class room. Teachers predicating seminar will evaluate the student as per university
rule. Student will also be evaluated through a viva voce.
SOC- 351 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA

Theory: 3 Hours/week, 3 credits
Introduction: Definition, scope and use of quantitative data; difference between the art and science of
available data Design and Structure of Research: Research design, classic experimental design, Causal
inferences-co- variation, non-spuriousness, time order; components of research design- comparison,
manipulation, control, generalizabiity: design types-controlled experimentation, the Solomon four-group
design. The posttest-Only control group design, Factorial design. Cross Sectional and Quasi-
Experimental Designs: Types of relations and designs, cross sectional designs, quasi-experimental
designs-contrasted group designs, planned variation designs, panels and time series designs, control
series designs; combined designs. Data Preparation: coding schemes, rule of coding, code book
construction, coding reliability, spot-checking for errors. Distribution of Data: Rule of statistics
frequency distribution with interval variables and various measures. Construction bi-variate table,
principles of co-variation, nominal, ordinal and interval measures of relationship . Control, Elaboration
and Multivariate Analysis: Methods of control cross-tabulation as a control operation, causal methods
and path analysis. Index construction and Sealing Methods: Defining the purpose of the index, selecting
and collecting the base of comparison, methods of aggregation and weighting, Likert, Guttman,
Bogardus, Thurstone scaling and other composite measures factor analysis. Inferences: The strategy of
testing hypotheses, null and research hypotheses, level of significance and region of rejection, type I and
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type II error, parametric and non-parametric test of significance.
Books Recommended:
Nachmias & Nachmias , /research Methods in the Social Sciences.
Monette, Sullivan & DeJong , Applied Social Research .
SOC-352 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA LAB

Lab: 2 Hours/week, I Credit
Laboratory Works based on SOC 351
SOC 353 Crime and Deviance

Criminology: Criminology as a sub-discipline; Research Methods in Criminology. Crime and
Criminal: Problems of Defining crime and criminal; Legal Definition of crime and sociological
definition of crime, nature of crime. Crime & Sin, Crime & Immorality- Ferri, Garofalo, Goring,
Hooton, etc.; Psychological Approach - Freudian Psycho analysis and Crime - Feeble mindness and
Crime, Psychopathic Personality and Crime; Sociological Approach - Durkheim's Theory of Anomie;
Merton's Theory of Deviant Behavior; Interactions Perspective, Symbolic Interactionism and Meaning
of crime to the Criminal; Labeling Theory; Sutherland's Theory of Differential Association; Fillin's
Theory of Differential Interaction; Economic Approach - Economic Factors and Crime; Marxist
Criminology; Institutional and Multiple Factor Approaches. Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile
Delinquent Etiology of Delinquency; Juvenile Court. White Collar Crime: Problem of Definition,
Nature and Etiology of White Collar Crime. Social Dimension and Crime: Gender and Crime; Race,
Crime and Criminal Justice. Recidivism: Nature of Recidivism; Etiology of and Solution to Recidivism.
Penology: Punishment - Theories of Punishment and limitation of Punishment; Forms of Punishment.
Correction and Prevention of Crime: Correctional Methods; Probation and Parole; Measures for
Preventing Crime. Crimes and Juvenile Delinquency in Bangladesh: Etiology, Penology and
Correctional Methods.
Books Recommended:
Haskell, Crime and Delinquency
Quinney, Criminology
Sutherland and Cressey, Criminology
Vold, Theoretical Criminology
Ferri, Criminal Sociology
Latifa Akand and Ishrat Shamim, Women and Violence
SOC 354 URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Introduction: Definition, field and relevance of Urban Sociology; Concept, Theories, and methods in
Urban Sociology Development of City (analytical/historical): (a) Contrasting definition-characteristics
common to natural cities-measurement of degree of urbaneness-principles and factors in location of
cities-comparative size of cities; (b) Origin and development-per-historic cities-first classical urban
revolution-decline of classic cities; (c) Feudal cities-revival, physical structure, characteristics and
decline renaissance cities-second urban revolution-comparison between European and pre-capitalist
Indian cities; (d) Urban growth in America-pre-industrial and industrial-immigrants problems, reform
movement urban imagery, ambivalence, myth of rural virtue, Pre-industrial and industrial cities-Why
cities have developed, spreaded and declined Theories of urban growth: (a) Historical School- social
psychological school- early trends in American city theory, the rise of ecological school-Alternative
theories-contemporary ecology- Social area analysis, factorial ecology; (b) Rural-Urban dimension in
pre-industrial, transitional and industrial societies-Folk-urban continuum. Urban institution and
problems Family and marriage education, school and Welfare-Leisure time activities-religion and
activities-neighborhoods, networks and association. The social psychology of urban life b) Municipality
and state- local government-political party - Government and politics-informal structure and division c)
Urban economic organization-development of contemporary economy- problems of human relation in
urban economy-corporate bureaucracy-Employment trends- Labor force market Persistent urban
space; [problems, Urban crime, Unrest and social control- ethnic and racial minorities-social classes in
the majority population-Disorganized areas- Effects on personality Third world urbanization .New
urban sociology-scale and pace of urbanization-world population change-changing role of cities-the
inhabitants- current problems in developing cities. Extended urbanization in South East Asia.
Bangladesh perspective- Spatial growth, Urban social structure, Informal sector development, Urban
governance.
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Books Recommended:
H.E Notridge.The Sociology of Urban Living
G.Child: What Happened in History.
J A Cuim: Urban Sociology
H Gold: The Sociology of Urban life
G.Sjoberg: The Preindustrial City
M.Weber; The City
H J Gans ;The urban Villagers: Group and class in the life of Italian Americans.
J.J Palen; The Urban World.
N D Fustel De Coulanges: The Ancient City: A study on the Religion, Lands, and institutions of Greece
and Rome.
H Pirenne: Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade.
G.Breecec: Urbanization in the Developing Countries: Reading on Urbanism and urbanization.
S, F Faba: Urbanism in World perspective.
Alavi and Shanin: Introduction to the Sociology of Developing Societies.
Kamal Siddique et el.: Social formation in Dhaka City.
J E Goldthorpe: Sociology of the Third World
SOC 355 SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY

Theory: 3 Hours/Week, 3 Credit
Introduction: Definition, nature, scope and importance of demography Population Theories:- Pre-
modern population doctrines-Malthus, Mary Demographic Transition -Theory of demographic transition
and its adjunct theories Nature of Demographic Data: Types and source of demographic data
Evaluation of accuracy and errors in demographic data Adjustment and correction of errors in
demographic data Quality of demographic data in Bangladesh Population Structure and
Composition:- Age and sex structure pattern and variations. Determinant and consequences of age and
sex structure. Techniques of analysis: age and age pyramid, sex ratio, dependent of ratio and labor force
participation rate Marriage and Family Formation:- Age at marriage : Universality of early marriage,
Haznal’s analysis of the European marriage pattern Fertility: Definition and components of fertility;
Trends and variations in fertility; Differentials and determinants of fertility; Measurement of fertility
Migration: Some basic concepts Differentials and selectivity in migration theories and typologies
Causes and consequences of migration Measurements of migration Mortality: Components of
mortality ; Causes of death trends and variations in mortality Factors responsible for the decline in
mortality rates Measuring mortality: death rates standardization, life expectancy and life table
Population Projection: Techniques of population projection Trends in Bangladesh Population policy
of Bangladesh: population a prospect or problem; Population policy in Bangladesh.
Books Recommended:
J.R. Weeks: Population: An Introduction to concepts and Issues.
P.E. Zopt Jr.: Population: An Introduction to Social Demography.
Judah Matras(ed.) : Population and Societies.
Shryock and Seigel: Methods and Materials of Demography.
G. Barelay: Techniques of Population Analysis.
SOC 356 SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY LAB

Lab Works based on SOC 365
SOC 357 SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

1.Historical Background of the Development of Feminist and Gender Studies : Concept of

feminism and gender; establishment of gender studies as a separate discipline: gender studies and
women Studies ; Gender and feminist Theory : Politics of Reproduction- Ethnomethodological
Viewpoint. 2. Gender and Social Inequality: Universal Subordination of Women : Theoretical
Debates : Socio-biological Argument ;Materialist Conception; Private Vs Public Analysis;
Psychoanalytic Perspective; Environmental Debates; Ideological Issues. Relative position of man and
woman in the society ; Division of labor, Prejudice and Discrimination-degree ; Biological,
Psychological and Cultural Evidences, Ideological perspective and Cultural construction of Gender
relation and Gender rule; 3. Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender: Theories of Sex role
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Socialization- Functionalism, Symbolic Interactions, Conflict. 4. Contextual analysis of social,
economic, political and legal issues of women in relation to gender . 5. Discrimination of Women in
Work [Empirical Issues]: Women and Class; Patriarchy and Maternal economy and Domestication of
Women labour, Industrialized economy and Dual labor market : Women employment as Cheap labor
;Women and Social mobility; 6. Women’s Movement for Liberation: Global, Regional and National
perspectives; Theories of women’s liberation: Socialist feminism Radical feminism; Women rights
feminism 7. Integration of women in development process. 8. Women and environment. 9. Women
in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects of gender studies in Bangladesh; Situation analysis Economic,
Social, political and legal. Violence against women Women’s movement in Bangladesh. Boserup -
Women’s role in Economic Development Barbara Beckard - The Women’s Movement Women For
Women - Women for Women in Bangladesh, 1975.
Books Recommended
Rosaldo and Lamphere , Women, Culture and Society.
Boserup, Women’s Role in Economic Development.
Goods[ed.], Production and Reproduction
Barrett, Women’s Oppression
Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender
Rowbotham, Women Resistance and Revolution
Reiter, Toward an Anthropology of Women
Strathern and Macormack, Woman , Culture and Gender
Ortner, Sexual Meanings
Eichler, The Double Standard : A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science
Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Nrestone, The Dialectic of Sex
Kuhn and Wolpe, Feminism and Materialism ; Women and Modes of Production
Mitchell, Women’s Estate
Roberts, Doing Feminist Research
Stanley, Breaking Out : Feminist Conciousness and Feminist Research
O’Brien, The Politics of Reproduction
Bwoles Gand Klein, Theories of Women’s Studies
Young , Of Marriage and the Markets
SOC-358 WOMEN & DEVELOPMENT

Theory 4 hours/ week: 4 Credits
(The Course teacher will Provide the outlines and Available Resources)
SOC 350 Term Paper and Viva Voce

The students shall prepare one term paper from their major courses on selected topic. The term paper
will be graded as per university rule. Student will also be evaluated through a viva voce.
SOC 361 QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA

Theory 3 Hours/week, 3 Credits
Introduction -Definition of Qualitative Research, distinction between qualitative and quantitative

research, The importance of qualitative research in sociology, politics and ethics in qualitative research,
types of qualitative research. Locating the field and research tradition- History of qualitative research
in sociology Major paradigms and perspectives- Constructivist, interpretivist approaches, critical
theory and qualitative research, Feminism and models of qualitative research, ethnic modeling in
qualitative research, audiencing . Strategies of Inquiry – Qualitative research design: metaphor,
methodolatry and meaning, case studies, ethnography and participant observation, phenomenology,
ethno methodology and interpretive practice, grounded theory methodology, biographical method,
historical social science, participate inquiry, clinical research.
Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials –Interviewing: the art of science,
observational techniques, interpretation of documents, visual methods, personal experience methods,
data management and analysis methods, using computers in qualitative research, narrative, content and
semiotic analysis The art of Interpretation, Evaluation and Presentation- Assessing interpretive
validity in qualitative research, the art and politics of interpretation, writing: a method of inquiry,
qualitative program evaluation, influencing the policy process with qualitative research The Future
and Prospect of qualitative research .
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Books Recommended
Text: Denzin and Lincoln (ed.) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage Publications, U.S.A., 1994.
Emerson, R M (ed.): Contemporary Field Research
Schatzman L. and A.L. Strauss: Field Research; Strategies for A Natural Sociology
SOC 362 QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA LAB

SOC-363: SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Concepts and Theories of Social Inequality: Concepts: Social Inequality, Social Stratification, Class,
Status, Power, Strata, Rank, Hierarchy, Prestige and Privilege; Determinants and Dimensions of Social
Inequality- Individual characteristics and Socially defined Characteristics; Moral and Value Dilemmas.
Theories: Philosophical Perspectives; Marx & Weber; Functionalist Theories, Durkheim, Parsons,
Merton, Kingsley Davis and Moore, Tumin. Conflict Theories- Dahrendorf, Lenski. Origin of Social
Inequality: The Idea of Equality or Near Equality in Primitive Communism and Origin of Egalitarian
Society - Forms of Distributive Systems and Social Inequality; Ownership Pattern and rise of Social
Inequality; Hunting and Gathering Societies; Simple and Advanced Horticultural Societies, Agrarian
Societies; Caste and Social Inequality; Industrial Societies, Class division in post industrial societies and
social mobility. Types of Inequalities: Economic, Political, and Social. Cultural etc. Racial and Ethnic
Inequality: Race and Ethnic Variation of World Population; Prejudice and Discrimination- Degree,
Dimension and Distribution. Gender and Social Inequality: Relative position on man and woman in
the society and division of labor, Prejudice and Discrimination-Degree, Dimension and Distribution;
Biological, Psychological and Cultural Evidences, Feminist perspectives on Gender Inequality;
Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender- Theories of Sex role Socialization- Functionalism,
Symbolic Interactions, Conflict. Age and Other Individual Characteristics, and Social Inequality:
Age and aging- Theories of Aging; Prejudice and Discrimination - Degree, Dimension and Distribution.
Measurements of Social Inequality: Positive and Normative Measurements. Units of Measurement,
Dimension, Degree, Range and Distribution. Scales and Indices, Simple and Complex Index, Basic
Scales and Utilities; Scale, Discrimination Technique; Rating Scales, Latent Distance Scales,
Multidimensional Scaling. Duncan’s Socio-economic Index; Hollingshead’s Two Factor Index of Social
Position; Occupational Rating Scales, Wamer, Mecker, Eell, etc. Edward’s Socio-Economic Grouping;
Gini Index. Toward more Equality: Age, Race, Ethnic, Gender, Class, Power etc. ; Inequality in
Bangladesh.
Books Recommended
Lenski, Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification
Kriesberg, Social Inequality
Grab, Social Inequality: Classical and Contemporary Theories
Amartya Sen, On Economic Inequality
Dahrendorf, Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
Beteille (ed.), Social Inequality
SOC 364 SOCIOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENT

1. Introduction: Definition of some basic concepts: ecology and environment, ecosphere and
ecosystem-species and population-habitual and niche-food web and tropic structure. Social and physical
environment-Biogeochemical cycle and their interaction with man and environment. Ecosystem:
Aquatic, terrestrial
2. Environmental Theories and Debates: Development of environmentalism: the development of
ideas, eco centrism versus techno centrism-tragedy of the commons’ doctrine, blue print for survival,
limits to growth, global 2000 rapport, bright global future, Stockholm to Rio.
3. The Human Species Versus the Natural World: The development of human population and stages
of cultural development-population dynamics and overpopulation. North South differences of population
dynamics and ecological balance- population and resources-Internal ages between population and
environment.- Family planning and population control.
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4. Major Environmental Issues: Industrialization- Urbanization-Land use and agriculture. Energy
consumption-Women and children-What resources Health and sanitation.
5. Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Green house effect Nuclear proliferation population
Deforestation Floods and cyclones Earthquake and rise of riverbeds poverty.
6. Disaster Management: Poverty alleviation Flood control and drainage program, Cyclone
management, relief and rehabilitation. Afforestation and community and social forestry Restructuring
the industrial system National and international efforts.
7. Environmental Policy, Planning and Research: Environmental planning: government policies and
Programs, impact evaluation and feedback action Environmental research: impact assessment,
geographic information system, Environmental education and awareness.
8. Growth, Development and Environment: Technology, development and environment Social and
economic process and environment Social values, norms, beliefs and practices and environment
Structural change, sustainable growth and environment Eco development strategies for sustainable
development.
9. Social Structure and Environment: Human versus social ecology. Social stratification, inequality
and environment Social values, norms, beliefs and practices and environment Resources allocation,
consumption patterns and life styles and environment
10. Politics of Environmentalism: The political culture of environmental politics, Environmental
pressure groups The role pro government and non-government actors in environmental movement. Rich
world, poor world: trade, debt and aid.
Books Recommended:
G.T. Miller : Living in the Environment: An introduction to Environmental Science
N. H. Greenwood and J.M.B. Edwards: Human Environments and Natural Systems.
Rahman et. a1 : Environment and Development in Bangladesh. Vol. I & II
T.O. Riordan : Environmentalism.
C.H. Southwick: Global Ecology
Varma Environmental Biology.
SOC 365 SOCIOLOGY OF MASS COMMUNICATION

Mass communication as a field of research in Sociology

Techniques of Research in Mass Communication
Theoretical Perspectives
Process of Mass Communication :Technological Development and Mass Media
Mass Communication Organizations
Media and Message; Media and Popular culture.
The Audience of Mass Communication.
Effects of Mass Media
Mass Communication and the Third World.
Books Recommended
Me Quail: Towards a Sociology of Mass Communication.
Tunstall: Media are American.
Mass Communication Year Bank 1991.
SOC 366 : SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION

The nature and definition of Organizations. Organization in Historical Perspectives, Organization in

Pre- capitalist Societies, Industrialism and organizations: Complex organization Theoretical Models:
The beginning of Organizational research, psychological model, technological model structural
functionalism, system model, action analysis of Organization, state bureaucracy and Multinational
Organizations and neo Marxist critique. Nature, Characteristics, Typologies of Organizations,
Structural elements of Organizations. Technology and Organization: Organization as socio-technical
system, Environment and organizational structure, technology and alienation. Bureaucracy: Nature and
characteristics, The limits of bureaucracy, Work redesign and the limits of Tylorism and Fordism.
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Human Relations and the work group Earth approaches to Human behavior at work, limitations of
Human relations tradition recent studies of work group. Decision-making process in organization
resources. power, Authority and organizational goals, communication and the process of decision-
making, control and autonomy. Patterns of interactions; Organizational roles; role conformity and
performance; Non-compliance of roles; Types of conflict; Strategies conflict management.
Comparative studies of organizations in capitalist and socialist countries - Authority. power and
Industrial relations in socialist societies. Organizations and underdevelopment in the Third World
Theories of organization. Underdevelopment and development; organizational problems; Corruption -
Industrial relations: Multinational corporation and the Third World. Organizational management
system
Books Recommended:
Burns (ed.): Industrial Man
Victor (ed.): Methods of Organization Research
Souldeer: Patterns of Ubdystruak Bureaucracy
Pugh (ed.): Organization Theory
Watson: Sociology, work and industry
SOC 300 RESEARCH MONOGRAPH

Lab: 6 Hours/Week, 3 Credits
Each student will conduct a research monograph on a topic derived from all the courses s/he studied.
The topic and a proposal will be prepared to conduct the research by the student after enrollment. The
student will submit four copies of the final report to the department. The respective supervisor and the
external examiner will evaluate the report. The student will also face oral defense through the concerned
examination committee. The report will be graded as per university rule.
SOC 471: CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
Historical Setting in which Sociology appeared as a discipline; Auguste Comte: Hierarchy of Sciences;
The three stages of development; Social Statics and Social Dynamics; Religion, Humanity and
Positivism; Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism, Evolution of Society, Functionalism; Karl Marx:
Historical and Dialectical Materialism, Concepts of man, Labor, Surplus Value, Alienation, Modes of
Production, Transition from feudalism to Capitalism, Class and Class Conflicts, Socialism and
Communism; Emile Durkheim: Social Facts and his Methodology, Division of Labor in Society,
Solidarity, Religion and Society, Suicide; Max Weber: Methodology, Economy and Society, Religion
and Society, Power and Authority, Rationality; V. Pareto: Psycho -Analysis, Logico Experimental
Science, Circulation of Elite Theory.
Books Recommended:
Auguste Comte: (Selection from Comte)
R. Aron, Main Currents of Sociological Thought.
Spencer, Evolution of Society.
Durkheim, Suicide.
Weber, Theory of Social Organization (Chap 1, Chap 3 and Chap 4 )
Marx and Engles, The German Ideology( Selection from)
Marx and Engles, The Communist Manifesto.
Marx and Engles (Selections from Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844)
Finer, Sociology of Pareto.
SOC 472: THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT
Development as a Sociological Concept: Definition and Indices of Development; Economic
Development; Development and Underdevelopment: Developmentalism revisited. Theories and
Schools of Development and Underdevelopment: (a). Modernization. (b). Dependency. (c) Neo-
Marxism (d) World system. Theories of Social Capital.
Books Recommended:
Etzioni, Social Change
Frank, Capitalism and the Underdevelopment of Latin America.
Frank, Lumpen Bourgeoisie and Lumpen Development.
Alavi, Capitalism and Colonial production.
Wellerstein, The Doern World System.
Weizsacker, Earth Politics.
Ghai (ed.), Development and Environment.
Kumar, From Post Industrial to Post Modern Society.
Hamelink, The Politics of World Communication.
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Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies.
Barbero, Communication, Culture and Hegemony.
Mellow, Breaking the Boundaries.
Pietas, Globalization or Hybridization.
SOC 473: MARXIST SOCIOLOGY

Classic Ideas: Marx and Engels–Nature, man history, dialectic and historical interpretation , theory of
labor and surplus value, alienation, class and class conflict, colonialism and imperialism social change,
socialism: utopian and scientific. Revolutionary praxis and road to Socialism: Karl Kaustsky, Bernstein
and Rosa Luxemberg-representing the leading tendencies in the most important part of the Second
International-discussion of revolution and reform ; the Bolshevik pivot-Lenins theses and Stalinist
consolidation and crities. Gremsci and Lukacs: The intellectuals; hegemoby and deconstruction of
capitalism; philosophy and problems of Marxism; class-consciousness and reification of capitalism.
Critical School: Horkheimer, Adorno, Formm Marcuse and Habermas: Convergence of Freud and Marx
negative dialectic, dialectic of enlightenment; critique of psychoanalysis, new left movement and
critique of one dimensional society and thoygh, communicative rationality and the analysis of late
capitalism. Art Literature and Marxism: Cultural theories; literary theories.
Books Recommended:
Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844 .
Marx and Engles, The German Ideology.
Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaiare of Louis Bonaparte.
Marx, The Civil War in France.
Marx and Engles, The Communist Manifesto.
Marx and Engles, On Colonialism,
Engels, Anty-Dhuring
Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Screntific
Lenin: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Lenin, State and Revolution
Gramsic(ed & trn by Quintin Hoare) Selections form Prison notebooks.
Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Salvadori, karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938
Gupta, S.D,(selected and introduced) Readings in Ros Luxemberg and her Critics.
Erich Fromm, The Crisis of Psychoanalysis.
Williams, R, Marxism and Literature.
Mills, C. Wright, The Marxists.
Bottomore, Marxist Sociology
Bottomore (ed)Interpretations on Marx.
SOC-474 DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT

Theory: 4 hours/ week, 4 Credits
Development and Institutional Pattern: Capitalist and capitalistic social formation in developing
countries, colonial heritage and its consequences.
Modernization; Agrarian social structure; green revolution and development; and tenure and modern
agriculture ; class and power structure; industrialization and urbanization; DFI-led development; and
international transaction of labor and capital
Post- modernism and Orientalism : Accounts the post modernism in sociology; accounting or the orient;
orientalism and the problem of civil society.
Population and Food: Population growth, food scarcity and politics; entitlement and entitlement failure
Globalization and Feminism: Concepts of globalization and female participation in development.
Environment and Sustainable Development: Environmental degradation and challenge for development;
natural resource management and sustainable development.
Politics and Development:
Political changes in developing countries; problems of bureaucracy, authoritarianism, military
intervention and democracy.
NGOs Approach of Development: Concepts of NGOs in capitalist development; roles in development;
problems in civil society formation.
Human Development: Appraisals of UNDP Human Development Indices.
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SOC 475 SOCIOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY BANGLADESH
This course includes all the significant sociological works on the contemporary Bangladesh society.
Emphasis will however be given on the major sociological studies (both at micro and macro level)
conducted in recent times.
The following themes / issues will be focused in the course.
Theories on: 1. Population Growth; 2. Power Structure; 3. Empowerment; 4. Class and Class
Formation. Issues: 1. Urban Issues, 2. Stratification, 3. Differentiation and polarization, 4. Power
Structure, 5. Conflict, 6. Family, 7. Women Issues, 8. Migration, 9. Agrarian Reform, 10. Rural
Economy,11. Ethnicity and Ethnic Minorities. 12. Nationalism.14. Democratization, 15. Crime and
Deviance, 16. Governance, Corruption and Civil Society.
Books Recommended:
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Arens and Beurden, Jhagrapur: Poor Peasants and Women in a Village in Bangladesh (Revisited).
Van Schendal, Peasant Mobility.
Arefeen, Changing Agrarian Structure in Bangladesh.
Siddiqui, The Political Economy of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh .
Siddiqui et el. Social Formation in Dhaka City.
Westergaard, Rural Society, State and Class in Bangladesh .
Jahargir, Differentiation, Polarisation and Confrontation in Rural Bangladesh .
Jahangir, Problematic of Nationalism in Bangladesh
Jansen, Rural Bangladesh: Competition for Scarce Resources.
Hurtman, Quiet Violence, Bangladesh: Facing the Future.
Wood, Bangladesh: Whose Ideas, Whose Interest?
S.R.Chakraborty et el, Bangladesh: History and Culture, 3 Vols.
S.R.Chakraborty et el, Bangladesh : Society, polity and Economy.
Barkat et el., Political Economy of Vested Property in Bangladesh.
Sobhan, Agrarian Reform and Social Transformation.
Akbar Ali Khan – Discovery of Bangladesh.
SOC 400 SENIOR PROJECT (PART- A)

Lab: 6 Hours/Week, 3 Credits
Students having at least B+ and completed all 118 credits up to 300 level will qualify for the submission
of senior project proposal. Respective student will prepare a research proposal and submit to the head of
the department. The Head of the Department will sit with the faculties and distribute the proposals
according to their areas of interests. This project is divided into two parts i.e. Part A and Part B. Students
will complete Part A in the fourth year first semester which requires topic selection, theoretical
framework, review of literature, methodology and pilot survey (if necessary). ……..
SOC 417 CONTENT ANALYSIS

Lab: 4 Hrs./Week, 2 Credits
The students who could not qualify and /or are not interested for the senior project (Part- A) will review
one published article selected and distributed by the department. The review will follow a formated
instruction. It will be evaluated through review paper and oral examination. The review paper will be
graded as per university rule.
SOC 481: MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

Foundation of modern sociology: Approaching modernity, Simmel, Mannheim. Structural

functionalism: Parsons: Merton: Symbolic interactionism: Mead and successive development. Neo-
Marxism and Conflict School: Gramsci, Dahrendorf and Collins. Frankfurt School: Horkheimer,
Adorno; Marcuse; Social exchange theories: Homans and Blau, Phenomenological sociology: Schutz,
Berger; Ethnomethodology: Garfinkel; Goffman: Dramaturgical approach.
Book Recommended
Kurt H. Wolf (ed. and trans.), The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Parsons, The Structure of Social Action
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Parsons, The Social System
Parsons, Toward A General Theory of Action

Hamilton, Talcott Parsons
Wallace and Wolf, Contemporary Sociological Theories
Turner, The Structure of Sociological Theory
Abrahams, Modern Sociological Theory
Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
Mead, Mind, Self and Society
T.B. Bottomore, The Frankfurt School
Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia
Mannheim, Sociology of Knowledge
Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure
Berger and Luckman, The Social Construction of Reality
Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology
Schutz, Phenomenology of Social Life
SOC 482: THEORY CONSTRUCTION

Knowledge in Context: Way of knowledge; problems of subject and object in knowledge. Theory,
Observation and Practical Adequacy: Conceptual mediation of perception; truth and practical adequacy.
Theory and Method; Abstraction, structure and cause: types of system and their implications.
Paradigmatic Development of Science: Kuhn Paradigm, and paradigm variations: verification and
falsification: popper’s falsification Feyereband’s theoretical anarchism; naturalist and holiest traditions;
positivism, empiricism, interpretive sociology and critical inter-subjectivity. Methodology of Sociology:
Quantification of social reality; exploring social reality; exploring, social reality through interpretive and
non-interpretive approaches. Theoretical Simulations: Methods of construction models of random and
non-random sequences.
Books Recommended:
Sayer, A Method in Social Science
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution
Reynolds A Primer in Theory Construction
Fayerabend, Against Method
Fayerabend Against Reason
Blalock, Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations
Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Berger and Luclman, The Construction of Social Reality
Stincheombe, Construction Social Theories
Fay, Contemporary Philosophy of Social Sciences
Hughes, The Philosophy of Social Research
Lakatos, Philosophical papers, Vol-1
N. Mullinoo- The Art of Theory Construction
H.Zetterberg; On Theory and Verification in Sociology.
R. Freidricks, A Sociology of Sociology.
A Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
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A. Andreski, Sociology as Sociology
Merton , On Theoretical Sociology
SOC- 483 THEORY CONSTRUCTION LAB

Lab 2Hours /week, 1Credit.
SOC- 484 THEORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Theory. 4 Hours/Week, 4 Credits
[This course will incorporate the philosophical and theoretical basis of social changes and discuss the
standard social and sociological theories of changes covering major schools of thought]
SOC 485 COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY

Theory: 4 Hours/week, 4 credits
The convergence of theory and history. Comparative sociology and sociological imagination.
Social heritage and construction variation of theory in the three worlds: Latin America, Africa,
Asia, Europe and America; Models and methods: Comparison, models and types, quantitative
methods; Comparative units of analysis: Function, structure, facts and fictions, and culture as problem
area; state, social role, family and kinship, community and identity, class and status, social mobility,
social movements, reciprocity, patronage and corruption, power, center and periphery, hegemony and
resistance, ideology, communication and reception, orality and textulity, myth etc; Comparative
sociology and theories of social change: (a) progress, unpredictability and visions of the future (b)
Spencer and Marx’s model (c) synthesis; From three worlds to globalization: Economic restructuring,
democratization and cultural change in global context.
Recommended Text:
Graham Crow, Comparative Sociology and Social Theory
Peter Burke, History and Social Theory
References:
Ozay Mehmet, Westernizing the Third World
Sylvan and Glassner, A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences
SOC-486 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Theory 4 Hours/week ,4 Credit
[ This course includes the fall of Soviet Union and bipolar world system as the point of departure and
the emergence of global restructuring of world affairs in the unipolar system. Emphasis will particularly
be given on the major world issues on economic, political, cultural and social milieus unit the recent
time. The economic restructuring follows the dimensions of capitalist development, politics and issues
of development in connection with the formation of different regional cooperation organization and the
role of the major institutions of WHO, World Bank, IMF etc, in translating the unipolar system. The
political dimension includes the issues of the emergence of Americanization, Euro centrism, orientalism
fundamentalism, terrorism etc. The cultural dimension follows the talks of mass media, feminism etc.
The social dimension follows the issues of capital and labor flow in global context, environment and
sustainable development etc.]
SOC-489 COMPREHENSIVE
Non-Credit
All the students will sit for a noncredit 3 hours comprehensive examination. The question of the
examination will be set on the basic of various themes covered by all the courses taught in the 4 th year 1st
Semester and 2nd Semester.
SOC 480 Viva Voce

Students will be evaluated through a viva voce.
SOC 400 senior Project (Part- B)

The course will be treated as the continuation of SOC 400 Senior Project (Part- A) and the students
should finish the rest as Part- B to complete the whole Senior Project.
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Non Major Courses
SOC 101A: Principles of Sociology

What is Sociology? Nature and scope of sociology: Origin and development of sociology as a separate
discipline, relationship between sociology and other social and natural sciences, problems of objectivity in
sociology. Sociological Perspectives: Sociology and commonsense, Sociological imaginations,
Functionalist, conflict and inter-actionist perspectives in sociology. Doing Sociology: Scientific method
and techniques for sociological investigation. Primary concepts: Society, Community, Association,
Institution, Culture: Components of culture; Norms, values, folkways, mores, cultural traits and
complexes, Cultural unity and diversity. Culture and Civilization: Material and non-material Culture,
Acculturation, Cultural Diffusion. Types of Society: From early hunting gathering to industrial
development and globalization. Social Process: Socialization: Agents of Socialization, Early
development of infant, Cooperation, Competition and Conflict. Social Institutions: Family, Marriage
and kinship, Property, Religion, Economy and Political Institutions, Functionalist and Conflict
Perspectives of institutions. Social Structure: Components of Social Structure, Theories of Social
Structure.; Social Inequality and Stratification and class structure; Systems of Stratification,
Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives of Stratification, social mobility. Population and Environment:
Population Growth, Ecological Balance, Ecosystem, threats to global environment, The Environment: A
sociological issue. Social Change: Change and its factors, Differences with progress, evolution and
development, theories of social change. Social Problems: Nature of social problems, social
disorganization, deviant behavior. Collective Movement: Group, Crowd and Mob.
Selected Texts:
Ian Robertson, Sociology
Anthony Giddens, Sociology
Books for Reference:

Alex Inkels, What is Sociology
E.C. Cuff, W. Sharrock and D.W. Francis, Perspectives in Sociology
Micheal P. Robbins, Organizational Behavior
T.B. Bottomore, Sociology: A guide to problems and literature
J.E. Goldthorpe, Sociology of the Third World
J.E. Goldthrope, An Introduction to Sociology
Metta Spencer, Foundation of Modern Sociology
P.B. Horton and C.L. Hunt, Sociology
E.W. Steward and J.A. Glynn, Introduction to Sociology
F.R. Scarpitti and M.L. Andersen, Social Problems
G. T. Miller, Living in the Environment
Samuel Koenig, Sociology
Nazmul Karim, Samajbighan Samikhan
SOC 101B: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

discipline, relationship between sociology and other social and natural sciences. Sociological
Perspectives: Functionalist, conflict and inter-actionist perspectives in sociology. Doing Sociology:
Scientific method and techniques for sociological investigation. Primary concepts: Society, Community,
Association, Institution, Culture: Components of culture; Norms, values, folkways, mores, Cultural
unity and diversity. Types of Society: From early hunting gathering to industrial development and
globalization. Social Process: Socialization: Agents of Socialization, Early development of infant,
Social Institutions: Family, Marriage and kinship, Religion, Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives of
institutions. Social Stratification and class structure: Systems of Stratification, Functionalist and
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Conflict Perspectives of Stratification, social mobility, Population and Environment: Population
Growth, Ecological Balance, Ecosystem, Threats to global environment, The environment: A
sociological issue. Social Change: Change and its factors, theories of social change. Social Problems:
Nature of social problems, social disorganization and deviant behavior. Collective Movement: Group,
Crowd and Mob.
Selected Texts:

Micheal P. Robbins, Organizational Behavior
F.R. Scarpitti and M.L. Andersen, Social Problems
SOC 101C: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Theory: 2Hours/week, 2 Credits
discipline Doing Sociology: Scientific method and techniques for sociological investigation. Primary
concepts: Society, Community, Association, Institution, Culture; Components of culture; Norms, values,
folkways, mores, Cultural unity and diversity, Types of Society: From early hunting gathering to
industrial development and globalization. Social Institutions: Family, Religion, Functionalist and
Conflict Perspectives of institutions. Social Stratification and class structure: Systems of
Stratification, Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives of Stratification, social mobility, Population and
Environment: Population Growth, Ecological Balance, Ecosystem, Threats to global environment, The
environment: A sociological issue. Social Change: Change and its factors, theories of social change.
Collective Movement: Group, Crowd and Mob.
Selected Texts:

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SOC 102 SOCIAL & ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BANGLADESH

Pre colonial Bengal: economy and culture in pre-British Bengal, comparison between Mughal land tenure
system and western feudalism, nature of the rural economy in Pre-British Bengal, nature of urban economy
in Pre-British Bengal, Pre-colonial mode of production. British period: (I) The de-industrialization of
Bengal, the sunset law and the permanent settlement, commercialization of Bengal agriculture, the
development of market in tenural rights and development of credit relations, tenancy legislation and the
consequences, introduction of English education and its consequences; (ii) The representative Bengal
famines - causes and consequences, the peasant rebellions and their impact on land relations. (iii) The
abortive effort for Bengal entrepreneurial development, the rise of the Indian national Congress, the
nationalist movement during the early twentieth century, the rise of the Muslim League and urge for
independent Muslim development, Hindu-Muslim rivalry and the establishment of Pakistan. Pakistan
period: state of the economy immediately after partition, policy of Muslim League government and its
consequences with special reference to import substitution industrialization strategy, concentration of
economic power, the causes of the war of independence and its consequences. Bangladesh period:
different regimes.
Books Recommended:
1. Sirajul Islam (ed.). History of Bangladesh, 1701-1971, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1972.
2. Dharma Kumer, Meghnad Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2. 1757-1970 CUP, 1983.
.3. Ashoke Desai, Population and Standard of Living in Akbar's Time.
4. Dharma Kumar, Economic History of Modern India.
5. Amit Bhaduri, The Evolution of Land Relations Under British Rule.
6. Ratna Lekha Ray, The Bengal Zaminders: Local Magnates and the State Before the Permanent
Settlement.
7. Ranjit Guha, A Rule of Property for Bengal.
8. Binay Bhusan Chdry, Rural Credit Relations in Bengal 1759-1885.
9. Land Market in Eastern India 1798-1940.
10. Karenamoy Mukherjee, Land Transfer in Birbhum 1928-1955.
11. Kalyan Kumer Sengupta, The Agrarian League of Pabna 1873.
12 Agrarian Disturbances in 19th Century Bengal.
13. Partha Chatterjee, Agrarian Relations and Communalism in Bengal 1926-1935.
14. Ira Klein, Malaria and Mortality in Bengal 1840-1921.
15. Sumit Sarker, Hindu-Muslim Relations in Swadeshi Bengal 1903-1908.
16. M.M. Islam, Bengal Agriculture 1920-1946.
17. Sirajul Islam, The Permanent Settlement in Bengal Presidency 1790-1819.
18. Amales Tripthi, Trade and Finance in the Bengal Presidency 1793-1833.
19. A.Z.M.I. Awwal, Industrial Development of Bengal 1900-1039.
20. A.K.Sen, Poverty and Famines.
21. B.Bhatia. Famines in India.
22. P.C. Mitra, Weavers of Bengal.
23. N.K.Sinha, Economic History of Bengal.
24. M.A. Rahim, Muslim Society and Politics in Bengal 1757-1957.
25. Hamza Alavi, The Colonial Transformation in India, The Journal of Social Studies.
26. Meghand Desai,Demand for Cotton Textiles in 19th Century India, The Indian Economic and Social
History, vol.1,1965.
27. S.Vyider, Urban Bias in Development.
SOC 201 INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY

Introduction: Nature, scope and rise of Industrial Sociology, History of Industrialization, ancient and
modern, early industrialization in India, arts and crafts, Renaissance, Industrial revolution in Europe,
The development of industry and industrial society in Bangladesh. The concept of work: Work and art,
nature of industrial work, work ideology, work values, Role of work in human life, work and mental
health, work attitudes, work involvement, the motivation of work ,work satisfaction, commitment to
industrial work, development and commitment of industrial labor force in Bangladesh. The worker and
the factory: The factory system, its characteristic, the formal relations of production in the factory
system. The industrial Bureaucracy: The executive in the industrial bureaucracy, the role of worker,
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social relations at work, Management as a social elite. Industry and the community: Industry and
family, industry and social change, shifting values, influence of convictions, religion and industrial
development, place of industrial worker in the society, industry and -social stratification. Industrial
Conflict: Nature and causes of industrial conflict, role and function of trade unionism, resolution of
industrial conflict, collective bargaining. Industrialization and development: Patterns of industrial
development in developing countries, role of foreign capital and borrowed technology, technology and
social structure, classification of industries, role of cottage industries, labor intensive vs. heavy
industries, modernization.
Suggested Readings:
Ivar Berg, Industrial Sociology
SOC 202 SOCIOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENT

1. Introduction : Definition of some basic concepts : Ecology and Environment, Ecosphere and
Ecosystems. Species and Habitat, Food web and Tropic Structure, Social and Physical Environment.
Biogeochemical Cycle and their Interaction with man and Environment. 2. Environmental Theories –
Classical: Ibn Khaldun, Montesquieu, Buckle, Darwin and Wittfogal; Modern - Development of
Environmentalism, Egocentrism versus Techno centrism, Tragedy of Commons, Blueprint For survival,
Limits of Growth, Global 2000 report, Bright Global Future, Stockholm to Rio, Environmental
Movement after Rio. 3. Major Environmental Issues: Population and Environment, Industrialization,
Urbanization, Land use and Agriculture, Energy Consumption, Women and children,. Water issue,
Health and Sanitation. 4. Environmental Hazards and disasters : Green House Effect, Nuclear
Proliferation, Pollution, Deforestation, Flood and Cyclone, Poverty. 5. Environmental Policy &
Planning : Environmental Planning, Government Policies and Programme, Impact, Evaluation and
Feedback Action. 6. Social Structure, Development and Environment : Human versus Social
Ecology, Social Stratification, Inequality and Environment, Consumption Pattern, Lifestyle and
Environment Technology, Development and Environment, Social and Economic Process and
Environment. Structural Change, Sustainable Growth environment, Eco Development, Strategies for
Sustainable Development. 7. Politics and Environmentalism : The Political Culture and
Environmental Politics, Environmental Policy Making Environmental Pressure Group.
Environmentalism and Capitalism. Ecology and Politics, The Role of Government and Non
-Government Actors in Environmental Movement, Rich World, Poor World, Trade, Debt and Aid.
Suggested Readings:
World Commission - Our, Common Future.
G Tyler Miller Jr. Living in the Environment
G. Tyler Miller Jr.- Environmental Science
Atiq Rahman and others - Environmental and Development in Bangladesh.
Green woods and Edwards - Human Environment and Natural system
McCormick - The Global Environmental mental Movement.
Dietz - Environmental Policy and the Economy
Riodan - Environmentalism.
United Nations - Population & Environment and Development.
Suggested Readings:
Me Quail: Towards a Sociology of Mass Communication.
Tunstall: Media are American.
Mass Communication Year Bank 1991.
SOC 204 CRITICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

Introduction: Roots of Critical Sociological Theories Early Structuralism: Freud, Mauss .

Structuralism: Althusser, Levi- Strauss Post-Structuralist Thought: Derrida, Foucault Semiotic
Studies: Barthes , Eco, Saussure Post-Marxism: Frankfurt Scholars- Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse,
Hebermas, Luckas. Modernity: Nietzche, Simmel Post-Modernity: Kafka, Duras.
Suggested Readings:
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Turner, The Structure of Sociological Theory
Abrahams, Modern Sociological Theory
Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
Habermas, Theory and Practice
Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
T.B. Bottomore, The Frankfurt School
SOC 205 SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION

The nature and definition of Organizations. Organization in Historical Perspectives, Organization in

Pre- capitalist Societies, Industrialism and organizations: Complex organization Theoretical Models:
The beginning of Organizational research, psychological model, technological model structural
functionalism, system model, action analysis of Organization, state bureaucracy and Multinational
Organizations and neo-Marxist critique. Nature, Characteristics, Typologies of Organizations,
Structural elements of Organizations. Technology and Organization: Organization as socio-technical
system, Environment and organizational structure, technology and alienation. Bureaucracy: Nature and
characteristics, The limits of bureaucracy, Work redesign and the limits of Tylorism and Fordism.
Human Relations and the work group Earth approaches to Human behavior at work, limitations of
Human relations tradition recent studies of work group. Decision-making process in organization
resources. power, Authority and organizational goals, communication and the process of decision-
making, control and autonomy. Patterns of interactions; Organizational roles; role conformity and
performance; Non-compliance of roles; Types of conflict; Strategies conflict management.
Comparative studies of organizations in capitalist and socialist countries - Authority. power and
Industrial relations in socialist societies. Organizations and underdevelopment in the Third World
Theories of organization. Underdevelopment and development; organizational problems; Corruption -
Industrial relations: Multinational corporation and the Third World. Organizational management
system
Suggested Readings:
Burns (ed.): Industrial Man
Victor (ed.): Methods of Organization Research
Souldeer: Patterns of Ubdystruak Bureaucracy
Pugh (ed.): Organization Theory
SOC 206 SOCIOLOGY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Biography of Technology and Society: Technology and the industrial revolution, Technology's role in
the rationalization of society Theories of Technology and Social Change: Technological Determinism,
Social Constructivism, Actor-Network theory, Institutionalism, Feminist critiques Computer
Technology and Society: Community, Democracy, and the nation state in cyberspaces Virtual
Communities and Tele-Presence: Social Construction of the virtual world, Living room virtual reality,
virtual communities with new cultures, institution and norms, hypertext revolution and the virtual
society, virtual subjectivity and self fragmentation in cyberspace Gender, Sex and Race in the
Cyberspace: Women in cyberspace, sex and eroticism in cyberspaces, racism in cyberspaces Cyber-
capitalism: Capitalism and the commoditization of cyberspaces, cyberocracy, cybernetic revolution and
the crisis of capitalism Comparative sociology of IT: Problems and opportunities for the south and
north in cyberspace, IT and the disabilities in the context of developed and developing countries, rural
and urban areas.
Suggested Readings:
Bijker, Wiebe E., T.P. Hughes and T. Pinch (Eds.) The sociological Construction of Technological
Change, Cambridge
Bijker, Wiebe E. and John Law (Eds.), Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Socio-technical
Change
Castells, Mannuel, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Blackwell
Noble, David F. The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention, Penguin
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SOC 207 RURAL SOCIOLOGY
Rural Sociology: Definition, Scope and Importance; Theoretical Problems of rural Sociology;
Development of Rural Sociology. Rural Social Structure: Patterns of Rural Class; Land Ownership
and Tenancy Relations; Landlessness and Wage Labour Relations, Bangladesh perspective. Rural
Power Structure: Nature; Rural Elite; Relationship between rural elite and national Power Structure;
Kinship Relationship and Rural Power Structure; Bangladesh perspective, Nature and Functions of
Village Samaj Peasant Society; Definition of Peasantry; Theories and Concepts regarding Peasantry:
Organization Production School; Lenin's Model of Peasant Polarization; Shanin's Model of Rural
Mobility; Patnaik's Debate. Rural Development: Definition and Importance of Rural Development;
Issues and Strategies of Rural Development, Bangladesh perspective.
Suggested Readings:
Chitambar, Rural Sociology
Norman Long, An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development
Atiur Rahman, Krishi Prasna
Theodor Shanin, The Awkard Class
M.J. Esman and Associates, The Landless and Near Landless in Developing Countries
Radha Sinha, Landlessness: A growing Problem
Khuda E. Barakat, Rural Development and Change
William Van Schendal, Peasant Mobility: The Odds of Life in Rural Bangladesh
Eric G. Jansen, Rural Bangladesh: Competition for Scarce Resources
Kamal Siddiqui, The Political economy of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh
Peter J. Bertocci, Elusive Village: Social Structure and Community Organization in Rural East Pakistan
Alamgir, Bangladesh: A Case of Below Poverty Level Equilibrium Trap.
Alamgir (ed.), Land Reform in Bangladesh.
Ali, Some Aspects of Peasant Behaviour in Bangladesh: A New Classical Analysis
SOC 208 SOCIOLOGY OF CAPITALISM

Introduction: Marx's sociology and social philosophy - to Marx's Sociological thought, the materialist
conception of history, Existence and consciousness, Society, Social relations and economic structure.
Pre-capitalist Societies: Forms of Property and Modes of Production, Economic Structure, Social
Stratification and Political Systems. Capitalist Society: (a) Origin & development of capitalism. (b) The
social system of capitalism.(c) The ideology of capitalism.(d) Capitalism & Human Alienation.(e) Social
classes and class conflict. Neo-Marxism.
Suggested Readings:
Bottomore T. B & Rubel Maximilien, Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Habsbawm Erik, The Per-capitalist Economic Formation
Marx Karl, The Capital, Vol, II, III
Marx Karl, The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
Marx Karl, The Communist Manifesto
Marx Karl, The German Ideology
Bottomore T. B Marxist Thought
Hobsbaum, Pre-capitalism Economic formation.
M. Rubel, The society of capitalism
SOC 209 SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY AND RELIGION

FAMILY
The concept of family, marriage and kinship, the formation and functions of family, mate selection,
family as an institution, family as an agent of socialization. The origin and development of family,
types of family, Theories of family- Engels, Ira L. Reiss, William J. Goode The Universality of family,
The change of family over time; the dramatic change during industrial revolution and rapid
urbanization in Europe; the current American single headed family, living together, the contemporary
change of law about family formation in Europe The future prospect of family: Classical and
contemporary views The oriental family: contrast with occidental family, Reversal trend of holding
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family values in contemporary American and European society Family from Bangladesh perspective.
Religion
The concept of religion, the role of supernatural power in defining religion, Is black magic religion?
Religion as an institution The origin and development of religion; magic, totem, taboo and ancestor
worship Theories of religion: Freud, Durkheim, Marx and Weber Functions of religion, functional
alternatives of religion, the changing role of religious organization over time in European, American and
Oriental societies The relationship of religion with other social institutions such as economy, polity-
especially capitalism and bureaucracy.
Suggested Readings:
Thomas F. O’Dea and Janet O’Dea Aviad, The Sociology of Religion
E. Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo
M. Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
William J. Goode, The Family
Goldthorpe, Sociology
Ira L. Riess, The universality of Family
SOC 211 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Socio-economic and the political situation of the 19th century Europe; Intellectual Development.
Auguste Comte: Positive Science, Law of Three Stages development. K. Marx: Dialectical and
Historical materialism- Alienation, Class and Class Struggle- Labor and Surplus Value. E. Durkheim:
Division of Labour- Social Solidarity- Suicide- Religion- Methodology. Max Weber: Methodology-
Power and Authority- Rationalization- Economy- Society- Religion.. T. Parsons: Social Action- Social
System- Structural-Functionalism; R. K. Merton: Functionalism- Middle Range Theory, Deviance;
G.H. Mead: Symbolic Interaction Theory.
Suggested Readings:
Thompson and J. Tunstall (ed.), Sociological Perspective.
Bottomore and R. Nisbet (ed.), A History of Sociological Analysis
R. Aron, Main Currents in Sociological Thought.
G. Ritzer, Classical Sociological Theory
Dayle Paul Johnson, Sociological Theories
M. Francis Abraham, Modern Sociological Theories
SOC 212 INTRODUCTION TO DEMOGRAPHY

1. Introduction : Definition, nature, scope and importance of demography. Relation with allied
discipline, Development of social demography. 2. Population Theory : Pre modern population
theories, Malthus, Marx, Theory of demographic transition, and adjacent theory. 3. Nature of
Demographic data : Types and source of demographic data, accuracy and error in demographic data,
Adjustment and correction of errors. 4. Population Structure : Age and sex structure, determinants and
consequences, Age pyramid, sex ratio, dependency ratio, 5. Marriage and Family : Patterns of
courtship, mate selection, age at marriage, Universality of early marriage, Hazual's analysis of Modern
European marriage pattern, status of women, marriage and family. 6. Fertility : Definition and
components of fertility, trends and variation in fertility. Theories of fertility, measurement and analysis
of fertility, contra capitalizing, fertility trends in Bangladesh. 7. Migration : Some basic concepts,
differentiation and selectivity in migration theories, causes and consequences, urbanization and
migration, measurement and analysis regarding migration. 8. Mortality : Consequences of mortality,
causes of death, trends and variation of mortality, mortality rate decline factors, measuring mortality :
rates, standardization, life expectancy and life table, social structure & mortality. 9. Population growth
and projection : World population trends, factors affecting population growth, measurement of
population growth rate, Techniques of population projection. 10. Population growth and
contemporary issues : Aging, economic development, food, women and family, urbanization,
environment, education, housing, health and sanitation, population policy, fertility control policy,
family planning, Government and NGO participation for population control in Bangladesh.
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Suggested Readings:
Heury Shyrock and Jacob Siegel - The methods of Materials of Demography.
Peter - Cox - Demography
Warren Thompson and David Lewis population problems.
Philip Hasser and Dudley dun can - The study of population.
United Nations : Demographic yearbook.
George Barclay - Techniques of population analysis.
SOC- 400 SENIOR PROJECT (PART-B)

lab: 6 Hours/week, 3 Credits
The students who had taken course no SOC-400 (senior Project Part-A) in the 4th year first semester/ 2nd
semester will have to finish the next part the research work in this semester. Here the student will
submit the project report to the department. The examination committee will conduct the defense and
evaluate the report as per University rule.
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First Year Semester I

SCW 223 Social Problem Analysis 3+0 3.0

Fourth Year Semester I

SOC 111: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

SOC 112 HISTORY OF HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS

and their influences upon the peasant society of Bengal.

SOC 121 SOCIAL STATISTICS

SOC 122 SOCIAL STATISTICS LAB

SOC 123 SOCIAL HISTORY OF BANGLADESH-II

SOC 120 Term Paper and Viva Voce

SOC 231 ISSUES & METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Tim May, Social Research; Issues and Process

SOC 232 ISSUES AND METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH LAB

SOC234 Social Psychology

SOC 241 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

SOC 242 RURAL SOCIOLOGY

SOC- 351 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA

SOC-352 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA LAB

SOC 353 Crime and Deviance

SOC 354 URBAN SOCIOLOGY

SOC 355 SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY

SOC 356 SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY LAB

Lab Works based on SOC 365

SOC 357 SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

1.Historical Background of the Development of Feminist and Gender Studies : Concept of

SOC-358 WOMEN & DEVELOPMENT

SOC 350 Term Paper and Viva Voce

SOC 361 QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA

Introduction -Definition of Qualitative Research, distinction between qualitative and quantitative

SOC 362 QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA LAB

Laboratory works based on SOC 362

SOC-363: SOCIAL INEQUALITY

SOC 364 SOCIOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENT

SOC 365 SOCIOLOGY OF MASS COMMUNICATION

Mass communication as a field of research in Sociology

SOC 366 : SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION

The nature and definition of Organizations. Organization in Historical Perspectives, Organization in

SOC 300 RESEARCH MONOGRAPH

SOC 473: MARXIST SOCIOLOGY

SOC-474 DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT

SOC 400 SENIOR PROJECT (PART- A)

SOC 417 CONTENT ANALYSIS

SOC 481: MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

Foundation of modern sociology: Approaching modernity, Simmel, Mannheim. Structural

Parsons, Toward A General Theory of Action

SOC 482: THEORY CONSTRUCTION

SOC- 483 THEORY CONSTRUCTION LAB

SOC- 484 THEORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE

SOC 485 COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY

SOC-486 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

SOC 480 Viva Voce

SOC 400 senior Project (Part- B)

SOC 101A: Principles of Sociology

Books for Reference:

SOC 101B: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Books for Reference:

SOC 101C: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Books for Reference:

SOC 102 SOCIAL & ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BANGLADESH

SOC 201 INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY