Paper:SOC-HC-5016 Semester: Fifth Credits: 6 Marks: 100 marks
Course Objectives:
• To introduce students to the classics in the making of the discipline of sociology through selected texts by key sociological thinkers.
Course Outcomes:
• The course introduces the students to the classical sociological thinkers, whose work has shaped the discipline of sociology.
• The course will enable students to acquire a broad overview on various issues, concerns since the time of its inception as an academic discipline.
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Karl Marx
a. Materialist Conception of History
b. Capitalist Mode of Production
Unit 2: Max Weber
a. Social Action and Ideal Types
b. Religion and Economy
Unit 3: Emile Durkheim
a. Social Fact
b. Individual and Society
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Paper:SOC-HC-5026 Semester: Fifth Credits: 6 Marks: 100 marks
Course Objectives:
• To introduce students to sociological research methods.
• To acquire some elementary knowledge of the complexities and philosophical underpinnings of research.
Course Outcomes:
• The course will provide students with skills to conceptualize research problem and carry out their research work.
• The course will provide student with some elementary knowledge of the complexities and philosophical underpinnings of research.
Course Outline:
Unit 1: The Logic of Social Research
a. What is Sociological Research?
b. Objectivity in the Social Sciences
c. Reflexivity
Unit 2: Methodological Perspectives
a. The Comparative Method
b. Feminist Method
Unit 3: Modes of Enquiry
a. Theory and Research
b. Analyzing Data: Quantitative and Qualitative
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Paper: SOC-HE-5016 Semester: Fifth Credits: 6 Marks: 100 marks
Course Objectives:
• To provide students with a comprehensive profile and understanding of the tribal communities in India.
• To provide knowledge about tribal societies in India in terms of their distribution, concentration, demographic feature, social structure and cultural pattern.
• To develop an understanding about the changes and challenges in development perspective of the tribal society in India.
Course Outcomes:
• The course will help students to gain a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of tribal societies in India.
• The course will enable students to critically analyse, explain and describe tribal societies in India from a broader perspective.
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Introduction
a. Tribe- Indigenous Debates
b. Tribe, Caste and Nation
c. Distribution and concentration of tribal people, Tribal Zones
Unit 2: Colonial/Post-Colonial Policies and Tribes
a. Impact of colonial rule on tribal society
b. Post-Independence Scenario: State policies towards tribal development
c. Tribes in India: Development versus Displacement
Unit 3: Problems of Tribal People
a. Poverty
b. Land Alienation
c. Indebtedness
Unit 4: Issues of Integration and Autonomy
a. Social Mobility, Change and Integration in Nationalist Discourse
b. Formation of tribal states
c. Tribal Movements in India: Colonial and Post-Independence periods
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Paper: SOC-HE-5026 Semester: Fifth Credits: 6 Marks: 100 marks
Course Objectives:
• To provide knowledge on the structure and process of industrial organizations from a sociological perspective.
• To provide the students with an understanding of the ways in which industrialisation has shaped societies.
Course Outcomes:
• The course will provide the students with the ability to analyse the impact of industrialization on society and individuals.
• The course will enable students to develop ideas and make critical analysis of the process and development of industrial progress and challenges of India.
Course Outline:
Unit1: Introduction
a. Meaning, Scope and Nature
b. Basic Concepts: Industrialisation, Urbanization, Industrial Society and Post-Industrial Society
Unit 2: Structure of Industrial Society
a. Industrial Bureaucracy
b. Labour Relations
Unit 3: Industrial Conflict and its resolution
a. Industrial Conflict
b. Conciliation, Collective Bargaining and Adjudication
c. Trade Union and its functions, Role of Trade Unions in the industry
Unit 4:Industrialisation in India
a. History of Industrialization
b. Labour Policy
c. Informal Sector
d. Impact of Globalization
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Paper: SOC-HE-5036 Semester: Fifth Credits: 6 Marks: 100 marks
Course Objectives:
• To provide knowledge on sociological study of social inequalities.
• To acquaint students with principal theoretical perspectives on social inequality.Course Outcomes:
• The course will introduce students to sociological study of social inequalities.
• The course will explain students the theoretical perspectives on and diverse forms of social inequality in articulation with each other.
Course Outline:
Unit 1:Introducing Stratification
Unit 2: Theories of Stratification
a. Marx, Weber and Class
b. Functionalism
Unit 3: Identities and Inequalities
a. Caste, Race and Ethnicity
b. Feminism and Gendered Stratification
Unit 4: Mobility and Reproduction
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Paper: SOC-HE-5046 Semester: Fifth Credits: 6 Marks: 100 marks
Course Objectives:
• To understand religious over individual religions.
• To understand the linkage between social and religious through different themes.
Course Outcomes:
• The course lays primacy to the understanding of religious over individual religions.
• The course draws the linkage between social and religious through different registers mentioned in the course outline.
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Social and Religious
a. Formulating Religious
b. Asceticism and Accumulation
c. Theodicy and Eschatology
d. State, Religion and Emancipation
e. Religious and Solitude
Unit 2: Elements of Religious
a. Sacred, Myth, Ritual
b. Time-Space
c. Rationality
Unit 3. Techniques of Religious
a. Prayer
b. Craft
c. Body
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