Undergraduate

 

Courses and Programmes offered:

    . B.A (Under NEP 2020) 

    . Integrated M.A 

Duration of Courses:

   . B.A: 4 years( 8 semesters under NEP 2020)

Intake Capacity:

    . B.A : 60 seats

    . B.A(Minor): 60 seats

 

 Structure of the existing syllabus:

                                        

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

JAGANNATH BAROOAH COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), JORHAT, ASSAM

PROPOSED SYLLABUS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

(UNDER NEW EDUCATION POLICY-2020)

Distribution of credit

(As per the curriculum and credit framework for undergraduate programmes of UGC, published on Dec, 2022)

 

Semester 

Major

Minor

Multi Disciplinary

AEC

SEC

VAC

Intern

Dissertation/Thesis

Total Credit

I

4

4

3

4

3

2+2

 

 

22

II

4

4

3

4

3

2+2

 

 

22

III

4+4+4

4

3

 

3

 

 

 

22

IV

4+4+4+4

4

 

 

 

 

2

 

22

V

4+4+4+4

4

 

 

 

 

2

 

22

VI

4+4+4+4+2

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

22

VII

4+4+4+4

4

 

 

 

 

 

2

22

VIII

4+4

4

 

 

 

 

 

10

22

Total

94

32

09

8

9

8

4

12

176

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Semester

Major Courses (4credits per paper)

Minor

Multi –Discipline (3 credits per paper)

Skill Enhancement Course (3 credits)

I

Major (core 1)

Introduction to Sociology -I

Introduction to Sociology -I

Understanding Sociology

Public Opinion and Survey Method

 (SOCSK-011)

II

Major (core 2)

Sociology of India-I

Sociology of India-I

Understanding Sociology

Fundamentals of Social Statistics

(SOCSK-021)

III

Major (Core 3)

Sociological Thinkers -I

Gender and Violence

Understanding Sociology

Public Opinion and Survey Method

 (SOCSK-031)

Major (Core 4)

Sociology of India- II

Major (Core 5)

Political Sociology

IV

Major (Core 6)

Sociology of Kinship and Family

Sociology of Social Movements

   

Major (Core 7)

Sociology of Gender

Major (Core 8)

Social Stratification

Major (Core 9)

Sociology of Religion

V

Major (Core 10)

Sociological Research Methods- I

Economic Sociology

   

Major (Core 11)

Sociology of North-East India

Major (Core 12)

Environmental Sociology

Major (Core 13)

Sociology of Development

VI

Major Core 14)

Urban Sociology

Indian Sociological Tradition

   

Major (Core 15)

Population and Society

Major (Core 16)

Research Methods-II

Major (Core 17)

Tribal Society of India

Major (Core 18)

Sociology of Health and Medicine

VII

Major (Core 19)

Rural Sociology

Sociology of Governance

   

Major (Core 20)

Industrial Sociology

Major (Core 21)

Sociology of Education

Major (Core 22)

Criminology

VIII

Major (Core 23)

Sociology of Globalization

Sociology of Mass Media

   

Major (Core 24)

Sociology of Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detailed Syllabi for Core Courses

 

SEMESTER: I

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

Course Code: SOCMJ- 011                                                            No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                          Internal Assessment:30        

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: As discipline

1.1 Thinking Sociologically

1.2 Emergence of Sociology

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

14

12

03

Unit no 2. Sociology and Other Social Sciences

2.1 Sociology and Social Anthropology

         2.2 Sociology & History

2.3 Sociology & Economics

2.4 Sociology & Political Science

14

12

03

it no 3. Basic Concepts

3.1 Individual and Group:

Primary, Secondary, In Group, Out Group, Reference Group, Peer Group, Clique.

3.2 Associations and Institutions

14

12

03

Unit no 4: Culture and Society

4.2: Meaning of culture,

4.3 Dimensions of Culture, Types,

4.4 Cultural lag.

14

12

03

Unit no 5: Social Change:

5.1 Meaning of Social Change

5.2 Patterns of social change

 

 

14

12

03

Textbook:

  • Haralambos, M., & Holborn, M. (2013). Sociology Themes and Perspectives. HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

References:

  • Mills, C. W. (1959). The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press.
  • Johnson, A. G. (2008). The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life Practice and Promise (pp. 1-36). Temple University Press.
  • Beteille, A. (2009). Sociology: Essays in Approach and Method (pp. 13-27). Oxford University Press.
  • Garner, J. F. (1994). Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
  • Giddens, A. (2009). Sociology (6th ed.). Polity Press.
  • Ritzer, G. (1996). Classical Sociological Theory (pp. 13-46). McGraw-Hill.
  • Béteille, A. (1985). Six Essays in Comparative Sociology (pp. 1-20). Oxford University Press.
  • Beteille, A. (2002). Sociology: Essays in Approach & Method (pp. 28-54). Oxford University Press.
  • Bottomore, T. B. (1971). Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature (pp. 65-80). Allen and Unwin.
  • Beattie, J. (1966). Other Cultures (pp. 25-29). R.K.P.
  • Burke, P. (1980). Sociology and History (pp. 13-30). George Allen and Unwin.
  • MacIver, R. M., & Page, C. H. (1949). Society (pp. 213-237). Rinehart.
  • Horton, P. B., & Hunt, C. L. (2004). Sociology (pp. 185-209). Tata McGraw-Hill.
  • Horton, P. B., & Hunt, C. L. (2004). Sociology (pp. 210-229). Tata McGraw-Hill.
  • Firth, R. (1956). Human Types (pp. 71-97). Thomas Nelson & Sons.
  • Bierstedt, R. (1974). The Social Order (pp. 125-187). McGraw-Hill Book Company.
  • Ritzer, G. (2004). The McDonaldisation of Society (pp. 1-20, 21-39, 167-199). Pine Forge Press.

Edited Book Chapter:

  • Redfield, R. (1956). How human society operates (pp. 345-368). In H. L. Shapiro (Ed.), Man, Culture, and Society. Oxford University Press.

 

***************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: I

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

Course Code: SOCMI- 011                                                           No of Classes: 60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                      Internal Assessment: 30        

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: As discipline

1.1 Thinking Sociologically

1.2 Emergence of Sociology

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

14

12

03

Unit no 2. Sociology and Other Social Sciences

2.1 Sociology and Social Anthropology

2.2 Sociology & History

2.3 Sociology & Economics

2.4 Sociology & Political Science

14

12

03

Unit no 3. Basic Concepts

3.1 Individual and Group:

Primary, Secondary, In Group, Out Group, Reference Group, Peer Group, Clique.

3.2 Associations and Institutions

14

12

03

Unit no 4: Culture and Society

4.2: Meaning of culture,

4.3 Dimensions of Culture, Types,

4.4 Cultural lag.

14

12

03

Unit no 5: Social Change:

5.1 Meaning of Social Change

5.2 Patterns of social change

 

 

14

12

03

 

Textbook(s):

  • Haralambos, M., & Holborn, M. (2013). Sociology Themes and Perspectives. HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

References:

  • Mills, C. W. (1959). The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press.
  • Johnson, A. G. (2008). The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life Practice and Promise (pp. 1-36). Temple University Press.
  • Beteille, A. (2009). Sociology: Essays in Approach and Method (pp. 13-27). Oxford University Press.
  • Garner, J. F. (1994). Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
  • Giddens, A. (2009). Sociology (6th ed.). Polity Press.
  • Ritzer, G. (1996). Classical Sociological Theory (pp. 13-46). McGraw-Hill.
  • Béteille, A. (1985). Six Essays in Comparative Sociology (pp. 1-20). Oxford University Press.
  • Beteille, A. (2002). Sociology: Essays in Approach & Method (pp. 28-54). Oxford University Press.
  • Bottomore, T. B. (1971). Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature (pp. 65-80). Allen and Unwin.
  • Beattie, J. (1966). Other Cultures (pp. 25-29). R.K.P.
  • Burke, P. (1980). Sociology and History (pp. 13-30). George Allen and Unwin.
  • MacIver, R. M., & Page, C. H. (1949). Society (pp. 213-237). Rinehart.
  • Horton, P. B., & Hunt, C. L. (2004). Sociology (pp. 185-209). Tata McGraw-Hill.
  • Horton, P. B., & Hunt, C. L. (2004). Sociology (pp. 210-229). Tata McGraw-Hill.
  • Firth, R. (1956). Human Types (pp. 71-97). Thomas Nelson & Sons.
  • Bierstedt, R. (1974). The Social Order (pp. 125-187). McGraw-Hill Book Company.
  • Ritzer, G. (2004). The McDonaldisation of Society (pp. 1-20, 21-39, 167-199). Pine Forge Press.

Edited Book Chapter:

Redfield, R. (1956). How human society operates (pp. 345-368). In H. L. Shapiro (Ed.), Man, Culture, and Society. Oxford University Press

*******************************

 

 

SEMESTER: II

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

Course Code: SOCMJ- 021                                                           No of Classes: 60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                       Internal Assessment:30        

 

 

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.

1.      Perspective to Study India Society

1.1 Colonial Perspective

 1.2 Indological Perspective

1.3 Functional Perspective

1.4 Marxist Perspective

1.5 Subaltern Perspective

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

  2. Caste: Concept and Critique

 2.1 Caste system in India

2.2 Changes in the Caste System: Sanskritization, Reform Movement

2.3 Critique of Caste system.

18

15

04

3. Village, Region and Civilization          

 3.1 Village: Structure and Change  

3.2  Village and its relationship with wider Region and Civilization

3.3  Agrarian Class Structure

17

15

04

4. Tribes in India

4.1  Meaning and definition

4.2  Profile and Location

4.3  Transformation of Indian Tribes

17

15

03

 

                                                      

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Das, V. (Ed.). (2004). Handbook of Indian sociology (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • Patel, S. (2011). Doing sociology in India: Genealogies, locations, and practices (Introduction, Selected Chapters). Oxford University Press.

References:

  • Cohn, B. S. (1990). An anthropologist among the historians and other essays. Oxford University Press.
  • Desai, A. R. (2009). Social background of Indian nationalism (Preface, Prologue & Epilogue). Popular Prakashan.
  • Ambedkar, B. R. (2002). Castes in India: Their mechanism, genesis and development. In V. Rodrigues (Ed.), The essential writings of B.R. Ambedkar (pp. 1-27). Oxford University Press.
  • Guha, R. (1982). Subaltern studies (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press.
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1970). Caste in modern India and other essays. Asia Publishing House. [Reprinted edition]
  • 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 (pp. 1-63). Permanent Black.
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1969). The caste system in India. In A. Béteille (Ed.), Social inequality: Selected readings (pp. 265-272). Penguin Books.
  • Mencher, J. (1991). The caste system upside down. In D. Gupta (Ed.), Social stratification (pp. 93-109). Oxford University Press.
  • Dhanagare, D. N. (1991). The model of agrarian classes in India. In D. Gupta (Ed.), Social stratification (pp. 271-275). Oxford University Press.
  • Srinivas, M. N., & Shah, A. M. (1960, September 10). The myth of self-sufficiency of the Indian village. Economic and Political Weekly, 12(37).
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1987). The dominant caste and other essays. In The dominant caste and other essays (pp. 20-59). Oxford University Press.

Journal Article:

  • Xaxa, V. (1999). Transformations of tribe in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 34(24), 1519-1524.

 

*************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: II

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

Course Code: SOCMI- 021                                                            No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                       Internal Assessment:30        

 

 

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.

 

1.Perspective to Study India Society

1.1 Colonial Perspective

 1.2 Indological Perspective

1.3 Functional Perspective

1.4 Marxist Perspective

1.5 Subaltern Perspective

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

2. Caste: Concept and Critique

 2.1 Caste system in India

2.2 Changes in the Caste System: Sanskritization, Reform Movement

2.3 Critique of Caste system.

18

15

04

3. Village, Region and Civilization          

3.1  Village: Structure and Change 

      3.2 Village and its relationship with wider Region and Civilization

        3.3Agrarian Class Structure

 

17

15

04

4. Tribes in India

4.1Meaning and definition

      4.2 Profile and Location

      4.3 transformation of Indian Tribes   

17

15

03

 

Textbook(s)

  • Das, V. (Ed.). (2004). Handbook of Indian sociology (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • Patel, S. (2011). Doing sociology in India: Genealogies, locations, and practices (Introduction, Selected Chapters). Oxford University Press.

References:

  • Cohn, B. S. (1990). An anthropologist among the historians and other essays. Oxford University Press.
  • Desai, A. R. (2009). Social background of Indian nationalism (Preface, Prologue & Epilogue). Popular Prakashan.
  • Ambedkar, B. R. (2002). Castes in India: Their mechanism, genesis and development. In V. Rodrigues (Ed.), The essential writings of B.R. Ambedkar (pp. 1-27). Oxford University Press.
  • Guha, R. (1982). Subaltern studies (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press.
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1970). Caste in modern India and other essays. Asia Publishing House. [Reprinted edition]
  • 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 (pp. 1-63). Permanent Black.
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1969). The caste system in India. In A. Béteille (Ed.), Social inequality: Selected readings (pp. 265-272). Penguin Books.
  • Mencher, J. (1991). The caste system upside down. In D. Gupta (Ed.), Social stratification (pp. 93-109). Oxford University Press.
  • Dhanagare, D. N. (1991). The model of agrarian classes in India. In D. Gupta (Ed.), Social stratification (pp. 271-275). Oxford University Press.
  • Srinivas, M. N., & Shah, A. M. (1960, September 10). The myth of self-sufficiency of the Indian village. Economic and Political Weekly, 12(37).
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1987). The dominant caste and other essays. In The dominant caste and other essays (pp. 20-59). Oxford University Press.

Journal Article:

  • Xaxa, V. (1999). Transformations of tribe in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 34(24), 1519-1524.

 

*************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: III

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT-I                    Course No: C-03

Course Code: SOCMJ- 031                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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

1.1. Materialist Conception of History

1.2. Capitalist Mode of Production

1.3 Classless Society.

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

25

20

05

Unit:2. Max Weber

2.1. Social Action and Ideal Types

2.2. Religion and Economy

2.3 Bureaucracy and Authority

20

20

05

Unit:3. Emile Durkheim

3.1. Social Fact

3.2. Division of Labour

3.3 The Functional Explanation of Religion

25

       20

    05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Aron, Raymond. (1998) Main Currents in Sociological Thought, Vol. I. &2.New York: Routledge.
  • Giddens, A. (1994), Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

References:

  • Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1969). Selected Works (Vol. 1, pp. 13-15, 16-80, 98-106, 142-174, 502-506). Progress Publishers.
  • Poggi, G. (2006). Weber (pp. 1-16). Polity.
  • Weber, M. (1947). The theory of social and economic organization (pp. 87-123). The Free Press.
  • Weber, M. (2002). The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (Translated by S. Kalberg) (pp. 3-54, 103-126, Chapters I, II, III, IV & V). Blackwell Publishers.
  • Gane, M. (1992). The radical sociology of Durkheim and Mauss (pp. 1-10). Routledge.
  • Durkheim, E. (1958). The rules of sociological method (pp. 48-107, 119-144). The Free Press.
  • Durkheim, E. (2001). The elementary forms of religious life (Translated by C. Cosman). Oxford University Press.
  • Giddens, A., & Turner, J. H. (Eds.). (1988). Social theory today. Stanford University Press.
  • Ritzer, G. (1996). Sociological theory. McGraw-Hill Companies.
  • Giddens, A. (1971). Capitalism and modern social theory: An analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber (Cambridge University Press).

                                                     

*************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: III               

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

Course Code: SOCMJ- 032                                                            No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30      

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. 

 1. Ideas of India        

1.1. Swaraj: Gandhi and Aurobindo

1.2 Ideas on Nationalism: Tagore and Nehru

1.3. Emancipation of Marginalized: Ambedkar

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

25

20

05

2. Resistance, Mobilization, Change                                                                                       

2.1.  Dalit Politics: Dalit Identity, Marginalization and Resistance

2.2.  Peasant Movements: Peasant Movements before and after Independence

2.3.  Women ‘s Movement

25

20

     05

3. Challenges to Civilization, State and Society

3.1.  Communalism: Religion and Politics in India

3.2. Sub-Nationalist Assertion

3.3 Casteism, Racism, Terrorism

     20

     20

      05

 

Textbook(s)

  • Ghosh, B. (2020). Social movements: Concepts, experiences and concerns. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-93-532-8739-9
  • Shah, G. (2002). Social movements and the state. Sage Publications.

Rao, M. S. A. (1979). Social movements in India. Manohar

References:

  • Gandhi, M. K. Hind Swaraj. Navajibon Publishing House.
  • Ambedkar, B. R. (1971). Annihilation of Caste [1936 reprint]. Jullunder: Bheem Patrika.
  • Uberoi, P., et al. (2007). Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology (pp. 1-63). Permanent Black.
  • Dumont, L., & Pocock, D. (1957). For a sociology of India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1, 7-22.
  • Shah, G. (2001). Dalit identity and politics (pp. 17-43). Sage Publications.
  • Menon, N. (Ed.). (1999). Gender and politics in India (pp. 342-369). Oxford University Press.
  • Dhanagare, D. N. (1983). Peasant movements in India 1920-1950. Oxford University Press.
  • Pouchepadass, J. (1980). Peasant classes in twentieth century agrarian movements in India. In E. Hobsbawm (Ed.), Peasants in history (pp. 136-155). Oxford University Press.
  • Baruah, S. (2010). The Assam Movement. In T. K. Oommen (Ed.), Social movements I: Issues of identity (pp. 191-208). Oxford University Press.
  • Deshpande, S. (2003). Contemporary India: A sociological view (pp. 125-150). Penguin Books.
  • Dumont, L. (1997). Religion, politics and history in India (pp. 89-110). Mouton.
  • Madan, T. N. (1997). Modern myths, locked minds (pp. 233-265). Oxford University Press.
  • Oommen, T. K. (1997). Citizenship and national identity: From colonialism to globalism (pp. 143-172). Sage Publications.
  • Desai, A. R. (2017). Social background of Indian nationalism.
  • Rege, S. (1998, November 14). Dalit women talk differently: A critique of 'difference' and towards a Dalit feminist. Economic and Political Weekly, 33(44), WS39-WS46.
  • Srinivas, M. N. (1956). A note on Sanskritization and Westernization. The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4), 481-496.
  • Karna, M. N. (1999). Language, region and national identity. Sociological Bulletin, 48(1/2), 75-96.

 

                            **************************

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: III               

COURSE TITLE: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY                           Course No: C-05

Course Code: SOCMJ- 033                                                            No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30      

 

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: 

1.1  Relationship between Politics and Society

1.2Meaning, Nature and Scope of Political Sociology

1.3 Evolution of Political Sociology 

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit 2. Power, Authority and Legitimacy

2.1  Power and Authority (Max Weber)

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

2.3  Legitimacy and hegemony (Gramsci and Althusser)

18

15

04

Unit 3. State, Governance and Citizenship

3.1 State: Concept and Nature

3.2 Governance: Meaning and Issues.

3.3 Citizenship: Definition, Origin and Evolution.

 

17

15

04

Unit 4. Everyday State, Local Structures of Power

4.1 Panchayati Raj

4.2 Autonomous Council

4.3 Development Council

17

15

04

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Kaviraj, S. (1997). Politics in India. Oxford University Press.

References:

  • Eisenstadt, S. N. (1971). General introduction: The scope and development of political sociology. In S. N. Eisenstadt (Ed.), Political sociology: A reader (pp. 3-24). Basic Books.
  • Lewellen, T. C. (2003). The development of political anthropology. In T. C. Lewellen (Ed.), Political anthropology: An introduction (3rd ed., pp. 1-14). Praeger.
  • Weber, M. (1978). Economy and society: An outline of interpretative sociology (pp. 53-54, 941-954, 212-230, 241-254). University of California Press.
  • Lukes, S. (2005). Power: A radical view (2nd ed., pp. 14-49). Palgrave.
  • Bottomore, T. B. (1993). Elites and society (2nd ed., pp. 15-34). Routledge.
  • Finer, S. E. (Ed., & Mirfin, D., Trans.). (1966). Vilfredo Pareto, sociological writings (pp. 15-80). Pall Mall Press Ltd.
  • Fortes, M., & Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Eds.). (1940). African political systems (Chapter 8). Oxford University Press.
  • Nash, K. (2009). Contemporary political sociology. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Mitchell, T. (2006). Society, economy, and the state effect. In A. Sharma & A. Gupta (Eds.), The anthropology of the state: A reader (pp. 169-185). Blackwell.
  • Burchell, G., et al. (Eds.). (1991). The Foucault effect: Studies in governmentality (Chapter 1, pp. 1-51). The University of Chicago Press.
  • Marshall, T. H. (1950). Citizenship and social class and other essays (pp. 10-27). In T. H. Marshall & T. Bottomore (Eds.), Citizenship and social class (pp. 1-79). Cambridge University Press. (Note: Updated reference to include series editor)
  • Tilly, C. (1999). Where do rights come from? In T. Skocpol (Ed.), Democracy, revolution, and history (pp. 55-72). Cornell University Press.
  • Mills, C. W. (1956). The power elite (New ed., pp. 269-297). Oxford University Press.
  • Pierre, J., & Peters, B. G. (2000). Governance, politics and the state. Macmillan Education UK.
  • Fuller, C. J., & Benei, V. (2000). The everyday state and society in modern India (pp. 1-30). Social Science Press.
  • Swartz, M. J. (1968). Local level politics: Social and cultural perspectives (pp. 281-294). University of California Press.
  • Shukry, P., & Kostiner, J. (Eds.). (1990). Tribes and state formation in the Middle East (pp. 48-71). University of California Press.
  • Bates, T. R. (1975). Gramsci and the theory of hegemony. Journal of the History of Ideas, 36(2), 351-366.

***************************************

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER:  III

COURSE TITLE: GENDER AND VIOLENCE                         Course No: 03

Course Code: SOCMI- 031                                                            No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30       

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:  Understanding of Gender       

       1.1 Sex and Gender.       

1.2 Patriarchy, Gender Socialisation and Gender Role.

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit II. Conceptualizing Gendered Violence              2.1 Meaning

2.2 Body as a Gendered Construct

18

15

04

Unit III. Gender and Violence: Causes and Consequences

 3.1 State

 3.2 Family

 3.3 Community  

17

15

04

Unit IV. Gender and Justice:

        4.1 Movement for gender Equality

 4.2 Legal Protection against Gender Violence.

17

15

04

           

Textbook(s)

  • Stevi, J., and Scott, S. (2002). Gender: A Sociological Reader, London: Routledge.

References:

  • Kimmel, M. S. (2011). The gendered society (Chapter 13: Gender of Violence, pp. 381-407). Oxford University Press.
  • Menon, N. (2004). Recovering subversion: Feminist politics beyond the law (Chapter 3: Sexual Violence: Escaping the Body, pp. 106-156). Permanent Black.
  • Omvedt, G. (1990). Violence against women: New movements and new theories in India (pp. 1-40). Kali for Women.
  • Karlekar, M. (1998, July 4-10). Domestic violence. Economic and Political Weekly, 33(27), 1741-1751.
  • Rege, S. (1998, November 14). Dalit women talk differently: A critique of 'difference' and towards a Dalit feminist. Economic and Political Weekly, 33(44), WS39-WS46.
  • Das, V., & Turcot, DiFruscia, K. (2010). Listening to voices: An interview with Veena Das. Altérités, 7(1), 136-145.
  • Naquvi, F. (2010). This thing called justice: Engaging laws on violence against women in India. In B. Dutta (Ed.), Nine degrees of justice: New perspectives on violence against women in India. Zuban.
  • Rege, S. (Ed.). (2004). Sociology of gender: The challenges of feminist sociological thought. Sage Publications.

 

                                          

*************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF KINSHIP AND FAMILY Course No: 06

Course Code: SOCMJ- 041                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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:

 

Unit 1. Introduction:                                         

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

1.2 Approaches of Sociology of Kinship: Descent, Alliance, Cultural

Marks

Lecture

 

Tutorial

 

18

15

04

Unit 2. Family, Household and Marriage  

2.1. Types of Family and changes                      

2.2. Difference Between family and Household                      

2.3. Types of marriage

18

15

04

Unit 3. Indian kinship system       

3.1 Kinship organisation in India

3.2 Dravidian Kinship system

3.3. Assamese kinship system

17

15

04

Unit 4. Emerging Trends

4.1 New Reproductive Technologies

4.2 Types of New Reproductive techniques

4.3 Social implications of New Reproductive Techniques on the family system

17

15

03

         

Textbook(s)

  • Uberoi, P. (1997). Family, kinship and marriage in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Fox, Robin : Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological perspective

 

References:

  • 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 Spottiswood, Chapters 1 & 2, Pp. 3-25
  • Dumont, L., 1968, ‗Marriage Alliance ‘, in D. Shills (ed.), International Encyclopaedia 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]
  • 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
  • Karve, Irawati (1953), Kinship Organization In India Irawati Karve 2nd Edition, India Social Anthropology Kinship.
  • Trautmann, T.R. (1981). Dravidian kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Cantlie, Audrey (2017); Caste and Sect in an Assamese Village, Published by ProQuest LLC, (Chapter 2) pp- 33-60
  • Weston, Kath, 1991, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, New York: Columbia University Press, Pp. 103-136
  • Strathern, M. (1992) Reproducing the future: essays on anthropology, kinship and the new reproductive technologies. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • 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

                            

*********************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITTLE: SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER        Course No - 07             

Course Code: SOCMJ- 042                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit 2. Gender Theories

 2.1 Feminism (Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism and Marxist Feminism)

2.2 Black Feminism

2.3 Queer Theory of Gender

18

15

04

Unit 3. Gender: Differences and inequalities

3.1 Gender Discrimination (Family, Caste, Class and Work)

3.2 Gender and Development

3.3 Gender Budgeting

17

15

04

Unit 4. Gender, Power and resistance

4.1 Power and Subordination

4.2 LGBTQ Movements

17

15

04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Stevi, J., and Scott, S. (2002). Gender: A Sociological Reader, London:Routledge

References:

  • S. Jackson and S. Scott (eds.) 2002 Gender: A Sociological Reader, London: Routledge. Introduction, (pp. 1‐26).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.)
  • Nagnath Mhamane, Vijay (2021), A Critique of Twentieth Century Feminist Criticism,The Creative launcher, vol. 6, núm. 4, Perception Publishing, India

******************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITLE: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION                                Course No:08

Course Code: SOCC- 043                                                                        No of Classes:60+15 (TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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             

1.1. Definition of Social Stratification

1.2. Ideas of Equality, Inequality, Difference and Hierarchy

1.3. Patterns of Social Stratification- Closed and Open 

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

2. Theories of Stratification                     

2.1. Marxist

2.2. Weberian

2.3. Functional

18

15

04

Unit 3. Identities and Inequalities              

3.1. Class, Caste, Race, Gender and Ethnicity

3.2. Stratification and Intersectionality  

17

15

04

Unit 4. Mobility and Reproduction          

4.1.  Definition and types of social mobility

 4.2. Concept of Social reproduction

4.3. Social Reproduction of- class and occupational categories

 

17

15

03

 

Textbook(s)

  • Gupta, Dipankar. 1991.Social Stratification.  New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 
  • Pakem, B. 1990. Nationality, ethnicity and Cultural Identity. New Delhi. Omsons Publications. pp. 1-21

References:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Stinchcombe Arthur L ‘Some Empirical Consequences of the Davis-Moore Theory of Stratification‟. American Sociological Review 28.5 (1963), pp. 805-808
  • 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
  • Bendix, Reinhard, ed; Lipset, Seymour Martin ;Class, status, and power : a reader in social stratification, Glencoe III, Free Press
  • Sharma, K.L ; Social Inequality in India, Rawat Publication, Jaipur, New Delhi

***********************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: IV

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION             Course No: 09

Course Code: SOCMJ- 044                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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

                                                                                               

Unit I     Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

1.1 Nature and Scope of Sociology of Religion

1.2 Asceticism and Accumulation

1.3 Theodicy and Eschatology

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit II   Sociological Perspectives on Religion

2.1 Religion and Ideology: Karl Marx

2.2 Religion and Rationality: Max Weber

2.3 Religion and Solidarity: Emile Durkheim

2.4 Magic, Science and Religion: Bronislaw Malinowski

18

15

04

Unit III Aspects of religion

3.1 Plurality and Pluralism,

3.2 Communalism and Secularism

3.3 Religion and Change

17

15

04

Unit IV Debates on Religion

4.1 Religious Conversion

4.2 Religious Violence

          4.3 Neo-religious Movements

17

15

03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Roberts, K. A., & Yamane, D. (2016). Religion in sociological perspective (6th ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Turner, B. (1991). Religion and social theory. California: Sage

References:

  • Turner, B.S. Religion and Social Theory (2nd edition).  London: Sage, 1991.
  • McGuir, M.B. 2012. Sociology of Religion (5th Edition). New Delhi. Rawat Publications.
  • Baird, R.D. 1995. Religion in Modern India (3rd edition). Delhi: Manohar.
  • Madan, T.N. 1992. Religion in India (Enlarged Edition). New Delhi: Oxford.
  • Muzumdar, H.T. 1986. India’s Religious Heritage. New Delhi: Allied.
  • Shakir, M. (Ed.). 1989. Religion, State and Politics in India. Delhi: Ajanta Publications.
  • Weber, M. 2002. “The Social Psychology of the World Religions”, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism” and “Religious Rejections of the World and Their Direction” in H.H. Gerth and C.W. Mills (Eds.). From Max Weber. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Weber, M. 2001. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge.
  • Durkheim, E. 1915. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. London: Allen and Unwin.
  • Weber, M. 1963. The Sociology of Religion. Massachusetts: Beacon Press.
  • Malinowski, B. 1948. Magic, Science and Religion: Selected Essays. Massachusetts: Beacon Press.
  • Eliade, M. 1959. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World.
  • Peters, F.E. 1995. The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1976. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events. In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Pp. 63-83.
  • Uberoi, J.P.S. 1991. The Five Symbols of Sikhism. In T.N. Madan ed. Religion in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Pp. 320-333.
  • Geertz, C. 1973. The Interpretation of Culture. New York: Basic Books. (Selected Chapters).
  • Asad, T. 1982. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. (Selected Chapters).
  • Fischer, M.N.J.  1980. Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Asad, T. 2003. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Selected Chapters).
  • Tambiah, S.J. (1990). Magic, science and religion and the scope of rationality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pandya, S. (2015). New strategies of new religious movements: The case of Art of Living Foundation. In Sociological Bulletin. 64(3), 287-304.
  • Saliba, J. (2003). Introduction. In Understanding new religious movement. California: Altamira Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER:  IV

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT            Course No: 04

Course Code: SOCMI- 041                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                       Internal Assessment:30        

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.

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

14

12

03

                   

Unit II: Theories of Social Movement: Relative Deprivation, Resource Mobilisation Theory, Collective Behaviour Theory.                         

14

12

03

                               

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

14

12

03

Unit IV: Contemporary Social Movement: Environmental, Human Rights Movement, Women’s Movement.            

                                           

14

12

03

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

14

12

03

                                                                                                           

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Della, P. D., & Diani, M. (2006). Social movements: An introduction. Malden: MA Blackwell Pub.
  • Rao, M.S.A. (1979). Social Movements in India. New Delhi: Manohar.

 

References:

  • Shah, G. (2012). Social Movements in India: A Review of Literature. New Delhi: Sage
  • 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
  • Kumar, Radha. (1994). History of Doing: The Women's Movement in India. New Delhi: Verso.
  • Omvedt, G. (1994). Dalit and the Democratic Revolution. New Delhi. Sage
  • Oommen, T.K. (2010) (Ed.). Social Movements - Vol1 & Vol 2. New Delhi: OUP.
  • Rege, Sharmila. (1998). Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and towards a Dalit Feminist in Economic and Political Weekly. 33 (44), WS39-WS46.
  • Dhanagare, D.N. (1983). Peasant Movements in India 1920-1950. Delhi: Oxford University Press
  • Singh K. S., (1983) (Ed)..Tribal Movements in India, Vol. 1 and 2; New Delhi: Manohar

                                          *******************************

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS-I       Course No:10

Course Code: SOCMJ- 051                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                       Internal Assessment:30        

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. Introduction to Sociological Research

 1.1 Sociological Research: Definition and Significance

 1.2 Objectivity in the Sociological Research. 

1.3 Reflexivity

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

25

20

05

 Unit:2. Methodological Perspectives                                

 2.1 The Comparative Method

 2.2 Feminist Method

20

15

05

Unit:3. Modes of Enquiry                                                  

 3.1 Theory and Research

 3.2 Analyzing Data: Quantitative and Qualitative

25

25

05

Textbook(s)

  • Bryman, A. (2011). Social Research Methods. London: Oxford University Press.

References:

  • Mills, C. W. 1959, The Sociological Imagination, London: OUP Chapter 1 Pp. 3‐24
  • Goode, W.J. and P. K. Hatt. (2006). Methods in Social Research (Indian reprint). New Delhi: Surjeet Publisher
  • Myrdal, G. (1970). Objectivity in Social Research. London: Gerald Duckworth.
  • Gluckman, M. 1978, 'Introduction', in A. L. Epstein (ed.), The Craft of Social Anthropology, Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Pp. xv‐xxiv
  • Neuman, W.L. (2006). Social Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approach. New Delhi: Pearson Education India.
  • Durkheim, E. 1958, The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: The Free Press, Chapter 1, 2 & 6 Pp. 1‐46, 125‐140 37
  • Weber, Max. 1949, The Methodology of the Social Sciences, New York: The Free Press, Foreward and Chapter 2 Pp. 49‐112
  • Gouldner, Alvin. 1970, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, New York: Basic Books, Chapter 13 Pp. 481‐511
  • Radcliffe‐Brown, A.R. 1958, Methods in Social Anthropology, Delhi: Asia Publishing Corporation, Chapter 5 Pp. 91‐108
  • Beiteille, A. 2002, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, New Delhi: OUP, Chapter 4 Pp. 72‐94
  • 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
  • Merton, R.K. 1972, Social Theory & Social Structure, Delhi: Arvind Publishing House, Chapters 4 & 5 Pp. 139‐171
  • Bryman, Alan. 2004, Quantity and Quality in Social Research,New York: Routledge, Chapter 2 &  3 Pp. 11‐70

*********************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF NORTHEAST INDIA      Course No: 11

Course Code: SOCC- 052                                                                No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

Course Objectives

The objective of this paper is to introduce students to a Sociological understanding of the Northeast Region of India. The paper aims to provide an overview of the political and socio-cultural processes in the region. The course focuses upon these unique processes and their evolution in the Northeast India.

                                                                                                  

Unit I        Introduction to a Sociological Understanding of the Northeast India

Northeast India as a Conceptual Category

The evolution of the Northeast India as a Frontier Region

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit II Communities in Northeast India

Tribal and Non-tribal/Caste Communities: Characteristics and Specificities

Nationality Formation in the Region

18

15

04

Unit III Land Relations and Social Forces

Traditional Land Tenure System

Emerging Land System: Commercialization and Privatization

17

15

04

Unit IV The Question of Identity         

Issues of Identity and Ethnicity

Tribal Autonomy and Homeland Politics (selected case studies)

Indigenous-Immigrant question in the Northeast

17

15

14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Weiner, M. (1978). Sons of the Soil. Delhi: OUP.

 

References:

  • Baruah, S. (2005). Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Borthakur, B.N. (Ed.). (1994). The North Eastern Research Bulletin. Vol. XI. Department of Sociology. Dibrugarh University.
  • Baruah, S. (1999). India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Guha, Amalendu. 2014. Planter Raj to Swaraj: Freedom Struggle and Electoral Politics in Assam, New Delhi: Tulika Books (Chapter 1)
  • Pankaj, Ashok, Sarma, Atul and Borah, Antora (2020), Social Sector Development in North-East India, SAGE Publication Pvt. Limited
  • Baruah, S. (2009). Separatist militants and contentious politics in Assam, India: the limits of counterinsurgency. Asian Survey, 49(6).
  • Biswas, P. and C. Suklabaidya. (2007). Ethnic Life Worlds in Northeast India. New Delhi: Sage.
  • Chaube, S. (1999). Hill Politics in North-East India. Delhi: Orient Longman.
  • Gopalkrishna, R. (1991). The North-East India: Land, Economy and People. New Delhi. Vikash Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
  • Guha, A. (1991). Medieval and early Colonial Assam: Society, Polity, Economy. Calcutta: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences.
  • Karna, M. N. (2004). Agrarian Structure and Land Reforms in Assam. Delhi: Regency.
  • Misra, U. (2000). The Periphery Strikes Back: Challenges to the Nation-States in Assam and Nagaland. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
  • Sharma, C. K. (2000). “Assam: Tribal Land Alienation: Government’s Role” in Economic and Political Weekly, 36 (52), pp. 4791-4795.
  • Sharma, C. K. (2012). “The Immigration Issue in Assam and Conflicts around it” in Asian Ethnicity. 13 (3), pp. 306-7.
  • Subba, T. B. & G.C. Ghosh (Eds.). (2003). The Anthropology of North-East India. New Delhi: Orient Longman.
  • Sarma, Chandan and Borgohain, Bhaswati (2019), The New Land Settlement Act in Arunachal Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly 55(23):17-20

                                      

************************

 

                  

 

 

SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY             Course No: 12

Course Code: SOCMJ- 053                                                            No of Classes: 60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                   Internal Assessment: 30        

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. Introduction to Environmental Sociology                  

 1.1. What is Environmental Sociology?

 1.2. Realist‐Constructionist Debate.

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

20

15

05

Unit: 2. Sociological Approaches to Environment                                                                  

2.1 Treadmill of Production

2.2 Ecological Modernization

2.3 Eco feminism and Feminist Environmentalism

2.4 Political Ecology

2.5 Risk Society

25

25

05

 Unit: 3. Environmental Movements in India                       

3.1 Forest based movement

3.2 Water based movement

3.3 Land based movements

25

20

05

 

Textbook(s)

  • Bell, M.M. (2009). An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. New Delhi: Pine Forge Press.

 

References: 

  • Bell, MM. (2008). An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 3rd ed. Ch 1. (pp. 1‐5).
  • Hannigan, J. A. (1995). Environmental Sociology. Routledge, London and New York, 2nd ed. Ch1 and 2. (pp. 10‐15,16 ‐ 35).
  • 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).
  • Evanoff, R. J. (2005). Reconciling realism and constructivism in environmental ethics. Environmental Values, 61‐81.
  • 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.
  • Dunlap, R.E. and W.R. Catton, Jr. (1994). Struggling with Human Exemptionalism: The Rise, Decline and Revitalization of Environmental Sociology. In The American Sociologist. 25(1), 5-30.
  • Mol, A. P. (2002). Ecological modernization and the Global economy. Global Environmental Politics, 2(2), 92‐115.  
  • Buttel, F. H. (2000). Ecological modernization as social theory. Geoforum,31(1), 57‐65.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Beck, U. (2005). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. New Delhi: Sage Publication
  • Shiva, V. (1988). Women in Nature. In Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Zed Books. Ch 3. (pp.38‐54).
  • 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).
  • Robbins, P. (2011). Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (Vol. 16). Wiley and Sons ltd. East Sussex, U.K. Ch 1 (pp.10‐25).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Sharma, Chandan K. (2018) 'Dams, ‘Development’ and Popular Resistance in Northeast India'. In Sociological Bulletin, 67(3), 317–333.
  • Dreze, J., M. Samson and S. Singh (ed.). (1997). The Dam and Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Guha, R., & Alier, J. M. (1998). The environmentalism of the poor. In Varieties of environmentalism: Essays North and South. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Osofsky, H. M. (2003).
  • Stern, C. P. et al (ed.). (1992). Global Environmental Change: Understanding Human Dimension. Washington: National Academy Press.
  • 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.

                                               

*****************************

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER:  V

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT             Course No: 13

Course Code: SOCMJ- 054                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        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: Understanding Development: Development and Underdevelopment; Changing Conception of development: Economic Growth, Industrial development; Ecological Development, Human Development, Post Development, Alternative Development.                                                                

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

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

18

15

04

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

17

15

04

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

17

15

04

           

Textbook(s)

  • McMichael, P. (2017). Development and Social Change, 6 th Edition. Sage Publications.
  • Pieterse, J. N. (2009). Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions. New Delhi. Sage. Vistaar Publications

References:   

  • Alavi, H. and T. Shanin. (1982). Introduction to the Sociology of Developing Societies. Macmillan, pp. 1-29
  • Escobar, A. (1995). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.
  • Frank, A. G. (1967). Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. Monthly Review Press. Select chapters.
  • Lerner, D. (1964). The Passing of Traditional Society, select chapters. Macmillan. Moore, W. (1978), Social Change, pp.94-118.
  • Rostow, W.W. (1960). Five stages of Economic Growth. The Economic History Review. 12(1): 1-16.
  • Wallerstein, I. (2004), "World-systems Analysis." In World System History, edited by G, Modelski, in Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK
  • Foucault, M, and C, Gordon. (1980). Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977. New York, Pantheon Books.
  • 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.
  • Harrison, David. The Sociology of Modernisation and Development. London: Routledge, 1991.
  • Ludden, D. (1992). 'India's Development Regime' in N. Dirks (ed.): Colonialism and Culture, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press
  • Naila, K. (1994). Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, Verso, 1994, chapters 1 and 4.
  • Cooke, B. and U, Kothari (eds) (2001). Participation: The New Tyranny. London: Zed Books. Select chapters.
  • Pathak, Dev Nath and Das, Amiya Kumar (2019) Investigating Developmentalism: Notions of Development in the Social Sphere, New York, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Meadows, D. H. et al. (1974). The Limits of Growth, Pan Books
  • Sachs, W. (ed.). (1997). The Development Dictionary Hyderabad. Orient Longman.
  • Sen, A. (2000). Development as Freedom. New Delhi, Oxford University Press   

                                            

*************************

SEMESTER: V

COURSE TITLE: ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY                          Course No: 05

Course Code: SOCMI- 051                                                            No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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

Economic Sociology: Meaning and Significance

Formalism and Substantivism 

New Economic Sociology

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit 2. Forms of Exchange

Reciprocity and Gift

Exchange and Money

18

15

04

Unit 3. Systems of Production, Circulation and Consumption.

Hunting and Gathering 

Peasant 

Capitalism 

Socialism

17

15

04

Unit 4. Some contemporary Issues in Economic Sociology

Changing concept of Development

Globalisation and Development.

17

15

03

              

Textbook(s)

  • 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

                                                                         

References:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wolf, Eric R. Peasants. New Jersey, Prentice Hall. 1966 Ch. 1.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. Historical Capitalism. London: Verso, 1983. 1. Commodification of Everything: Production of Capital. Pp. 13 – 43.
  • Verdery, Katherine. What Was Socialism, And What Comes Next? Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. Chapter 1. pp. 19 – 38.
  • Hann, Chris. and Keith Hart. Economic Anthropology. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011. Pp. 100-119 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
  • 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.

*******************************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: URBAN SOCIOLOGY                            Course No: 14

Course Code: SOCMJ- 061                                                            No of Classes: 60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                      Internal Assessment: 30        

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

1.1   Urban, Urbanism and urbanisation

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit:2. Perspectives in Urban Sociology                                           

2.1. Ecological

2.2. Political Economy

2.3. Network

 2.4 City as Culture

18

15

04

 Unit: 3. Movements and Settlements                                                

 3.1. Migration

3.2. Community

17

15

04

Unit:4. Politics of Urban Space                                                         

4.1. Culture and Leisure

4.2. Caste, Class and Gender

17

15

03

Textbook(s)

  • Patel, S. & Deb, K. (Eds.). (2006). Urban Studies: Oxford India Paperbacks. New Delhi: Oxford University Press

References:

  • Mumford, Lewis 1961. The City in History: its origins and transformations and its prospects. Mariner Books: Pp 3‐29, 94‐118
  • 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
  • Hannerz, Ulf 1980. Exploring the City: Toward an Urban Anthropology, NY: Columbia University Press. Chapter 2. Pp 19‐58
  • Lewis, Wirth 1938 “Urbanism as a way of Life” in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 44, No.1 (July), Pp. 1‐24
  • Harvey, David 1985 The Urban Experience, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Chapter 1. Money, Time, Space and the City. Pp. 1-35
  • 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
  • Weber, Max 1978. The City. The Free Press: New York. Pp 65‐89
  • 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.
  • Rao, M.S.A, 1981, “Some aspects of the sociology of migration”, Sociological Bulletin,Vol. 30, 1. Pp21‐38 46
  • Sassen, Saskia. (2005). ‘The Global City: Introducing a Concept’. In Brown Journal of World Affairs, 11 (2), 27-43.
  • 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
  • Benjamin S, 2004, “Urban Land Transformation for Pro‐Poor Economies”, Geoforum, Volume 35, Issue 2, March 2004, Pp. 177‐197
  • 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
  • Ayyar, Varsha ,2013. “Caste and Gender in a Mumbai resettlement site”, Economic & Political Weekly, May 4,Vol. XLVIII, No 18, Pp 44‐55
  • 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
  • Grazian, David, 2009, “Urban Nightlife, Social Capital, and the Public Life of Cities” Sociological Forum, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 2009), pp. 908‐917
  • Manuel Castells, 1983, “Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community” in San Francisco in City and the Grassroots, Pp. 138‐170
  • Crawford, Margaret. „The World is a Shopping Mall‟, From Malcom Miles and Tim Hall (Eds.) City Cultures Reader, London: Routledge. Pp. 125-139

                                                

********************************

 

SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: POPULATION AND SOCIETY        Course No:15

Course Code: SOCMJ- 062                                                         No of Classes: 60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                      Internal Assessment: 30        

Objective - Understanding the relationship between social issues and demographic trends, particularly in the context of Indian society is crucial. This course aims to provide an objective academic exploration of how population dynamics impact social phenomena in developing

societies.

Unit I: Introducing Population Studies

1.1  Population Studies – Meaning, Scope and Importance;

1.2  Development of Population Studies;

1.3  Sources of Data and measurement techniques.

 

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit II: Theories and Perspectives

2.1 Population Theories- Pre-Malthusian theories; Malthusian theory Neo-Malthussian; Demographic Transition   theory; Marxist Thoughts on Population.

 

18

15

04

Unit III: Demographic Processes

3.1 Fertility- Definition and factors (Biological, Physiological, Social, Economic and cultural)

3.2 Mortality – Definition, Socio-Cultural Determinants, declining child sex ratio (feticide, infanticide) - reasons and consequences.

3.3 Migration- Definition, Causes, Types; social factors and consequences of                 migration.

 

17

15

04

Unit IV: Population Policies in India

4.1Population Policies and Programmes in India;

    4.2 Critical analysis of population policies

17

15

03

 

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Haq, E.2007. Sociology of Population in India, Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd
  • Premi, M.K.2011. India’s Changing Population Profile. New Delhi. National Book Trust

 

 

References:

  • Bose, A. (1991). Demographic Diversity of India. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation.
  • Bhende, A and T. Kanitkar. (2003). Principles of Population Studies. Bombay: Himalaya Publishing House.
  • Majumdar, P.K.2013. India’s Demography: Changing Demographic Scenario in India. New Delhi. Rawat Publications
  • Bonar, J. (2016). Theories of Population from Raleigh to Arthur Young. London: Routledge.
  • Rao, Mohan (2004), From Population Control to Reproductive Health. New Delhi, Sage Pvt. Limited.
  • Bose, A. (2010). India’s Quest for Population Stabilization. New Delhi: National Book Trust.
  • Chandrasekar, S. (Ed). (1974). Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
  • Halbwachs, M. (1960). Population and Society: Introduction to Social Morphology. Glencoe: Free Press.
  • Heer, D. and J. S.Grigsby. (1994). Society and Population N. Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India. House.
  • Jackson, J.A. (ed.). (1969). Migration. Cambridge University Press. (Relevant Chapters).
  • Mamdani, M. (1973). The Myth of Population Control: Family, Class and Caste in an Indian Village. London: Monthly Review Press.
  • Mandelbaum, D. (1974). Human Fertility in India: Social Components and Policy Perspectives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Srinivasan, K and Michael, U (eds). 2001. Population Development Nexus in India: Challenges for the New Millenium. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hills.
  • Sharma, CK (2012), The immigration issue in Assam and conflicts around it; Asian Ethnicity 13(3), Routledge Publisher

 

******************************

 

SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH METHODS II                            Course No: 16

Course Code: SOCMJ- 063                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits:04

Marks: 100     End Semester:70                                                        Internal Assessment:30        

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

1.1The Process of Social Research

1.2 Ethical Issues in Social Research

1.3 Concepts and Hypothesis

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit:2. Research design and Methods of Data Collection

2.1 What is Research Design

2. 2 Types of Research Design

2.3 Methods of Data collection: (Interviews, Observation (participant & non-participant), Focus Group Discussion, Case Study, Oral History, Life History.)

18

15

04

Unit:3. Statistical Methods                                                 

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).

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

17

15

04

Unit:4 Emerging issues in social research

4.1 Research Ethics

4.2 Informed Consent

4.2 Citation and Plagiarism

 

17

15

03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Bryman, A. (2011). Social Research Methods. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Blaikie, N. (2000). Designing social research: the logic of anticipation. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

References:

  • 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.
  • Goode, W. E. and P. K. Hatt. 1952. Methods in Social Research. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 5 and 6. Pp. 41-73.
  • Whyte, W F (1993), Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum
  • Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson. 1997. Anthropological Locations. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp.1-46.
  • Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. London: The University of Chicago Press.
  • 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.
  • Myrdal, G. (1970). Objectivity in Social Research. London: Gerald Duckworth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Healy, J.F. and Steven G. Prus. (2016). The Essentials of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research. Boston: Cenage Learning.
  • Jackson, S.L. Research Methods and Statistics. New Delhi: Cengage Learning. 2009.
  • Malec, M.A. Essential Statistics for Social Research. Jaipur: Rawat. (Indian reprint, 2012)
  • Neuman, W.L. (2006). Social Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approach. New Delhi: Pearson Education India.
  • 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.
  • Bailey, K. (1994). Observation in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY10020. Ch 10.

****************************

 

 

SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: TRIBAL SOCIETY OF INDIA                   Course No: 17

Course Code: SOCMJ- 064                                                           No of Classes: 60+15(TU

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                   Internal Assessment: 30        

 

Course Objectives

This paper intends to acquaint the students with the concept of tribe, religious beliefs and practices and customs of the tribes of India and to impart knowledge to the students about the socio-cultural and political profiles of the tribes. This paper will bring to the notice of the students the changes those are taking place within the tribal societies and provide knowledge to the students about the problems faced by the tribes as well as the different ethnic movements that are taking place in India.                                                                                             

Unit I Understanding of Tribe

1.1 Conceptualizing Tribe in India

1.2 Distribution of Tribes in India: Habitat, Concentration, Tribal Zones

1.3 Classification of Tribes: Geographical, Linguistic, Cultural, Occupational

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

18

15

04

Unit II Social and Cultural Profile

2.1 Kinship, Marriage and Family

2.2 Religious Beliefs and Practices

2.3 Customs and Traditions

2.4 Status of Tribal Women in Contemporary Society

18

15

04

          Unit III Social Mobility and Social Change

3.1 Sanskritization

3.2 The impact of colonial rule: religious conversion, emergence of middle class

3.3 Post-Independence scenario: Political Assertion, Political Autonomy

17

15

04

Unit IV Problems of Tribal People

4.1Land Alienation, Poverty, Indebtedness, Illiteracy, Health.

4.2Resistance against Exploitation and Domination

17

15

04

 

Textbook(s)

  • Ghurye, G.S (1963) The Schedule Tribe, Popular Prakasan, Bombay
  • Vidyathri, L.P and Rai, B.K (1985), The Tribal Culture of India, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi

References:

  • Singh, K.S. (1985). Tribal Society. Manohar: Delhi.
  • Sharma, S. 1984. Tribal Identity and Modern World. New Delhi. Sage
  • Bose, N.K. 1967. Culture and Society in India. Asia Publishing House.
  • Dube, S.C 1977. Tribal Heritage of India. New Delhi. Vikas Publications.
  • Haimendorf, C.V. 1982. Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival. OUP.
  • Rao, M.S.A. 1979. Social Movements in India. Delhi. Manohar Publications.
  • Desai, A.R. 1979. Peasant Struggles in India. Mumbai. Oxford University Press
  • Madan, T.N and D.N. Majumdar. An Introduction to Social Anthropology.
  • Singh, K.S. 1972. Tribal Situation in India. Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
  • Singh, K.S. 1982. Tribal Movements in India (Vol. I-II). New Delhi. Manohar Publications.
  • Ghosh, Biswajit (2020), Social Movements, SAGE Publication India Pvt. Limited.
  • Xaxa, Virginius (1999), Transformation of Tribes in India: Terms of Discourse, Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 34,  pp. 1519-1524 (6 pages)
  • Sarma, Chandan and Borgohain, Bhaswati (2019), The New Land Settlement Act in Arunachal Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly 55(23):17-20
  • Singh, K.S.1984.  Economies of the Tribes and their Transformation. New Delhi. Concept Publishing House.
  • Hasnain, N. (1983). Tribes in India. Harnam Publications: New Delhi
  • Raza, Moonis and A. Ahmad. (1990). An Atlas of Tribal India. Concept Publishing: Delhi
  • Singh, K.S. (1984). Economies of the Tribes and Their Transformation. Concept Publishing: New Delhi
  • Singh, K.S. (1995). The Scheduled Tribes. Oxford University Press: New Delhi.

*******************************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE   Course No: 18

 

Course Code: SOCMJ- 065                                                             No of Classes:35+15(TU)

Credits: 02

Marks: 50     End Semester: 35                                                      Internal Assessment: 15      

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

 1.1 Origins and Development

 1.2 Conceptualising Disease, Sickness, Illness and the Body

 1.3 Social and Cultural Dimensions of Illness and Medicine

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

12

10

02

Unit: 2. Theoretical Orientations in Health and Illness                  

2.1 Political Economy

2.2 Systems Approach

2.3 Discourse and Power

 2.4 Feminist Approach

12

10

02

 Unit: 3. Negotiating Health and Illness                                         

3.1 Medical Practices: Traditional and Modern

 3.2 Health Policies in India

11

10

02

 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Cockerham, W.C. (2009). The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Willey: Blackwell.
  • Sujatha, V. (2014) Sociology of Health and Medicine, New Delhi, Oxford University Press

 

References:

  • Turner, Bryan, S. (1995) Medical Power and Social Knowledge. London, Sage, Chapters 1 and 2 and 3. Pages (1-54).
  • Deborah, L. (1997). “Foucault and the Medicalization Critique”. In Foucault, Health and Medicine, edited by A. Petersen and R. Bunton. New York: Routledge.
  • Deborah, L. (2012). Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body. London: Sage.
  • 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)
  • Kleinman, Arthur (1988) The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books Inc. Publishers. Chapter 1. (Pages 3-30).
  • 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) 
  • Turner, B.S. (2000). The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness. New York. Norton.
  • Parsons, Talcott (1951) The Social System, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Chapter 10, (Pages 428-479). 61
  • 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).
  • Turner, Bryan, S. (1995) Medical Power and Social Knowledge, London: Sage. Chapter 5. (Pages.86-108).
  • 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 ).
  • 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).
  • Baer, Hans A., Singer, Merrill and Susser, Ida (1994) Medical Anthropology and the World System, Westport: Praeger. Chapters 10 and 11 (Pages 307-348)
  • Gould, Harold A. (I965) Modern Medicine and Folk Cognition in Rural India in Human Organization, No. 24. pp. 201- 208.
  • Leslie, Charles (1976) Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, London: University of California Press, Introduction. (Pages 1-12) .
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Qadeer, Imrana (2011) Public Health In India, Delhi: Danish Publishers, Part III, (Pages 221-252).
  • 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.
  • Textbook(s)
  • Cockerham, W.C. (2009). The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Willey: Blackwell.
  • Sujatha, V. (2014) Sociology of Health and Medicine, New Delhi, Oxford University Press

                                       

***************************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMESTER: VI

COURSE TITLE: INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT      Course No: 06

Course Code: SOCMI- 061                                                             No of Classes:60+15(TU)

Credits: 04

Marks: 100     End Semester: 70                                                      Internal Assessment: 30        

 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

1.1   Caste, Tribe and Race

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

       14

10

02

Unit: 2. Radhakamal Mukerjee                               

2.1. Social Ecology

07

08

02

Unit: 3. D.P Mukerji                                                

3.1 Middle Class

07

08

02

Unit 4: Yogendra Singh

4.1 Tradition and Modernity

14

10

03

Unit: 5. M.N. Srinivas

 4.1. Social Change                                     

14

10

02

Unit: 6. Irawati Karve

 6.1. Kinship                                         

07

07

02

Unit: 7. Leela Dube                                                   

7.1 Caste and Gender

07

07

02

Textbook(s)

  • 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,

References:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1950, The Social Structure of Values, London: George Allen and Unwin Chp 2,3, 5, 6 & 9
  • Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1932, (reproduced in1994) „An Ecological Approach to Sociology‟ in Ramchandra Guha (ed) Social Ecology Delhi: OUP
  • Mukerjee, Radhakamal 1932, The concepts of balance and organization in Social Ecology Sociology and Social Research 16 (July-August 1932) 503- 516
  • Venugopal, C.N. 1988, Ideology and Society in India: Sociological Essays, New Delhi: Criterion Publications Chp 7
  • 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
  • Mukerji D.P. (1958 second edition 2002), Diversities: Essays in Economics, Sociology and Other Social Problems, Delhi: Manak Publications Pg 177-225, 261-276
  • Chakraborty, D 2010, D P Mukerji and the Middle Class in India, Sociological Bulletin 59(2), May-August 235-255 65
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Karve, Irawati 1965, Kinship Organization in India, Bombay and New York: Asia Publishing House
  • Dube, Leela 1967, Caste, Class and Power: Eastern Anthropologist Lucknow 20(2) 215-225 66
  • Dube, Leela 2001, Anthropological Explorations in Gender: Intersecting Fields, New Delhi: Sage Chp 3,5 & 6
  • Patricia Despande Satish and Sundar Nandini (ed) 2010, Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi: Permanent Black
  • Yuganta: The end of an epoch, Hyderbad: Disha Books Karve, Irawati 1961, Hindu Society — an interpretation, Pune: Deshmukh Prakashan.

                                                    

*****************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

 

SEMESTER: I & II

COURSE TITLE: Understanding Sociology

Course Code: SOCMU- 011/021/031                                             No Classes:45

Credits: 03

Marks: 75     End Semester: 50                                                      Internal Assessment: 25        

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 1

Sociology as a discipline

Marks

Lecture

Tutorial

1.1

An Introduction to Sociology

20

12

03

1.2

Sociology as a Science

1.3

Emergence of Sociology

Unit 2

Basics concepts of Sociology

20

12

03

2.1

Society

2.2

Socialization

2.3

Social Groups

2.4

Social Stratification

2.5

Institution and Association

Unit 3

Social Processes

20

12

03

3.1

Cooperation

3.2

Competition

3.3

Assimilation

3.4

Conflict

 


 

 

Textbook(s)

  • Sociology Themes and Perspectives, Haralambos and Holborn, HarperCollins

Publishers Limited.

 

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

  • Ritzer, G., Sociological Theory
  • Beteille, Andre, 2009, Sociology: Essays in Approach and Method, Delhi: Oxford University Press, Chapter 1, ‗Sociology and Common Sense‘, Pp. 13-27
  • 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‘
  • General Sociology , Saikia, Dr. J.P & H. Borgohain, Bidya Bhaban, Jorhat 
  • Giddens, Anthony. 2009. Sociology, 6 Edition. Polity Press. Cambridge. UK
  • Ritzer, George, 1996, Classical Sociological Theory, New York: McGraw 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 McGraw-Hill, Chapter 8, Pp. 185-209
  • Horton, Paul B., Chester L. Hunt. 2004, Sociology. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill. Chapter 9, Pp. 210- 229
  • Firth, Raymond, 1956, Human Types, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Chapter 3, ‗Work and Wealth of Primitive Communities ‘, Pp. 71-97

*********************************

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSE

 

SEMESTER: I

COURSE TITLE: PUBLIC OPINION AND SURVEY METHOD

Course Code: SOCSK- 011                                                       No of Classes:45

Credits:03

Marks: 50+25                                                                                     Theory: 15Classes

                                                                                                   Field Work: 24 Hours

Objective: This course aims to enhance the skills of students to understand and use techniques employed by social scientists to investigate social phenomena. With emphasise on formulating research design, methods of data collection, and data analysis, it will provide students with some elementary knowledge on how to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research.

Unit 1: Introduction to the course

1.1 Definition and characteristic of public opinion

1.2 Conceptions and characteristic

1.3 Debates about its role in a democratic political system

1.4 Uses for opinion poll

Marks

Lecture

25

6

Unit 2: Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys:  Representation and Sampling

2.1 What is sampling? Why do we need to sample? Sample design

2.2 Sampling error and non-response

2.3 Types of sampling

25

7

Unit 3: Survey Research

3.1 Interviewing: Interview techniques pitfalls, different types and forms of interview.

3.2 Questionnaire: Question wording, fairness and clarity

25

7

*Note - FIELD WORK: Conduct of survey and preparation of Report and defending the report through viva. (End Semester evaluation shall be conducted on the basis of survey report and viva)

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Goode, W. E. and P. K. Hatt. 1952. Methods in Social Research. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 5 and 6. Pp. 41-73.
  • Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson. 1997. Anthropological Locations. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp.1-46.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

 

 
Jagannath Barooah College (Autonomous)
Barpatra Ali, Jorhat-785001
Assam, India
 
Phone: +91 376 3510156
Email:  jbcollege@rediffmail.com
Get in touch
 
Visiting JBC

Connect with us

Don't have an account yet? Register Now!

Sign in to your account