Paper:SOC-HC-4016
    Semester: Fourth     Credits: 6     Marks:100 marks 

Course Objective: 

• Rural Sociology studies the various components of rural social structure such as village community, family, caste etc. 

• It also analyses the effect of religion, customs and tradition on rural social structure. Course Outcome:

• It will enable students to make a scientific, systematic and comprehensive study of the ruralsocial organisation of its structure, function and objective tendencies of development.

• And on the basis of such a study it will help students suggest ways for improving village conditions and discover the laws of its development.

Course Outline:

Unit 1- Introducing Rural Sociology (4 weeks)

a. Origin and Development of Rural Sociology in India

b. Perspectives on Rural Sociology

c. Indian Village Communities :Types and Features 

d. Rural- Urban Linkages and Differences 

Unit 2- Rural Agrarian Social Structure (3 weeks) 

a. Agrarian Social Structure- Class, Caste

b. Agrarian Unrest and Farmers Movements in India

c. Rural poverty in India: conditions and problems of the agricultural labourers

Unit 3- Rural Institution (3 weeks)

a. Rural Social Institution- Family, Caste, Jajmani relations

b. Rural Economy- Landownership and its type

c. Rural Politics- Democratic Decentralization, Panchayati Raj Institutions: structure and function, Power to women and weaker sections.

Unit 4- Rural India in transition (5 weeks)

a. Trends in Rural Change: Nature and Dimension ,Agents of change(e.g. Corporate Initiatives in Agriculture and Its Implications) 

b. Programmes of Rural Development:

c. Process of change in rural society- Green Revolution, Migration, Mobility

d. Globalisation and its impact on rural society 

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Paper:SOC-HC-4026     Semester: Fourth     Credits: 6     Marks:100 marks 

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. 

Course Outcome: 

• It will enable students to make a scientific, systematic and comprehensive study of the urban space, its social organisation , structure and function 

• With case studies from India and other parts of the world this course will help students relate to the complexities of urban living. 

Course Outline: 

Unit 1: Introducing Urban Sociology 

a. Urban,

b. Urbanism 

c. the City 

Unit 2: Perspectives in Urban Sociology

a. Ecological 

b. Political Economy 

c. Network 

d. City as Culture 

Unit 3. Movements and Settlements 

a. Migration

b. Community 

Unit 4. Politics of Urban Space 

a. Culture and Leisure

b. Caste, Class and Gender

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Paper: SOC-HC-4036     Semester: Fourth     Credits: 6     Marks: 100marks

Course Objectives: 

• To elaborate and compare the concepts of family, marriage and kinship as a social institutions, its development as a subject of sociological study.

• To analyze socio-cultural, economic and political forces that shapes family, marriage and kinship.

Course Outcomes:

• The course will enable students to conceptualize and theorize the social institutions of family, marriage and kinship.

• The course will enable students to understand the changes in the institutions family, marriage and kinship in contemporary period.

Course Outline:

Unit 1- Nature and Significance (3 weeks)

a. Basic Concepts: Descent, Inheritance, Incest, Consanguinity, Affinity, Clan, Lineage, Kindred, Family, Marriage.

b. Descent: Unilineal, Double and Cognatic Descent, Authority, Alliance

Unit 2- Family and Household (4 weeks)

a. Family Structure and Composition

b. Functions of Family

c. Changes in Family

d. Family and Gender Issues

Unit 3-Conceptualising Marriage (4 weeks)

a. Marriage as a Sacrament and Contract

b. Rules of Marriage: Endogamy, Exogamy, Prescriptive and Preferential Marriage, Monogamy, Polygamy, Levirate and Sorrorate, Hypogamy and Hypergamy

c. Rules of Residence

d. Marriage transactions: Dowry, Bride Wealth, Bride Price

Unit 4- Kinship (4 weeks)

a. Kinship and Gender

b. New Reproductive Technologies

c. New forms of Family

d. Kinship Organizations in India

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Paper: SOC-HG-4016     Semester: Fourth     Credits: 6     Marks:100 marks

Course Objective: 

The course is a general introduction to the methodologies of sociological research methods. The course is an introductory course on how research is actually done. 

Course Outcome: 

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. 

Outline: 

Unit 1: Introduction to Sociological Research

a. What is Sociological Research? 

b. Process of Social Research

c. Objectivity in social sciences.

Unit 2: Fundamentals of Social Research 

a. Concepts and Hypothesis 

b. Methods of data collection: Sampling, Questionnaire, Interview, Participant, non-participant observation 

c. Methodological Perspectives: Comparative method, Feminist method.

Unit 3: Statistical Analysis 

a. Methods of Central Tendency: Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode

b. Graphical and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data

(Bar diagrams, Pie-diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Smoothed frequency curve and Ogives). 

Unit 4: Research Projects 

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

Unit 1: Introduction to Sociological Research (Weeks 1-9)

    a. What is Sociological Research? (Weeks 1&2)

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

b. Process of Social Research (Weeks 3&4) 

• 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.

c. Objectivity in social sciences. (Weeks 5-9)

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

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

Unit 2 Fundamentals of Social Research (Weeks 10-19)

a. Concepts and Hypothesis 

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

b. Methods of data collection: Sampling, Questionnaire, Interview, Participant, non-participant observation 

• 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. Pp.241-273.

• Whyte, W. F. 1955. Street Corner Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

c. Methodological Perspectives: Comparative method, Feminist method, Functionalist method

o Comparative method: 

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 

o Feminist Method: 

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

Unit 3: Statistical Analysis (2 weeks)

a. Methods of Central Tendency: Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode

• Gupta, S. P. (2007). Elementary Statistical Methods. Sultan Chand & Sons. Pp. 155-168, 173-180, 187-197.

b. Graphical and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data

(Bar diagrams, Pie-diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Smoothed frequency curve and Ogives). 

• Gupta, S. P. (2007). Elementary Statistical Methods. Sultan Chand & Sons. Pp.101-108, 115-118, 131-137

Unit 4 : Research Projects

No Specific readings for this section. Research Projects at the discretion of the teacher. The syllabus has been made in broad and inclusive manner to help the research project.

Note: Numerical to be taught for individual, discrete and continuous series for the topics 

mentioned above. No specific method for calculating the same be specified.

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Paper:SOC-SE-4024     Semester: Fourth     Credits: 4     Marks:100 marks

Course Objectives

• To understand the fundamentals of doing social research.

• To illustrate the steps of conducting research.

• To understand the techniques of data collection, sampling and report writing

Course Outcomes

• The course will provide first-hand experience to students in designing and conducting research in their own field of interest.

• The course will assist students for higher studies, competitive examinations andresearch work.

Course Outline:

Unit 1- Fundamentals of Social Research (5 weeks)

a. Values and Ethics of Research

b. Practice and Theory 

c. Types of Research: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods

d. Writing Research Proposal

Unit 2- Questionnaire (4 weeks)

a. Preparing a questionnaire for Survey Research

b. Approaching the Field and Selection of Sample

c. Quantitative Data Collection

d. Test of Hypothesis

Unit 3- Interview Schedule (4weeks)

a. Preparing an Interview Schedule for Qualitative Research

b. Approaching the Field and Selection of Sample

c. Qualitative Data Collection: Observation, Ethnography, Narrative, Focus Group, Content Analysis, Interview Guide, Schedule and Case Study

d. Test of Hypothesis

Unit 4- Data Analysis and Report Writing (5 weeks)

a. Data Entry

b. Coding

c. Presentation of Data: Tabulation, Diagrammatical and Graphical Representation of Data

d. References and Bibliography

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