Bangladesh and sociological and anthropological knowledge:Defining culture; Sociological basis of Bangladesh; Bangla language and its indo-European origins; Culture and Language: Elements of Culture, Symbols, language, and letters, Cultural variations in Bangladesh ;Socio-cultural Evolution: Society, technology, and culture, Hunting-gathering societies, Horticulture and pastoralist societies ;Industrial societies and Post-industrial societies; Research Methods:The research ethics, The qualitative research method, The quantitative research method, Ethnography, Holistic approach to research, cross-cultural method;Bengal’s Cultural identity: Language, norms, cultural integration, Multi-culturalism, Ethnocentrism, Cultural relativism; Social stratification and Bangladesh: Definition, System and stratification, Determinants of social class, Karl Marx, Max weber, Social Mobility ;Family and Kinship Structure: Basic concepts of Kinship structures, Changes in Family and partnership, Gender inequality and the economics of the family, Transformation of love and intimacy ;Economic Institutions of Bangladesh:Historical overview, Feudalism, capitalism, and socialism in Bangladesh its language, history, and culture;The Language Bangla: Historical origins of the alphabet, Indo-european to sangskrit, The seeds of independence through the Language Movement, Present globalized Bangla, The social stratification of the language Bangla and other languages, Six points for Sovereignty:Political movements for a sovereign state of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman posits the six points of a sovereign state, The Agartala Conspiracy Case is mounted;The ’70s general Election:Bangabandhu’s victory, West Pakistan’s Military reneges the election, Armed conflict, The Liberation war of 1971,The Massacre, guerilla warfare, political machinations;An Independent Bangladesh: First free Nation of Bengalis: Bangladesh, Foreign interventions and the 1975 coup d’état,The ‘Indigenous/Adivasi’ debate. What happens to non-Bengalis in the new nation?