List of Papers
Compulsory
Classical Sociological Traditions (Semester I)
Sociology of India (Semester I)
Contemporary Social Theories (Semester II)
Methods and Methodologies of Research in Social Sciences (Semester II)
Application of Sociological Research (Semester III)
Dissertation/Sociology of Globalisation (Semester IV)
Semester I
Optionals:
Sociology of Social Movements
State, Society & Human Rights
Health, Medicine & Society
Political Sociology
Ecology, Environment & Society
Sociology of Religion
Open Course
Semester II
Optionals:
Sociology of Education
Modern India: Issues and Perspectives
Disaster & Disaster Planning
Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Media and Everyday Life
Sociology of Science
Open Course
Semester III
Optionals:
Modernity and Contemporary Social Theory
Sociology of Human Settlements
Human Resource, Industry & Society
Sociology of Tribe
Sociology of Developments
Sexuality & Human Rights
Urban Studies
Collective Action in the Urban Arena
Open Course
Semester IV
Optionals:
Dalit Studies: Issues and Perspectives
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Modernity and Popular Culture in India
Reproductive Health & Development
Labour in Global Economy
Sociology of Minority Groups
Sociology of Agrarian Society
Feminist Sociology
Open Course
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Semester I
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 001 4 Classical Sociological Traditions
SO 002 4 Sociology of India
SO 003 4 Sociology of Social Movements
SO 004 4 State, Society & Human Rights
SO 005 4 Health, Medicine & Society
SO 006 4 Political Sociology
SO 007 4 Ecology, Environment & Society
SO 008 4 Sociology of Religion
SO 009 4 Open Course
Semester II
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 010 4 Contemporary Social Theories
SO 011 4 Methods and Methodologies of Research in Social
Sciences
SO 012 4 Sociology of Education
SO 013 4 Modern India: Issues and Perspectives
SO 014 4 Disaster & Disaster Planning
SO 015 4 Sociology of Migration
SO 016 4 Sociology of Media and Everyday Life
SO 017 4 Sociology of Science
SO 018 4 Open Course
Semester III
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 019 4 Application of Sociological Research
SO 020 4 Modernity and Contemporary Social Theory
SO 021 4 Sociology of Human Settlements
SO 022 4 Human Resources, Industry and Society
SO 023 4 Sociology of Tribe
SO 024 4 Sociology of Developments
SO 025 4 Sexuality & Human Rights
SO 026 4 Urban Studies
SO 027 4 Collective Action in the Urban Arena
SO 028 4 Open Course
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Semester IV
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 029 4 Dissertation
SO 030 4 Sociology of Globalisation
SO 031 4 Dalit Studies: Issues and Perspectives
SO 032 4 Modernity and Popular Culture in India
SO 033 4 Reproductive Health & Development
SO 034 4 Labour In Global Economy
SO 035 4 Sociology of Minority Groups
SO 036 4 Sociology of Agrarian Society
SO 037 4 Feminist Sociology
SO 038 4 Open Course
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SO 001 - CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
· Modernity and Sociological Theory: Social & Intellectual Forces.
· Critical Assessment of the work of Karl Marx: Historical Materialism, Class Struggle and
capitalist society; Alienation.
· Critical assessment of Emile Durkheim – Social Facts; Division of Labour; Suicide, Religion.
· Critical assessment of Max Weber: Protestant Ethic and spirit of capitalism, Methodology,
Social Action; Bureaucracy and rationality.
· Limitations of Classical Theory: Race, Gender, Colonialism. Connecting the classical theory
to present issues.
Readings:
1. Tucker, K.N. Classical Social Theory. 2002. Blackwell Publication, Oxford.
2. Kalberg, Stephen. The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism. IIIrd edition, 2002. Roxbury
Publication co.
3. Kalberg Stephen. Connecting Issues in Comparative Historical Studies Today, 1994,
University of Chicago Press.
4. Ritzer George, Sociological Theory, Mc.Graw Hill, New York, Latest edition 2000 – 5th
edition.
5. Lukes, Steven. Durkheim: Life and Works: A Critical Study, 1973.
6. Giddens. Sociology, 1989. Polity Press. Cambridge.
7. Emirbrayer, M. 2003. Emile Durkheim: Sociology of Modernity: Blackwell Publishers.
8. Kamernka, 1983; The Portable Marx. Penguin.
9. Ritzer. 1993. The McDonaldization of Society. Pine Forge Press.
10. Dorothy Smith 1996. The Conceptual Practices of Power. University of Toronto Press.
11. Dorothy Smith, 1987. The Everyday World is Problematic. Open University Press.
12. Patricia Hill – Collins. 1998. The Fighting Worlds. University of Minnesota Press.
13. Wilhelm, Outhwaite and Mulkay M.: Social Theory & Social Criticism, Blackwell, New
York, 1987.
14. Morrison Ken, 1995. Marx, Durkheim, Weber – formation of Modern Social Thought. Sage
Publication, New Delhi.
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SO 002 - SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA
· Formation of Sociology in India: Knowledge, Institutions and Practices
· India as an ‘Object’ of Study: Colonial, Nationalist, Indological, Functionalist, Dialectical,
Subaltern and Non-Brahmanical discourses
· Debates on Social Institutions and Groups: Family, Kinship and Household, Village, Urban
Settlements
· Debates on Social stratification: Caste, Class, tribe and gender
· Ethnicity, Nation and Nationalism.
Readings:
1. Andre Beteille, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, OUP, New Delhi, 2002.
2. Breman Jan, Kloos Peter and Ashwini Saith, The Village in Asia Revisited, OUP 1997
3. D.N.Dhanagare, Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology, Rawat Publications, 1999
4. Gail Omvedt, Dalits and Democratic Revolution, Sage, New Delhi
5. M.N.Srinivas, Collected Essays, OUP, New Delhi, 2002
6. S.M.Dahiwale (ed), Indian Society: Non-Brahmanic Perspectives, Rawat Publications, 2004
7. Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner (eds), Bombay Metaphor for Modern India Bombay and
Delhi, Oxford University Press.
8. Satish Deshpande, Contemporary India: Sociological Perspectives, Viking
9. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Penguin, New Delhi, 1999
10. Veena Das, The Oxford Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. I and II,
OUP, New Delhi, 2003.
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SO 003 – SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
· Nature, Definitions, Typologies, Approaches
· Theories of Social Movements.
· Social Movement and the State
· Social Movement and Civil Society
· New Social Movements
· Case Studies in Old and New Social Movements.
Readings:
1. Rao, M.S.A.: Social Movements in India, Vol.I and II, Manohar, Delhi, 1978.
2. Shah Ghanshyam: Social Movements and the State, Sage, New Deli, 2002.
3. James Petras, Henry Vettmeyer: Social Movements and State Power, Pluto Press, London,
2005.
4. T.K.Oommen: Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements, Sage, Delhi, 2004.
5. David S. Meyer, Nancy Whittilev, Belinda Robnett: Social Movements, Oxford, New York,
2002.
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SO 004 - STATE, SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
· Concepts: Civil Rights, Democratic Rights and Human Rights.
· Perspectives on Rights: Liberal, Marxist and Neo-Marxist.
· State, Constitution and Rights in India: Class, Caste, Tribe and Gender Growth of new rights
e.g. Environment
· Rights movement in India in the post independent period
· Rights and Globalisation, Role of United Nations and Anti-Globalisation Movements.
Readings:
1. Desai, A.R.: Repression and Resistance in India: Violation of Democratic Rights of the
Working Class, Rural Poor, Adivasis and Dalits, Bombay Popular Prakashan, 1990.
2. Desai, A.R.: Violation of Democratic Rights in India, Vol. I, Bombay Popular Prakashan,
1986.
3. Oliver Menderlsohn: The Rights of the Subordinated People and Upendra Baxi
4. G. Haragopal : Political Economy of Human Rights.
5. Kirti S. Parikh : India Development Report, 1997.
6. World Development Report, 1997.
7. Human Development Report, 1997.
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SO 005 – HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY (MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY)
· Introduction: Concepts and perspectives on health, medicine, illness, sickness, disease and
society.
· Theoretical perspectives on health and medicine within sociology:
· Health, health care and social institutions: state, market, community and family in health and
medicine, Philosophical and historical debates on provision of health care and medicine:
· The sociology of health in India: Disparities in health indices: Historical Development of
health services system in India; the sociology of medical knowledge and medical systems in
India
· Health and Development: Current Challenges:
Readings:
1. Sheila Zurbrigg (1984): Rakku’s Story: Structures of Ill Health and the Source of Charge,
Bangalore: Centre for Social Action.
2. Linda Jones (1994): The Social Context of Health and Health Work, New York, Palgrave
Press.
3. Sarah Nettleton (1995): The Sociology of Health and Illness Cambridge: Polity Press
4. Charles Leslie (1976): Asian Medical Systems
5. D.Banerji (1985): Health and Family Planning Services in India: An Epidemiological Socio
Cultural and Political Analysis and a Perspective, New Delhi: Lok Paksh.
6. Imrana Qadeer (1985): Health Services System: An Expression of Socio Economic
Inequalities, Social Action, Vol.35, 197\85.
7. Veeranarayana Kethineni (1991): Political Economy of State Intervention in Health Care,
EPW, October 19, 1991.
8. Imrana Qadeer (2000): Health Care Systems in Transition III, Journal of Public Health
Medicine, Vol. 22, No.1, pp.25-32.
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SO 006 - POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
· Relationship between Society and Polity, Sociological Definitions of Politics, authority and
the state
· Theoretical Approaches to the State: Liberal, Pluralist, Power-elite, Post-modernist
· Marxist tradition, Weberian Tradition, Discourse Theory and the New Political sociology
· Dominance and power within the nation -state-
Nature of post-colonial state, State-civil society relationship
Silent revolution, limited citizenship, mass movements
Issues of nation-building and citizenship: ethnicity, class, gender and caste.
· Society and the state in India: religious nationalism, Hindutva and politics of the upper
castes, the caste system and patriarchy; Language, Ethnicity and Region,
· Contemporary Challenges:
Limited Citizenship, New Social Movements,
Globalization, Civil society-state relationship
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
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SO 007 – ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
· Approaches to the study of environment: Marxian, Gandhian, Phule, Ecofeminism
Different types of Environmentalisms: Deep Ecology. Social Ecology, Radical Ecology.
· Natural Resources and their Utilisation: Common Land, Water and Forest
· Problems of the Urban Environment: Pollution, Population and Slums
· Environmental Movements and the Politics of Development: Chipko, Narmada, Tehri,
Baliapal
· Initiatives of the State and International Agencies: Stockholm, Environment and Sustainable
Development, Rio conference
Readings:
1. Shiva, Vanadana: Staying Alive Women. Ecology and Survival in India, New Delhi: Kali for
Women Press, 1988, pp.1-37, 218-228.
2. Arnold, David and Guha, Ramchandra, (eds.): Nature, Culture and Imperialism, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1955.
3. Baviskar, Amita : In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the
Narmada Valley, OUP, Delhi, 1997.
4. Gadgil, Madhav and Guha, Ramchandra: Ecology and Equity: The use and Abuse of Nature
in Contemporary India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp.9-191.
5. Merchant Carolyn: Ecology: Key Concepts in Critical Theory, Humanities Press, New
Jersey.
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SO 008 - SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
· Definitions and its relationship with philosophy, morality, Dharma Science and Law.
· Approaches to the study of religion
a) Classical approach: Durkheim Marx, Weber, Mauss b) Contemporary approach:
Phenomenological, Neo Marxist, Freudian, New Functional, Anthropological c) The insiders
view: theologians and religious belivers
· Religion in India, Perspectives,
Mahatma Phule, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar and Swami Vivekanand
· Religions of the World: organised and non-organised
· Religious, economic, social, Cultural movements
Readings:
1. Vasudha Dalmia and H.von Steitencron, Representing Hinduism: The Construction of
Religious Tradition and National Identity, Sage, New Delhi, 1995
2. Peter van der Veer, Gods on Earth: The management of Religious Experience and Identity in
a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre, Oxford, Delhi, 1989.
3. Mark Jurgensmeyer, Religion Nationalism confronts a Secular State, OUP, Delhi, 1993.
4. A. Nandy, Trivedy, Mayaram and Yagnik, Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhoomi
Movement and the Fear of the Self, OUP, Delhi, 1987
5. N. K. Bose, The Structure of Hindu Society,
6. T. N. Madan, Religion in India, OUP, New Delhi, 1991.
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SO 010 - CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORIES
· The Crisis of Sociology and the critique of positivism (Gouldner and Wright Mills)
· European Social Theory
a. Marxism from the 30s to 70s (Frankfurt School, Gramsci and Althusser)
b. Structuralism (Levi Strauss), Post Structuralism (Foucault and Derrida)
c. Contemporary Theorists (Giddens, Bourdieu, Habermas and Beck)
· The Debate: One Sociology or Many Sociologies (Indigenous, Colonial, Autonomous and
Contextual)
Readings:
1. George Ritzer and Barry Smart (ed) Handbook of Social Theory, Sage, 2001
2. Bryn Turner, Chris Rojek and Craig Calhoun (ed) The Sage Handbook of Sociology, Sage,
2005
3. The Polity Reader in Social Theory, 1994, Polity Press
4. Charles Lemert, Sociology After the Crisis Westview 1995
5. Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society. Outline of a Theory of Structuration, Polity
1984
6. ------------------------The Consequences of Modernity, University of California Press, 1990
7. Ulrich Beck, Reflexive Modernisation, Polity Press, 1994.
8. Luke Goode, Jurgen Habermas, Democracy and the Public Sphere, Pluto,2005
9. Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Waquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, University of
Chicago Press, 1992
10. Couze Venn, The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative Worlds, Sage Publications,
London, 2006
11. Sujata Patel (ed.), The International Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, London
Sage, 2009 (in press).
12. Immanuel Wallerstein et al. Open the Social Sciences, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi,
2000.
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SO 011 - METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES
I. Positivism and Sociology
a) Classical View of Science, Reason, rationality
b) Social science as science
II. Critiques of positivism
a) Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
b) Hermeneutics and Critical theory: Gadamer, Apel, Habermas
c) New philosophy of science: Popper and Kuhn
d) Feminist Critiques
e) Impact of post-modernism, Post-structuralism.
III. Historical Method
Comparative Method
IV. Quantitative Research Strategies
a) Survey
b) Structured Interview
c) Content Analysis
d) Panel Study
e) Sociometry
V. Qualitative Research & Research Strategies
a) Seven Moments of Qualitative Research
b) Ethnography
c) Unstructured Interview / Conversational Analysis
d) Life History
e) Case Study
f) Participatory Action Research
VI. Recent Debates
a) Triangulation
b) The position of the researcher
Readings:
1. Carol Grbich, 2004. New Approaches in Social Research, Sage,
2. Williams Malcolm, Science and Social Science, 2000, Routledge, New York.
3. Mulkay Michael, 1979, Science and the Sociology of Knowledge, George Allen and Unwin
Ltd., London.
4. Giddens Anthony, 1976, New Rules of sociological Research, Hutchinson, and Co..
5. Denzin Norman, Lincoln Yvonna (ed), 2000, Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage,
Thousand Oaks.
6. Silverman David, 1985, Qualitative Methodology and sociology, Gower, Vermont.
7. Burawoy M. and Joseph Blum, (ed)., 2000, Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and
Imaginations, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
8. Bryman Alan, 2001, Surveying the Social World, Open University Press, Buckingham.
Philadelphia
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9. Bryman A., 1988, Quantity and Quality in Social Research, Unwin Hyman Ltd., London,
U.K.
10. Haralombus
11. Giddens
12. Gilham
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SO 012 – SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
· New Developments in Sociology of Education; Theoretical Approaches and Contributions in
Sociology of Education.
· Family, socialisation and class context.
· Education, globalization and economic development
· The Indian Tradition of Education: Colonial education, contribution of nationalists.
· Policies and programmes: evaluation, issues of inequality, Child Labour and Education
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.
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SO 013 - MODERN INDIA: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
· Thick descriptions of contemporary Indian society, travelogues, journalistic accounts,
historical sociological accounts.
· Colonialism, nationalism and rise of modern Institutions, debates on colonial modernity,
science and development
· Debating Modernity in India, the modernization paradigm, ‘mistaken’ modernity, ‘our’
modernity, entrenched modernity, modernity at large, alternate dalit modernity, gender and
modernity.
· Patterns of exploitation, sub -ordination, and exclusion: gendered labour markets, new
classes, footloose labour, disinherited peasantry, alternate circuits of survival.
· Community and Identities: constructivist, and substantivist accounts.
· New articulations and collective actions
Readings:
1. Pavan Mishra, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Penguin, New Delhi, 1995.
2. P.Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Draught, Penguin, New Delhi, 2005
3. Sujata Patel, Krishna Raj & Jasodhara Bagchi (eds), Thinking Social Science, Sage, New
Delhi, 2002.
4. Stuart Cambridge & John Harris, Reinventing India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
2000.
5. Romilla Thappar (ed) India Another Millenium, Viking, New Delhi, 2000.
6. Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backward, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2004.
7. Surinder, S. Jodhka (ed), Community and Identities, Sage, New Delhi, 2001.
8. Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (eds), Social Movements in India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2005.
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SO 014 - SOCIOLOGY OF DISASTERS AND DISASTER PLANNING
· Concepts, definitions and Nature of disasters.
· Causes and Types of Disasters: famines, floods, earthquakes, epidemics, wars, industrial
disasters, nuclear disasters.
· The effects and aftermath of disasters: victims and survivors
· The Welfare State and Disasters: the role of the state in preventing, apprehending and
managing disasters.
· Disasters and civil Society: meaning of Disasters, the role of voluntary organizations,
political organizations, citizens associations international bodies.
Readings:
1. Veena Das and Ashis Nandy: ‘Violence, Victimhood and the Language of Silence’,
Contributions to Indian Sociology.
2. Dhirendra Sharma, India’s Nuclear Estate (New Delhi: Lancers, 1983).
3. P.N.Haksar et. al., : A Statement of Scientific Temper, Bombay: Nehru Centre, 1981.
4. Ashish Nandy: Science, Authoritarianism and Culture.
5. Praful, Bidwai : Atomic Power on the Run, The Times of India, 13-15 October 1986
6. Dhirendra Sharma (ed.): The Indian Atom: Power and Proliferation (New Delhi: Philosophy
and Social Action, 1986).
7. Dhirendra Sharma, India’s Nuclear Estate
8. Ashis Nandy : The Bomb, The Illustrated Weekly of India, 4 August 1985
9. Jatinder K. Bajaj : The Bhopal Tragedy: The Responsibility of the Scientific Community’,
10. Sunil Sahasrabudhey, Bhopal: Science Must Share the Blame, PPST Bulletin, 1985, 5, pp. 6-
14,25-9
11. Shiv Visvanathan Bhopal: The Imagination of a Disaster, Alternatives, 1986, II, pp. 147-65.
12. Sen Amartya (1981) Poverty and Famines New Delhi:OUP
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SO 015 – SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION
· Theories of Migration; Dimensions of Gender, Caste and Class; Migration in Capitalist
system; Migration and the World Economic System.
· Processes of Migration in the North and South (1400 to 1925)
· War, refugees and migration; Ethnicity, nationalism and migration.
· Voluntary Migration: Gujarati and Punjabi to North America, Canada; Tamils to Malaysia
and Sri Lanka; Migration of Knowledge workers and Brain Drain; Seasonal migration.
· India: Development and displacement; Partition, Refugees and migration.
Readings:
1. Lydia Potts: The World Labour Market, Zed books Ltd., London and New Jersey, 1990.
2. Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller: The Age of Migration, The Gulford Press, New York,
1993.
3. Loes Schenk – Sand Bergen (ed.): Women and Seasonal Labour Migration, Sage Publication,
New Delhi, London, 1995.
4. R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman: Circulation in Third World Countries, Routledge
and Kegan Paul, London, 1983.
5. Omprakash Mishra (ed.): Forced migration, Manak Publication, Delhi, 2004.
6. Milton Israel and N.K.Wagle: Ethnicity, Identity, migration, The Centre for South Asian
Studies, University of Toronto, 1993.
7. Binod Khadria: The Migration of Knowledge workers, Sage Publications, New Delhi,
London, 1999.
8. Brinley Thomas: Migration and Urban Development, Methuen and Co. Ltd., London, 1972.
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SO 016 - SOCIOLOGY OF MEDIA AND EVERYDAY LIFE
· Culture, Society and Economy, Classifying Culture, Key concepts, Cultural Sociology,
Sociology of Culture, cultural studies
· 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)
· Politics of Representation, engaging with the ‘other’ Postmodern turn and new media.
· Combining Methodologies: decoding culture, new ethnography, reading discourses,
genealogical analysis, analyzing global contexts
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.
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SO 017 – SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
· Perspectives in the Philosophy, History and the Sociology of Science
· The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge
· Science and the State in India, Colonial and Post Colonial Science and Technology Policy,
Programs and Institutions (CSIR, IIT)
· Science, Society and Social Movements in India and the West (People Science Movements)
· Science, Ethics, Religion and Culture
Readings:
1. Shiv Visvanathan : Organising for Science, OUP, New Delhi, 1985.
2. Ashish Nandy (ed.): Science, Hegemony and Violence, OUP, New Delhi, 1988.
3. Barry Barnes (ed.): Sociology of Science,
4. Deepak Kumar : Science and the Raj, OUP, New Delhi, 1997
5. William Malcolm: Science and Social Science : An Introduction, Routledge, London, 2000
Compulsory
Classical Sociological Traditions (Semester I)
Sociology of India (Semester I)
Contemporary Social Theories (Semester II)
Methods and Methodologies of Research in Social Sciences (Semester II)
Application of Sociological Research (Semester III)
Dissertation/Sociology of Globalisation (Semester IV)
Semester I
Optionals:
Sociology of Social Movements
State, Society & Human Rights
Health, Medicine & Society
Political Sociology
Ecology, Environment & Society
Sociology of Religion
Open Course
Semester II
Optionals:
Sociology of Education
Modern India: Issues and Perspectives
Disaster & Disaster Planning
Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Media and Everyday Life
Sociology of Science
Open Course
Semester III
Optionals:
Modernity and Contemporary Social Theory
Sociology of Human Settlements
Human Resource, Industry & Society
Sociology of Tribe
Sociology of Developments
Sexuality & Human Rights
Urban Studies
Collective Action in the Urban Arena
Open Course
Semester IV
Optionals:
Dalit Studies: Issues and Perspectives
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Modernity and Popular Culture in India
Reproductive Health & Development
Labour in Global Economy
Sociology of Minority Groups
Sociology of Agrarian Society
Feminist Sociology
Open Course
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Semester I
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 001 4 Classical Sociological Traditions
SO 002 4 Sociology of India
SO 003 4 Sociology of Social Movements
SO 004 4 State, Society & Human Rights
SO 005 4 Health, Medicine & Society
SO 006 4 Political Sociology
SO 007 4 Ecology, Environment & Society
SO 008 4 Sociology of Religion
SO 009 4 Open Course
Semester II
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 010 4 Contemporary Social Theories
SO 011 4 Methods and Methodologies of Research in Social
Sciences
SO 012 4 Sociology of Education
SO 013 4 Modern India: Issues and Perspectives
SO 014 4 Disaster & Disaster Planning
SO 015 4 Sociology of Migration
SO 016 4 Sociology of Media and Everyday Life
SO 017 4 Sociology of Science
SO 018 4 Open Course
Semester III
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 019 4 Application of Sociological Research
SO 020 4 Modernity and Contemporary Social Theory
SO 021 4 Sociology of Human Settlements
SO 022 4 Human Resources, Industry and Society
SO 023 4 Sociology of Tribe
SO 024 4 Sociology of Developments
SO 025 4 Sexuality & Human Rights
SO 026 4 Urban Studies
SO 027 4 Collective Action in the Urban Arena
SO 028 4 Open Course
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Semester IV
Course No. Credits Course Title
SO 029 4 Dissertation
SO 030 4 Sociology of Globalisation
SO 031 4 Dalit Studies: Issues and Perspectives
SO 032 4 Modernity and Popular Culture in India
SO 033 4 Reproductive Health & Development
SO 034 4 Labour In Global Economy
SO 035 4 Sociology of Minority Groups
SO 036 4 Sociology of Agrarian Society
SO 037 4 Feminist Sociology
SO 038 4 Open Course
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SO 001 - CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
· Modernity and Sociological Theory: Social & Intellectual Forces.
· Critical Assessment of the work of Karl Marx: Historical Materialism, Class Struggle and
capitalist society; Alienation.
· Critical assessment of Emile Durkheim – Social Facts; Division of Labour; Suicide, Religion.
· Critical assessment of Max Weber: Protestant Ethic and spirit of capitalism, Methodology,
Social Action; Bureaucracy and rationality.
· Limitations of Classical Theory: Race, Gender, Colonialism. Connecting the classical theory
to present issues.
Readings:
1. Tucker, K.N. Classical Social Theory. 2002. Blackwell Publication, Oxford.
2. Kalberg, Stephen. The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism. IIIrd edition, 2002. Roxbury
Publication co.
3. Kalberg Stephen. Connecting Issues in Comparative Historical Studies Today, 1994,
University of Chicago Press.
4. Ritzer George, Sociological Theory, Mc.Graw Hill, New York, Latest edition 2000 – 5th
edition.
5. Lukes, Steven. Durkheim: Life and Works: A Critical Study, 1973.
6. Giddens. Sociology, 1989. Polity Press. Cambridge.
7. Emirbrayer, M. 2003. Emile Durkheim: Sociology of Modernity: Blackwell Publishers.
8. Kamernka, 1983; The Portable Marx. Penguin.
9. Ritzer. 1993. The McDonaldization of Society. Pine Forge Press.
10. Dorothy Smith 1996. The Conceptual Practices of Power. University of Toronto Press.
11. Dorothy Smith, 1987. The Everyday World is Problematic. Open University Press.
12. Patricia Hill – Collins. 1998. The Fighting Worlds. University of Minnesota Press.
13. Wilhelm, Outhwaite and Mulkay M.: Social Theory & Social Criticism, Blackwell, New
York, 1987.
14. Morrison Ken, 1995. Marx, Durkheim, Weber – formation of Modern Social Thought. Sage
Publication, New Delhi.
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SO 002 - SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA
· Formation of Sociology in India: Knowledge, Institutions and Practices
· India as an ‘Object’ of Study: Colonial, Nationalist, Indological, Functionalist, Dialectical,
Subaltern and Non-Brahmanical discourses
· Debates on Social Institutions and Groups: Family, Kinship and Household, Village, Urban
Settlements
· Debates on Social stratification: Caste, Class, tribe and gender
· Ethnicity, Nation and Nationalism.
Readings:
1. Andre Beteille, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, OUP, New Delhi, 2002.
2. Breman Jan, Kloos Peter and Ashwini Saith, The Village in Asia Revisited, OUP 1997
3. D.N.Dhanagare, Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology, Rawat Publications, 1999
4. Gail Omvedt, Dalits and Democratic Revolution, Sage, New Delhi
5. M.N.Srinivas, Collected Essays, OUP, New Delhi, 2002
6. S.M.Dahiwale (ed), Indian Society: Non-Brahmanic Perspectives, Rawat Publications, 2004
7. Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner (eds), Bombay Metaphor for Modern India Bombay and
Delhi, Oxford University Press.
8. Satish Deshpande, Contemporary India: Sociological Perspectives, Viking
9. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Penguin, New Delhi, 1999
10. Veena Das, The Oxford Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. I and II,
OUP, New Delhi, 2003.
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SO 003 – SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
· Nature, Definitions, Typologies, Approaches
· Theories of Social Movements.
· Social Movement and the State
· Social Movement and Civil Society
· New Social Movements
· Case Studies in Old and New Social Movements.
Readings:
1. Rao, M.S.A.: Social Movements in India, Vol.I and II, Manohar, Delhi, 1978.
2. Shah Ghanshyam: Social Movements and the State, Sage, New Deli, 2002.
3. James Petras, Henry Vettmeyer: Social Movements and State Power, Pluto Press, London,
2005.
4. T.K.Oommen: Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements, Sage, Delhi, 2004.
5. David S. Meyer, Nancy Whittilev, Belinda Robnett: Social Movements, Oxford, New York,
2002.
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SO 004 - STATE, SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
· Concepts: Civil Rights, Democratic Rights and Human Rights.
· Perspectives on Rights: Liberal, Marxist and Neo-Marxist.
· State, Constitution and Rights in India: Class, Caste, Tribe and Gender Growth of new rights
e.g. Environment
· Rights movement in India in the post independent period
· Rights and Globalisation, Role of United Nations and Anti-Globalisation Movements.
Readings:
1. Desai, A.R.: Repression and Resistance in India: Violation of Democratic Rights of the
Working Class, Rural Poor, Adivasis and Dalits, Bombay Popular Prakashan, 1990.
2. Desai, A.R.: Violation of Democratic Rights in India, Vol. I, Bombay Popular Prakashan,
1986.
3. Oliver Menderlsohn: The Rights of the Subordinated People and Upendra Baxi
4. G. Haragopal : Political Economy of Human Rights.
5. Kirti S. Parikh : India Development Report, 1997.
6. World Development Report, 1997.
7. Human Development Report, 1997.
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SO 005 – HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY (MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY)
· Introduction: Concepts and perspectives on health, medicine, illness, sickness, disease and
society.
· Theoretical perspectives on health and medicine within sociology:
· Health, health care and social institutions: state, market, community and family in health and
medicine, Philosophical and historical debates on provision of health care and medicine:
· The sociology of health in India: Disparities in health indices: Historical Development of
health services system in India; the sociology of medical knowledge and medical systems in
India
· Health and Development: Current Challenges:
Readings:
1. Sheila Zurbrigg (1984): Rakku’s Story: Structures of Ill Health and the Source of Charge,
Bangalore: Centre for Social Action.
2. Linda Jones (1994): The Social Context of Health and Health Work, New York, Palgrave
Press.
3. Sarah Nettleton (1995): The Sociology of Health and Illness Cambridge: Polity Press
4. Charles Leslie (1976): Asian Medical Systems
5. D.Banerji (1985): Health and Family Planning Services in India: An Epidemiological Socio
Cultural and Political Analysis and a Perspective, New Delhi: Lok Paksh.
6. Imrana Qadeer (1985): Health Services System: An Expression of Socio Economic
Inequalities, Social Action, Vol.35, 197\85.
7. Veeranarayana Kethineni (1991): Political Economy of State Intervention in Health Care,
EPW, October 19, 1991.
8. Imrana Qadeer (2000): Health Care Systems in Transition III, Journal of Public Health
Medicine, Vol. 22, No.1, pp.25-32.
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SO 006 - POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
· Relationship between Society and Polity, Sociological Definitions of Politics, authority and
the state
· Theoretical Approaches to the State: Liberal, Pluralist, Power-elite, Post-modernist
· Marxist tradition, Weberian Tradition, Discourse Theory and the New Political sociology
· Dominance and power within the nation -state-
Nature of post-colonial state, State-civil society relationship
Silent revolution, limited citizenship, mass movements
Issues of nation-building and citizenship: ethnicity, class, gender and caste.
· Society and the state in India: religious nationalism, Hindutva and politics of the upper
castes, the caste system and patriarchy; Language, Ethnicity and Region,
· Contemporary Challenges:
Limited Citizenship, New Social Movements,
Globalization, Civil society-state relationship
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
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SO 007 – ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
· Approaches to the study of environment: Marxian, Gandhian, Phule, Ecofeminism
Different types of Environmentalisms: Deep Ecology. Social Ecology, Radical Ecology.
· Natural Resources and their Utilisation: Common Land, Water and Forest
· Problems of the Urban Environment: Pollution, Population and Slums
· Environmental Movements and the Politics of Development: Chipko, Narmada, Tehri,
Baliapal
· Initiatives of the State and International Agencies: Stockholm, Environment and Sustainable
Development, Rio conference
Readings:
1. Shiva, Vanadana: Staying Alive Women. Ecology and Survival in India, New Delhi: Kali for
Women Press, 1988, pp.1-37, 218-228.
2. Arnold, David and Guha, Ramchandra, (eds.): Nature, Culture and Imperialism, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1955.
3. Baviskar, Amita : In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the
Narmada Valley, OUP, Delhi, 1997.
4. Gadgil, Madhav and Guha, Ramchandra: Ecology and Equity: The use and Abuse of Nature
in Contemporary India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp.9-191.
5. Merchant Carolyn: Ecology: Key Concepts in Critical Theory, Humanities Press, New
Jersey.
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SO 008 - SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
· Definitions and its relationship with philosophy, morality, Dharma Science and Law.
· Approaches to the study of religion
a) Classical approach: Durkheim Marx, Weber, Mauss b) Contemporary approach:
Phenomenological, Neo Marxist, Freudian, New Functional, Anthropological c) The insiders
view: theologians and religious belivers
· Religion in India, Perspectives,
Mahatma Phule, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar and Swami Vivekanand
· Religions of the World: organised and non-organised
· Religious, economic, social, Cultural movements
Readings:
1. Vasudha Dalmia and H.von Steitencron, Representing Hinduism: The Construction of
Religious Tradition and National Identity, Sage, New Delhi, 1995
2. Peter van der Veer, Gods on Earth: The management of Religious Experience and Identity in
a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre, Oxford, Delhi, 1989.
3. Mark Jurgensmeyer, Religion Nationalism confronts a Secular State, OUP, Delhi, 1993.
4. A. Nandy, Trivedy, Mayaram and Yagnik, Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhoomi
Movement and the Fear of the Self, OUP, Delhi, 1987
5. N. K. Bose, The Structure of Hindu Society,
6. T. N. Madan, Religion in India, OUP, New Delhi, 1991.
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SO 010 - CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORIES
· The Crisis of Sociology and the critique of positivism (Gouldner and Wright Mills)
· European Social Theory
a. Marxism from the 30s to 70s (Frankfurt School, Gramsci and Althusser)
b. Structuralism (Levi Strauss), Post Structuralism (Foucault and Derrida)
c. Contemporary Theorists (Giddens, Bourdieu, Habermas and Beck)
· The Debate: One Sociology or Many Sociologies (Indigenous, Colonial, Autonomous and
Contextual)
Readings:
1. George Ritzer and Barry Smart (ed) Handbook of Social Theory, Sage, 2001
2. Bryn Turner, Chris Rojek and Craig Calhoun (ed) The Sage Handbook of Sociology, Sage,
2005
3. The Polity Reader in Social Theory, 1994, Polity Press
4. Charles Lemert, Sociology After the Crisis Westview 1995
5. Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society. Outline of a Theory of Structuration, Polity
1984
6. ------------------------The Consequences of Modernity, University of California Press, 1990
7. Ulrich Beck, Reflexive Modernisation, Polity Press, 1994.
8. Luke Goode, Jurgen Habermas, Democracy and the Public Sphere, Pluto,2005
9. Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Waquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, University of
Chicago Press, 1992
10. Couze Venn, The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative Worlds, Sage Publications,
London, 2006
11. Sujata Patel (ed.), The International Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, London
Sage, 2009 (in press).
12. Immanuel Wallerstein et al. Open the Social Sciences, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi,
2000.
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SO 011 - METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES
I. Positivism and Sociology
a) Classical View of Science, Reason, rationality
b) Social science as science
II. Critiques of positivism
a) Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
b) Hermeneutics and Critical theory: Gadamer, Apel, Habermas
c) New philosophy of science: Popper and Kuhn
d) Feminist Critiques
e) Impact of post-modernism, Post-structuralism.
III. Historical Method
Comparative Method
IV. Quantitative Research Strategies
a) Survey
b) Structured Interview
c) Content Analysis
d) Panel Study
e) Sociometry
V. Qualitative Research & Research Strategies
a) Seven Moments of Qualitative Research
b) Ethnography
c) Unstructured Interview / Conversational Analysis
d) Life History
e) Case Study
f) Participatory Action Research
VI. Recent Debates
a) Triangulation
b) The position of the researcher
Readings:
1. Carol Grbich, 2004. New Approaches in Social Research, Sage,
2. Williams Malcolm, Science and Social Science, 2000, Routledge, New York.
3. Mulkay Michael, 1979, Science and the Sociology of Knowledge, George Allen and Unwin
Ltd., London.
4. Giddens Anthony, 1976, New Rules of sociological Research, Hutchinson, and Co..
5. Denzin Norman, Lincoln Yvonna (ed), 2000, Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage,
Thousand Oaks.
6. Silverman David, 1985, Qualitative Methodology and sociology, Gower, Vermont.
7. Burawoy M. and Joseph Blum, (ed)., 2000, Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and
Imaginations, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
8. Bryman Alan, 2001, Surveying the Social World, Open University Press, Buckingham.
Philadelphia
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9. Bryman A., 1988, Quantity and Quality in Social Research, Unwin Hyman Ltd., London,
U.K.
10. Haralombus
11. Giddens
12. Gilham
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SO 012 – SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
· New Developments in Sociology of Education; Theoretical Approaches and Contributions in
Sociology of Education.
· Family, socialisation and class context.
· Education, globalization and economic development
· The Indian Tradition of Education: Colonial education, contribution of nationalists.
· Policies and programmes: evaluation, issues of inequality, Child Labour and Education
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.
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SO 013 - MODERN INDIA: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
· Thick descriptions of contemporary Indian society, travelogues, journalistic accounts,
historical sociological accounts.
· Colonialism, nationalism and rise of modern Institutions, debates on colonial modernity,
science and development
· Debating Modernity in India, the modernization paradigm, ‘mistaken’ modernity, ‘our’
modernity, entrenched modernity, modernity at large, alternate dalit modernity, gender and
modernity.
· Patterns of exploitation, sub -ordination, and exclusion: gendered labour markets, new
classes, footloose labour, disinherited peasantry, alternate circuits of survival.
· Community and Identities: constructivist, and substantivist accounts.
· New articulations and collective actions
Readings:
1. Pavan Mishra, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Penguin, New Delhi, 1995.
2. P.Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Draught, Penguin, New Delhi, 2005
3. Sujata Patel, Krishna Raj & Jasodhara Bagchi (eds), Thinking Social Science, Sage, New
Delhi, 2002.
4. Stuart Cambridge & John Harris, Reinventing India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
2000.
5. Romilla Thappar (ed) India Another Millenium, Viking, New Delhi, 2000.
6. Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backward, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2004.
7. Surinder, S. Jodhka (ed), Community and Identities, Sage, New Delhi, 2001.
8. Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (eds), Social Movements in India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2005.
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SO 014 - SOCIOLOGY OF DISASTERS AND DISASTER PLANNING
· Concepts, definitions and Nature of disasters.
· Causes and Types of Disasters: famines, floods, earthquakes, epidemics, wars, industrial
disasters, nuclear disasters.
· The effects and aftermath of disasters: victims and survivors
· The Welfare State and Disasters: the role of the state in preventing, apprehending and
managing disasters.
· Disasters and civil Society: meaning of Disasters, the role of voluntary organizations,
political organizations, citizens associations international bodies.
Readings:
1. Veena Das and Ashis Nandy: ‘Violence, Victimhood and the Language of Silence’,
Contributions to Indian Sociology.
2. Dhirendra Sharma, India’s Nuclear Estate (New Delhi: Lancers, 1983).
3. P.N.Haksar et. al., : A Statement of Scientific Temper, Bombay: Nehru Centre, 1981.
4. Ashish Nandy: Science, Authoritarianism and Culture.
5. Praful, Bidwai : Atomic Power on the Run, The Times of India, 13-15 October 1986
6. Dhirendra Sharma (ed.): The Indian Atom: Power and Proliferation (New Delhi: Philosophy
and Social Action, 1986).
7. Dhirendra Sharma, India’s Nuclear Estate
8. Ashis Nandy : The Bomb, The Illustrated Weekly of India, 4 August 1985
9. Jatinder K. Bajaj : The Bhopal Tragedy: The Responsibility of the Scientific Community’,
10. Sunil Sahasrabudhey, Bhopal: Science Must Share the Blame, PPST Bulletin, 1985, 5, pp. 6-
14,25-9
11. Shiv Visvanathan Bhopal: The Imagination of a Disaster, Alternatives, 1986, II, pp. 147-65.
12. Sen Amartya (1981) Poverty and Famines New Delhi:OUP
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SO 015 – SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION
· Theories of Migration; Dimensions of Gender, Caste and Class; Migration in Capitalist
system; Migration and the World Economic System.
· Processes of Migration in the North and South (1400 to 1925)
· War, refugees and migration; Ethnicity, nationalism and migration.
· Voluntary Migration: Gujarati and Punjabi to North America, Canada; Tamils to Malaysia
and Sri Lanka; Migration of Knowledge workers and Brain Drain; Seasonal migration.
· India: Development and displacement; Partition, Refugees and migration.
Readings:
1. Lydia Potts: The World Labour Market, Zed books Ltd., London and New Jersey, 1990.
2. Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller: The Age of Migration, The Gulford Press, New York,
1993.
3. Loes Schenk – Sand Bergen (ed.): Women and Seasonal Labour Migration, Sage Publication,
New Delhi, London, 1995.
4. R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman: Circulation in Third World Countries, Routledge
and Kegan Paul, London, 1983.
5. Omprakash Mishra (ed.): Forced migration, Manak Publication, Delhi, 2004.
6. Milton Israel and N.K.Wagle: Ethnicity, Identity, migration, The Centre for South Asian
Studies, University of Toronto, 1993.
7. Binod Khadria: The Migration of Knowledge workers, Sage Publications, New Delhi,
London, 1999.
8. Brinley Thomas: Migration and Urban Development, Methuen and Co. Ltd., London, 1972.
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SO 016 - SOCIOLOGY OF MEDIA AND EVERYDAY LIFE
· Culture, Society and Economy, Classifying Culture, Key concepts, Cultural Sociology,
Sociology of Culture, cultural studies
· 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)
· Politics of Representation, engaging with the ‘other’ Postmodern turn and new media.
· Combining Methodologies: decoding culture, new ethnography, reading discourses,
genealogical analysis, analyzing global contexts
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.
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SO 017 – SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
· Perspectives in the Philosophy, History and the Sociology of Science
· The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge
· Science and the State in India, Colonial and Post Colonial Science and Technology Policy,
Programs and Institutions (CSIR, IIT)
· Science, Society and Social Movements in India and the West (People Science Movements)
· Science, Ethics, Religion and Culture
Readings:
1. Shiv Visvanathan : Organising for Science, OUP, New Delhi, 1985.
2. Ashish Nandy (ed.): Science, Hegemony and Violence, OUP, New Delhi, 1988.
3. Barry Barnes (ed.): Sociology of Science,
4. Deepak Kumar : Science and the Raj, OUP, New Delhi, 1997
5. William Malcolm: Science and Social Science : An Introduction, Routledge, London, 2000
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