Social Research and Methods

1. Social Research : Meaning, Scope and Significance 2. Social Survey : Meaning and Differences with Social Research 3. Scientific Study of Social Phenomena 4. Scientific Method : Logic in Social Science 5. Hypothesis : Concept and Formulation 6. Sampling Techniques 7. Questionnaire 8. Schedule.

Social Thinkers

1. Auguste Comte : Law of Three Stages and Positivism 2. Herbert Spencer : Social Darwinism 3. Emile Durkheim : Division of Labour and Theory of Suicide 4. Max Weber : Social Action and Protestant Ethics and Rise of Capitalism 5. Karl Marx : Materialistic Conception of History, Dialectical Materialism and Class-Struggle 6. Vilfredo Pareto.