Abdul Wali Khan University - AWKUM

COURSE TITLE: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY-II
COURSE CODE: SOC-203
CREDIT HOURS: 03
Course Objectives:
The course is designed to introduce the students with sociological concepts and the discipline.
The focus of the course shall be on significant concepts like social systems and structures,
socio-economic changes and social processes. The course will provide due foundation for
further studies in the field of sociology.
Course Contents:
Socialization and Personality
� Role and status
� Socialization, definitions, and types of socialization.
� Agencies of socialization,
� personality, definitions and factor in development of personality
� Personality and self.
� Theories of personality development, Eriksson stages, CH Coolly the looking galls
self, Freud, psycho sexual development.
Deviance, Social Order and Social Control
� Deviance, Definition, types of deviance
� Social control, definitions,
� Formal and informal methods of social control
� Social control through socialization, social control through social pressure, social
control through force.
� Social deviation and characteristics of deviation.
� Crime, delinquency, and juvenile delinquency
� Types of crimes
� Theories of deviance.
Social Stratification
� Introduction, definitions and types of stratification.
� Determinants of social stratification
� Caste, class, ethnicity, power, prestige and authority
� Definition of social class, determinants of social class,
� The significance of social class.
� Blue collar and white collar status.
� Cast and class system in Pakistan.
Social Mobility
� Introduction, meaning and definition.
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