Syllabus (SOCIOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-11

Semester: 7

Course Code: BSOCMAJ11T

Course Title: Later Sociological Theories

(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: One objective of this course is to equip the students with the knowledge of certain advanced lines of theoretical thinking in sociology that grew out of a host of major philosophical and high theoretical debates of the twentieth century. Besides, a relate

Learning Outcome: Having learnt the content of this course the undergraduate students of sociology will be acquainted with the overall intellectual climate of the twentieth and the first part of the twenty-first century. They will learn to think and analyse things in a dee

Contents of the Course

1. Phenomenological Sociology

Philosophical background; Sociology and phenomenology – Alfred Schutz

2. Ethnomethodology

Harold Garfinkel’s contributions

3. Structuralism and Post-structuralism

Linguistic background; Levi-Strauss’ structural anthropology; Michel Foucault’s contributions

4. Postmodernism: Basic Arguments
5. Agency-structure integration: Basic arguments

Readings and References

1. Elliott, Anthony. 2009. Contemporary Social Theory. London: Routledge
2. Ritzer, George. 2011. Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
3. Ritzer, George and Jeffrey Stepinsky. 2018. Classical Sociological Theory. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
4. Ritzer, George.1996. Modern Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
5. Seidman, Steven. 2004. Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today. Oxford: Blackwell.
6. Jones, Pip. 2003. Introducing Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press.
7. Zeitlin, Irving M. 2015. Rethinking Sociology: A Critique of Contemporary Theory. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
8. Wallace, Ruth A. and Alison Wolf. 1995. Contemporary Sociological Theory: Continuing the Classical Tradition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
9. Sturrock, John. 1993. Structuralism. London: Fontana Press
10. Turner, Jonathan H. 1987. The Structure of Sociological Theory. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
11. Giddens, Anthony and Jonathan Turner (ed.). 1989. Social Theory Today. Delhi: Disha Publications.
12. Ritzer, George (ed.). 2003. The Blackwell Companion to Major Modern Social Theorists. Oxford: Blackwell.
13. Elliott, Anthony and Bryan S. Turner (eds.). 2001. Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory. London: Sage publications.
14. Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1963. Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books.
15. Wagner, Helmut (ed.). 1970. Alfred Schutz: On Phenomenology and Social Relations. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
16. Garfinkel, Harold. 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
17. Foucault, Michel. 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage.
18. Rabinow, Paul (ed.). 1984. The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought. London: Penguin.
19. Mills, Sara. 2004. Michel Foucault. London: Routledge.
20. Kumar, Krishan. 2005. From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
21. Giddens, Anthony. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
22. Giddens, Anthony. 2002. Sociology. Cambridge: Polity
23. Giddens, Anthony. 1996. The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
24. Kaviraj, Narahari. 2005. What Is Postmodernism? Kolkata: K.P.Bagchi & Company.
25. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Jenkins, Richard. 1992. Pierre Bourdieu. London: Routledge.
27. Best, Steven and Douglas Kellner. 1991. Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. London: Macmillan.
28. Seidman, Steven (ed.). 1994. The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.