Part 'A'-Introducing Sociology
1. Introducing Society : Individual, Collectivities and Plural Perspective 2. Emergence and Development of Sociology 3. Nature and Scope of Sociology 4. Relationship of Sociology with other Social Sciences 5. Social Groups 6. Status and Role 7. Social Stratification 8. Social Control 9.  Family and Kinship 10. Economic Institutions 11. Political Institutions 12. Religion : As a Social Institution 13. Education : As an Institution 14. Culture, Values and Norms : Shared, Plural and Contested 15. Socialization : Conformity, Conflict and the Shaping of Personality 16. Tools and Techniques of Field-work : Survey, Observation and Interview 17. Significance of Field-work in Sociology
Part 'B'-Understanding Society
1. Social Structure 2. Social Processes : Co-operation, Competition and Conflict 3. Social Stratification : Class, Caste, Race and Gender 4. Social Change : Types , Dimension, Causes and Consequences 5. Social Order : Domination, Authority and Law 6. Contestation, Crime and Violence 7. Village, Town and City : Changes in Rural and Urban Society 8. Ecology and Society 9. Environmental Crisis and Social Responses 10. Karl Marx on Class Conflict 11. Emile Durkheim on Division of Labour 12. Max Weber on Bureaucracy 13. G. S. Ghurye : Caste and Race 14. D. P. Mukerji : Tradition and Change 15. A. R. Desai : Views on State 16. M.N. Srinivas on the Village