Sociology

Topics (12)

• 1
  Sociological Theories
• 2
  Methods of Sociological Research
• 3
  Social Institutions
• 4
  Social Change
• 5
  Society of Pakistan
• 6
  Culture

  Meaning, characteristics, types and elements; socialization; cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, multiculturalism.

• 7
  Society

  Meaning and characteristics; relationship between individual and society; social contract and organismic theories; evolution of society types.

• 8
  Social Interaction

  Caste and classes, feudal system in Pakistan, social mobility and culture of poverty.

• 9
  Social Control

  Formal and informal means of social control; anomie, alienation and social integration in Pakistani society.

• 10
  Public Opinion

  Formation of public opinion; opinion leadership.

• 11
  Community

  Rural community, traditional rural life, urban community, urbanism and the future of cities in Pakistan.

• 12
  Social Problems in Pakistan

  Population, migration, deviance, unemployment, illiteracy, smuggling, poverty, drug addiction, child labour, violence against women, issues of the elderly.

The reading list straight from FPSC's revised Sociology syllabus. Build your core preparation around these texts — examiner-favoured references that questions are routinely drawn from.

1. 1

   Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach

   James M. Henslin

2. 2

   Methods of Social Research

   Bailey

3. 3

   Poverty Curtains

   Mahbub-ul-Haq

4. 4

   Contemporary Sociological Theories

   Pitirim Sorokin

5. 5

   Masters of Sociological Thought

   Lewis A. Coser

6. 6

   Sociology

   Ogburn and Nimkoff

7. 7

   Social Change and History

   Robert Nisbet

8. 8

   Feudal System in Pakistan

   Nawab Haider Naqvi

9. 9

   The Sociology of Rural Life

   T. Lynn Smith

10. 10

    Sociology — Social Structure and Social Conflict

    Harold R. Kerbo

11. 11

    Sociology: An Introduction to the Science of Society

    Samuel Koenig

12. 12

    Marriage and the Family

    Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee

13. 13

    The Design of Social Research

    Russell L. Ackoff

14. 14

    An Introduction to the History of Sociology

    H.E. Barnes (Ed.)

15. 15

    Pakistani Society

    Akbar S. Ahmed

16. 16

    Sociology

    John J. Macionis

17. 17

    Research Methodology

    Lawrence Neuman

18. 18

    Sociological Theory

    George Ritzer