Undergraduate

 

                       

 Courses and Programmes offered:

    . BA

Duration of Courses:

   . BA: 3 years( 6 semesters under CBCS)

Intake Capacity:

    . BA : 30 seats

    . BA(Generic): 40 seats

 

 Structure of the existing syllabus:

 

                                                     Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                  Sub: Sociology

COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY                                   Course No: C-01

Course Code : SOCC- 101                                                                          No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                                 Internal Assessment:20       

 

Course Objective:

The mandate of the course is to introduce the discipline to students from diverse trainings and capabilities. The course is intended to introduce the students to a sociological way of thinking. It also provides a foundation for the other more detailed and specialized courses in sociology.

Unit no 1. Sociology: Discipline and Perspective:      

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

1.1 Thinking Sociologically

1.2 Emergence of Sociology

Unit 2. Sociology and Other Social Sciences

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

2.1 Sociology and Social Anthropology

2.2 Sociology & Psychology

 2.3 Sociology & History

Unit no 3. Basic Concepts

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

3.1 Individual and Group: Primary, Secondary, In Group, Out Group, Reference Group, Peer Group, Clique, Interest Group, Pressure Group.

3.2 Associations and Institutions

Unit no 4: Culture and Society            [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

4.1 Social Change: Meaning , Direction and Dimensions

4.2: meaning of culture, types, cultural lag.

 

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

 1. Sociology: Discipline and Perspective

 1.1 Thinking Sociologically

 1.1.1 Johnson, Allan G. 2008, The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life Practice and Promise, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, Introduction and Chapter 1, ‗The Forest, the Trees and One Thing‘, Pp. 1-36

1.1.2 Beteille, Andre, 2009, Sociology: Essays in Approach and Method, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Chapter 1, ‗Sociology and Common Sense‘, Pp. 13-27

1.1.3 Garner, James Finn, 1994, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc., Chapters, ‗Little Red Riding Hood‘ & ‗Rumpelstiltskin‘

1.1.4. General Sociology , Saikia, Dr. J.P & H. Borgohain, Bidya Bhaban, Jorhat 

1.2 Emergence of Sociology

1.2.1 Ritzer, George, 1996, Classical Sociological Theory, New York: McGraw Hill, Chapter 1, ‗A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory- The Early Years‘, Pp. 13-46

1.2.2 General Sociology , Saikia, Dr. J.P & H. Borgohain, Bidya Bhaban, Jorhat

2. Sociology and Other Social Sciences  

2.1 Sociology and Social Anthropology

2.1.1 Béteille, André, 1985, Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Chapter 1, ‗Sociology and Social Anthropology‘, Pp. 1- 20  

2.1.2 Beteille, André, 2002, Sociology: Essays in Approach & Method, Oxford University Press, Chapter 2, ‗Sociology and Social Anthropology‘, Pp. 28-54

2.1.3 General Sociology , Saikia, Dr. J.P & H. Borgohain, Bidya Bhaban, Jorhat

2.2 Sociology & Psychology

2.2.1 Bottomore, T. B. 1971, Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature, London: Allen and Unwin. Chapter 4, ‗The Social Sciences, History and Philosophy‘, Pp. 65-80

2.2.2 Beattie, J., 1966, Other Cultures, London R.K.P., Chapter 2, ‗Social Anthropology and Some Other Sciences of Man‘, Pp. 25- 29 

2.3 Sociology & History

2.3.1Burke, Peter, 1980, Sociology and History, George Allen and Unwin, Chapter 1, ‗Sociologists and Historians‘, Pp. 13-30

3. Basic Concepts

3.1. Individual and Group

3.1.1 MacIver, Robert M, and Charles Hunt Page. 1949. Society, New York: Rinehart. Chapter 10, ‗Types of Social Groups‘, Pp. 213-237 3.1.2 Horton, Paul B., Chester L. Hunt. 2004, Sociology. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, Chapter 8, Pp. 185-209

3.2 Associations and Institutions

3.2.1. Horton, Paul B., Chester L. Hunt. 2004, Sociology. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill. Chapter 9, Pp. 210- 229

3.2.2 Firth, Raymond, 1956, Human Types, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Chapter 3, ‗Work and Wealth of Primitive Communities‘, Pp. 71-97

4. Culture and Society

4.1.1 Bierstedt, Robert, 1974, The Social Order, New York: McGraw Hill Book Company Part 3, Chapter 5, ‗The Meaning of Culture‘, p. 125‐ 151, Chapter 6, ‗The Content of Culture‘ Pp. 152‐187, Chapter 7, ‗The Acquisition of Culture‘, Pp. 188-212

4.1.2 Redfield, Robert 1956, Chapter 16, ‗How Human Society Operates‘, in Harry L Shapiro (ed.) Man, Culture and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, Pp. 345-368

4.2. Social Change

4.2.1 Bierstedt, Robert 1974, The Social Order, McGraw Hill, Chapter 20, ‗The Problem of Social Change‘ Pp. 527-567

4.2.2 Ritzer, George, 2004, The McDonaldisation of Society, Pine Forge Press, Chapter 1, ‗An Introduction to McDonaldisation‘, Pp. 1-20, Chapter 2, McDonaldisation and Its Precursors‘ Pp. 21-39, Chapter 9, ‗McDonaldisation In a Changing World‘, Pp. 167-199

 

 

                                                            Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                      Sub: Sociology

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA – I                                                          Course No: C-02

Course Code : SOCC- 102                                                                                    No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                                           Internal Assessment:20        

 

 

Course Objective: This paper introduces the processes and modes of construction of knowledge of India. Further, it aims to draw attention to the key concepts and institutions which are useful for the understanding of Indian society.

Outline:

1. India: An Object of Knowledge

 1.1 The Colonial Discourse                                                     marks 30

1.2 The Nationalist Discourse

1.3 The Subaltern Critique

2. Indian Society: Concepts and Institutions                                     marks 50

2.1. Caste: Concept and Critique                                                                            

2.2. Agrarian Classes

2.3. Industry and Labour

2.4. Tribe: Profile and Location                                                                                     

2.5. Village: Structure and Change

 2.6. Kinship: Principle and Pattern        

2.7. Religion and Society                                                              

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

 1.1. The Colonial Discourse (Week 1)

 1.1.1. Cohn, B.S., 1990, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.136-171 

1.2. The Nationalist Discourse (Week 2-3)

1.2.1. Kaviraj, S., 2010, The Imaginary Institution of India, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, Pp.85-126

 1.3. The Subaltern Critique (Week 4)

 1.3.1. Guha, R., 1982, Subaltern Studies, Volume I. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.1-8

2.1. Caste: Concept and Critique (Weeks 5-6)

2.1.1. Srinivas, M.N., 1969, „The Caste System in India‟, in A. Béteille (ed.) Social Inequality: Selected Readings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Pp.265- 272

2.1.2. Mencher, J., 1991, „The Caste System Upside Down‟, in D. Gupta (ed.), Social Stratification, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.93-109 2.2. Agrarian Classes (Week 7)

 2.2.1. Dhanagare, D.N., 1991, ―The Model of Agrarian Classes in India‖, in D. Gupta (ed.), Social Stratification, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp. 271-275

 2.3. Industry and Labour (Week 8)

2.3.1. Breman, J., 1999, ―The Study of Industrial Labour in Post Colonial India:The Formal Sector‖, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 33(1&2), Pp.1-41

2.4. Tribe: Profile and Location (Week 9) 

2.4.1. Haimendorf, C. V. F., 1967, „The Position of Tribal Population in India‟, in P. Mason India and Ceylon: Unity and Diversity, New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 9

 2.5. Village: Structure and Change (Week 10)

2.5.1. Srinvas, M. N., 1987, The Dominant Caste and Other Essays, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.20-59

2.6. Kinship: Principle and Pattern (Week 11)

2.6.1. Karve, I., 1994, „The Kinship Map of India‟, in P. Uberoi (ed.) Family, Kinship and Marriage in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.50-73

2.7. Religion and Society (Weeks 12-14)

2.7.1. Srinivas, M.N. and A. M. Shah, 1968, „Hinduism‟, in D. L. Sills (ed.) The International Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, Volume 6, New York: Macmillan, Pp.358-366

2.7.2. Momin, A.R., 1977, „The Indo Islamic Tradition‟, Sociological Bulletin, 26, Pp.242-258

2.7.3. Uberoi, J.P.S., 1997, „The Five Symbols of Sikhism‟, in T.N. Madan (ed.) Religion in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp. 320-332

 Note: The students are required to explore the contemporary sources on social institutions. With the aid of visual, oral and other kinds of narratives/representations students, advised and guided by teachers, are expected to arrange discussion sessions, work on assignments, undertake projects and                   

 

 

                                                            Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                       Sub: Sociology

COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY– II                                                  Course No: C-03

Course Code : SOCC- 201                                                                                             No of Classes:75

Credits:06 

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                                                    Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective:

The course aims to provide a general introduction to sociological thought. The focus is on studying from the original texts to give the students a flavor of how over a period of time thinkers have conceptualized various aspects of society. This paper also provides a foundation for thinkers in the other papers.                   

Outline:

1. On the Plurality of Sociological Perspective                         (Marks 12)

2. Functionalism                                                                           (Marks 12)

3. Interpretive Sociology                                                             (Marks 08)

 4. Conflict /contradiction perspective                                      (Marks 12)

5. Structuralism                                                                            (Marks 12)

6. Interactionism                                                                          (Marks 12)

7. Feminist Perspective                                                                (Marks 12)

 

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY 

1. On the Plurality of Sociological Perspective   

1.1.1 Bottomore, T. B. 1971. Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature, London: Allen and Unwin, Chapter 2, Pp. 29-47  

1.1.2 Gouldner, Alvin, 1977, ‘Sociology’s Basic Assumptions’ in Thompson, Kenneth and Jeremy Tunstall, Sociological Perspectives, New York: Penguin Books Ltd, Pp. 13-17   

2. Functionalism

 Durkheim,  mile, 1984, The Division of Labour in Society, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Pp. 149-174  

Radcliffe Brown, A.R., 1976, Structure and Function in Primitive Society, Free Press Chapter 9 & 10, Pp. 178-204  

3. Interpretive Sociology  

Weber, Max, 1978, Economy & Society: An outline of Interpretive Sociology, Vol. 1, University of California Press, Basic Concepts, Pages 4-26    

4. Conflict Perspective   

 Marx, Karl, 1990, Selected writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy, Penguin Books Limited, Pp. 88-101 

Dahrendorf, Ralf, 1968, Essays in the Theory of Society, Stanford: Stanford University Press, Chapters 4 & 5, Pp. 107-150  

5. Structuralism

  Leach, Edmund, 1973, 'Structuralism in Social Anthropology', In Robey, David Structuralism: An Introduction, 1st ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 37-56  

6. Interactionism  

Magill, Frank N., 1996, International Encyclopedia of Sociology, Volume 1, Routledge, Pp. 690-693   Giddens, Anthony, 2010, Sociology, 6th edition, Polity, Chapter 7, ‘Social Interaction in Everyday Life’, Pp. 247-280 

7. Feminist Perspective  

Jackson, S.  and S. Scott (eds.), 2002, Gender: A Sociological Reader,  London: Routledge, Introduction, Pp. 1‐26

                 

 

                                                             Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                        Sub: Sociology

   COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA – II                                                      Course No: C-04

Course Code : SOCC- 202                                                                                     No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                                           Internal Assessment:20      

Course Objective:

This paper aims to draw attention to the variety of ideas and debates about India. Further, it critically engages with the multiple socio-political forces and ideologies which shape the terrain of the nation. 

Outline:

 1. Ideas of India         (Marks 16)

1.1.  Gandhi : Swaraj,  Ambedkar: Annihilation  of Caste

 1.2.  Indological: G.S.Ghurey , Louis Dumont   Ethnographic Approaches:  M.N. Sriniwas, S.C. Dube

2. Resistance, Mobilization, Change                               (Marks 44)

2.1.  Dalit Politics: Dalit Identity, Dalit Politics : Caste System and Economics, Inequality

2.2.  Mobility and Change: Sanskritization  and Westernization

 2.3.  Women‘s Movement: Women and Patriarchy, Famininine Voice in Indian Music  

2.4.  Peasant Movements: Peasant Movements  before and after Independence  2.5.  Ethnic Movements: Identity Politics –Bodo, Karbi 

2.6.  Middle Class Phenomenon: The History of Assamese Middle Class 

3. Challenges to Civilization, State and Society                      (Marks 20)

3.1.  Communalism: Religion and Politics in India

3.2.  Secularism: Secular Experiences in India 

3.3.  Nationalism: Nation , Nationalism and sub nationalism 

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

1.1. Gandhi and Ambedkar

1.1.1 M. K. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj, Navajibon Publishing House , Ahmedabad 380014, India 

1.1.2. Ambedkar, B. R., 1971 [1936], Annihilation of Caste, Jullunder: Bheem Patrika

 1.2. Indological and Ethnographic Approaches  

1.2.1. Uberoi, P. et al., 2007, ‗Introduction: The Professionalization of Indian Anthropology and Sociology: Peoples, Places and Institutions‘ in P. Uberoi et al (eds.) Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi: Permanent Black, Pp. 1-63

1.2.2. Dumont, L. and D. Pocock, 1957, ‗For a Sociology of India‘, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1, Pp.7-22

2.1. Dalit Politics

2.1.1. Shah, G., 2001, Dalit Identity and Politics, New Delhi: Sage Publications, Pp.17-43 

2.2. Mobility and Change  

2.2.1. Srinivas, M.N., 1956, ‗A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization‘, The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4), Pp. 481-496

2.3. Women’s Movement

2.3.1. Menon, N., (ed.) 1999, Gender and Politics in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.342-369.

2.4. Peasant Movements

2.4.1. Pouchepadass, J., 1980, ‗Peasant Classes in Twentieth Century Agrarian Movements in India‘, in E. Hobsbawm (ed.) Peasants in History, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.136-155

2.5. Ethnic Movements

2.5.1. Baruah, S., 2010, ‗The Assam Movement‘ in T.K. Oommen (ed.) Social Movements I: Issues of Identity. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.191-208

 2.6. Middle Class Phenomenon

2.6.1. Deshpande, S., 2003, Contemporary India: A Sociological View, New Delhi: Penguin Books, Pp.125-150

2.6.2 Axomiya Modya Brita  Sreneer Itihaxh- Dr. Profulla Mahanta

2.6.3 Karna, M. N.; 1999; Language, Region and National Identity in Sociological Bulletin; Vol 48; No 1 & 2; pp 75-96.

3.1. Communalism

 3.1.1. Dumont, L., 1997, Religion, Politics and History in India, Paris: Mouton, Pp.89-110

3.2. Secularism (Weeks 12-13) 3.2.1. Kumar, R., 1986, ‗The Varieties of Secular Experience‘, in Essays in the Social History of Modern India, Calcutta: Oxford University Press, Pp.31-46

3.2.2. Madan, T.N., 1997, Modern Myths, Locked Minds, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.233-265

3.3. Nationalism

3.3.1. Oommen, T. K., 1997, Citizenship and National identity: From Colonialism to Globalism. New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp.143-172.

3.3.2 Desai , A. R. ( 1979): Social  Background  of Indian Nationalism 

.

 Additional Reading:

Ray, N. R., 1973, Nationalism in India: A Historical Analysis of its Stresses and Strains, Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University Press

 

 

 Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                        Sub: Sociology

 COURSE TITTLE: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Course Code : SOCC- 301                                                                                    COURSE NO: 05                                                                                                                                                                          No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                                           Internal Assessment:20        

 

Course Objective: This course introduces the students to some major theoretical debates and concepts in Political Sociology, while situating these within contemporary political issues. A key thrust of the paper is towards developing a comparative understanding of political relationships through themes such as power, governance and state and society relationships.

Unit 1. Contextualising the study of Political Sociology : 

Nature , Scope and Development of political Sociology 

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

 

Unit 2. Basic Concepts

2.1 Power and Authority( Max Weber and Anthony Giddens)

2.2 State, Governance and Citizenship 

2.3 Elites and the Ruling Classes ( Pareto , Bottomore and C.W. Mills)

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 25]

Unit  3. Political Systems :

 3.1.  Segmentary

3.2. Totalitarian

 3.3.  Democratic

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 25]

Unit 4. Everyday State,  Local Structures of Power: Panjichayati Raj , Autonomous Council , Development Council

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

Eisenstadt, S. N. ‗1971, ‗General Introduction : The Scope and Development of Political Sociology‘ in Political Sociology: A Reader Basic Books, New Your Publication, pp 3-24.

Lewellen, Ted. 2003, ‗The Development of Political Anthropology‘ in Political Anthropology: An Introduction (Third Edition), Praeger, pp. 1- 14.

Weber, Max. 1978, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 53-54; 941-54; 212-30; 241-54.

Lukes, Steven. 2005, Power: A Radical View, 2nd Ed., Hampshire : Palgrave, pp. 14-49. 2.2 State, Governance and Citizenship

 Mitchell, Timothy. ‗Society, Economy, and the State Effect‘, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (Ed.), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, pp. 169-85

 Burchell, Graham et al (Eds),1991, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, The University of Chicago Press, Chapter 1, pp.1-51

 Marshall, T.H. 1950, Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays, Cambridge University Press, pp. 10-27

 Tilly, Charles. 1999, ‗Where Do Rights Come From?‘ in Theda Skocpol (Ed) Democracy, Revolution and History, Cornell University Press, pp 55-72

Mills, C. Wright, 1956. The Power Elite, New Edition, OUP, pp. 269-297.

Bottomore, T.B. 1993, Elites and Society, 2nd Edition, Routledge, pp. 15-34

 Finner ,S.E ( selected and  I introduced) translated by Derick Mirfin (1966) Vilfredo Pareto, Sociological Writings , London , Pall Mall Press Ltd. Pp 15 -80.

Fortes, M. and E.E. Evans Pritchard (Eds), 1940. African Political Systems. London: Oxford University Press, Chapter 8.

Tapper, Richard, 1990. ‗Anthropologists, Historians, and Tribespeople‘ in Philip Shukry and Joseph Kostiner (Ed) Tribes 15 and State Formation in the Middle East, University of California Press, pp. 48-71

Schapiro, L. 1972. Totalitarianism, The Pall Mall Press, Chaps 2,3

Macpherson, C. B. 1966. The Real World of Democracy, Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 1-45

Chomsky, N. 1999. Profit over People: Neoliberlaism and Global Order. Severn Stories Press, pp. 7-18, 43-64

Fuller, C.J. and V. Benei (Eds.), 2000. The Everyday State and Society in Modern India. Social Science Press, pp. 1-30

Tarlo, Emma, 2003 Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi, University of California Press, pp. 62-93

Swartz, M.J (Ed), 1968. Local Level Politics: Social and Cultural Perspectives, University of London Press, pp. 281-94

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                                                          Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                        Sub: Sociology

COURSE TITTLE: Sociology of Religion                       

Course Code : SOCC- 302                                                                        COURSE NO: 06                                                                                                                                                                          No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                               Internal Assessment:20        

 

Course Objective:

The course lays primacy to the understanding of religious over individual religions. Drawing heavily from classical writings on the subject it reinforces importance of the positions developed in these texts. Implicitly numerous interconnections can be at-tempted between various themes, manifestly the overarching concern of the paper is to follow up the linkage between social and religious through different registers mentioned in the outline

unit1. Social and Religious

1.1 formulating Religious                                                  

1.1.1 Social definitions of religion                           

1.1.2. Social functions of religion                    

1.2. Asceticism and Accumulation               

1.2.1. Relationship between religion and socio economic action                               

1.2.2. Contradiction between asceticism and accumulation                 

1.3. Theodicy and Eschatology                         

1.3.1. Social implications of the Idea of divine Justice                         

1.3.2. Social implications of the idea of death and salvation       

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 30]

        

Unit 2. State, Religion and Emancipation 

2.1.1. Religion and state 

2.1.2. Religion and community                      

2.2. Religious and Solitude 

.2.2.1. The isolation of the sacred

2.2.2. The sacred community and exclusion

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

Unit3. Elements of Religious                          

3.1. Sacred, Myth, Ritual (meaning and significance) (Mythology from North East India can be used as reference for seminars and presentations as directed by the course teacher)                     

3.2. Time-Space 

3.2.1. Transcendence and time

3.2.2. Sacred marking of space

3.3. Rationality 

3.3.1. Concept of rationality (Max Weber) 

3.3.2. Rationality in religion   

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

         

Unit 4. Techniques of Religious                    

4.1. Prayer 

4.1.1. Techniques of Prayer 

4.1.2. Prayer as a ritual

4.2. Craft

4.2.1 Types of crafts

4.2.2. Functions of crafts

4.3. Body

4.3.1. Gestures                                

4.3.2. Performance

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 15]

Course Contents and Itinerary

Formulating Religious 1.1.1 Emile Durkheim. 1995. The elementary forms of religious life. Translated by Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press. Book one and Conclusion, pp. 21-39, 418-440.

Max Weber. 2001. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Translated by Stephen Kalberg. England: Roxbury Publishing Press, pp. 103-126.

 Max Weber.1978. Economy and society. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. California: University of California Press. Volume Two, pp.518-521.

State, Religion and Emancipation

 Marx, Karl. 2008/9 [1843] . ―On the Jewish Question‖ in DeutschFranzösische Jahrbücher. Proofed and Corrected: by Andy Blunden, Matthew Grant and Matthew Carmody. www. marxists. org

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1948. Magic, science and religion and other essays. Selected, and with an introduction by Robert Redfield. Boston: The Free Press, pp. 37-50.

Emile Durkheim. 1995. The elementary forms of religious life. Translated by Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press, Book one, pp. 27-33.

Srinivas, M. N. 1952. Religion and society among the Coorgs of south India. Clarendon : Oxford, pp100-122.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1948. Magic, science and religion and other essays. Selected, and with an introduction by Robert Redfield. Boston: The Free Press, pp. 119-124.

 Emile Durkheim. 1995. The elementary forms of religious life. Translated by Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press. Book three, pp. 303-412.

 E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 1963 (1940). "Time and Space." In The Nuer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 94-98, 100-108. 2.3 Rationality

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. 1990. Magic, science, religion and the scope of ra-tionality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-41.

Techniques of religious (Weeks 12-14) 3.1 Prayer

Mauss, Marcel.2008 (2003). On prayer. USA: Berghahn Books, pp. 19-58.

Ginzburg, Carlo.1991. Ecstasies. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Pantheon Press, pp. 1-32.

Robert, Hertz. 1973 (1909). "The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand." In Right and Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification, edited by R. Needham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-10, 13-14, 16-17, 19-21.

Suggested Readings:

1.  Weber, Max. 1993. Sociology of Religion. Boston. The Beacon Press. 

2. Sen, Soumen. 1993. Religion in North–East India. New Delhi. Uppal Publishing House

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                                                          Detailed Syllabi for Core Course

                                                                        Sub: Sociology

COURSE TITTLE: Sociology of Gender                   

Course Code : SOCC- 303                                                                      COURSE NO: 07                                                                                                                                                                           No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                            Internal Assessment:20     

   

Course Objective: The course introduces gender as a critical sociological lens of enquiry in relation to various social fields. It also interrogates the categories of gender, sex, and sexuality.

Unit 1. Gendering Sociology

 1.1 Sociology of Gender: An Introduction

 1.2 Gender, Sex,  Sexuality

1.3 Concept of Masculinity and Femininity

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

Unit 2. Gender Theories

 2.1 Feminism (Liberal feminism, radical feminism and social feminism)

 2.2 Marxian theory of gender

2.3 Queer theory of Gender

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

Unit 3. Gender: Differences and inequalities

3.1 Gender discrimination ( family, caste, class and work)

3.2 Gender and development

3.3 Gender budgeting

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

Unit 4. Gender, Power and resistance

4.1 Power and subordination ( Patriarchy)

4.2 Resisting and movements( LGBT movements)

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

S. Jackson and S. Scott (eds.) 2002 Gender: A Sociological Reader, London: Routledge. Introduction, (pp. 1‐26).

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Liz Stanley. 2002. „Should Sex Really be Gender or Gender Really be Sex‟ in S. Jackson and S. Scott (eds.) Gender: A Sociological Reader, London: Routledge (pp. 31‐41)  Strathern, Marilyn. 1987. ―An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology.‖ Signs 12(2):276‐292.

Saikia, J.P, (2016): ― Gender : Themes and Issues‖, Concept Publishing Company (P) Ltd, New   Delhi.Pp-01-46.  

 Sherry Ortner. 1974. ―Is male to female as nature is to culture?‖

M.Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds.) Women, culture and society.Stanford: Stanford University Press (pp. 67‐ 87). 

Rubin, Gayle. 1984. ―Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality‖ in Carole Vance, ed., Pleasure and anger.London: Routledge (pp 143‐179). 

Newton, Esther. 2000. ―Of Yams, Grinders and Gays: The Anthropology of Homosexuality‖ in Margaret Mead Made Me Gay:Personal Essays, Public Ideas. London: Duke University Press (pp 229‐ 237). 

Weeks. J,(2012): Sexuality Third Edition, Routledge, London and New York.

Singh. S, (2009): ― Feminism: Theory, Criticism and Analysis‖., Pencraft International., New Delhi

 Kuumba Bahati. M, (2003): Gender and Social Movements., Rawat Publications, Jaipur and New Delhi.

Saikia, J.P, (2016): ― Gender : Themes and Issues‖, Concept Publishing Company  (P) Ltd, New   Delhi.Pp-65-82

 Halberstam, Judith. 1998. ―An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men‖ in Female Masculinity. London: Duke University Press (Also Delhi: Zubaan 2012 Reprint) (pp 1‐43).

  Alter, Joseph. 1992. The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. California : University of California: California (pp 163‐194).

 Uberoi, Patricia ―Feminine Identity and National Ethos in Indian Calendar Art‖ In Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 25, No. 17 (Apr. 28, 1990), (pp. WS41‐WS48).       

Walby, Sylvia. 2002. ―Gender, Class and Stratification: Towards a new approach‖ in S. Jackson and S. Scott (eds.) Gender: A Sociological reader. London: Routledge (pp 93‐96).

 Leela  Dube  1996  ―Caste  and  Women‖  in  M.N.Srinivas  (ed.)Caste: Its twentieth century avatar, New Delhi: Penguin (pp 1‐27).

Rege, S. 1998. ―Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position.‖

Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 33, No. 44 (Oct.31‐Nov. 6, 1998)(pp 39‐48)

Palriwala, Rajni. 1999. ―Negotiating Patriliny: Intra‐household Consumption and Authority in Rajasthan (India)", in Rajni Palriwala and Carla Risseeuw (eds.), Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualising kinship and gender relations in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. Delhi: Sage Publications [pp.190‐220

 Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman. 2002. ―Doing Gender‖ in S.Jackson and S. Scott (eds.)

Gender: A Sociological Reader. London: Routledge [pp 42‐47].

 Susie, Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana. 1999. „Problems for a contemporary theory of gender‟ in Nivedita Menon (ed.) Gender and Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press [pp 494‐525]. 

Abu‐Lughod, Lila. 2002. ―Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others.‖  American Anthropologist 104 (3) [pp 783‐790].

 Kandiyoti, Deniz. 1991 ―Bargaining with Patriarchy‖ in Judith Lorber and Susan A. Farrell (eds.)

 The Social Construction of Gender, New Delhi: Sage Publications [pp.104‐118].  

Hill‐Collins, Patricia. 2002. ―Learning from the outsider within‖ in S. Jackson and S. Scott (eds.) Gender: A Sociological Reader. London: Routledge [pp 69‐78].

 Kumar, Radha. 1999. ―From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women‟s Movement‖ In Nivedita Menon (ed.)

 Gender and Politics in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press [pp342‐369]. [Projects, feature films and documentaries screenings, field‐work oriented tasks will be the integral part of the course].

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SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITLE: ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY                                     Course No: C-08

Course Code: SOCC- 401                                                                          No of Classes:75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective: The course provides an understanding of the social and cultural bases of economic activity. It highlights the significance of sociological analysis for the study of economic processes in local and global contexts.

Unit 1. Perspectives in Economic Sociology 

                                                                                             [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 24]

Formalism and Substantivism 

New Economic Sociology

[Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 24]

Unit 2. Forms of Exchange

                                                                               [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 16]

Reciprocity and Gift

 Exchange and Money

Unit 3. Systems of Production, Circulation and Consumption.

                                                                                              [Class 15+5(tutorial) Marks: 24]  Hunting and Gathering 

Domestic Mode of Production

Peasant 

Capitalism 

Socialism

Unit 4.Some Contemporary Issues in Economic Sociology.  [Class 15+5(tutorial) Marks:16]

Development: Meaning

Globalisation: Meaning

                                                                                        

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY  :

1. Perspectives in Economic Sociology.

1.1 Formalism and Substantivism

Hann,  Chris.  and  Keith  Hart.  Economic  Anthropology.  Cambridge,  UK: Polity Press, 2011. . Chapter 5. ―After the Formalist-Substantivist Debate‖, pp. 72 – 99;   Chapter 2.‖ Economy from the Ancient World to the Age of Internet.‖ Pp. 18 – 36.

 Karl, Polanyi. The Livelihood of Man. New York: Academic Press, 1977. Chapters 1 & 2, ―The Economistic Fallacy & Two meanings of Economic‖, Pp. 534

Wilk, Richard R. Economies and Cultures. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. Ch. 1,‖Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline‖, pp. 1-18.

1.2 New Economic Sociology

  Granovetter, M., ―Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness‖, American Journal of Sociology, Vol.91, No.3 (Nov), 1985, pp. 481 ‐ 507

 Swedberg,R., ―Major Traditions of Economic Sociology‖, in Annual Sociological Review, Vol.17, 1991, pp 251-276.

2. Froms of Exchange

2.1 Reciprocity and Gift

Mauss, M., The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, London: Cohen and West, 1924, Introduction, Chapters.1 & 2, The Exchange of Gifts and the Obligation to Reciprocate (Polynesia) & The Extension of this System: Liberality, Honour, Money. Pp. 1 - 46.

Carrier, James G. Gifts and Commodities , London, Routledge, 1995. Ch. 1. Gifts and Commodities, People and Things. Pp. 19-39.

2.2 Exchange and Money

Exchange and Money 2.2.1. Bohannan, P. and G. Dalton (eds.). 1962. Markets in Africa. Evanston, Illinois, North western University. pp. 1-26.

Zelizer, Viviana A. 1989. ―The Social Meaning of Money: ‗Special Monies‗ ―in American Journal of Sociology, Vol.95. (Sept.) pp. 342-377.

3. Systems of Production, Circulation and Consumption

3.1 Hunting and Gathering

Sahlins, M. Stone Age Economics. London, Tavistock, 1974. Ch. 1.

3.2 Domestic Mode of Production

Sahlins, M. Stone Age Economics. London, Tavistock, 1974. Ch. 2, 3.

3.3 Peasant

Wolf, Eric R. Peasants. New Jersey, Prentice Hall. 1966 Ch. 1.

3.4 Capitalism

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. Historical Capitalism. London: Verso, 1983. 1. Commodification of Everything: Production of Capital. Pp. 13 – 43.

3.4 Socialism

Verdery, Katherine. What Was Socialism, And What Comes Next? Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. Chapter 1. pp. 19 – 38.

4. Some Contemporary Issues in Economic Sociology

4.1 Development

Hann, Chris. and Keith Hart. Economic Anthropology. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011. Pp. 100-119 4.2 Globalisation

4.2 Globalisation

Tonkiss, Fran. Contemporary Economic Sociology. London: Routledge, 2006. Chapter 1, Capitalism and Globalization. Pp. 3-28.

Howes , D. (ed) , Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets and Local Realities, Routledge, London, 1996, pp. 1-16

Suggestive Readings:

 Smelser, Neil. J. and Richard Swedberg. 1994. ―The Sociological Perspective on the Economy‖ in N.J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds).1994.The Handbook of Economic Sociology

Velthius, Olav. ‗The Changing Relationship between Economic Sociology and Institutional Economics: From Parsons to Mark Granovetter‗ 1999. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 58, No.4. pp. 629-649

 Zelizer, Viviana A. Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th Century America‗.1978. American Journal of Sociology Vol.84, No.3. pp. 591-610

Zelizer, Viviana A. ‗Payments and Social Ties‗.1996. Sociological Forum, Vol.11, No.3. Special Issue: Lumping and Splitting. pp. 481-495.

 Sahlins, M. 1974. Stone Age Economics. London, Tavistock. Ch. 4. pp 149-183

 Hilton, Rodney.1973. Bond Men Made Free. London. Methern. Ch.1. pp. 25-40

Appadurai, A. 1986.The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. pp. 3-63

Sassen, Saskia. 2007. A Sociology of Globalisation.

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SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF KINSHIP AND FAMILY        Course No: C-09

Course Code: SOCC- 402                                                                          No of Classes:75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective:

This course aims to introduce general principles of kinship and marriage by reference to key terms and theoretical statements substantiated by ethnographies. The course looks at the trajectories and new directions in kinship studies. Outline:

1.Introduction:                [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks :]     

Descent, Consanguinity, Filiation, Incest Taboo, Affinity, Family, Residence             

1.1 Approaches of Sociology of Kinship

     Descent

    Alliance

.   Cultural

Unit 2. Family, Household and Marriage   [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : ]                                  

2.1. Types of Family and changes                      

2.2. Difference Between family and Household                      

2.3. Types of marriage

Unit 3. Re-casting Kinship      [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : ]                                                        

3.1. Relatedness- Concept and Type

3.2. Kinship and Gender

3.3. Re-imagining Families

Unit 4. Changed and continuity   [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : ]

4.1 New Reproductive Technologies

4.1.1. Types of New Reproductive techniques

4.1.2. Social implications of New Reproductive Techniques on the family system

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

  1. Introduction and Approaches:

 Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. and D. Forde (eds.), 1950, African Systems of Kinship and Marriage, London: Oxford University Press, Introduction, Pp.1-39

 Evans-Pritchard, E.E., 2004 (1940), ‗The Nuer of Southern Sudan‘, in R. Parkin and L. Stone (eds.), Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader, U.S.A.: Blackwell, Pp. 64-78

 Fortes, M., 1970, Time and Social Structure and Other Essays, University of London: The Athlone Press, Chapter 3, Pp. 67-95

 Leach, Edmund, 1962, ‗On Certain Unconsidered Aspects of Double Descent Systems‘, Man, Vol. 62, Pp. 130-134

 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1969, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Chapters 1 & 2, Pp. 3-25

 Dumont, L., 1968, ‗Marriage Alliance‘, in D. Shills (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, U.S.A.: Macmillan and Free Press, Pp. 19-23

 Schneider, D., 2004, ‗What is Kinship All About?‘, in R. Parkin and L. Stone (eds.) Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader, U.S.A.: Blackwell, Pp. 257-274

 Das, V., 1994, ‗Masks and Faces: An Essay on Punjabi Kinship‘, in Patricia Uberoi (ed.), Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.198-222

Shah, A.M., 1998, ‗Changes in the Indian Family: An Examination of Some Assumptions‘, in The Family in India: Critical Essays, New Delhi: Orient Longman, Pp.52-63

*Freeman, J. D., 1958, ‗The Family Systems of the Iban of Borneo‘, in J. Goody (ed.), The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp. 15-52 [Readings marked * are repeated in Section 2]

2. Family, Household and Marriage.

 Shah, A.M., 1998, ‗Changes in the Indian Family: An Examination of Some  Assumptions‘, in The Family in India: Critical Essays, New Delhi: Orient Longman, Pp.52-63

 Freeman, J. D., 1958, ‗The Family Systems of the Iban of Borneo‘, in J. Goody (ed.), The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp. 15-52

Leach, E.R., 1961, ‗Polyandry, Inheritance and the Definition of Marriage with Particular Reference to Sinhalese Customary Law‘, in E. R. Leach (ed.),Rethinking Anthropology, London: The Athlone Press, Pp. 105-113

 Gough, Kathleen E., 1959, ‗The Nayars and the Definition of Marriage‘, in  The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 89: 23-34

 Uberoi, Patricia, 1995, ‗When is a Marriage not a Marriage? Sex, Sacrament and Contract in Hindu Marriage‘, Contributions to Indian Sociology, n.s. 29, 1&2: 319-45

3.Re- casting Kinship

Relatedness

 Carsten, Janet, 1995, ‗The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi‘ American Ethnologist, 22 (2): 223-24.1

Kinship and Gender

 Gold,  Ann  Grodzins,  1994,  ‗Sexuality,  Fertility,  and  Erotic  Imagination  in Rajasthani Women‘s Songs ‗, in Listen to the Heron's Words: Re-imagining Gender and Kinship in North India by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold, Delhi: OUP, Pp 30-72

Re-imagining Families

 Weston, Kath, 1991, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, New York: Columbia University Press, Pp. 103-136

4. Changes and continuity

Kahn, Susan Martha. Eggs and Wombs: The origins of Jewishness, in R. Parkin and L. Stone (eds) Kinship and Family : An Anthroplogical Reader Pp: 362-377

Fox,Robin : Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological perspective.

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SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITLE: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION                                Course No: C-10

Course Code: SOCC- 403                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective: This course introduces students to Sociological Study of Social Inequalities. It acquaints students with principal theoretical perspectives on and diverse forms of Social inequality in articulation with each other.

Unit 1.Introducing Stratification              [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

1.1. Definition of Social stratification

1.2. Idea of Inequality, Equality, Difference and hierarchy

1.3. Patterns of Social Stratification- Closed and Open 

2. Theories of Stratification                      [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

2.1. Marxist

2.2. Weberian

2.3. Functional

Unit 3. Identities and Inequalities               [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

3.1. Caste, Race and Ethnicity

3.2. Feminism and Gendered Stratification

Unit 4.Mobility and Reproduction           [Class 15+5(tutorial) ,Marks : 20]

4.1.  Definition and types of social mobility

 4.2. Concept of Social reproduction

4.3. Social Reproduction of- class and occupational categories

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

  1. Introducing Stratification

Worsley, Peter. Introducing Sociology.2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970. Chapter 8, Social Stratification: Class, Status and Power, pp. 395 – 408

 Beteille Andre Inequality among Men. London: Blackwell, 1977. Chapter 1. The Two Sources of Inequality. Pp. 1-22

 Tawney, R. H. Equality. London: Unwin Books, 1964. Chapter 1. The Religion of Inequality, Pp. 33-56

  1. Theories of Stratification

 McLellan, David. The Thought of Karl Marx. London: Papermac, 1995. Part 2. Chapter 6. Class, pp. 182-194

Weber, Max, Hans Heinrich Gerth, and C. Wright Mills. From Max Weber. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Chapter VII, Class, Status, Party. Pp. 180– 195

 Bendix Reinhard ‗Inequality and Social Structure: Comparison of Marx and Weber‘ American Sociological Review, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 149161

 Bottomore, T. B. Classes in Modern Society. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. Chapters. 2 & 3 The Nature of Social Class & Classes in Industrial Societies. 9-75

Davis, Kingsley, and Wilbert E. Moore. 'Some Principles of Stratification'. American Sociological Review 10.2 (1945):  pp. 242-249 2.2.2Tumin, Melvin  M.  'Some  Principles of  Stratification: A Critical  Analysis'. American Sociological Review 18.4 (1953): 387-394

 Davis  Kingsley  and Wilbert E  Moore‗Some Principles of Stratification : Critical Analysis: Reply'. American Sociological Review Vol. 18, No. 4 (Aug., 1953), pp. 394-397

 Wrong Den nis H  ‗The Functional Theory of Stratification: Some Neglected Consideratio  s‘ American Sociological Review, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Dec., 1959), pp. 772- 782

 Sti nchcombe Arthur L ‘Some Empirical Consequences of the Davis-Moore Theory of Stratification‟. American Sociological Review 28.5 (1963), pp. 805-808

  1. Identity and Inequalities

Caste Race and Ethnicity

    BaiLey F G ‗Closed Socia Stratification in In dia‘, European Journal of Sociology Vol. 4, No. 1 (1963) pp. 107-124

 Jain, Ravindra K. ‗Hierarchy, Hegemony and Dominance: Politics of Ethnicity in Uttar Pradesh, 1995‘ Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Jan. 27, 1996), pp. 215-223

 Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Chapters 1 & 4 , pp. 14-24 and 57-69

 Pitt-Rivers  Julia ‗Race  Color  and Class in Central America and the  des‘ Daedalus, Vol. 96, No. 2, Color and Race (Spring, 1967), pp. 542-559

Feminism and Gendered Stratification

Mitchell, Juliet. Woman's Estate. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971. Pp. 99-122

3.2.2 Acker, Joan. 'Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism'. American Journal of Sociology 78.4, 1973. Pp. 936-944

 Collin Patricia Hill. ‗Towards a New Vision : Race, Claa and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection‘ Race, Sex and Class, Vol.1,No.1 (Fall 1993),Pp.25-45. 

  1. Mobility and Reproduction

Bottero, Wendy. Stratification. London: Routledge, 2005. Chapters 12 & 14 pp. 205-223 & 246-258

 Bourdieu Pierre ‗Cu tura Reproductio a d Socia Reproductio ‘ In The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education. Richard Arum and Irenee Beattie, Editors. NY: McGraw Hill. 1973: 56-68.

Suggested Readings:

1. Gupta, Dipankar. 1991.Social Stratification.  New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 

2. Pakem, B. 1990. Nationality, ethnicity and Cultural Identity. New Delhi. Omsons Publications . pp. 1-21

 3. Ghurye, G.S. 1932. Caste and Race in India. London. Kegan Paul.

4. Dumont, Louis . 1972. Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System. Chicago. University of Chicago Press.

5. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade.2003.  ―Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial discourses‖ in Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2003. Durham. Duke University Press.

 6. Sorokin, Pitrim.1927.  Social Mobility. New York. Harper and Brothers.

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SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS- I                           Course No: C-11

Course Code : SOCC- 501                                                                          No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Objectives: The course introduces the students to the classics in the making of the discipline of sociology through selected texts by the major thinkers.

Unit:1. Karl Marx                                                                   [Class 20+5(tutorial), Marks: 25]

 1.1. Materialist Conception of History

 1.2. Capitalist Mode of Production

Unit:2. Max Weber                                                                   [class 20+5(tutorial), Marks: 25]

2.1. Social Action and Ideal Types

2.2. Religion and Economy

Unit:3. Emile Durkheim                                                          [class 20+5(tutorial), Marks: 30]

3.1. Social Fact

3.2. Individual and Society

 COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

1. Karl Marx (Weeks 1‐5)

1.1. Intro : McLellan, David. 1975. Marx. London: Fontana Press. Pages: 7-23 (16)

 1.2. Marx, K. and F. Engels. 1969. Selected Works Vol. 1. Moscow: Progress Publishers. pp. 13‐15, 16‐80, 98‐106, 142‐174, 502‐506

1.3. Marx, K. and F. Engels. 1969. Selected Works Vol. 1. Moscow: Progress Publishers. pp. 13‐15,16‐80, 98‐106, 142‐174, 502‐506.

 2. Max Weber (Weeks 6‐9) 35

2.1 Poggi, Gianfranco. 2006. Weber. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Pages: 1-16 (16)

2.2. Weber, Max. 1947. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York: The Free Press, pp. 87‐123

2.3. Weber, Max. 2002. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Stephen Kalberg). London: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 3‐54, 103‐126, Chapters I, II, III, IV & V

3. Emile Durkheim (Weeks 10‐14)

3.1 Gane, Mike. 1992. The Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss. London: Routledge. Pages: 1-10

3.2. Durkheim, E. 1958. The Rules of Sociological Method. New York: The Free Press. pp. 48‐107, 119‐144

 3.3. Durkheim, E. 1951. Suicide: A Study in Sociology. New York: The Free Press, pp. 41‐56, 145‐276

SUGGESTED READINGS

 Ritzer, G. 1996. Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw Hill Companies.

 Giddens, A. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 36

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SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS-I    Course No: C-12

Course Code : SOCC- 502                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective: The course is a general introduction to the methodologies of sociological research methods. It will provide the student with some elementary knowledge of the complexities and philosophical underpinnings of research.

Unit:1. The Logic of Social Research                                 [class 20+5(tutorial), Marks: 30]

 1.1 What is Sociological Research?

 1.2 Objectivity in the Social Sciences

1.3 Reflexivity

 Unit:2. Methodological Perspectives                                 [class 20+5(tutorial), Marks: 25]

 2.1 The Comparative Method

 2.2 Feminist Method

 Unit:3. Modes of Enquiry                                                   [class 20+5(tutorial), Marks: 25]

 3.1 Theory and Research

 3.2 Analyzing Data: Quantitative and Qualitative

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

1.1 The Logic of Social Research (Weeks 1 and 2)

 1.1.1 Mills, C. W. 1959, The Sociological Imagination, London: OUP Chapter 1 Pp. 3‐24

 1.1.2 Gluckman, M. 1978, 'Introduction', in A. L. Epstein (ed.), The Craft of Social Anthropology, Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Pp. xv‐xxiv 1.2. Objectivity in the Social Sciences (Weeks 3-7)

1.2.1. Durkheim, E. 1958, The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: The Free Press, Chapter 1, 2 & 6 Pp. 1‐46, 125‐140 37

 1.2.2. Weber, Max. 1949, The Methodology of the Social Sciences, New York: The Free Press, Foreward and Chapter 2 Pp. 49‐112

1.3. Reflexivity

 1.3.1 Gouldner, Alvin. 1970, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, New York: Basic Books, Chapter 13 Pp. 481‐511

 2. Methodological Perspectives (Weeks 8-11)

2.1. Comparative Method

2.1.1. Radcliffe‐Brown, A.R. 1958, Methods in Social Anthropology, Delhi: Asia Publishing Corporation, Chapter 5 Pp. 91‐108

2.1.2. Beiteille, A. 2002, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, New Delhi: OUP, Chapter 4 Pp. 72‐94

2.3. Feminist Method

 2.3.1. Harding, Sandra 1987, “Introduction: Is there a Feminist Method?” in Sandra Harding (ed.) Feminism & Methodology: Social Science Issues, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Pp. 1‐14

3. Modes of Enquiry (Weeks 12-14)

 3.1. Theory and Research 3.1.1 Merton, R.K. 1972, Social Theory & Social Structure, Delhi: Arvind Publishing House, Chapters 4 & 5 Pp. 139‐171

3.2 Analyzing Data: Quantitative and Qualitative

 3.2.1 Bryman, Alan. 2004, Quantity and Quality in Social Research,New York: Routledge, Chapter 2 &  3 Pp. 11‐70

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SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: URBAN SOCIOLOGY                                Course No: DSE-01A

Course Code: SOCD- 501A                                                                         No of Classes: 75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester: 80                                                      Internal Assessment: 20        

Course Objective: This course provides an exposure to key theoretical perspectives for understanding urban life in historical and contemporary contexts. It also reflects on some concerns of urban living while narrating the subjective experiences of urban communities. With case studies from India and other parts of the world this course will help students relate to the complexities of urban living.

 Unit:1. Introducing Urban Sociology: Urban, Urbanism and the City [class 15+5(tutorial),Marks:15]

Unit:2. Perspectives in Urban Sociology                                                  [class 15+5(tutorial),Marks: 25]

2.1. Ecological

2.2. Political Economy

2.3. Network

 2.4 City as Culture

 Unit: 3. Movements and Settlements                                                     [class 15+5(tutorial),Marks: 20]

 3.1. Migration

3.2. Community

Unit:4. Politics of Urban Space                                                                   [class 15+5(tutorial),Marks: 20]

4.1. Culture and Leisure

4.2. Caste, Class and Gender

 Course Contents and Itinerary

1. Introducing Urban Sociology: Urban, Urbanism and the City: (3 Weeks)

 1.1 Mumford, Lewis 1961. The City in History: its origins and transformations and its prospects. Mariner Books: Pp 3‐29, 94‐118

1.2 Holton, R. J. Cities, Capitalism and Civilization, London: Allan and Unwin, Chapters. 1 & 2. Pp. 1 – 32 1.3 Parker, Simon. Urban Theory and Urban Experience: Encountering the City, London: Routledge. Chapter 2. Foundations of Urban Theory Pp. 8 - 26

2. Perspectives in Urban Sociology: (4 Weeks)

 2.1. Hannerz, Ulf 1980. Exploring the City: Toward an Urban Anthropology, NY: Columbia University Press. Chapter 2. Pp 19‐58

2.2 Lewis, Wirth 1938 “Urbanism as a way of Life” in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 44, No.1 (July), Pp. 1‐24

2.3 Harvey, David 1985 The Urban Experience, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Chapter 1. Money, Time, Space and the City. Pp. 1-35

2.4 Manuel, Castells 2002, “Conceptualising the city in the information age”, in I.Susser (ed.) The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Ma, Pp. 1‐13

 2.5 Weber, Max 1978. The City. The Free Press: New York. Pp 65‐89

2.6 Simmel, George, 1903, “Metropolis and the Mental Life” in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, eds. The Blackwell City Reader. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell, 2002.

 3. Movements and Settlements: (2 Weeks)

3.1 Rao, M.S.A, 1981, “Some aspects of the sociology of migration”, Sociological Bulletin,Vol. 30, 1. Pp21‐38 46

 3.2 Anand, Inbanathan. 2003, “Migration and Adaptation: Lower Caste Tamils in a Delhi Resettlement Colony” in Ranvinder Singh Sandhu (ed.) Urbanization in India. Sage: New Delhi. Pp. 232‐246

 3.3 Benjamin S, 2004, “Urban Land Transformation for Pro‐Poor Economies”, Geoforum, Volume 35, Issue 2, March 2004, Pp. 177‐197

 4. Politics of Urban Space (5 Weeks)

 4.1 Katznelson, Ira, 1981, City Trenches: Urban Politics and Patterning of Class in United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 8. Social Theory, Urban Movements and Social Change. Pp. 193 – 215

 4.2 Ayyar, Varsha ,2013. “Caste and Gender in a Mumbai resettlement site”, Economic & Political Weekly, May 4,Vol. XLVIII, No 18, Pp 44‐55

4.3 Kamath, Lalitha and Vijayabaskar, M, 2009 “Limits and possibilities of Middle Class Associations as Urban collective actors”, Economic & Political Weekly, June 27, 2009 vol XLIV No. 26 & 27, Pp 368 ‐376

4.4 Grazian, David, 2009, “Urban Nightlife, Social Capital, and the Public Life of Cities” Sociological Forum, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 2009), pp. 908‐917

4.5 Manuel Castells, 1983, “Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community” in San Francisco in City and the Grassroots, Pp. 138‐170

4.6 Crawford, Margaret. „The World is a Shopping Mall‟, From Malcom Miles and Tim Hall (Eds.) City Cultures Reader, London: Routledge. Pp. 125-139

SUGGESTED READINGS:

Kumar, Nita, 1988. The Artisans of Banaras. Popular Culture andIdentity, 1880—1986, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Eck, Diana, 1983. Banaras: City of light, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Naidu, Ratna. 1990. Old cities and New predicaments: A Study of Hyderabad. New Delhi: Sag

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 SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION          Course No: DSE-02A

Course Code: SOCD- 502B                                                                       No of Classes: 75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester: 80                                                      Internal Assessment: 20        

 Course Objective: Traditions in Indian sociology can be traced with the formal teaching of sociology as a subject in Bombay university way back in 1914. While the existence of a “Sociology in India” and “Sociology of India” have been largely debated in terms of whether it has been influenced by western philosophy, is there a need of indigenization etc., sociologist in India have primarily been engaged with issues of tradition and modernity, caste, tribe and gender. This paper primarily provides perspectives of key Indian sociologists on some of these issues.

Unit:1. G S Ghurye                                                     [class 7+5(tutorial), Marks: 12]

1.1 Caste and Race

 1.2 City and Civilization

Unit: 2. Radhakamal Mukerjee                                [class 7+5(tutorial), Marks: 12]

2.1 Personality, Society, Values

 2.2 Social Ecology

Unit: 3. D P Mukerji                                                   [class 7+5(tutorial), Marks: 12]

3.1 Tradition and Modernity

3.2 Middle Class

Unit: 4 . Verrier Elwin                                                [class 7+5(tutorial), Marks: 12]

4.1. Tribes in India

Unit: 5. M.N. Srinivas

 5.1. Social Change                                                     [class 7+5(tutorial),Marks: 12]

 Unit: 6. Irawati Karve

 6.1. Gender and Kinship                                          [class 5+2(tutorial), Marks: 10]

unit: 7. Leela Dube                                                    [class 5+3(tutorial), Marks: 10]

7.1 Caste and Gender

 COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

 1. G.S.Ghurye (Weeks 1-2)

1.1.1. Upadhya, Carol 2010, „The Idea of an Indian Society: G.S. Ghurye and the Making of Indian Sociology‟ in Patricia Uberoi, Satish Despande and Nandini Sundar (ed) Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology New Delhi: Permanent Black

 1.1.2. Ghurye, G.S. 1969, Caste and Race in India, Delhi: Popular Prakashan Pp 114-140,404-460 (82 pages) 1.2.1. Ghurye, G.S. 1962, Cities and Civilization, Delhi: Popular Prakashan

2. Radhakamal Mukerjee (Weeks 3-4) 2.1.1. Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1950, The Social Structure of Values, London: George Allen and Unwin Chp 2,3, 5, 6 & 9

 2.2.1. Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1932, (reproduced in1994) „An Ecological Approach to Sociology‟ in Ramchandra Guha (ed) Social Ecology Delhi: OUP

 2.2.2 Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1932, The concepts of balance and organization in Social Ecology Sociology and Social Research 16 (July-August 1932) 503- 516

2.2.3. Venugopal, C.N. 1988, Ideology and Society in India: Sociological Essays, New Delhi: Criterion Publications Chp 7

3. D.P. Mukerji (Weeks 5-6)

3.1.1. Madan, T.N. 2010, „Search for Synthesis: The Sociology of D.P Mukerji‟ in Patricia Uberoi, Satish Despande and Nandini Sundar (ed) Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi: Permanent Black

3.1.2. Mukerji D.P. (1958 second edition 2002), Diversities: Essays in Economics, Sociology and Other Social Problems, Delhi: Manak Publications Pg 177-225, 261-276

 3.2.1. Chakraborty, D 2010, D P Mukerji and the Middle Class in India, Sociological Bulletin 59(2), May-August 235-255 65

4. Verrier Elwin (Week 7-8)

4.1.1. Guha, Ramchandra 2010, „Between Anthropology and Literature: The Ethnographies of Verrier Elwin‟ in Patricia Uberoi, Satish Despande and Nandini Sundar (eds) Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi: Permanent Black

4.1.2. Elwin, Verrier 1955, The Religion of an Indian Tribe, Bombay: OUP Chp 11, 15, 16, 17

 4.1.3. Munshi, Indra 2004, „Verrier Elwin and Tribal Development‟ in T.B. Subba and Sujit Som (eds) Between Ethnography and Fiction: Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in India, New Delhi: Orient Longman

5. M.N. Srinivas (Week 9-10)

 5.1.1. Srinivas, M.N. 1996, Indian Anthropologists and the study of Indian Society EPW 31(11) 656-657 5.1.2. Srinivas, M.N. 1971, Social Change in Modern India University of California Press Berkeley Chp 4-5 5.1.3. Srinivas, M. N.1992, On Living in a Revolution and Other Essays, Delhi: OUP Chp 1,2,3,5&7

6. Irawati Karve (Week 11-12)

 6.1.1. Sundar, Nandini 2010 „In the Cause of Anthropology: The Life and Work of Irawati Karve‟ in Patricia Uberoi, Satish Despande and Nandini Sundar (ed) Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology Permanent Black New Delhi

 6.1.2. Karve, Irawati 1965, Kinship Organization in India, Bombay and New York: Asia Publishing House

7. Leela Dube (Week 13-14)

7.1.1. Dube, Leela 1967, Caste, Class and Power: Eastern Anthropologist Lucknow 20(2) 215-225 66

7.1.2. Dube, Leela 2001, Anthropological Explorations in Gender: Intersecting Fields, New Delhi: Sage Chp 3,5 & 6

 Further Readings:

 The following readings may be referred for debates and history of Indian Sociology:

Dhanagare, D.N (1999), Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology, Delhi: Rawat Publications Chp 7

Madan T N 2011, Sociological Traditions: Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India, New Delhi: Sage Uberoi,

 Patricia Despande Satish and Sundar Nandini (ed) 2010, Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi: Permanent Black

The following readings may be referred for student presentations:

 Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1951, The Dynamics of Morals, London: Macmillan & Co Mukerji D.P. (1942 republished 2002),

Modern Indian Culture: A Sociological Study, New Delhi: Rupa & Co. Elwin, Verrier 1952,

Bondo Highlander, Bombay: OUP Karve, Irawati (1969 reprinted 1991),

Yuganta: The end of an epoch, Hyderbad: Disha Books Karve, Irawati 1961, Hindu Society — an interpretation, Pune: Deshmukh Prakashan.

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SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE:  SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS II                       Course No: C-13

Course Code : SOCC- 601                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Objective: To introduce students to post-classical sociological thinking through some original texts.

Unit:1. Talcott Parsons                                                         [class 10+2(tutorial),Marks:]

  • Action Systems

 Unit: 2. Claude Levi‐Strauss                                                  [class 10+2(tutorial),Marks:]

 2.1. Structuralism

 Unit:3. G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman                              [class 10+2(tutorial),Marks:]

 3.1. Interactional Self

 Unit:4. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann                     [class 10+2(tutorial),Marks: ]

 4.1. Social Construction of Reality

 Unit: 5. Max Horkheimar, T.W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse  [class 10+5(tutorial),Marks:]

 5.1. Critical Social Theory

 Unit:6. Pierre Bourdieu                                                              [class 10+2(tutorial),Marks:]

 6.1. A Theory of Practice

 COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

Orientation to Post-Classical Theories/ Schools in Sociology ( Week I )

  1. Talcott Parsons (Weeks 2-3 )

 Parsons, T. and E. Shils (eds). 1951. Towards a General Theory of Action. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, pp. 3‐29

  1. Levi‐Strauss (Week 4 )

 Levi‐Stauss, C. 1993. “Structure and Dialectics”, in Structural Anthropology Volume I. Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 232‐242

3. G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman (Weeks 5-7)

 3.1 Mead, G.H. 1934 (Fourteenth Impression 1967 ) Mind Self and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Part III, pp 135-226

3.2 Goffman, E. 1956. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh (Monograph No. 2), pp. 1‐9, 132‐151, 152‐162

4. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann (Week 8)

Berger, P. L. and T. Luckmann. 1991. The Social Construction of Reality. London: Penguin Books, pp. 31‐62

5. Max Horkheimar, T.W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse (Weeks 9-12)

5.1 Horkheimar. M and Adorno. T.W. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. 2002. Stanford University Press. Stanford: California. pp 1-34. Chapter 1, The Concept of Enlightenment

 5.2 Marcuse, H. 1964. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston: Boston Press, pp. 7‐92

6. Pierre Bourdieu (Weeks 13‐14)

 Bourdieu, P. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 72‐95 [Projects, feature films and documentary screenings will be an integral part of the coursework]

      SUGGESTED READING :

Ritzer, G. 1996. Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw Hill Companies.

 

 

 

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SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH METHODS II                                   Course No: C-14

Course Code : SOCC- 602                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Objective: The course is an introductory course on how research is actually done. With emphasis on formulating research design, methods of data collection, and data analysis, it will provide students with some elementary knowledge on how to conduct both, quantitative and qualitative research.

Unit: 1. Doing Social Research                                         [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 25]

1.1 The Process of Social Research

1.2 Concepts and Hypothesis

1.3 Field (Issues and Context)

Unit:2. Methods of Data Collection                                   [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 15 ]

2.1 Survey Methods: Sampling, Questionnaire and Interview 2.2 Observation: Participant and non-participant

Unit:3. Statistical Methods                                                  [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 20]

3.1 Graphical and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data (Bar diagrams, Pie-diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Smoothed frequency curve and Ogives).

3.2 Measures of Central Tendency (Simple Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode).

3.3 Measures of Dispersion (Standard Deviation, Variance and Covariance).

Unit:4. Research Projects                                                           [Marks:20]

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

 1.1Doing Social Research (Weeks 1-4)

 1.1.1 Bailey, K. (1994). The Research Process in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Pp.3-19.

 1.2 Concepts and Hypothesis

1.2.1 Goode, W. E. and P. K. Hatt. 1952. Methods in Social Research. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 5 and 6. Pp. 41-73.

1.3 Field (Issues and Contexts)

 1.3.1 Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson. 1997. Anthropological Locations. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp.1-46.

 1.3.2 Srinivas, M.N. et al 2002(reprint), The Fieldworker and the Field:Problems and Challenges in Sociological Investigation, New Delhi: OUP, Introduction Pp. 1‐ 14.

2.1 Survey Methods of Data Collection (Weeks 5-9)

2.1.1 Bailey, K. (1994). Survey Sampling in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Ch-5. Pp. 81- 104.

 2.1.2 Bailey, K. (1994). Questionnaire Construction and  The Mailed Questionnaire in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Chs-6 and 7. Pp.105-172.

2.1.3 Bailey, K. (1994). Interview Studies in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Ch8. Pp.173-213.

2.2 Observation : Participant and non-Participant

 2.2.1 Bailey, K. (1994). Observation in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY10020. Ch 10.

                          

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SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY                   Course No: DSE-03A

Course Code: SOCD- 601A                                                                          No of Classes: 75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester: 80                                                      Internal Assessment: 20        

Course Objective: This course is designed to introduce students to the core debates of environmental sociology, different approaches within the sub‐discipline and how these approaches may be used to understand environmental issues and movements in India.

 

Unit: 1. Envisioning Environmental Sociology                   [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 25]

 1.1. What is Environmental Sociology?

 1.2. Realist‐Constructionist Debate.

Unit: 2. Approaches                                                                  [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks:25]

2.1 Treadmill of Production

2.2 Ecological Modernization

2.3 Risk

2.4 Eco feminism and Feminist Environmentalism

2.5 Political Ecology

 Unit: 3. Environmental Movements in India                          [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 30]

3.1 Forest based movement – Chipko

 3.2 Water based movement – Narmada

3.3 Land based movements – Anti‐mining and Seed

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

 1. Envisioning Environmental Sociology [Weeks 1‐3]

 1.1.1. Bell, MM. (2008). An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 3rd ed. Ch 1.( pp. 1‐5).

 1.1.2. Hannigan, J. A. (1995). Environmental Sociology. Routledge, London and New York, 2nd ed. Ch1 and 2. (pp. 10‐15,16 ‐ 35).

 1.2.1. Leahy, T. (2007). Sociology and the Environment.  Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society. Eds. Germov, John and Marilyn, Poole. NSW: Allen & Unwin, Ch 21 (pp. 431‐442).

1.2.2. Evanoff, R. J. (2005). Reconciling realism and constructivism in environmental ethics. Environmental Values, 61‐81.

2. Approaches [Weeks 4‐10]

2.1.1. Gould, K. A., Pellow, D. N., & Schnaiberg, A. (2004). Interrogating the Treadmill of Production: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Treadmill but Were Afraid to Ask. Organization & Environment, 17(3), 296‐316.

2.1.2. Wright, E. O. (2004). Interrogating the Treadmill of Production: Some Questions I Still Want to Know about and Am Not Afraid to Ask. Organization & Environment, 17(3), 317‐322.

2.2.1. Mol, A. P. (2002). Ecological modernization and the global economy. Global Environmental Politics, 2(2), 92‐115.

2.2.2. Buttel, F. H. (2000). Ecological modernization as social theory. Geoforum,31(1), 57‐65.

2.2.3. O’Connor, J. (1994). Is sustainable capitalism possible. Is capitalism sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. The Guilford Press. Ch . (pp.152‐175).

 2.3.1. Beck, U. (2006). Living in the world risk society: A Hobhouse Memorial Public Lecture given on Wednesday 15 February 2006 at the London School of Economics. Economy and Society, 35(3), 329‐ 345.

 2.4.1. Shiva, V. (1988). Women in Nature. In Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Zed Books. Ch 3.(pp.38‐54).

2.4.2. Agarwal, Bina, 2007. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India. In Mahesh Rangarajan. (ed.) 2007. Environmental Issues in I n d i a : A Reader. New Delhi: Pearson, Longman, Ch 19.(pp. 316‐324, 342‐352).

2.5.1. Robbins, P. (2011). Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (Vol. 16). Wiley and Sons ltd. East Sussex, U.K. Ch 1 (pp.10‐25).

 3. Environmental Movements in India [Weeks 11‐14]

 3.1.1. Guha, R. Chipko : Social history of an environmental movement. In Ghanshyam Shah ed.(2002). Social Movements and the State (Vol. 4). Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd., Ch. 16 (pp.423‐454).

3.2.1. Khagram, S., Riker, J. V., & Sikkink, K. (2002).Restructuring the global politics of development: The Case of India’s Narmada Valley Dams. Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms (Vol. 14). U of Minnesota Press. (pp.206‐30).

3.3.1. Padel, F., & Das, S. (2008). Orissa's highland clearances: The reality gap in R & R. Social Change, 38(4), 576‐608.

 3.3.2. Scoones, I. (2008). Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil. Journal of Agrarian Change, 8(2‐3), 315‐344. [Projects, feature films and documentary screenings and field visits will be will be undertaken by students through the course]

 SUGGESTED READINGS

Students will not be examined on the suggested readings but may use them for projects, and presentations that will be woven into the course.

Guha, R., & Alier, J. M. (1998). The environmentalism of the poor. In Varieties ofenvironmentalism: Essays North and South. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Osofsky, H. M. (2003).

 Defining Sustainable Development after Earth Summit 2002. Loy. LA Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., 26, 111. Baviskar, A. (1999). In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. Oxford University Press.

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SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE Course No: DSE-04B

Course Code: SOCD- 602B                                                                         No of Classes: 75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester: 80                                                      Internal Assessment: 20        

Objectives: The course introduces students to the sociology of health, illness and medical practice by highlighting the significance of socio-cultural dimensions in the construction of illness and medical knowledge. Theoretical perspectives examine the dynamics shaping these constructions. Negotiations of health and illness are explored through ethnographies.

Unit: 1. Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Medicine [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 30]

 1.1 Origins and Development

 1.2 Conceptualising Disease, Sickness and Illness

 1.3 Social and Cultural Dimensions of Illness and Medicine

Unit: 2. Theoretical Orientations in Health and Illness                   [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 25]

2.1 Political Economy

2.2 Systems Approach

2.3 Discourse and Power

 2.4 Feminist Approach

 Unit: 3. Negotiating Health and Illness                                           [class 20+5(tutorial),Marks: 25]

3.1 Medical Practices

 3.2 Health Policy in India

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

1. Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Medicine (Week 1-4)

 1.1 Turner, Bryan, S. (1995) Medical Power and Social Knowledge. London, Sage, Chapters 1 and 2 and 3. Pages (1-54).

 1.2 Boorse, Christopher (1999) On the distinction between Disease and Illness. In (eds.) James Lindermann Nelson and Hilde Lindermann Nelson, Meaning and Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Healthcare, New York: Routledge. (Pages 16-27)

 1.3 Kleinman, Arthur (1988) The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition. New York : Basic Books Inc. Publishers. Chapter 1. (Pages 3-30).

1.4 Fruend, Peter E.S., McGuire, Meredith B. and Podthurst, Linda S. (2003) Health, Illness and the Social Body, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Chapter 9 (Pages 195-223)

2. Theoretical Orientations in Health and Illness (Week 5-10)

2.1 Morgan, Lynn. Morgan (1987) Dependency Theory and the Political Economy of Health: An Anthropological Critique. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series, Vol.1, No.2 ( June, 1987) pp. 131-154.

2.2 Talcott Parsons (1951) The Social System, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Chapter 10, (Pages 428-479). 61

2.3 Foucault, Michel (1994) The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, New York: Vintage Books. Chapter1 and Conclusion. (Pages 3-20 and 194-199).

2.4 Turner, Bryan, S. (1995) Medical Power and Social Knowledge, London: Sage. Chapter 5. (Pages.86-108).

2.5 Patel, Tulsi (2012) Global Standards in Childbirth Practices. In (eds.) V. Sujatha and Leena Abraham Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. (Pages 232-254 ).

3. Negotiating Health and Illness (Week 11-14)

3.1 Evans- Pritchard, E.E. (2010) The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events. In (eds.) Byron J.Good, Micheal M. J. Fischer, Sarah S. Willen and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories , Emergent Realities, Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell, Chapter2 (Pages 18-25).

3.2 Baer, Hans A., Singer, Merrill and Susser, Ida (1994) Medical Anthropology and the World System, Westport: Praeger. Chapters 10 and 11 (Pages 307-348)

3.3 Gould, Harold A. (I965) Modern Medicine and Folk Cognition in Rural India in Human Organization, No. 24. pp. 201- 208.

 3.4 Leslie, Charles (1976) Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, London: University of California Press, Introduction. (Pages 1-12) .

3.5 Inhorn, Marcia (2000). Defining Women’s health: Lessons from a Dozen Ethnographies, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 20(3): 345-378. 62

3.6 Nichter, Mark and Mimi Nichter (1996) Popular Perceptions of Medicine: A South Indian Case Study. In Anthropology and International Health. Amsterdam : OPA. Chapter7 (Pages 203-237)

3.7 Das, Veena, R.K. Das and Lester Coutinho (2000) Disease Control and Immunization: A Sociological Enquiry. In Economic and Political Weekly, Feb. 19-26. Pages 625-632.

3.8 Qadeer, Imrana (2011) Public Health In India, Delhi: Danish Publishers, Part III, (Pages 221-252).

Suggested Reading:

Good, Byron (1994) Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 6. (Pages 135- 165).

Annandale, Ellen (1988) The Sociology of Health and Medicine. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Banerji, Debabar (1984) The Political Economy of Western Medicine in Third World Countries. In (ed.) John McKinlay Issues in the Political Economy of Healthcare. New York: Tavistock.

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SYLLABUS OF GENERIC ELECTIVE

 

 

SEMESTER:  I

COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY                   Course No: GE-01

Course Code : SOCG- 101                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

 

 

Course Objective: The mandate of the course is to introduce the discipline to the students from diverse trainings and capabilities. The course is indented to introduce the students to a Sociological way of thinking. It also provides a Foundation for the other more detailed and specialized courses in sociology. 

Unit I: Emergence of Sociology; Thinking Sociologically; Relationship of Sociology with Social Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science and History.    (Lecture 20, Mark:20)

Unit II: Basic Concepts: Individual and Group, Association and Institution, Culture and Society, Social Change.                                                                        (Lecture 20, Mark:20)

Unit III: Functionalism: Durkheim and R. Brown.                            (Lecture 12, Mark:14)

Unit IV: Conflict Perspective: Karl Marx, Dahrendorfand Lewis Coser.

                                                                                                            (Lecture 12, Mark:14)

Unit V: Interationalism: G.S Mead, Blumer.                         (Lecture 11, Mark:12)

Essential Readings:Johnson, AllanG.2008,The Forest and the Tress: Sociology as Life Practice and Promise, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Beteille, Andre,2009, Sociology: Essays in Approach and Method, Delhi Oxford University Press.

Ritzer, George,1996, Classical Sociological Theory, New York: McGrow Hill, Chapter 1, A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory- The Early Years,’ Pp 13-46.

MacIver, Robert M, and Charles Hunt Page.1949. Society, New York: Rinehart. Chapter 10, ‘Types of Social Groups’, Pp. 213-237.

Horton, Paul B., Chester L. Hunt.2004, Sociology. New delhi: Tata Mc Grow- Hill, Chapter 8, Pp.185-2

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SEMESTER:  II

COURSE TITLE: GENDER AND VIOLENCE                                 Course No: GE-02

Course Code : SOCG- 201                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20       

Course Objective: Gendered violence is routine and spectacular, structural as well as situated. This course attempts to provide an understanding of the logic of that violence, awareness of its most common forms and tries to equip the students with a Sociologically informed basis for making pragmatic, ethical and effective choices while resisting or intervening in the context of gendered violence.      

Unit I:  Conceptual Understanding of Gender                      (Lecture 21, Mark: 20)

1.1 Gender Role.

1.2 Gender Socialisation

1.3 Sex and Gender.

Unit II. Patriarchy                                                                  (Lecture 21, Mark: 20)

2.1 Meaning

2.2 Sexual Division of Labour

2.3 Gender theory and Perspective

Unit III. Sexual Violence                                                       (Lecture 15, Mark: 20)

Unit IV. Gender and Justice: Policies for gender equality.    (Lecture 18, Mark: 20)

 

 

Essential Readings:

  1. Kimmel, Michael S. The Gendered Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Chapter 13. Gender of Violence, Pp. 381-407
  2. Chakravati Uma
  3. Karlekar, Malavika. Domestic Violence, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, No. 27 (Jul. 4-10, 1998), pp. 1741-1751
  4. Menon, Nivedita. Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics beyond the Law. Ranikhet: Permanent Black. 2004. Chapter 3. Sexual Violence: Escaping the Body. Pp. 106 - 156
  5. Omvedt, Gail, Violence Against Women: New Movements and New Theories in India. Delhi: Kali for Women, 1990. Pp. 1-40
  6. Das, Veena& Kim TurcotDiFruscia. Listening to Voices: An Interview with Veena Das, Altérités, vol. 7, no 1, 2010 : 136-145.
  7. Naquvi, Farah. This Thing called Justice: Engaging Laws on Violence against Women In India, in Bishakha Dutta (ed.), Nine Degrees of Justice: New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India. Delhi: Zuban, 2010.
  8. Rege, Sharmila (ed.): Sociology of Gender: The Challenges of Feminist Sociological Thought. Sage pub. 2004.
  9. Saikia, J.P : Gender : Themes and Issues, Ajanta Prakashan, New Delhi,2014.

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SEMESTER:  III

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT            Course No: GE-03

Course Code: SOCG- 301                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits: 06

Marks: 100     End Semester: 80                                                       Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective: This course looks at social movements from a sociological perspective. It introduces the contexts and concepts of social movements and attempts to theoretically locate them through concrete case studies.

Unit I: Social Movement: Meaning and types, Reasons or consideration for launching movement : Peasant  Movement and Tribal Movement.                  (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit II: Theories of Social Movement: Relative Deprivation, Resource Mobilisation Theory, Collective Behaviour Theory.                                                                        (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit III: Ideology, Participation and Mobilisation: Case Studies: Ethnic Movement for self -determination, Naga Movement, Mizo Movement, Bodo Movement, Gorkhaland Movement.

                                                                                                            (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit IV: Contemporary Social Movement: Environmental, Human Rights Movement, Women’s Movement.                                                                               (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit V: Movement for assertion of identity, Dalit Movement, OBC Movement.

                                                                                                            (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Essential Readings:

Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani, 2006. Social Movements: An introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.pp.1-29

Ghanashyam Das: Social Movement

Crossley, Nick.2009. Making Sense of Social Movements. Jaipur: Rawat Publication.

McCarthy, John. D and Mayer, N. Zald. 1977. Resource Mobilisation and Social Movements: A Partial Theory. American Journal of Sociology.82(6)

Pichardo Nelson A.1997. “ New Social Movements: A Critical Review,” Annual Review of Sociology, 23

Omvedt, Gail.2005. “Farmer’s Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India”. In Raka Ray and FainsodKatzenstein, eds, Social Movements in India Poverty, Power and Politics. London: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Hardtman, Eva – Maria.2009. “Dalit Activities in Lucknow: Buddhism and Party Politics in Local Pracice.” In Eva- Maria, Hardtman, The Dalit Movement in India: Local Practices, Global Connections. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

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SEMESTER:  IV

COURSE TITLE:  RE-THINKING DEVELOPMENT                  Course No: GE-04

Course Code : SOCG- 401                                                                         No of Classes:75

Credits:06

Marks: 100     End Semester:80                                                        Internal Assessment:20        

Course Objective: This paper examines the ideas of development from a sociological perspective. It introduces students to different approaches to understanding development and traces the trajectory of Indian experience with development from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Unit I:Undertaking Development: Understanding Development; Underdevelopment and      Development and Changing Conception of development: Economic Growth, Industrial development;   Ecological Development, Human Development, Post Development, Alternative Development.                                                                       (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit II:  Theorizing Development: Dependency Theory; World System Theory; Modernisation Theory; Women ,Gender and Development; Capitalism and Post- Colonial Capitalism.

                                                                                                           (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit III:  Development Regimes in India: Mixed Economy; Economic Liberalisation and Globalisation; Democracy in the new economy in India; India and World Economy.

           (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit IV: Issues in developmental Praxis:  Development and induced displacement; economic growth and development of masses; Gender sensitive development and policies in India.

                                                                                                            (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

Unit V: Planning and Development in India: Meaning and objectives of planning in India; Five years plans in India  (up to 12th Five year plan) and new mechanism for transformation of economy India (NITI Aayog)                                                          (Lecture 15, Mark:16)

 

Essential Readings:

Bardhan, Pranab. The Political Economy of Development in India. Delhi: Oxford, 1992.

Bernstein, Henry. Underdevelopment and Development. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. Introduction: Development and the Social Sciences.

Borthakur, B.N

Rist, Gilbert. The History Development. London: Zed.2008.

Harrison, David. The Sociology of Modernisation and Development. London: Routledge, 1991.

Lerner

Sanyal. Kalyan. 2007. Rethinking Capitalist Development: Priapitalism. New Delhimitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post- Colonial

Sharma, Aradhana. Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender and Governence in Neoliberal India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,2008.

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