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    This document outlines the core areas and percentages covered in a sociology course, including: 1) Sociological imagination (10%), social groups and social control (10%), and social structure (10%) 2) Culture and related concepts (10%), socialization and personality (10%), and social stratification (10%) 3) Social change (10%), collective behavior (8%), and social issues in Pakistan (8%) 4) Social research (14%) covers research ethics, data sources, types of research, validity, reliability, sampling, and data analysis.

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    This document outlines the core areas and percentages covered in a sociology course, including: 1) Sociological imagination (10%), social groups and social control (10%), and social structure (10%) 2) Culture and related concepts (10%), socialization and personality (10%), and social stratification (10%) 3) Social change (10%), collective behavior (8%), and social issues in Pakistan (8%) 4) Social research (14%) covers research ethics, data sources, types of research, validity, reliability, sampling, and data analysis.

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    This document outlines the core areas and percentages covered in a sociology course, including: 1) Sociological imagination (10%), social groups and social control (10%), and social structure (10%) 2) Culture and related concepts (10%), socialization and personality (10%), and social stratification (10%) 3) Social change (10%), collective behavior (8%), and social issues in Pakistan (8%) 4) Social research (14%) covers research ethics, data sources, types of research, validity, reliability, sampling, and data analysis.

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    Sociology

    Sr. Percentag
    Core Areas
    No. e
    1. Sociological Imagination 10%
    2. Social Groups, Deviance and Social Control 10%
    3. Social Structure 10%
    4. Culture and Related Concepts 10%
    5. Socialization and Personality 10%
    7. Social Stratification 10%
    8. Social Change 10%
    9. Collective Behaviour 08%
    10. Social Issues in Pakistan 08%
    11. Social Research 14%
    Total 100%
    Sociology (Detailed)
    Sr. Percentag
    Core Areas
    No. e

    SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION:

    1.1 Definitions, Scope and Subject.

    1.2 Sociological Perspectives: Structural


    Functionalism; Social Conflict/Conflict/Marxist;
    Symbolic Interactionism.
    1. 10%
    1.3 Classical Theorists: August Comte, Herbert
    Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Ibn-E-
    Khaldun, and Karl Marx.

    1.4 Contemporary Theorists: Talcott Parsons, C.


    Wright Mills, Robert K. Merton, George Simmel,
    C.H. Cooley, and G.H.Mead.

    SOCIAL GROUPS, DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL:

    2.1 Definition, Meanings, and Types of Groups


    Associations and Organizations.
    2. 10%
    2.2 Social Interaction: Levels and Processes.

    2.3 Deviance and Conformity, Mechanisms,


    Techniques of Social Control, and Agencies of
    Social Control.

    SOCIAL STRUCTURE:

    3.1 Social Institutions: Nature, Development,


    3. 10%
    Interrelationship and Functions.

    3.2 Family, Education, Religion, Media, Economic,


    Recreational and Political institution.
    4. 10%
    CULTURE AND RELATED CONCEPTS:

    4.1 Definition, Meanings and Nature Of Culture

    4.2 Elements of Culture: Norms, Values, Beliefs,


    Language, and Taboos.
    4.3 Culture and Socialisation.

    4.4 Formal and Non-formal Socialisation.

    4.5 Real and Ideal Culture.

    4.6 Ethnocentrism, Xenocentrism, and Cultural Lag.

    4.7 Cultural Variation and Cultural Integration.

    SOCIALIZATION AND PERSONALITY:

    5.1 Meanings of Personality.

    5. 5.2 Factors in the Development Of Personality. 10%

    5.3 Theories of Personality Development: Looking


    Glass Self (Cooley), Generalized Others (Mead).

    5.4 Agents of Socialization.

    SOCIAL STRATIFICATION:

    7.1 Nature of Social Stratification.

    7.2 Cast and Class.


    7. 10%
    7.3 Determinant of Social Class.

    7.4 Significance of Social Class.

    7.5 Social Mobility: Meanings, Forms, and Factors.


    8. 10%
    SOCIAL CHANGE:

    8.1 Difference Between Social and Cultural Change.

    8.2 Processes of Social Change.

    8.3 Types of Social Change.

    8.4 Dynamics of Social Change.

    8.5 Agents of Social Change.

    8.6 Social Change and Development.

    8.7 Social Change and Conflict.


    8.8 Social Change and Social Problems.

    8.9 Resistance to Social Change.

    COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR:

    9.1 Definition and Characteristics/Features.


    9. 08%
    9.2 Types: Crowd, Mob, and Public Behaviour
    Social Movements.

    9.3 Formation of Public Opinion: Propaganda and


    Leadership.

    SOCIAL ISSUES IN PAKISTAN:

    10.1 Drug Addiction.

    10.2 Population Explosion.

    10.3 Illiteracy.

    10.4 Poverty.
    10. 08%
    10.5 Pollution.

    10.6 Corruption.

    10.7 Beggary.

    10.8 Gender Discrimination.

    10.9 Unplanned Urbanisation.


    11. 14%
    SOCIAL RESEARCH:

    11.1 Ethics of Social Research.

    11.2 Sources of Data.

    11.3 Types of Social Research: Quantitative –


    Questionnaire, Interview Schedule, Survey
    Method, Experimental – and Qualitative – In-
    depth Interview, Observation, Focus Group
    Discussion (FGD), Case Study, Content Analysis.

    11.4 Validity, Reliability and Their Types.

    11.5 Sampling: Types, and Techniques.


    11.6 Data Management, Analysis and Report
    Writing.
    Total 100%

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