| Course Status : | Completed |
| Course Type : | Core |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 15 weeks |
| Category : |
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| Credit Points : | 5 |
| Level : | Undergraduate |
| Start Date : | 15 Jan 2024 |
| End Date : | 03 May 2024 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 29 Feb 2024 |
| Exam Date : | 18 May 2024 IST |
| Shift - I : | 9AM - 12PM |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
Week 01 :
01: Enlightenment
02: Industrial Revolution
03: French Revolution
04: Conservative Romantic Reaction
Week 02 :
05: Birth of Sociology
06: Auguste Comte I
07: Auguste Comte II
08: Understanding Social Stratification
Week 03 :
09: Class and Intersectionality
10: Introduction to Classical Sociological Thought I Marx
11: Classical Sociological Thought II Weber
12: Classical Sociological Thought III Durkheim
Week 04 :
13: Feminist Theories: An Introduction
14: Sociology and Postmodern
15: Kinship
16: Understanding Work
Week 05 :
17: Sociology and science
18: Sociology and Common sense
19: Research Methods: Competing Paradigms
20: Sociology of Consumption
Week 06 :
21: Understanding India: Approaches to the Study of Indian Society
22: The tradition-modernity debate
23: Modernisation
24: The Rising importance of the Middle Classes in India
Week 07 :
25: A Silent Revolution: Dalit Politics and the rise of the lower castes
26: Caste, Class and Gender
27: Social Structure and Social Change
28: Socialisation
Week 08 :
29: Marriage: Patterns and Change
30: State
31: Education and Social inequalities
32: The challenge of ethnic identities
Week 09 :
33: The language debate in India
34: Religious Pluralism and the debate on Secularism
35: Social Institutions Online
36: Social Institutions and Everyday life
Week 10 :
37: Family in Flux
38: Markets and Globalization
39: Media, Culture, Society
40: Introduction to Sociology of Gender
Week 11 :
41: Classical Sociological Thought - IV, Herbert Spence
42: Classical Sociological Thought - V, Émile Durkheim
43: Classical Sociological Thought - VI, Georg Simmel
44: Classical Sociological Thought - VII, Vilfredo Pareto
Week12 :
45: The Question of Tribes in India
46: Social Movements in India
47: Agrarian Social Structure in India
48: The Frankfurt School
Week13 :
49: Muslims in Contemporary India
50: Understanding Sexuality
51: Village Studies Tradition In Indian Sociology
52: Nature Body Culture
Week14 :
53: Sociology Of Everyday Life
54: Sociology and Decolonisation
Week15 :
55: Masculinity Studies
56: Religion, Nonreligion, Secularism as Concepts
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2. Bottomore, Tom, ed. (1983), A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Cambridge, Harvard University Press
3. Coser, L. A. (1977). Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social
4. Weber. Translated by R. Howard and H. Weaver. New York: Basic Books
5. Abbott, P. A., Wallace, C. D., & Tyler, M. (2005). An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives (3rd ed.). Routledge
6. Firestone, S. (1970) The Dialectic of Sex: the Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: Morrow
7. Butler, C. (2002). Postmodernism: A very short introduction. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press
8. Dreyfus, H. L., & Rabinow, P. (1982). Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Brighton: Harvester Press
9. Beattie, John.1999. ‘Kinship’, Other Cultures: Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology. London: Routledge.pp- 93-116
10. Eggan, F. and Sills, D.L., 1968. Kinship. International Encyclopedia of the Social Science, New York: Macmillan. Pp -390-393
11. Castells, Manuel and Cardoso, Gustavo, eds., 2005. The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy. Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, Massachusetts
12. Pocock, David. 1998. ‘Economic Anthropology’. Understanding Social Anthropology. The Athlone Press, London and New Brunswick NJ. Pp-97-127
13. Bilton, T. (1981). The New Dynamics of Class. In T. Bilton, Introductory Sociology (pp. 173-177). London: Macmillan Press Limited
14. Chatterjee, P. (1993). The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. In P. Chatterjee, Whose Imagined Community? (pp. 3-13). Princeton University Press
15. Sheth, D. (1999). Secularization of Caste andMaking of the New Middle Class. Economic and Political Weekly, 2502-2510
16. Rudolph L. 1. and S. Rudolph. 1967. Introduction in Rudolph and Rudolph. The Modernity of Tradition : Political Development in India. pp 5-14. Chicago : University of Chicago Press
17. Sheth. D.L. 1999. Secularisation of Caste and the Making of the New Middle Class. Economic and Political Weekly. 2502-2510
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