Topics
Social Institutions
Definition and Features of Social Institutions. Self Explanatory
Types of Social Institutions
Religion and Society
Definition and Concepts of Religion and Science; Beliefs, Rituals, Superstitions, Taboo
Theories of Religion: Animism, Naturism, Totemism, Functional Theorie
Functions and Dysfunctions of Religion
Communalism, Fundamentalism and Secularism in a Plural Society
Morality and Social Control
Political Organization
Economic Organisation
Economic Organisation
Economies of Indian Tribes
Agrarian Economy, Jajmani System and Rural Employment.
Traditional Markets
Tribal India - Past, Present and Future
Definition of Tribe, Features and Classification
Dormitories in Tribal India
Contact of tribes with wider society (assimilation, acculturation and isolation; tribal transformation)
Present Conditions, Problems and Solutions
Social Stratification
Social Stratification: the Elements
Class
Caste
Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Social Change and Development
Social Change and Development
Aspects of Development
Social Movements: Meaning, Causes and Their Role in Society.
Role of Education in Creating Social Change
Role of Mass Media in Creating Social Change
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- Concept of the caste system
- Caste
- Origin
- Caste and class comparison
- Features of caste
- Caste in modern India.
- Definition and Theory of Divine Origin
- Social mobility - brahminisation, sanskritisation and westernization.
- Changes in the role and features of caste (relevant examples may be given to provide a better understanding e.g. the role of the dominant caste).
- Factors leading to change in the caste system:
- Influence of education, industrialization, urbanization, modernization, freedom struggle and the establishment of Democracy, the rise of the Non - Brahmin movement, other causes - social reform movement, threat of conversion, improvement in the status of women and rise of new classes;
- Social legislation {a brief mention to be made of the following Constitutional Measures: Caste Disabilities Removal Act (1872), The Hindu Marriage Act (1955), The Untouchability Offences Act (1956), Constitutional policy of protective discrimination, the Kaka Kalelkar Commission (1953), The Mandal Commission (1979)}.
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