(Sociology UGC NET) (Theories & Sociologist)

1. Imitation Theory of Deviance (Gabriel Tarde)
2. World System Theory (Immanuel Wallerstein)
3. Social Capillarity Theory (Louis Dumont)
4. Theory of Evolution (Charles Darwin)
5. Critical Theory (Max Horkheimer)
6. Dependency Theory (Raul Prebisch)
7. Social Structure and Fertility: An Analytic Framework (Kinsley Davis & Judith Blake)
8. Social Theory of Religion (Emile Durkheim)
9. Wealth Flow Theory (John Cadwell)
10. Theory of Social Stratification (Davis-Moore)
11. Theory of Structuration (Anthony Giddens)
12. Demographic Transitions Model Theory (Warren Thompson & Frank Notestein)
13. Social Theory of Suicide (Emile Durkheim)
14. Class Conflict Theory (Karl Marx)
15. Labeling Theory (Emile Durkheim)
16. Theory of Differential Association (Edwin Sutherland)
17. Cyclical Theory (Arthur Schlesinger)
18. Optimum Population Theory (Edwin Cannan)
19. Middle-Range Theory (RK Merton)
20. Theory of Entrepreneurship (Joseph Schumpeter)
21. Magic and Religion: Functional Theory (Bronislaw Malinowski)
22. Theory of Collective Behaviour (Neil Joseph Smelser)
23. Magic Theory of Religion (James George Frazer)
24. Theory of Leisure Class (Thorstein Veblen)
25. Theory of Surplus Value (Karl Marx)