Academic year:
Topics with syllabus and resources
1.00 Introducing Sociology
1.10 Sociology and Society
- The Sociological Imagination: the Personal Problem and the Public Issue
- Sociology and Society
- Pluralities and Inequalities Among Societies
- Introducing Sociology
- Sociology and Common Sense Knowledge
- The Intellectual Ideas that Went into the Making of Sociology
- The Material Issues that Went into the Making of Sociology
- Why Should We Study the Beginning and Growth of Sociology in Europe?
- The Growth of Sociology in India
- The Scope of Sociology and Its Relationship to Other Social Science Disciplines
- Sociology and Economics
- Sociology and Political Science
- Sociology and History
- Sociology and Psychology
- Sociology and Social Anthropology
1.20 Terms, Concepts and Their Use in Sociology
- Terms, Concepts and Their Use in Sociology
- Social Groups and Society
- Types of Groups
- Primary and Secondary Social Groups
- Community and Society or Association
- In-Groups and Out-Groups
- Reference Group
- Peer Groups
- Social Stratification
- Caste
- Class
- Status and Role
- Society and Social Control
1.30 Understanding Social Institutions
- Understanding Social Institutions
- Family, Marriage and Kinship
- Variation in Family Forms
- Families are Linked to other Social Spheres and Families Change
- How gendered is the family?
- The Institution of Marriage
- Forms of Marriage
- The Matter of Arranging Marriages: Rules and Prescriptions
- Rules of Endogamy and Exogamy
- Defining Some Basic Concepts, Particularly those of Family, Kinship and Marriage
- Work and Economic Life
- What is Work?
- Modern Forms of Work and Division of Labour
- Transformation of Work
- Politics
- Stateless Societies
- The Concept of the State
- Religion
- Education
1.40 Culture and Socialisation
- Culture and Socialisation
- Diverse Settings, Different Cultures
- Defining Culture
- Dimensions of Culture
- Cognitive Aspects of Culture
- Normative Aspects of Culture
- Material Aspects of Culture
- Culture and Identity
- Ethnocentrism
- Cultural Change
- Socialisation
1.50 Doing Sociology : Research Methods
- Doing Sociology : Research Methods
- Some Methodological Issues
- Objectivity and Subjectivity in Sociology
- Multiple Methods and Choice of Methods
- Participant Observation
- Field Work in Social Anthropology
- Field Work in Sociology
- Some Limitations of Participant Observation
- Surveys
- Interview
2.00 Understanding Society
2.10 Social Structure, Stratification and Social Processes in Society
2.20 Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society
- Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society
- Social Change
- Environment
- Technology and Economy
- Politics
- Culture
- Social Order
- Domination, Authority and Law
- Contestation, Crime and Violence
- Social Order and Change in Village, Town and City
- Social Order and Social Change in Rural Areas
- Social Order and Social Change in Urban Areas
2.30 Environment and Society
- Environment and Society
- Major Environmental Problems and Risks
- Resource Depletion
- Pollution
- Global Warming
- Genetically Modified Organisms
- Natural and Man-made Environmental Disasters
- Why Environmental Problems Are Also Social Problems
- Sustainable Development
- No Rain but Water Parks
2.40 Introducing Western Sociologists
- Introducing Western Sociologists
- The Context of Sociology
- The Enlightenment
- The French Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution
- Class Struggle
- Durkheim’s Vision of Sociology
- Division of Labour in Society
- Max Weber and Interpretive Sociology
- Bureaucracy
2.50 Indian Sociologists
- Indian Sociologists
- Ghurye on Caste and Race
- D.P. Mukerji on Tradition and Change
- A.R. Desai on the State
- M.N. Srinivas on the Village
