- Author Name : J. J. Baloch
- Subject : Sociology
- Language : English
- Cover : Paper Back
- No of Pages : 459
Sociology in the 21" Century: A Perspective of Pakistan Society' is a wel-researched and insightful analysis of Pakistani society; challenges and problems that it confronts in the contemporary world. This book can be used as a reference book for students, teachers and researchers in the areas of Anthropology, Sociology, Criminology, Public Policy, Law, and Gender studies, Economics, History and Journalism.
The book is structured in four parts ie. Introductory part, General Sociological Principles part, Major Sociological Theories part, and Sociological Research Methodology part. Introductory part covers the definition, evolution, origin and innovations in sociology. The second part draws on foundational principles of sociology including individual self and personality, society and its culture, mechanics of society such as interaction, socialisation, social control, social institutions as well as social problems. Part three details fourteen major sociological theories while part four explains the research methods used in sociological studies.
This book is a new sociological adventure in the perspective of Pakistani society's operative mechanisms and it endeavours to sift grass of bad from the grain of good through new sociological filters. In this book, the reader will find applications of sociological concepts that are relevant, current, balanced and interdisciplinary in approach.