PAPER-II APPLIED SOCIOLOGY
Total Marks: 100
Table of Contents
1. SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS
1) Influences on the choice of research method
a. Positivism and research methods
b. Interpretive research methods
c. Other influences on the choice of research methods
2) Key issues in social research
a. Validity
b. Reliability
c. Ethics
3) Primary and Secondary data
4) Qualitative secondary sources
a. The advantage and uses of qualitative secondary sources
b. The disadvantages and limitations of qualitative secondary sources
c. Content analysis
5) Qualitative secondary sources
a. The advantages and uses of official statistics
b. The problems and limitations of official statistics
6) The experimental (laboratory) methods of research
a. Problems of using the experimental method in sociology
b. Field experiments
7) The Comparative methods
8) Surveys and sampling methods
a. Who uses the survey method?
b. Representativeness and sampling
c. The stages of a survey
d. Problems of the social survey
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2. GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
1. Globalization
i. Factors contributing to globalization
ii. The globalization debate
iii. The impact of globalization
iv. Global Interdependence
2. What is Social Change?
a. Globalization: Essential Features
b. Causes and consequences of social change
c. Factors contributing to globalization
d. The globalization debate
e. The impact of globalization
3. Innovations
i. International tourism
Changes in the ways people relate to information
The cultural base and the rate of change
Cultural lag
Revolutionary ideas
ii. Conflict
The cold war origin of the internet
iii. The pursuit of profit World system theory
Responses to economic stagnation
3. GLOBAL INEQUALITY
1. Global economic inequality
i. High-income countries
ii. Middle-income countries
iii. Low-income countries
iv. Is global economic inequality increasing?
2. Life in rich and poor countries
v. Health
vi. Hunger, malnutrition and famine
vii. Education and Literacy
3. Can poor countries become rich?
i. Theories of development
ii. Evaluating theories of development
iii. The role of international organizations and global inequality
iv. Global economic inequality in a changing world
4. World population growth
i. Population analysis: demography
ii. Dynamics of population change
iii. Malthusianism
iv. The demographic transition
v. Prospects of change
4. CRIME AND DEVIANCE
1. Basic concepts
2. Explaining crime and deviance: sociological theories
i. Functionalist Theories
ii. Integrationist theory
iii. Conflict theories: „the new criminology‟
iv. Control theories
v. Theoretical conclusions
3. Patterns of crime in Pakistan
i. Crime and crime statistics
4. Victims and perpetrators of crime
i. Gender and crime
ii. Youth and crime
iii. White-collar crime
iv. Organized crime
v. Cyber crime
5. Prisons: is it the answer to crime?
6. Conclusion: deviance and social order
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