SOME IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT SOCIOLOGY:

• ·         A totem acquired significance because of social acceptance.
• ·         According to Durkheim the nature of solidarity of a society can be indicated by the nature of economy.
• ·         According to Malinowski elements of institutions included personnel, charter and norms.
• ·         Bernstein distinguished two patterns of speech naming them elaborated and restricted codes.
• ·         Boas hold that there is not the slightest scientific proof that race determines mentality but there is overwhelming evidence that mentality is influenced by traditional culture.
• ·         Brown gave the concepts of external and internal systems.
• ·         Brown held that functionalism represented a triple alliance between theory, method and practice.
• ·         Brown was associated with the concept of Interaction process analysis.
• ·         Burgess classified societies according to their volume and density.
• ·         C.Wright Mills advocated the inverse deductive method in sociology.
• ·         Comte saw society as a social organism possessing a harmony of structure and function.
• ·         Durkheim for the first time used the concept of social structure in sociology.
• ·         Durkheim pioneered the method of multivariate analysis in sociology.
• ·         Lundberg codified cultural items into universal, alternatives and specialties.
• ·         Maclver characterized caste as a closed status group.
• ·         Marx and Althusser put forward the materialistic variant of the evolutionary theory.
• ·         Max Weber defined sociology as a branch of study attempting the interpretative understanding of social action.
• ·         Merton believed that a political ideology as communism could provide a functional alternative to religion.
• ·         Mores is to the folk society what law is to the modern society.
• ·         Morphology refers to the objective, scientific study of society for the purpose of pure knowledge and theoretical advancement.
• ·         Parsons argued that societies developed from organizational forms where relationship was based on status to those based upon contract
• ·         Promordial collectivities are another name given to ethnic group.
• ·         Simon distinguished between three stages of mental activity- the conjectural, miconjectural and the positive.
• ·         Sociology is confined to the study of forms of social relationship in their abstract forms is held by Idealistic school.
• ·         Sumner has divided sociology into systematic and general sociology and historical sociology.
• ·         T.Stuart Chapin was a pioneer in measurement of attitude.
• ·         The orientation that emphasizes individual choice and decision-making in determining behaviour is called altruism.
• ·         The phase psychic unity of mankind is associated with evolutionism.
• ·         The superorganic view of culture has given by Darwin.
• ·         The tendency of the person to reject the culture of his own group is called lenocentrism.
• ·         The term group dynamics refers to adjustive changes in small groups.
• ·         The theory of relationship was propounded by Won Weise.
• ·         Thurston scale is type of attitude scale.
• ·         Thurstone,Likert and Guttman were associated with sampling procedures.
• ·         To Durkheim altruistic type of suicide is characterized in modern societies.
• ·         To Robert Merton dysfunction is an activity that lessens the adoption or adjustment of the unit to its getting.