MA Sociology Syllabus

2008-09

Semester I and II

SEMESTER I

COMP. PAPERS

Classical Sociology

Perspectives in Indian Society

Optional Papers

Agrarian Society

Social Movements

Political Sociology

Sociology of Maharashtra

SEMESTER II

COMP. PAPERS

Contemporary Social Theories

Methodology

Optional Papers

Sociology of Education

Sociology of Media

Health and Society

Industry, Human Resource and Society

M.A. PART I

COMPULSORY COURSE PAPER I

CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION

Objectives :

1.To inform students about the rich tradition of sociological thought

2.To highlight the relevance of classical theory in contemporary scenario

1. ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: HISTORICAL, SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND

INTELLECTUAL FORCES

a) Traditional Feudal Economy and Society in Europe : Characteristics

b) French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Emergence of Capitalism and their impact

on Economy and Society

c) The Enlightenment and its impact on thinking and reasoning

d) Idealism Vs.empiricism

2. KARL MARX

Historical Materialism : Mode of Production – Basic Structure and Superstructure –

Economic Determinism - Transformation of human society through different stages.

Archaic, Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism.

Theory of Class Struggle and Capitalism

Theory of Alienation

3. EMILE DURKHEIM

Contribution to the Methodology of Sociology :

Sociology as a science- Concept of Social Fact- Methodological Rules

Division of Labour : Mechanical and Organic Solidarity - causes and functions of

increasing division of labour - Pathological forms of division of labour

Theory of Suicide : Types of suicide and his distinctive sociological interpretation of

Suicide.

Theory of Religion : Durkheim's definition of 'Religion' – Analysis of Totemism as the

most elementary religion and its sociological interpretation - Religious Rituals, their types

and social function.

4. MAX WEBER

Contribution to the Methodology of Social Sciences: Distinctive nature of Social

Realities -Sociology as an interpretative science - Concepts of 'Verstehen' and 'Ideal

Types'

Theory of Social Action-Concept and types

Concept of Bureaucracy : Cocept, Characteristics, bureaucracy and rationality.

Views on Capitalism: Analysis of Modern Capitalism - Protestant Ethic and Emergence

of Capitalism.; Role of ideas and values in social change

5. Limitations of Classical Theory: Race (Du Bois), Gender (Gilman) and colonialism

Essential Readings :

1. Abrahm M. F. and Morgan J. H., 1996, Sociological Thought, MacMillan India,

Madras.

2. Aron, Reymond (1965-67) : Main Currents in Sociological Thought, Vol. I and II,

Penguin.

3. Coser, Lewis A. (1977) : Masters of Sociological Thought, Harcourt Base, New

York.

4. Fletcher, Ronald (1971) : The Making of Sociology, Vol. I and II, Michael Joseph

Ltd., London

5. Giddens, Anthony (1971) : Capitalism and Modern Social Theory - An analysis

of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, Cambridge University Press

6. Hughes, John A., Martin, Peter J. and Sharrock, W. W. (1995) :

Understanding Classical Sociology - Marx, Durkheim and Weber, Sage, London.

7. Morrison, Ken (1995) : Marx, Durkheim and Weber- Formations of Modern

Sociological Thought, Sage, New Delhi.

8. Nisbet (1966) : The Sociological Tradition, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.,

London.

9. Parsons, Talcott (1937-1949) : The Structure of Social Action, Vol. I and II,

McGraw Hill, New York

10. Ritzer George, Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Synthesis, (1990) Colombia

University Press.

11. Turner, J. H. (1974), The Structure of Sociological Theory, Homewood Pub.

12. Yakhot, O. Spirin A. (1971) : The Basic Principles of Dialectical and Historical

Materialism, Progress Publishers, Mosco.

13. Zeitlin, Irving M. (1969) : Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory,

Prentice - Hall, New Delhi.

14. Kennith, Allan (2005) Exploration of Classical Sociological Theory Seeing the

Sociological World, Pinforge Press London

15. Dorothy Smith (1996) The Conceptual Practices of Power, University of Toronto

Press

COMPULSORY PAPER - II

PERSPECTIVES ON INDIAN SOCIETY

Objectives :

1. To acquaint the students to the continuities and contradictions in Indian society through

centuries.

2. To trace the history of ideas related to the analysis of Indian society.

3. To analyse the role of colonialism, democracy, nation building and globalization in shaping

contemporary, Indian society.

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.Development of Sociology in India and perspectives to study Indian society :

Indological, (Ghurye,)

Structural-Functional, (M. N. Sriniwas,)

Dialectical, (D. P. Mukherji, A. R. Desai,)

Subaltern (R. Guha)

Non Brahmin ( Phule, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar)

Feminist (Neera Desai, Leela Dube)

I

II. Debates on Indian Social Institutions

(a) Family, Kinship and Household (Joint versus nuclear, household versus family)

(b) Village (phases)

(c) Urban Settings (going beyond rural- urban continuum)

I

V. Bases of Social Stratification in India

a) Caste

b) Class

c) Tribe

d) Gender

V. Globalization and Indian Society

(a) Labour

(b) Education- Issues in higher education

(c) Farmer’s Suicide

(d) SEZ

(e) Debates on Globalization

Prescribed Books

1. Baxi Upendra and Parekh Bhiku, 1996, Crisis and Change in Contemporary India,

Sage, New Delhi.

2. Beteille Andre, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, OUP, New Delhi, 2002.

3. Breman Jan, Kloos Peter and Ashwini Saith, The Village in Asia Revisited, OUP 1997

4. Chatterjee Partha, The Nation and its fragments, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

5. Dahiwale S.M. (ed), Indian Society: Non-Brahmanic Perspectives, Rawat Publications,

2004

6. Das Veena, The Oxford Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. I and

II, OUP, New Delhi, 2003.

7. Das Veena, (ed) Handbiik of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi, 2004.

8. Desai, A. R., 1966, Social Background of Indian Nationalism, Popular Prakashan,

Bombay.

9. Deshpande Satish, Contemporary India: Sociological Perspectives, Viking

10. Dhanagare, D. N., 1993, Indian Society : Themes And Perspectives, Rawat

publications, Jaipur.

11. Dube S. C., 1967, The Indian Village, Routledge, London.

12. Dube S. C., 1973, Social Sciences in a Changing society, Lucknow University Press,

Lucknow.

13. Dube, S. C., 1990, Indian Society, National Book Trust, New Delhi.

14. Fuller, C. J. 1997, Caste Today, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

15. Singh Yogendra, 1973, Modernization of Indian Tradition, Thomson Press, Delhi.

16. Gajendragad, Bharatiya Samajshastra, PhadkePrakashan, Kolhapur.

17. Khilnani Sunil, The Idea of India, Penguin, New Delhi, 1999

18. Kosambi D. D., 1956, An Introduction to the history of Indian Civilization, Popular Prakashan,

Bombay.

19. Mukherjee Ramakrishna, 1979, Sociology of Indian Sociology, Allied Publishers, New Delhi.

20. Omvedt Gail, Dalits and Democratic Revolution, Sage, New Delhi

21. Patel Sujata and Alice Thorner (eds), Bombay Metaphor for Modern India Bombay and

Delhi, Oxford University Press.

22. Srinivas M. N., Social Change in Modern India, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

23. Srinivas M.N., Collected Essays, OUP, New Delhi, 2002

24. Srinivas M. N., 1963, Social change in Modern India, University of

California Press, Berkeley.

25. Srinivas M. N., 1980, Social Structure, Hindustan Publishing

Corporation, New Delhi.

26. Vivek P. S., 2002, Sociological perspectives and Indian Sociology, Himalaya

Publishing House, Mumbai.

27. . Ahmad Imtiaz, Ghosh Partha and Reifield Helmut, (ed.), 2000, Pluralism and

Equality, Values in Indian society and politics, Sage Publications, New Delhi.

28. . Ahmad Aijaz, 2000, Globalization and Nationalism, University of Pune, Pune.

29. Beteille Andre, 1991, 1997, Society and polities in India, Essays in a comparative

perspectives, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

30. Brass Pual, 1990, The politics of India Since Independence, Cambridge University

Press, New Delhi.

31. Chaterjee Searale Mary and Sharma Ursula, (ed), 1994, Contextualsing Caste,

Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.

32. Das Veena (ed), 1990, Mirrors of Violence : Communites, Riots and Survivors in

South Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

33. Das Veena, (ed), 2003, Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social

Anthropology, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

34. Das Veena, 1995, Critical Events, An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary

India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

35. Desai A. R., 1986, Relevance of the Marxist Apporach to the Study of Indian Society,

in Oomen T. K., Mukherji Partha, (ed), 1986, Indian Sociology, Reflections and

Introspection, Popular Prakashan, Bombay.

36. Desai, A. R. (ed), 1985, Caste and Communal Violence in Independent India, C. G.

Shah Memorial Trust Publication, Bombay.

37 .Engineer, Asghar Ali, 1984, Communal Riots In Post- Independence India, Sangam

Books, Hyderabad.

38. Guha R., 1998, A Subaltern Studies Reader, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

39. Kumar Radha, The History of Doing, Kali for Women, New Delhi.

40. Ludden 2000, Critique of Subaltern Studies, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

41. Mahajan, Gurpreet 1998, Democracy, Difference and Social Justice; Oxford University

Press, New Delhi.

42. Omvedt Gail, 1994, Dalits and the Democratic Revolution, Sage Publications, New

Delhi.

43. Oomen T. K., 1990, State and Society in India, Studies in Nation-Building, Sage

Publications, New Delhi.

44. Oomen T. K., Mukherji Partha (ed), 1986, Indian Sociology–Reflections and

Introspection; Popular Prakashan, Bombay.

45. Pathy Jagannath, 1988, Ethnic Minorities in the Processes of Development; Rawat

Publications, Jaipur.

46. Robb Peter, Dalit Movements and the Meaning of Labour in India, 1993, Oxford

University Press, Oxford.

47. Said, E. W. 1985, Orientalism; Penguin, Harmondsworth.

48. Sarkar Sumit, 1997, Writing Social History; Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

49. Sathyamurthy, T. N., 1994, State and Nation in the Context of Social Change; Oxford

University Press, Oxford.

50. Shah Ghanashyam, (ed), 2001, Dalit Identity and Politics, Sage Publications, New

Delhi.

51. Sharma Ursula, 2002, Caste; Viva Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

52. Singh K. S., (ed) 1983, Tribal Movements in India, Vol. 1 and 2; Manohar, New Delhi.

53. Thapar Romila, 1987, Cultural Transaction and Early India : Tradition and

Patronage;Oxford University Press,New Delhi.28.

54. Vanaik Achin, 1997, Communalism Contested — Religion, Modernity and

Secularization; Vistaar Publications, Delhi.

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SO 003 – SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Objectives:

1. To introduce the students to the role of social movements in social

transformation

2. To help them understand the various approaches to the study of social

movements.

I. Nature, Definitions, Characteristics of social movement

Relationship with State and Civil Society

II. Theories of Social Movements.

a) Structural –functional

b) Marxist

c) Resource Mobilization Theory

d) New Social Movement

III. Social Movement and Social Change

a) Reform, Rebellion, Revival

b) Revolution, Insurrection

c) Counter Movement

IV. New Social Movements(with specific reference to social basis, leadership,

ideology and emotions)

a) Peasant movement

b) Labour movement

c) Dalit movement

d) Women’s movement

e) Ecological movement

Readings:

1) Foweraker Joe, Theorising Social Movements, Pluto Press, London, 1995.

2) Bagguley, P. (1992). Social change, the middle class and the emergence of “new social

movements”: A critical analysis. The Sociological Review 40.1: 26-48

3) Bagguley, P. (1997). Beyond political sociology? Developments in the sociology of social

movements. The Sociological Review 45.1: 147-61.

4) Banks J. A., Sociology of Social Movements,

5) Buechler, S. 1997. 'New Social Movement Theories' in Buechler, S. and Cylke, F.K., Jr.

(eds.) Social Movements: Perspectives and Issues. Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing

Company.

6) Buechler, S. 1993. 'Beyond Resource Mobilization: Emerging Trends in Social

Movement Theory'. The Sociological Quarterly 34: 217-235.

7) Buechler Steven M., Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy

and Cultural Construction of Social Activism Oxford University Press, 2000.

8) Brian D. Loader, Nixen Paul G. Rucht, (2004) Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens, and

Social Movements, Routledge.

9) Diani, M. 1992. 'The concept of social movement', Sociological Review, 40, 1: pp.1 - 25.

10) Eder, Klaus. (1993). The new politics of class: Social movements and cultural dynamics

in advanced societies. Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications.

11) Flam H. and King D.Edt.: Emotions and Social Movements, Routledge,NY.

12) Gore M. S., Non Brahmin Movement of Maharashtra, Segment Book Distributors, New

Delhi, 1989

13) Joshi Barbara, (ed) Untouchable! Voices of Dalit Literature Movement, Londoan, Zed

Books, London 1986.

14) Jogdand P.G. 1991, Dalit Movement in Maharashtra , New Delhi : Kanak Publications .

15) Katzenstein Ray, Social Movements in India, OUP, 2005.

16) Kohli Atul, State and Poverty in India, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

17) McAdam, D., McCarthy, J.D. and Zald, M.N. 1996. Comparative Perspectives on Social

Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

18) Meyer David S., Whittilev Nancy, Robnett Belinda: Social Movements, Oxford, New

York, 2002.

19) Mathew George, Panchayati Raj from Legislation to Movement, New Delhi, Concept

Pub. 1994.

20) Michel S. M., (Ed) Dalits in India, Sage, Delhi, 2007.

21) Oommen T.K.: Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements, Sage, Delhi, 2004.

22) Oommen, T.K. 1990 . Protest and change : Studies in social Movements , Delhi – Sage

23) Omvedt, Gail 1994 : Dalit and the Democratic Revolution , New Delhi : Sage.

24) Omvedt, Gail 1976 : Ciltural Revolt in a Colonial Society: Non Brahmin Movement in

Western India. 1973-1930., Bombay, Scientific Education Trust.

25) Omvedt, Gail 1995. Dalit visions : The anti-caste movement and the construction of an

Indian Identity. New Delhi Orient Longman.

26) Pichardo Nelson A., NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS:A Critical Review, Annual Review of

Sociology Vol. 23: 411-430 (Volume publication date August 1997)

27) Petras James, Henry Vettmeyer: Social Movements and State Power, Pluto Press,

London, 2005.

28) Rao, M.S.A.: Social Movements in India, Vol.I and II, Manohar, Delhi, 1978.

29) Shah Ghanshyam: Social Movements and the State, Sage, New Delhi, 2002.

30) Robb, Peter , eds. 1993 , Dalit Movements and meeting of labour in India . Delhi – Sage

31) Shah Ghanshyam: Social Movements in India, A Review of Literature, Sage, New

Delhi, 1990.

32) Singh K.S. 1982 Tribal movements in India, ( ed.) Vol. I & II Manohar Publications ,

New Delhi.

33) Singh Rajendra, 2001, Social Movements, Old and New, Sage Publications, New

Delhi.

34) Smelser, N.J. 1963. The Theory of Collective Behavior. New York: The Free Press

35) Tarrow, Sidney G. (1994). Power in movement: Social movements, collective action and

politics. New York: Cambridge University Press

36) Tarrow, S. 1998. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

37) Touraine, A. 1981. The voice and the eye: an analysis of social movements. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

38) Wilson J, Introduction to Social Movements ,Basic Books, INC. Publishers,

New York, 1973.

39) Zirakzadeh Cyrus E., (1997) Social Movements in Politics A Comparative Study ,

Pearson Books.

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Optional Paper

Sociology of Maharashtra: Culture and Society

Objectives:

1. To enhance sociological knowledge about the local and regional context of

Maharashtra.

2. To acquaint students with the changing trends in Maharashtra with special

reference to globalization, Development processes and caste, gender politics

I. Maharashtra: Mapping History and development Indices.

I

I. Cultural Revolt in Colonial Maharashtra:

-Impact of Satyashodhak Movement

- Non Brahmin Movement

-Right Discourse in Kolhapur State

-Ambedkarite Movement

III. Debate on social reform and Women’s Questions in 19th Cent.

Maharashtra (Age of consent, Widow Remarriage, Education, Nation and

Mother)

IV. Formation of Maharashtra: Economic, Political and Cultural Issues

-Samyukta Maharashtra Movement

-Girangaon and Working Class Movement

-Ethnic Nationalism: Shiv Sena

- Development of Bahujan, Dalit and OBC politics in Maharashtra

V. Contemporary Issues of Development in Maharashtra

- Regional Disparity in Development

- Issues of Displacement

- Farmer’s Suicide

- SEZ (Special Economic Zone)

- Sex Ratio

References

1. Karve, I (1968): ‘Maharashtra, Land and Its People’, Directorate of

Publications, Government of Maharashtra, Bombay.

2. Karve, I. ( ) Marathi Lokanchi Sanskriti, Deshmukh Pub, Mumbai

3. Khekale, N (1999): ‘Pressure Politics in Maharashtra’, Himalaya Publishing

House, Bombay.

4. Lele, J (1990): ‘Caste, Class and Mobilisation in Maharashtra’ in Frankel Pub.

5. Gare Govind, Maharashtratil Adivasi,

6. Human Development Report, Maharashtra, Government of Maharashtra

Pub. Mumbai, 2002.

7. Jain Ashok, “Government and Politics of Maharashtra”, Sheth Publishers,

Bombay, 1995.

8. Lele, J (1990): ‘Caste, Class and Mobilisation in Maharashtra’ in Frankel Pub.

9. Lele Jayant, Elite Pluralism and Class Rule- Political Development in

Maharashtra, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1982.

10. Lele Jayant, “Caste, Class and Dominance: Politics Mobilization in

Maharashtra ”, “Dominance and State Power in Modern India- Decline of

Social Order”, Francine Frankel, MSA Rao (Ed.), Oxford University Press,

Delhi, 1990.

11. Jogdand P.G. 1991, Dalit Movement in Maharashtra , New Delhi : Kanak

Publications .

12. Khekale, N (1999): ‘Pressure Politics in Maharashtra’, Himalaya Publishing

House, Bombay

13. Mohanty M., Mukherji Partha and Tornquist Olle, (Ed) Peoples Rights : Social

Movement and the State in the Thirld World, Sage 1998

14. Omvedt, Gail 1995. Dalit visions : The anti-caste movement and the

construction of an Indian Identity. New Delhi Orient Longman.

15. Omvedt, Gail 1999 : Dalit and the Democratic Revolution , New Delhi : Sage.

16. Omvedt, Gail, Cultural Revolt in Colonial India,

17. Oommen, T.K. 1990 . Protest and change : Studies in social Movements ,

Delhi – Sage Pub.

18. Robb, Peter , eds. 1993 , Dalit Movements and meeting of labour in India .

Delhi – Sage Pub.

19. Shah, Ghansham, 1990 Social Movements in India : A Review of

Literature.Delhi Sage Pub.

20. Singh K.S. 1982 Tribal movements in India, ( ed.) Vol. I & II Manohar

Publications , New Delhi.

21. Karve Iravati, Hindu Society - an interpretation(1961)

22. Karve Iravati, Aamachi Samskruti

23. Karve, I. ( ) Marathi Lokanchi Sanskriti, Deshmukh Pub, Mumbai

24. Phadke Y. D., Visavya Shatakatil Maharashtra, Vol. 1 to-4 , Srividya

Prakashan , Pune.

25. Sahastrabuddhe P. G., Maharashtra Sanskruti.

26. Vora Rajendra, Agenda for The Study of Political Economy of

Maharashtra, Occasional paper No.1, Politics and Public Administration,

University of Pune, Feb.1994.

Optional Paper

Agrarian Society in India

Objectives :

1. To introduce students to different approaches to the study of Agrarian Social

structure.

2. To understand the contemporary agrarian society and issues in relevant context.

I

. Concept of agrarian social structure.

a) Structure of peasantry as an analytical category.

b) Basic feature of agrarian society.

c) Tribal and Peasant society.

II. Evolution of Agrarian Structure in India

a) Feudalism

b) Asiatic Mode of Production

c) Colonial Land Settlement

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II. Programmes in Post Independence India

a) Panchayati Raj

b) Community Development Programmes

c) HYV programmes :- The Green Revolution and its out come.

d) Poverty Alleviation programme integrated

EGS

SGRY

NREGP

IV. Agrarian Movemens

a) Telangana

b) Teebhaga

c) Naxalbari

V. Post Liberation Policies

a) Peasant Movement in the 1980s and Politics of Farm Lobby

b) Globalisation and Its Impact on Indian agriculture.

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Reference:-

1) Beteille Andre : Six Essays in Comparative Sociology; OUP, New Delhi 1974, PP 1-50

2) Thorner Daniel and Thorner Alice- Land and Labour in India - Asia Publications,

Bombay, 1962. Whole book.

3) Desai A. R., Rural Sociology in India, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1977 PP- 269-

336, 425, 527.

4) Dhanagare D. N.; Peasant Movement in India; Oxford University Press New Delhi,

1988 PP 1-25 88-155.

5) Omvedi Gail - Land, Caste and Politics; Department of Political Science, Delhi

University Delhi 1987, Introduction only.

6) Shanin, T., Peasantry - Delineation of Sociological concept - Journal of Peasant

Studies, 1991, PP 180-200

7) Agrawal Bina, Who sows? Who Reaps? Institute of Economic Growth, - New Delhi,

Full Booklet.

8) Beteille Andre; Caste, Class, and Power; California University Press, 1971, PP 185-

226

9) Desai A. R. : Agrarian Struggles in India after Independence, Oxford University Press,

New Delhi 1986, PP. 129-189

10) Mencher J., Problems of Analysing Rural Class Structure; Economic and Political

weekly, Vol. IX, 1974.

11) Thorner A.; "Semi-Fundalism on Capitalism Contemporary in India", Economic and

Political

weekly, Vol. X, Nos 49-51, Dec. 11 & 23 (1982)

12) Nanda M.: Transnationalism of Third World States and Undoing of Green

Revolution, Economic and Political Weekly, Jan - 23- 1995.

13) Sathyamurthy, T. V. Industry and Agriculture in India Since Independence; Vol.2,

OUP, New Delhi-1996 - Entire Volume.

14) Singh Katar Rural Development, Sage, 1999.

15) Jan Zsary, Indus eat al, The State of World Rural Poverty : An Inquiry into its causes

and consequences; New York Univ. Press, 1992, Pg. 1-50

16) Joan Macher - Conflicts and Contradictions in the Green Revolution, The Case of

Tamilnadu EW, Vol IX (1974), PP 1545, 1503.

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Optional Paper

Political Sociology

Objectives:

1. To study the relationship between society and polity

2. To study the various approaches to study the State

3. To understand the contemporary challenges in India

I. Nature and scope of political sociology. Relationship between Society and

Polity, Sociological Definitions of Politics, authority and the state.

II. Theoretical Approaches to the State: Liberal, Pluralist, Power-elite, Postmodernist

III. Marxist tradition, Weberian Tradition, the New Political sociology

IV. Society and the state in India and Contemporary Challenges:

Religious nationalism, Hindutva and politics of the upper castes, the caste

system and patriarchy; Language, Ethnicity and Region.

Readings:

1. Laclau Ernesto, Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, Verso, London, 1977

2. Kothari Rajni, Caste in Indian Politics, Delhi, 1973.

3. Miller David, On Nationality, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

4. Bhargava Rajeev, Secularism and its Critics, OUP, New Delhi, 1999.

5. Chandhoke Neera (edt) Understanding the Post Colonial World, Sage, New Delhi,

1994.

6. Nash Kate, 2000, Contemporary Political Sociology, Blackwell Publishers,

Massachussets.

7. Ernst Gellner, 1983, Nations and Nationalism, Cornell University Press

Gershon Shafir (ed) 1998The Citizenship Debates, University of Minnesota Press

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, Blackwell (1990)

8. Benedict Anderson, 1991,Imagined Communities, Verso

9. Vora Rajendra and Palshikar Suhas, (Ed) Indian Democracy, Sage New Delhi, 2004

10. Tornquist Olle, “Politics and Development” - A Critical Introduction, Sage

publication, London, 1999.

11. Sharma Rajendra, “Power Elite In Indian Society”, Rawat Publications, Jaipur

and New Delhi, 1999.Kohli Atul, “ The State and Poverty in India –The Politics of

Reform”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987.

12. Desai A.R., State and Society – India – Essays in Dissent, popular Pub,

Bombay. 2000.

13. Shakir Moin, “State and Politics in Contemporary India”, Ajanta Publication,

Delhi, 1986.

14. Vora Rajendra, Agenda for The Study of Political Economy of Maharashtra,

Occasional paper No.1, Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune,

Feb.1994.

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Semester II

Comp. Paper I

Contemporary Social Theories

Objectives:

1. To introduce the students to the contemporary trends in the social theory

2. To compare and contrast various theories and to understand their strengths and

weaknesses

I. Meaning of Theory- Nature of Sociological Theory- Levels of theorization

II. Marxism From 30s to 70s: Frankfurt school, Gramsci (hegemony, civil

society), Althusser(theory of ideology) and Habermas ( lifeworld and system)

III. Structuralism and Post Structuralism: Levi Srauss, Foucault and Derrida

IV. Recent trends in Sociological Theory: A. Giddens and Bourdieu

Readings

1. Ritzer G. and Barry Smart (ed) Handbook of Social Theory, Sage, 2001.

2. Ritzer George (edt): Encyclopedia of Social Theory,Sage,2005.

3. Bryn Turner, Chris Rojek and Craig Calhoun (ed) The Sage Handbook of

Sociology, Sage, 2005

4. The Polity Reader in Social Theory, 1994, Polity Press.

5. Adams And Sydie (): Sociological Theory, Vistar Publication, N. Delhi, 2001.

6. Giddens A. and Turner J.: Social Theory Today Polity Press, UK,1987.

7. Seidman Steven: Contested Knowledge- Social Theory in the Post modern Era,

Blackwell Pub,1994.

8. Smart Barry: Michel Foucault, Routledge, London.

9. Cassell Philip(edt): The Giddens Reader, Maxmillan, UK, 1987.

10. Charles Lemert, Sociology After the Crisis Westview 1995

11. Alan How, Critical Theory, Palgrave Macmillan 2003

12. Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society. Outline of a Theory of

Structuration, Polity 1984

13. Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1 and 2

Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987.

14. Luke Goode, Jurgen Habermas, Democracy and the Public Sphere, Pluto,2005

15. Steven Loyal, The Sociology of Anthony Giddens, Pluto, 2003

16. Bourdieu, P.: In other words – Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology, Stanford:

Stanford University Press, 1990

17. Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, Polity, 1990.

Compulsory Paper II

Methodology of Social Research

Objectives:

1. To acquaint students with the fundamentals of research techniques and

methods.

2. To acquaint students with the quantitative and qualitative strategies of

research

I. Positivism and Sociology

Classical View of Science, Reason, rationality and Standard view of Scientific

knowledge

Social science as science, objectivity and ethics, the position of researcher,

problem of adequacy.

I

I. Critiques of positivism

a) Existential Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

b) New philosophy of science: Popper,Fayeraband and Kuhn

c) Feminist Critiques

III. Quantitative Research Strategies

a) Survey(interview, questionnaire and schedule)

b) Content Analysis

c) Panel Study

IV. Qualitative Research Strategies

a) Ethnography

b) Case Study

c) Oral History

d) Content Analysis

e) Participatory Action Research

Readings:

1. Carol Grbich: New Approaches in Social Research, Sage,

2. Williams Malcolm, Science and Social Science, 2000, Routledge, New York,

2004.

3. Mulkay Michael: Science and the Sociology of Knowledge, George Allen and

Unwin Ltd., London, 1979.

4. Giddens Anthony, New Rules of sociological Research, Hutchinson, 1976.

5. Denzin Norman, Lincoln Yvonna (ed): Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage,

Thousand Oaks, 2000.

6. Silverman David: Qualitative Methodology and sociology, Gower, Vermont,1985.

7. Burawoy M. and Joseph Blum, (ed): Global Ethnography: Forces,2000,

Connections and Imaginations, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los

Angeles.

8. Bryman Alan: Social Research Methods, Oxford,2001.

9. Devine and Heath: Sociological Research Methods in Context, Palgrave1999.

10. Sachdev Meetali: Qualitative Research in Social Sciences, Raj Publishing,

Jaipur.

11. Feyerabend Paul: Farewell to Reason, Verso, London, 1987.

12. Feyerabend Paul: Against Method, Humanities Press,1975.

13. Sarantakos S.: Social research, Macmillan Press, Uk.

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Optional Papers

Sociology of Education

Objectives:

1. To get acquainted with the approaches and contributions in sociology of

education

2. To get acquainted with the alternative educational programmes in India

I. New Developments in Sociology of Education; Theoretical Approaches and

Contributions in Sociology of Education- Parsons, Gramsci, Bourdieu.

II. Philosophy of Education – J Dewey, Freire, Ivan Illich, John Holt.

III. The Indian Tradition of Education: Colonial education, contribution of

nationalists/Gandhi.

IV. Policies and programmes: evaluation, issues of inequality, Child Labour and

Education, Impact of globalization.

V. Alternative Education Programmes.

Readings:

1. Morris, Iror: The Sociology of Education, Allan and Unwin, 1978.

2. Gore, M.S. et.all (ed.): Papers on Sociology of Education in India, New Delhi,

NCERT, 1975.

3. (i) Sen and Dreze: India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, New Delhi:

OUP, 1996.

(ii) Sen and Dreze: India: Development Selected Regional Perspectives, New Delhi:

OUP, 1997.

4. Channa, Karuna: Interrogating Women’s Education, Jaipur and New Delhi, Rawat

Publications, 2001.

5. Jerome Karabel and H.Halsey. Power and Ideology in Education. 1977. Oxford

University Press.

6. Banks. Olive. 1971. Sociology of Education, (2nd Ed.) London : Batsford.

7. Blackledge, D and Hunt, B. 1985. Sociological Interpretations of Education. London :

Crom Helm.

8. Kabeer, Nambissan & Subrahmaniam (eds.). 2003. Child Labour and Right to

Education in South Asia. Sage Publication, New Delhi.

9. Ramachandran, V. 2004. Gender and Social Equity in Primary Education, Sage

Publication.

Optional Paper

Health And Society

Objectives:

1. To sensitize students to health related issues

2. To understand the issues related to community health

3. To understand the role of the State in the area of health

I

) Introduction

Concepts -Health, Medicine, Illness, Sickness, Disease and Society

II) Theoretical perspectives on health and medicine within sociology

a) Functional approach

b) Conflict approach

c) Interactionist approach

d) Labeling approach

I

II) Disease, illness and sickness.

a) Natural history of disease

b) Human environment

c) Social etiology

d) Social Epidemiology

e) Ecology of disease

IV) Community Health

a) Concept of integrated health services

b) Community health problems in India

c) Public health care systems in India.

V) The State and Health

a) Health as a fundamental right.

b) Health policy of government of India.

c) Financing of health care and health insurance.

d) Food and drug adulteration.

e) Impact of privatization and globalization on health care in India

Essential readings

1. Albrecht, Gary L. and Fitzpatrick, R. 1994. Quality of life in health care:

2. Advances in medical sociology . Mumbai: Jai press.

3. Basu S.C. 1991. Hand book of preventive and social medicine 2nd edition,

4. Current Books International , Calcutta.

5. Coe . Rodney M .1970. Sociology of Medicine , New York: McGraw Hill.

6. Cockerham , William C, 1997, Medical Sociology New Jersey : Prentice Hall

7. Cockerham, William C, 1997 Reading in Medical Sociology , New Jersey

8. Prentice Hall.

9. Conrad , Peter et al. 2000. Handbook of medical sociology , New Jersey :

10. Prentice Hall.

11. David Armstrong 1983. An outline of sociology as applied to medicine 2nd

12. edition. Wright PSG Bristol London Boston .

13. Dalal Ajit, Ray Shubha, Ed. Social Dimensions of Health, Rawat, 2005

14. Lal Sheokumar and Chandani Ambika 1987. Medical care; Readings in

15. medical sociology Jainson publication New Delhi.

16. Mechanic David, 1978, Medical sociology 2nd edition New York, Free press.

17. Park K .2002. Textbook of Preventive and Social medicine; 20th edition

18. Banarasidas Bhanot publishers, Jabalapur,

19. Ratan Vidya, 1992. Handbook of preventive and social medicine (Community

20. Medicine)9th edition, Jaypee brothers medical Publishers(P) Ltd. New Delhi.

21. Venkataratnam,R.1979.Medical sociology in an Indian setting, Madras:

22. Macmillan.

References:-

1. Bhasin Veena-1994. People, Health and Disease: The Indian scenario. Delhi,

2. KamlaRaj Enterprises.

3. Bose Ashish and Desai P.B.(eds) 1983. Studies in Social Dynamics of Health care,

4. Delhi; Hindustan.

5. Calnan M.1987. Health and Illness, The Lay Perspective , Landon; Tavistock.

6. Gupta Giri Raj. (ed): 1981. Main currents in Indian Sociology (iv, The social and

7. cultural context of Medicine in India), Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.

8. 5. ICSSR,A survey of research in sociology and social Anthropology – volume II

9. 1974. Popular Prakashan, Bombay.pp 401 - 430

10. Janes Linda J. 1994. The social context of Health and Health work, London The

11. Macmillan press Ltd.

12. Nagla Madhu. 1998. Medical sociology. (A Study of Professional and their clients)

13. Printwell publishers, Jaipur.

14. Oommen, T.K.1978, Doctors and nurses: A study in occupational role structure,

15. New Delhi. Mcmillan.

16. Pokama K.L. 1994. Social Beliefs, cultural practices in Health and Disease, Rawat

17. Publications, New Delhi.

18. 10 Schaefer T. Richard and Lamm P. Robert 1999. Sociology 6th edition, Tata

McGraw Hill publishing company, New Delhi, pp 482 –489

19. DuBois, William and R. Dean Wright. 2000. Applying Sociology: Making a

20. Better World. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

21. Rebach, Howard M. and John G. Bruhn, eds. 2001. Handbook of Clinical

22. Sociology, Second Edition. New York: Kluwer Plenum Press.

23. Stephens, Jr., W. Richard. 2001. Careers in Sociology, Second Edition.

24. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Optional Paper

Sociology of Media

Objectives:

1. To introduce students to the different types of media.

2. To introduce new methodologies to analyze media in the context of globalization.

nation, gender and community.

I. Media and Modernity, Social History of Media, State and Media in India

II. Theories and concept of Media and Popular Culture

- Folk, Popular, Mass, Alternate

- Ideology

- Discourse and Hegemony

- Propaganda Model

I

II. Television: Analyzing programmes

-Content

- Transnational Television

I

V. Nation, Gender and Community in Indian Cinema

-Regional

-Bollywood

-Transnational

V. Methodologies for Studying Media

-Ethnography

-Audience research`

-Discourse analysis

Readings:

1. Asa Briggs & Peter Burke, A Social History of the Media, Polity Press,

Cambridge 2005.

2. Jan van Dijk, The Network Society, Sage, London, 2006

3. Rajgopal Arvind: Politics of Television

4. Don Robotham, Culture, Society and Economy: Bringing Production Back in,

Sage, London 2005

5. John Nguyet Erni and Ackbar Abbas , Internationalising Cultural Studies,

Blackwell, London, 2005.

6. David Inglis, Culture and Everyday Life, Rutledge, 2005.

7. Stuart Hall (ed). Representation, Sage, London, 2001

8. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift (eds) Cultural Economy Reader, Blackwell, London,

2004.

9. Elizabeth Long (ed). From Sociology to Cultural Studies, Blackwells, 1997

10. Anne Gray, Research Practice for Cultural Studies, Sage, London, 2005.

11. Dwyer & Patel (2001) (Ed.): Pleasure and the Nation, Oxford University Press,

New Delhi.

12. Dwyer & Patel (2002): Cinema India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

13. Nandy A. (1995) (Ed.): The Secret Politics of Our Desires, Oxford University

Press, New Delhi.

14. Niranjana Tejaswini et al (1995): Interrogating Modernity, Seagull, Calcutta.

15. Uberoi Patricia (2001): ‘Imagining the Family: An Ethnography of viewing Hum

Aapke Hain Kaun’ in Dwyer & Patel (2001) (Eds), Pleasure and the Nation,

Oxford, New Delhi.

16. Uberoi Patricia (2006): Freedom and Destiny, Oxford University Press, New

Delhi

17. Yuval Davis N. (1997): Gender and Nation, Sage, UK.

18. Vasudevan R. (2000): Making Meaning in Indian Cinema, Oxford University

Press, New Delhi.

19. Virdi Jyotika (2003): The Cinematic ImagiNations, Permanent Black, New Delhi.

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Optional Paper

Sociology of Labour

Objectives:

1. To understand the changing concept of the labour and work.

2. To understand the processes of migration of labour and labour in organized and

unorganized sector

I. Changing Concept of Work and Labour

II. Migration of Labour: Local, Regional and Transnational.

III. Organized labour in India: Working class movement and present challenges.

IV. Labour in unorganized sector: Issues of Gender, Unemployment, Poverty, Age,

Caste.

V. Organization in Unorganized Sector: Case Studies.

Readings:

1. Kofman and Youngs. 2003. Globalisation, Theory and Practice. Continuum.

London.

2. Friedman, T. World is flat: A Brief History of Globalised World in 21st Century.

Penguin. London.

3. Bernard and Schlemmer: 2000. The Exploited Child. Zed Books. London.

4. Watson, Tony: Sociology, Work and Industry, London; Routledge and Kegan

Paul, 1995.

5. Banerjee Nirmala; Women in Unorganised Sector, Hyderabad, Orient Longmans;

1985.

6. Breman, Jan: Footlose Labour, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

7. Breman Jan: Down and Out

8. Caplow, T. The Sociology of Work, 1970, University of Minnesota Press.

9. Schneider, Eugnene: Industrial Sociology, New York: McGraw Hill Book

Company, 1969, Part 1, 2 and 3.

10. Watson, Tony: Sociology, Work and Industry, London; Routledge and Kegan

Paul, 1995.

11. Miller, D.C. & Form, W.H.: Industrial Sociology, New York: Harper and Row, II

Ed.

12. Engineer Irfan, “Underdevelopment Poverty, Political Economy of Migration”,

Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, Mumbai, 1997.

13. Allen V. L., The Need for a Sociology of Labour, The British Journal of Sociology,

Vol. 10, No. 3, Industrial Sociology (Sep., 1959), pp. 181-192

14. Kalleberg A L, Sorensen A B, The Sociology of Labor Markets, Annual Review of

Sociology Vol. 5: 351-379 (Volume publication date August 1979

15. Breman Jam, Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers (1985),

16. Breman Jan, Wage Hunters and Gatherers (1994),

17. Breman Jan, The Labouring Poor in India; Patterns of Exploitation and Exclusion

, Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi 2003

18. Breman Jan, Das and R. Agarwal - Down and Out: Labouring under Global

Capitalism (Oxford University Press and Amsterdam University Press 2000

19. Breman Jan Of Patronage and Exploitation (University of California Press 1974)

20. Breman Jan, Of Peasants, Migrants and Workers, Rural labour Circulation and

Capitalist Production in WestIndia (Clarendon Press 1985)

21. Breman Jan, Labour Bondage in West India From Past to Present, OUP, 2006

22. Breman Jan, Parry Jonathan, Kapadia Karin, (Edited) The World's of Indian

Industrial Labour, Vedams eBooks , New Delhi, 1999

23. Breman Jan P. Kloos and A. Saich, The Village in Asia Revisited, Oxford

University Press, 1997.

24. Breman Jan, Parthiv Shah, Working in the Mill No More, Oxford University Press

, Delhi 2004

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