DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

The Department offers courses at the M.Sc. and Ph.D levels in the following areas of

specialization:

• Population and Demography
• Industrial and Labour Relations
• Political Sociology
• Social Sociology
• Criminology and Deviance
• Sociology of Development

A student shall be required to pass a minimum of 30 units in two semesters which should include mandatory/core and elective courses and thesis based on original research.

GENERAL/CORE REQUIREMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS
1^ST SEMESTER                                                                                         Units
SOC 701                    Anthropological Theory                                    3
SOC 702                    Advanced Sociological Theory                         3
SOC 703                   Intermediate Statistics                                        3

CORE COURSES 2^ND SEMESTER                                                Units
SOC 711                     Advanced Statistics                                           3
SOC712                     Mathematical sociology                                     3
SOC 713                    Advanced Research Methods                           3
SOC 799                   Thesis of not less than 20,000 words                6

ELECTIVES

In addition to the core courses listed above, candidates shall be required to register for

at least two elective courses per semester in their intended area of specialization provided they registry for a minimum of 15- units in one semester. All core and elective courses shall count towards the evaluation of the candidates overall performance.

N.B:    all students are required to be in attendance at all Departmental Graduate

Studies Seminars which shall hold regularly.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

POPULATIONS AND DEMOGRAPHY OPTION
FIRST  SEMESTER                                                                                  Units

SOC 704            The city: urbanization and urbanism                       3

SOC 705             Population and human ecology                               3

SOC 716              Labour Laws and Labour Disputes                         3

SOC 717         Human Resources Management                            3

Human resources management, decision making; personnel and productivity technology and resources management.

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OPTION

SOC708         Political Sociology I

An examination of the social bases for political behavior as developed by classical and contemporary theorists. Examination of electoral behaviour, nationalism and nationalist movement; community power structure; problems of political development in new Nations.

SOC 709         Political Sociology II

1. consideration of the problem of order in society, especially those of emerging Nations, Politics and National economy.

SOC 718         Ideology and Political Development

Theories of ideology, leading ideologies in historical perspective. The roles of  ideology in socio-economic and political development of Nations.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OPTION

SOC 721  Social Psychological Theories            3 Units

Examination of current theories  in Psychology  such as learning,  group identification, personality language and communication perception, interaction, attitudes and cognition, measurement of attitudes field theories.

SOC 722         Social Motivation      3 Units

The structure of functional autonomy, Social reinforcement, social deprivation.

The concept of balance, congruity and dissonance. Personality social influence,

leadership.

SOC 731     Psychology And Social Conflict        3 Units

Patterning of social interaction in groups and organization stress and conflict in

groups.

SOC 732         Group Dynamics

Origins of group dynamic, group processes, power influences and motivation in group, structural properties of groups. Competition, accommodation, etc, international relations.

CRIMINOLOGY AND DEVIANCE OPTION

SOC 723         Theories of Crimes and Deviance     3  Units

The growth of Scientific view on crime and Deviance. The Classical, positivist’s school,   interactionalist  perspective.   Sociological  theories  of crimes  and deviance. Leading authorities on Crimes. Victomologv; its origin and prospects.

SOC 724   Penology

Punishment of offenders. Traditional versus modern concept of justice. Sentencing and its implication. Juvenile justice. The penal institutions in Nigeria. Problems of institutions.

SOC 733   The Police

The development of policing. Comparative examination of police system in West African. Evaluation of police performance. Changing roles of the police.

SOC 734   Applied Criminology

Crime and statistics. The problems of recording and record keeping. Crime and the police.

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT OPTION

SOC 725 Theories Of Social Change

Definition of social change, development theories of social changes classical evolutionary theory; equilibrium theory; conflict theory; “rise and fall” theories.

Theories of modernization, colonialism and social change In Africa Social movement.

SOC726     The Colonial and Post Colonial Situation     Units

Theories of undevelopment of African, rural transformation and the emergence of urban centers. The consequence of the colonial situation. Technologism and modernization. The advent of technism.

SOC 735     Measurement Of Development And Modernization 3 Units

Indices   of  development   and   modernization.   Modernization theory,

multinationals and social change, crisis of conceptualization.