1. THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY:Auguste Comte, The Fields of Sociology
2. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE:Society affects what we do
3. THEORETICAL PARADIGMS:Salient Paradigms, Critical Evaluation
4. SOCIOLOGY AS SCIENCE:Empirical, Verifiable, Cumulative, Self-Correcting
5. STEPS IN SOCIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION:Exploration/Consultation
6. SOCIAL INTERACTION:Social Status, ROLE, The Social Construction of Reality
7. SOCIAL GROUPS:Primary and Secondary Groups, Reference Group, Networks
8. ORGANIZATIONS:Utilitarian Organizations, Coercive Organizations
9. CULTURE:Universality, Components of Culture, Symbols, Language
10. CULTURE (continued):Beliefs, Norms, Cultural Diversity
11. CULTURE (continued):Culture by social class, Multiculturalism, Cultural Lag
12. SOCIALIZATION: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, NATURE, Social Isolation
13. UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS
14. AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION:The Family, The School, Peer Groups, The Mass Media
15. SOCIALIZATION AND THE LIFE COURSE:CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENCE
16. SOCIAL CONTROL AND DEVIANCE:Crime, Deviants, Stigma, Labeling
17. THE SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF DEVIANCE:Cultural relativity of deviance
18. EXPLANATIONS OF CRIME:Sociological explanations
19. EXPLANATIONS OF CRIME -- CONTINUED:White-Collar Crime, Conflict Theory
20. SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF CRIME: EXPLANATIONS, Gender and Crime
21. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: INTRODUCTION AND SIGNIFICANCE
22. THEORIES OF CLASS AND STRATIFICATION – I:Critical evaluation
23. THEORIES OF SOCIAL CLASS AND STRATIFICATION – II
24. THEORIES OF CLASS AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION – III
25. SOCIAL CLASS AS SUBCULTURE
26. SOCIAL MOBILITY:Structural factors, Individual factors, Costs
27. THE FAMILY: GLOBAL VARIETY, Marriage Patterns, Patterns of Descent
28. FUNCTIONS OF FAMILY:Reproduction, Social placement
29. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN TRANSITION:Family is losing functions
30. GENDER: A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, Gender socialization
31. GENDER SOCIALIZATION:Role of family, Gender Stratification
32. EXPLANATIONS OF GENDER INEQUALITY:Conflict Explanations, Feminism
33. FUNCTIONS OF SCHOOLING:Cultural Innovation, School Tracking
34. ISSUES IN EDUCATION:Low Enrollment, High Dropout, Gender Disparity
35. POPULATION STUDY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE:Crude Birth Rate
36. THEORY OF POPULATION GROWTH:Theory of Demographic Transition
37. POPULATION PROFILE OF PAKISTAN:World Population Growth
38. POPULATION PROFILE OF PAKISTAN (Continued):Age Distribution, Sex Composition
39. IMPLICAIONS OF POPULATION GOWTH:Additional GDP needed per year
40. POPULATION POLICY:Goals of Population Policy, Objectives, Strategies
41. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY:Global Dimension, Historical Dimension
42. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:Preserving Clean Water, Clearing the Air
43. SOCIAL CHANGE:Social change is controversial.
44. CAUSES OF SOCIAL CHANGE:Culture and Change, Conflict and Change, Modernization
45. MODERNITY AND POST MODERNITY:Cultural Patterns, Post-modernity