New IGNOU MSO-01 Help Book Sociological Theories and Concepts in English – MA Sociology Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – The Concept of Development
Social Theory and its Context
Concept and Theory
Theory and Paradigm
Social Construction of Reality

Block 2 – Perspectives on Development
Concept and Theories of Structure
Structure and Function
Structure, Function and Neo-Functionalism

Block 3 – Critiecs of Development
The Conceptual and Theoretical Issues of Power
Class and Legitimacy
Power: Functional Perspective
Power and Institutions
Power/Knowledge

Block 4 – Approaches to Sustainable Development
Evolution, Development and Function of Capitalism
Rationality, Work and Organisation
Entrepreneurship and Capitalism
Freedom and Liberty
Alienation

Block 5 – Comparative Experience of Development
Sovereignty
State; Power as Elaborated Marx, Weber, Parsons and Others
Citizenship
Civil Society and Democracy

Block 6 – Globalization
Conceptualising Ethnicity
Construction of Identities
Boundaries and Boundary Maintenance

Block 7 – Information and Communication Technologies
Concepts of Difference and Inequality
Class
Gender and Social Stratification
Theories of Origin of Caste System

Block 8 – Development, Displacement and Social Movements
Theories of Modernisation and Modernity
Tradition and Modernity
Post Structuralism and Post Modernism