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An excellent book with thorough coverage for MA and BA classes, also very helpful for the students preparing for various competitive and professional examinations. 1. Sociology—Origin and Development, 2. Sociology—Definition, Scope and Subject-Matter, 3 . Nature of Sociology, 4. Importance of Sociology, 5. Sociology—Recent Trends, 6. Sociological Theory, 7. Theories of Middle-Range, 8. Conflict Theories, 9. Social Norms and Social Values, 10 . Status and Role, 11. Social Structure, 12. Social Action, 13. Social System, 14. Social Relations, 15. Function and Dysfunction-Functionalism, 16. Manifest and Latent Functions, 17. Nonfunction and Eufunction, 18. Action Frame of Reference, 19. Structural-Functional Approach, 20 . Society—Traditional and Open Society, 21. Mass Society, 22 . Reference Group Behaviour, 23 . Alienation, 24. Individual and Society—Socialization, 25. Culture and Personality, 26. Social Stratification, 27. Social Differentiation, 28. Social Interactions and Processes, 29. Co-operation, 30. Accommodation and Assimilation, 31. Competition, 32. Contravention and Conflict, 33 . The Concept, Pattern and Theories of Social Change, 34. Biological Factors of Social Change, 35. Technological Factors of Social Change, 36. Cultural Factors of Social Change, 37. Social Evolution, 38. Social Progress, 39. Civilization, 40 . Theory of Cultural Dynamics, 41 . Social Mobility, 42. Mass Behaviour, 43 . Group Tension, 44. Bureaucracy, 45. Elite and Society, 46 . Sociology of Knowledge, 47. Ideology and Utopia, 48. Sociology of Religion, 49. Sociology of Values, 50. Sociology of Law, 51. Sociology of Revolution, 52 . Sociology of Symbolic Forms, 53 . Sociology of Small Groups, 54. Sociology of Art, 55. Sociology of War.