Professional Documents
Culture Documents
C.A. 40%
Examination: 60%
70% Class attendance is compulsory
Suggested Readings
Bird, A. (2014). Thomas kuhn. Routledge.
Dobbelaere, K. (1984). Secularization theories and sociological paradigms: convergences and divergences.
Social Compass, 31(2-3), 199-219.
Hegelund, A. (2005). Objectivity and subjectivity in the ethnographic method. Qualitative health research,
15(5), 647-668.
Letherby, G., Scott, J., & Williams, M. (2012). Objectivity and subjectivity in social research. Sage.
Olutayo, A. O. (2014). ‘Verstehen’, Everyday Sociology and Development: Incorporating African Indigenous
Knowledge. Critical Sociology, 40(2), 229-238.
Olutayo, A.O. and Akanle, O. (eds) Sociological Theory for African Students Ibadan: Ibadan University
Press
Omobowale, A.O. (2018) The Visions of Context: Universalism, Modernity and Social Contextual
Interpretations. The Twenty Third Faculty of the Social Sciences Lecture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan,
Nigeria, 4 July 2018.
Omobowale, A.O. and O. Akanle (2020) The Locus of the Subjective Approach in Social Research. African
Ethnography 2: 13-25.
Onwuzuruigbo, I. (2018). Indigenising Eurocentric sociology: The ‘captive mind’and five decades of
sociology in Nigeria. Current Sociology, 66(6), 831-848.
Popper, K. (1995). Karl Popper: philosophy and problems (Vol. 39). Cambridge University Press.
Ritzer, G., & Stepnisky, J. (2021). Sociological theory. SAGE Publications, Incorporated.
Shapin, S. (2012) The Sciences of Subjectivity. Social Studies of Science 42 (2): pp. 170-184