Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur

Syllabus for Second Semester

Sociology Minor (January to April 2018)

Title of the Course: Sociological Thought

Course Instructors: Dr. Ayan Hazra & Dr. Uttam Kumar Panda
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Unit 1: Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

Biographical Sketch, Methodology, Law of Three Stages, Hierarchy of the Sciences,

Scientific Theory of Morality & Religion of Humanity, Positivism

Unit 2: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Biographical sketch, Rules of Sociological Method, Division of Labour, Elementary

Forms of Religious Life, Theory of Suicide

Unit 3: Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Biographical Sketch, Historical Materialism, Theory of Capitalism, Theory of Alienation,

Theory of Class & Class Struggle, Law of Dialectics

Unit 4: Max Weber (1864-1920)

Biographical Sketch, Methodology, Social Action, Theory of Religion, Power, Authority

Unit 5: Roscoe Pound (1870-1964)

Biographical Sketch, Theory of Social Engineering, Jural Postulates (1-5), Social Justice,
Values, A Consensus Model of Society, End or Purpose of Law, Theory of Interest, and
Classification of Interest.

Unit 6: Alfred Schutz (1899-1959-)

Biographical Sketch, Basic Phenomena of the Social World, Becoming Aware,

Connecting with other People, Thinking about Modernity, Post modernity and its problem
Unit 7: M.N. Srinivas (1916-1999)

Biographical sketch, Theoretical and Methodological orientation, Religion and Society,

Village, Caste & Dominant Caste, Sanskritization, and Westernization & Legitimacy

Unit 8: Jean Baudrillard (1929- 2007)

Biographical Sketch, Simulation Society, Hyper Reality, Orders of Simulation, Consumer

Society

Unit 9: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

Biographical Sketch, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Economic Capital, Human Capital
& Theory of Cultural Reproduction

Unit 10: Jurgen Habermas (1929-)

Biographical Sketch, Liberal Capitalism, Organized Capitalism, Colonization of the

Lifeworld, Public Sphere, Critical theory, Speech Communities, Civil Society

Selected Readings
Anthony Giddens (1971). Capitalism and Modern Social Theory – An analysis of the writings of
Marx, Durkheim and Weber, Cambridge University Press.
Kenneth Allan. Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory. Sage Publications
Lewis A. Coser. Masters in Sociological Thought. Rawat Publications.
Reymond Aron. Main Currents in Sociological Thought, Vol. I and II, Penguin.
Scott Appelrouth. Sociological Theory in Contemporary Era. Sage Publications
Timasheff, Nicholas S. Sociological Theory, NewYork: Random House.
S.L.Doshi. Modernity, Postmodernity and Neo- Sociological Theories, Rawat Publications
N. V. Paranjape (2013). Studies in Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Sixth Edition, Central Law
Agency, Allahabad.
Jean Baudrillard. Selected Writings, Cambridge: Polity.
B.K. Nagla. Indian Sociological Thought. Rawat Publications.
Pierre Bourdieu, On Television, Trans. Priscilla P Ferguson, New York, The New Press.
V.D.Mahajan (2013). Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Eastern Book Company, India
A. K. Koul (2009). A Text Book of Jurisprudence, Satyam Law International, New Delhi
M.D.A. Freeman (2008). LLOYD’S Introduction to Jurisprudence, Sweet & Maxell: Thomson
Reuters.