SOCIAL THEORY SCBCS-111 Semester- I Course Rationale: A theory in its most simple form is an idea that guides and explains observations of the day to day world. In sociology, the idea is to observe and explain social things or social facts the phenomena, character, and dynamics of the social world. It is to comprehend power relationships in knowledge construction, rules, norms, value systems, social behaviour and in examining how social institutions get organised. I. Introduction: Historical background and emergence of sociology Social context and intellectual thought Early contributions- Comte and Spencer II. III. IV. Karl Marx Historical Materialism Theory of Class Struggle, Surplus value Theory of alienation Debate on base and superstructure Emile Durkheim Concept of Social Fact Division of Labour Elementary forms of Religious Life Theory of Suicide Max Weber Methodology Verstehen, Ideal type Theory of Social Action Types of Authority, rationalization Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism V. Structural Functionalism Radcliff Brown Parsons Merton Middle Range Theory, Manifest and Latent Functions Post- Structuralism Neo- functionalism V. Limitations of Classical Theory Race Gender Colonialism Connecting the classical theory to present issues VI. Critical Social Theory:
Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Frankfurt school Althusser, ideological state apparatuses and Structural Marxism JurgenHabermas and communicative action Noam Chomsky and manufacturing consent. Readings: Alexander, Jeffrey C. Ed. 1985. Neofunctionalism. London: Sage. Althusser, L. 1971. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. New York: Monthly Review Press. Appelrouth, Scott and Edles, D. 2008. Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings. California: Pine Forge Press. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Oxford: Polity Press. Calhoun, Craig, 1995, Critical Social Theory, Oxford: Blackwell Chatterjee, P. 1997. Talking about our Modernity in Two Languages. In his A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.263-85. Connerton, Paul. Ed. 1976. Critical Sociology. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Dahrendorf, Ralf. 1979. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Eisenstadt, S. N. 1999. Fundamentalism, Sectarianism and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Foucault, Michel. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Sussex: Harvester. Foucault, Michel. 1984. The Subject and Power. In H. L. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd Edition. Giddens, A. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press. Giddens, Anthony. 2004. In Defense of Sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press. Giddens, Anthony and Turner, J. H. Ed. 1987. Social Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity Press. Gouldner, Alvin. 1971. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. London: Heinemann. Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Habermas, J. 2001 [1981]. Modernity versus Postmodernity. In C. Cazeaux (ed.) The Continental Aesthetics Reader. London: Routledge, pp.268-77 Luckmann, Thomas. Ed. 1978. Phenomenology and Sociology: Selected Readings. New York: Penguin Books. Mennell, Stephen. 1980. Sociological Theory: Uses and Unities. Surrey: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 2nd Edition. Merton, Robert K. 1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press. Parsons, Talcott et al. 1965. Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Theory. New York: Free Press. Psathas, J. (ed) 1973, Phenomenological Sociology: New York: Wiley Rabinow, Paul. Ed. 1986. The Foucault Reader. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Ritzer, George. Ed. 2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell. Seidman, Steven, 1997, Postmodern Turn, London: Blackwell Seidman, Steven and Alexander, J. C. Ed. 2001. New Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates. London: Routledge. Skinner, Quentin. Ed. 1990. The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Smith, Dorothy E. 1999. Reading the Social: Critique, Theory and Investigations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Taylor, C. 1989. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Uberoi, J. P. S. 2002. The European Modernity: Science, Truth and Method. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Wright Mills, C. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
Course Rationale: SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA SCBCS-112 Semester-1 This paper offers to provide an indepth analysis of the idea of India. Students will be able to comprehend how India as a nation emerged and that there still exist many nations within this nation. Various perspectives will throw light on how the nation is construed by the marginal communities and why. I. Emergence of Sociology in India a. Colonial context and emergence of sociology and anthropology in India b. Contextualizing India II. Theoretical Perspectives a. Indological G.S. Ghurye b. Structural Functional M.N. Srinivas c. Synthesis of Textual and Field Views A.M.Shah III. Critical Perspectives a. Dialectical A.R.Desai b. Subaltern Ranjit Guha c. Non-Brahminical Mahatma Phule, Dr. Ambedkar d. Feminist approach Leela Dube, Neera Desai IV. Debates on Indian Society a. Social Institutions Family, kinship, household b. Social Stratification Caste, Class, Tribe, Gender V. Political Economy of Post independent India VI. Caste and Politics in India Essential Readings 1. B.K. Nagla, 2008, Indian Sociological Thought, Rawat Publications. 2. S.C. Dube, Indian Society, NBT 3. P.S. Vivek, Sociological Perspectives and Indian Sociology, 2002, Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai 4. Dahiwale S.M., Indian Society non- Brahminic Perspectives, Rawat, 2004
5. Guha Ranjit, Subaltern Studies Volume I 6. Y. Singh, Modernization of Indian Tradition 7. Deshpande Satish, Contemporary India, Sociological Perspectives 8. Beteille A, 1996, Sociology and Common sense, Oxford 9. Chaudhari Maitryee, 2010, Sociology in India Intellectual and Institutional Practices 10. Patel Sujata, Doing Sociology in India, OUP. 11. Pramanik 1984, Sociology of G.S. Ghurye, Jaipur, Rawat Publication 12. D.N.Dhanagare, Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology, Rawat Publications, 1999. 13. Andre Beteille, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, OUP, New Delhi, 2002. 14. Breman Jan, Kloos Peter and Ashwini Saith, The Village in Asia Revisited, OUP 1997 15. S.M.Dahiwale (ed), Indian Society: Non-Brahmanic Perspectives, Rawat Publications, 2004. 16. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Penguin, New Delhi, 1999 17. Veena Das, The Oxford Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. I and II, OUP, New Delhi, 2003. 18. Vivek P. S., 2002, Sociological perspectives and Indian Sociology, Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai. 19. Chaterjee Searale Mary and Sharma Ursula, (ed), 1994, Contextualsing Caste, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 20. Das Veena, 1995, Critical Events, An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. 21. Guha R., 1998, A Subaltern Studies Reader, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. 22. Raewyn Connell, Southern Theory, The Global Dynamics Of Knowledge In Social Science, ANU EPress
SOCIOLOGY OF MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES SCBCS-113 Semester- 1 Course Rationale: This paper enables the student to examine power relations in society and offers various perspectives on how marginalisation through identity politics takes place in everyday life. Caste, class, gender and tribe as social categories interact with each other to produce a social dynamic of marginalisation. I. Marginalization and its socio-economic indices: II. Poverty, Relative isolation, Deprivation, Exploitation, Discrimination, Educational Backwardness; inequality and inequity III. A critical view of the caste system IV. Untouchability: Historical and social Roots V. Colonialism and caste issues VI. Class, caste, gender and tribe/ethnicity References: Beteile, Andre (1981) Backward Classes and the new social order, Delhi: Oxford University press. Beteille, Andre (1992) The backward classes in Contemporary India, Delhi: Oxford University press. Charsley, S.R. and G K Karanth (1998) (eds.) Challenging Untouchability, Delhi: Sage Chako, M. Priyaram. (2005). Tribal Commun ities and social change, sage publications, New Delhi. Chaudhari, S.N. (1988) Changing status of Depressed castes in contemporary India, Delhi: Daya Publishing House Gupta, Dipankar (1991), social Stratification, New Delhi, Oxford University Press. Jogdand, P.G. (2000) New Economic Policy and Details, Jaipur: Rawat. Jogdand P.G. (1991) Dalit Movement in Maharashtra, New Delhi: Kanak Publication, 1991 Narayan Badri. (2006), Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: culture identity and politics, Sage Publications, New Delhi. Singha, Roy (2004), (ed), Social development and the Empowerm ent of Marginalized groups, Perspectives and strategies New Delhi: Sage Srikrishna, S., Samudrala and Anil Kumar. (Eds.) (2007). Dalits and Human Rights, Serial Publication, New Delhi. Gore, M.S. (1993) The social context of an Ideology: the social and Pol itical Thoughts of Babasaheb Ambedkar, New Delhi, Sage. Mahajan, Gurpreet (1988) Democracy, Difference and Social Justice, New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Omvedt Gail (1995): Dalit Visions: the Anti-Caste Movement and the construction of an Indian Identity,New Delhi: Orient Longman
Course Rationale MEDIA AND SOCIETY SCBCS-114 Semester- I This course will enable students to internalise disparate sociological perspectives to understand how media and popular culture is produced and experienced in both everyday life and in a broader social context. Particular attention will be given to theories about the social organization of the mass media industry, the relationship between cultural consumption and social status, and the social significance of leisure activities from movies to sports to shopping. I. Culture, Society and Economy- Process of knowledge construction II. Classifying Culture, Key concepts, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Culture, cultural studies III. Media and Modernity, Social History of media. The problem of everyday life: fashion, music, tourism, counterculture Theories of Media and popular culture. (Culture, ideology and hegemony, propaganda model, critical media research, aristocracy of cultures) IV. Politics of Representation, engaging with the other Postmodern turn and new media. V. Combining Methodologies: decoding culture, new ethnography, reading discourses, genealogical analysis, analyzing global contexts VI. Global and local cultures 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. Don Robotham, Culture, Society and Economy: Bringing Production Back in, Sage, London 2005 4. John Nguyet Erni and Ackbar Abbas, Internationalising Cultural Studies, Blackwell, London, 2005. 5. David Inglis, Culture and Everyday Life, Routledge, 2005. 6. Stuart Hall (ed). Representation, Sage, London, 2001 7. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift (eds) Cultural Economy Reader, Blackwell, London, 2004. 8. Elizabeth Long (ed). From Sociology to Cultural Studies, Blackwells, 1997 9. Anne Gray, Research Practice for Cultural Studies, Sage, London, 2005.
RURAL SOCIOLOGY SCBCS- 115 Semester I Course Rationale To assess the power relations in rural settings and examine the social and structural changes in the post independent period. To impart sociological perspectives which will enable the participant/student to examine rural development programmes and state policies critically. I. Introduction to Rural Sociology II. Rural Society in India as agrarian and peasant social structure III. Basic characteristics of peasant and agrarian society IV. Family, caste, tribe, ethnicity, gender, religion, habitat and settlement V. Debates on mode of production and agrarian relations- tenancy, land and labour VI. Agrarian legislation and rural social structure References Bailey, F.G.; Caste and Economic Frontier, Manchester University Press. Dubey, S.C.; India s Changing Village, Routledge and Kegan paul. Srinivas, M.N.; India s Village (ed) Asia Publishing House. Bombay Desai, A.R.; Introduction to Rural Sociology in India, Bombay Ahuja, Ram; Social Problem, Rawat Publ. Jaipur,2006 Pradhan, P.K.; Land Labour and Rural Poverty, Himalyan Publ. Bombay. Vidyarthy, L.P.; Leadership in India, Asia Publ. House, Bombay.
GENDER AND SOCIETY SCBCS-116 SEMESTER-I Course Rationale: This paper will examine gender as a category of social analysis and gender bias in contemporary society. It assesses various patriarchal ideologies, practices, normative structures which will enable students to understand how the state, media and market reproduce these hierarchies. I.Conceptualizing Gender Constructing Sex and Gender Patriarchy Sexual Division of Labour Construction of Sexuality Masculinity and Feminity II. Feminist Thought Liberal Marxist Radical Socialist Post Modernist Black Feminism Dalit Feminism III. Manufacturing bodies Technologies of gender, sex, organising hierarchies and social disability Politics of knowledge production Science and ideology, critique of essentialism IV. Bio-power Control of bodies, eugenics, population control State management of sexuality and public behaviour Reproductive politics and ethics V. Modernity, Citizenship and Rights Imagining a Nation: citizenship and nation-state Trajectories of modern nation states Multiple identities and state interventions Modernity and Modernisation Public and personal divide VI. Globalisation, Consumerism and Neoliberalism Withdrawal of state and rights of citizens Unequal global development and issues of gender discrimination Feminist unions and global movements Cross gender identification and gay and lesbian movements and rights
References: Bhasin Kamala: Understanding gender, kali for women, N. Delhi,2000 Basu Aparna: Women s Education in India in Ray and Basu (edt): From Independence Towards Freedom, OUP, 1999. Chodhuri Maitreyee (2004): Feminism in India, Women Unlimited, New Delhi. Chakravarty Uma:Gendering caste through a feminist Lense, Stree, Calcutta,2003. Courting Disaster, PUDR report, 2003. Davis Kathy, Evans Mary, Lorber, J (edt) (2006): Handbook of Gender and Women s studies, Sage,UK. Delamont Sara: Feminist Sociology Feminist Concepts, Contribution to women s studies series, Part-I, II, III, RCWS, Mumbai. Foucault, Michel. 17 March 1976. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France 1975-1976. Trans. David Macey. New York: Picador, 1976. Freedman Jane: Feminism, Viva Books, New Delhi, 2002. Geetha V.: Patriarchy, Stree, Calcutta, 2007. Geetha V.: Gender, Stree, Calcutta, 2002. Ghadially Rehana (Edt): Urban Women in Contemporary India, Sage Publications, 2007. Holloway, Karla FC. Bloodchild Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender and a Cultural Bioethics. Durham: Duke University Press, IGNOU : Kits on Women in Indian Contexts, Delhi Kaplan Karen, An Introduction to Women s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. 2nd ed. Eds. Inderpal Grewal and New York: McGraw Hill, 2006. Karat Brinda: Survival and Emancipation, Three essays Collective, 2005. Khullar Mala(edt.): Writing the Women s Movement- A Reader, Zubaan, New Delhi,2005. Kimmel Michael: The Gendered Society, Oxford, NY, 2008. Radha Kumar: History of Doing, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1992. Rege Sharmila: Sociology of gender, Sage, New Delhi, 2003
ETHICAL STUDIES Generic Elective Paper -3 ESCBCS-117 Ethical Studies-1 SEMESTER I Unit Title of the Topic/sub-topics Hours No. I Introduction to Ethics 6 Definition of ethics; nature of the science of ethics; scope of ethics; end and utility of ethics II Ethics and Other Social Sciences 6 Ethics and psychology; ethics and sociology; ethics and politics; ethics and metaphysics; ethics and theology III Moral and Non-moral Actions 6 Meaning of terms: moral, non-moral and immoral ; voluntary action; moral evil and natural evil; sin and error IV Moral Consciousness 6 Meaning of moral consciousness; content of moral consciousness; characteristics of moral consciousness; moral sentiment; notions of good and bad, right and wrong. V Moral Judgement and its Postulates 6 Nature and method of moral judgement; object of moral judgement; postulates of moral judgement-personality, reason and self determination VI Ethical Standard-(as Law) 6 Devine law as standard; political law as standard; social law as standard References- Chatterjee P (2001) Principles of Ethics, New Bharatiya Book Corporation, New Delhi. Dr. Deepak Tilak ( ed), Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, 2014. Dewey,John, Ethics, G.Bell and Sons Ltd, London, 1910. Hopkins, E.Washburn, Ethics of India, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1924.
Maganlal.A.Buch, The Principles of Hindu Ethics, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 2003. Moore. G.E, Nowell, Ethics, Penguin Books, England, 1954. Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 1993. William Lillie, An Introduction to Ethics, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2003
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY PCBCS-118 Semester I Course Rationale: Political sociology deals with state-society relationships. It pieces together a vast array of perspectives on power and there is little agreement among scholars as to what constitutes its distinctive attributes. This outline below explores the concepts and perspectives that have emerged in dialogue and debate with Karl Marx and Max Weber. It examines the literature on power that has developed in context to advanced capitalist societies on one hand and underdeveloped countries on the other. The last section will discuss issues related to democracy, citizenship and civil rights in India. Course Contents: Unit No. Title of the Topic/sub-topics Credits/ Hours I Nature and Scope of Political Sociology. 1/15 II Intellectual Foundations of Political Sociology: - 1/15 Karl Marx: Class, State and Revaluation. Max Weber: class, Status and Authority. Behavioural and Structural- Functional Approach. III Political Modernization, Political Change, Development and 1/15 Revolution. IV Political Culture, Types of Culture. 1/15 V Political Socialization and its agencies. 1/15 VI Political Participation: Different forms of Political Participation, Methods, and Techniques. Problems of Political Participation. 1/15 Reading List: i. Bendix, Rein hard (ed.) State and Society (Boston: Little, Brown and co., 1968.) ii. Bottomore, T.B.: Political Sociology, (Bombay, B. I. Publication, 1980. iii. Cozier, Lewis (Ed) Political Sociology- Selected Essay (New Yourk: Harper and Row, 1967. iv. Dowse, Robert, E. and Hughes, Johan: A Political Sociology, New York, Basik books, 1971. v. Duverger, Maurice, The idea of Politics: The use of power in society, London, Meuthen,1967 vi. Eisenstadt, S. N.,Political Sociology, New York, Basic Books, 1971. vii. Horowitz, Lrving L., Foundations of Political Sociology, New York, Harper & row, 1972 viii. Nordlinger Eric A, Politicas and Society, Englewood Clefts, Prentice Hall, 1970
ix. Runciman, W. C. Social Science and Political Theory, London, Cambridge University Press, 1965 x. Varma S. D, Modern Political Theory, New Delhi, Vikas 1982 xi. Wasbum, P. C, Politicas of Sociology, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1982 xii. Galtung, Johan, Structral Theory of Revolution, Rotterdam University Press, 1974 xiii. Michael Rush and Althoff, An Introduction of Political Sociology, Nelson s University Paperback, 1972 xiv. Puri, S. Modern Political Analysis, New Academic Printers, 1997