SOCIOLOGY

Course Content

INDIAN SOCIETY

Introducing Indian Society
1. Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community
Demographic Structure and Indian Society
2. Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions
Social Institutions: Continuity and Change
3. Family and Kinship
4. The Caste System
Market as a Social Institution
5. Market as a Social Institution
Pattern of Social Inquality and Exclusion
6. Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes
7. Marginalization of Tribal Communities
8. The Struggle for Women’s Equality
9. The Protection of Religious Minorities
10. Caring for the Differently Abled
The Challenges Of Cultural Diversity
11. Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism and Patriarchy
12. Role of the State in a Plural and Unequal Society
13. What We Share
Suggestions For Project Work

CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

Structural Change
14. Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization
Cultural Change
15. Modernization, Westernization, Sanskritisation, Secularization
16. Social Reform Movements and Laws
The Story of Democracy
17. The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
18. Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
19. Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation
Change and Development in Rural Society
20. From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
21. Changes in the Class Structure
Globalisation and Social Change Mass Media and Communication Process Social Movements
22. Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
23. Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses
24. Women’s Movements in Independent India
25. Tribal Movements
26. Environmental Movements