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SYLLABUS

M.A. (SOCIOLOGY) PART-II

(SEMESTER- III & IV) Sessions: 2019-20 & 2020-21 For Regular/Distance Education Students

Note: Complete M.A (Sociology) Course carries 80 Credits and each paper

carries 5 credits (4 Lecture +1Tutorial)

(This Scheme is for University Regular Students only)

Semester- III

Core Papers Credits Paper-1 Sociological and Anthropological Theory-III 5(4L+1T)

Paper-2 Rural Sociology in India 5(4L+1T)

Paper-3 Environmental Sociology 5(4L+1T)

Elective Paper:-

Paper-4 Any one of the followings: 5(4L+1T)

(Option-I) Political Sociology

(Option-II) Industrial Sociology

(Option-III) Sociology of Kinship

Semester- IV

Core Papers Credits

Paper-1 Sociological and Anthropological Theories-IV 5(4L+1T)

Paper-2 Sociology of Development 5(4L+1T)

Paper-3 Gender and Society 5(4L+1T)

Elective Paper:-

Paper-4 Any one of the followings: 5(4L+1T)

(Option-I) Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture

(Option-II) Sociology of Religion

(Option-III) Sociology of Aging


Important: Availability of number of seats in an elective course is subject

to the space and faculty constraints of the host department.

The subjects which the students can opt from MOOCS will be notified

by the department semester wise time to time.

SYLLABUS

M.A. (SOCIOLOGY) PART-II

For Regular/Distance Education Students

(THIRD SEMESTER)

Session : 2019-2020

Note: Regular/Distance Education Student each paper is of 70 marks and 30

marks of Internal Assessment.

The Break-up of 30 Marks for Internal Assessment (Theory Papers) is as below:

1. Test 12 Marks

2. Class Attendance 06 Marks

3. Field Work / Project Work/Assignment/

Seminar etc. 12 Marks

TOTAL MARKS 30 Marks

SEMESTER-III

PAPER-I

SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES-III

Regular/Distance Education M. Marks: 100 Time Allowed: 3hrs

Pass Marks: 25

Theory 70+Internal 30

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER

The question paper will consist of three sections A, B and C. Sections A and B

will have four questions from the respective sections of the syllabus and will carry 10½

marks each. Section C will each consist of 14 short-answer type questions, which will


cover the entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 28 marks in all. Each short-answer type

question will carry two marks. Thirty (30) marks will comprise of internal assessment.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

Candidates are required to attempt two questions each from sections A and B.

All questions in Section C are compulsory.

SECTION-A

i. Structural-Functional : Distinctive features.

Approaches :

ii. Emile Durkheim : Durkheim's sociologism; concepts of social facts and

collective representations; the rules of sociological method;

studies of division of labour, suicide and religion.

iii. Talcott Parsons : Action frame of reference; action system and social system;

AGIL and pattern variables.

iv. R. K. Merton : Theories of the middle range; paradigm for functional

analysis; manifest and latent functions.

SECTION-B

i. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: Process of social life; concepts of social structure,

structural form and social function.

ii. B. Malinowski : Malinowski's biological functionalism; theory of culture :

needs - institutions - culture scheme.

iii. C. Levi-Strauss : Distinctive features and fundamentals of Levi-Strauss'

structuralism; structure, model and empirical reality.

iv. A. Giddens : Structuration theory.

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1. Benaff, M. 1998 : Levi-Strauss and the making of Structural Anthropology,

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.

2. Benoit Smullyan, E 1948: "The Sociologism of Emile Durkheim and his school' in

H.E.Barnes Introduction to the History of Sociology,

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

3. Durkheim E 1982 : The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: The free

Press

4. Giddens, A. 1978 : Durkheim, Glasgow: Fontana.


5. Giddens, A. 1971 : Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

6. Giddens, A 1984 : The Constitution of Society, Cambridge: Polity Press

7. Hamilton, P. 1983 : Talcott Parsons, London : Tavistock.

8. Kuper, A. 1983 : Anthropology and Anthropologists,London : Routledge &

Kegan Paul.

9. Levi-Strauss, C. 1968 : Social Structure, in Structural Anthropology, Penguin.

10. Leach, E 1970 : Levi Straus London : Fontana

11. Malinowski, B. 1944 : A Scientific Theory of Culture, University of Carolina

Press.

12. Merton, R. K. 1972 : Social Theory and Social Structure, New York : Free

Press.

13. Parsons, T 1949 : The Structure of Social Action, Glencoe: Free Press

14. Radcliffe-Brown 1952 : Structure and Function in PrimitiveSociety, London :

A. R. Cohen and West.

15. Turner, J. 1978 : The Structure of Sociological Theory, Illinois : The

Dorsey Press.

16. Zeitlin. I. 1969 : Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theories,

Delhi : Prentice Hall.

PAPER-II

RURAL SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA


Pass Marks: 25



The question paper will consist of three sections A, B and C. Sections A

and B will have four questions from the respective sections of the syllabus and will carry

10½ marks each. Section C will each consist of 14 short-answer type questions, which

will cover the entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 28 marks in all. Each short-answer

type question will carry two marks. Thirty (30) marks will comprise of internal

assessment.





SECTION-A

i. Rural Sociology : Importance, origin and development, Rural-Urban differences.

ii. Rural Society in India : Basic characteristics of peasant society, Agrarian class structure.

iii. Rural Social Structure : Caste structure in rural set-up, inter-caste relations – Jajmani

system.

iv Rural Economic : Land reforms and impact.

Structure Green Revolution - Causes & consequences.

SECTION-B

i. Rural Political Structure -I: Constitutional Panchayats- – structure and functions

73rd Constitutional Amendment

Factions : Role in rural life.

ii Rural Political Structure -II: Empowerment of women through Panchayats.

iii Rural development-I : Programmes - CDP, SGSY, MGNREGA.

iv Rural development-II : NRLM, Rural Indebtedness.


1. Beteille, Andre 1974 : Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, New Delhi : Oxford

University Press.

2. Beteille, Andre 1996 : Caste, Class and Power, Delhi : Oxford University Press.

3. Birinder Pal Singh 2005 : Some Comments on the Future of Rural Development in India,

Gandhi Marg,

4. Darling, M. L. 1978 : Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt, Delhi : Rana Partap Bagh.

5. Desai, A. R. 1978 : Rural Sociology in India, Bombay : Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.

6. Desai, Vasant 1988 : Rural Development (Vol. I to VI), New Delhi : Himalaya

Publishing House.

7. Doshi, S. L. 1999 : Rural Sociology, New Delhi : Rawat Publications.

8. Fuller, Christopher 1996 : Caste Today, Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press.

9. Jammu, P. S. 1974 : Changing Social Structure in Rural Punjab, New Delhi : Sterling

Publishers.

10. Jammu, P. S. 2007 : Jaat Parnali Ate Punjabi Samaj, New Delhi : Sterling Publication.

11. Krishanamurthy 2000 : Rural Development : Challenges and Opportunities, Jaipur :

Rawat Publication.

12. Marriott, Mckim 1969 : Village India : Studies in Little Community, Chicago : University

of Chicago Press.

13. Maheshwari, S. R. 1995 : Rural Development in India, New Delhi : Sage.


14. Punit, A. E. 1978 : Social Systems in Rural India, New Delhi : Sterling Publication.

15. Shanin, Teodor (ed.) 1971 : Peasants and Peasant Societies, Penguin Books Ltd.

16. Sharma, K. L. 1997 : Rural Society in India, Jaipur : Rawat Publication.

17. Sharma, M. L. 1999 : Land Reforms in India, New Delhi : Ajanta Publications.

18. Shukla & Hansra 1991 : Social, Economic and Political Implications of Green Revolution,

New Delhi : Classical Publishing Company.

19. Sukhdev Singh 1994 : IRDP and District Development,New Delhi : Deep and Deep

Publications.

20. Sukhdev Singh 1997 : Pendu Samaj Ate Pendu Vikas, Patiala : PunjabiUniversity.

21. Sukhdev Singh 2006 : Pendu Samaj Vigyan, Patiala: PunjabiUniversity

22. Srinivas, M. N. (ed.) 1960 : India's Villages, Bombay : Asia Publishing House.

23. Srinivas, M. N. 2003 : Caste : It's Twentieth Century Avatar, New Delhi : Viking.

PAPER-III

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY


Pass Marks: 25








assessment.




Section-A

Environmental sociology Nature: main features

Scope: the main topics and areas of ES

Emergence: phases of development


Basic concepts: Environment: a discussion of various concepts and

functions of environment Ecology and eco-system:

History of concept, reasons for popularity.

Theoretical perspectives: Human Exemptionalist Paradigm (HEP): main

features of HEP, Marxist and Durkhiemian

perspectives

New Ecological Paradigm (NEP):

New perspectives: Radical ecology: Main features.

Deep ecology.

Eco-feminism: Main features.

Section –B

Ecological Crisis: Nature: Extent and Types.

Major issues : Population: New Malthusian and ultimate resource

debate GMOs, benefits and controversies, Global

warming and climate change.

Environmental activism: Legislations & Summits

NGOs: types and functions

Media: types and functions

Environmental Movements: Development, Nature and types

The Chipko movement: a detailed study of its

significance


1. Agarwal, A. and 1985 : State of India's Environment: The

Narain Second Citizen's Report1984-85, New Delhi: Centre for Science

and Environment.

2. Alvarez, C. 1992 : Science, Development and Violence, Delhi: OxfordUniversity

Press.

3. Dreyer, Oleg 1989 : Ecological Problems of Developing Countries, Delhi: Ajanta.

4. Gadgil, M. and 1996 : Ecology and Equity: The Use and

Guha, R. Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India, Delhi: Viking Penguin.

5. Guha, R. 1988 : Idelogical Trends in Indian Environmentalism, Economic and

Political Weekly, Vol. 13, pp. 2578-81.

6. Hanningan, J. A. 1995 : Environmental Sociology, London: Routledge.

7. Harvey, B. and 1977 : Environment and Society: An


Hallett, J. D. 1977 : Introductory Analysis, London: Macmillan.

8. Iyer, K. G. (ed) 1977 : Sustainable Development: Ecological and Socio-cultural

Dimensions, New Delhi: Vikas.

9. King, Leslie and 2009 : Environmental Sociology : From analysis to action : Rowman &

Deborah Mecarthy Littlefield Publishers, INC.

10. Mehta, M. D. and 1995 : Environmental Sociology: Theory

E. Quellit (eds.) and Practice, North York : Catpus Press.

11. Rangarajan, M. 1996 : The Politics of Ecology, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31,

pp. 2376-91.

12. Redclift, M. R. and 1994 : Social Theory and Global

T. Benten (eds.) Environment, London: Routledge.

13. Redclift, M. and 1995 : The Sociology of Environment,

Adershot, Woodgate, (3 vols.), U.K.: Edwar Elgar Publishing

G. (eds) Ltd.

14. Redclift, Michael 1997 : The International Handbook of

and Woodgate, Environmental Sociology, Edward

Graham (eds.) Elgar, U.S.A.

15. Shiva, V. 1991 : Ecology and Politics of Survival over Natural Resources in India,

New Delhi.

16. Shiva, V. 1991 : The Violence of Green Revolution, U.K.: Zed Pro.

17. Stem, P. C. 1992 : Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human

Dimensions, Washington, DC: NationalAcademy Press.

PAPER-IV(Option-I)

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY


Pass Marks: 25












SECTION-A

(a) Political Sociology : Emergence and nature, Marxian and Structural-functional Approaches

(b) Political Culture : Meaning and significance, Types.

(c) Power : Concept and types. (authority, hegemony, knowledge/power)

(d) Elites and society with reference to Pareto, Mills and Mosca.

Approaches to identify elites.

SECTION-B

(a) Political System : Nature and Types - Primitive, modern-democratic, totalitarian.

(b) Salient features of the Indian political system. Ethnicity and nationalism

.

(c) Political Violence : Meaning and nature. Types of violence - state, communal, revolutionary,

religious.

(d) Communalism : Concept. Socio-economic roots.


1. Almond, S. A. & 1963 : The Civic Culture, Princeton :

S. Verba PrincetonUniversity Press.

2. Bottomore, T. B. 1974 : Elites and Society, Penguin.

3. Birinder Pal Singh 1999 : Problem of Violence : Themes in Literature, Shimla : Indian

Institute of Advanced Study.

4. Brass, Paul 1991 : Ethnicity and Nationalism : Theory and Comparison, New Delhi :

Sage.

5. Chandra, Bipan 1981 : Communalism in Modern India, Delhi : Vikas.

6. Dowse, R. L. and 1972 : Political Sociology, London : Wiley

John, Hughes & Sons.

7. Gupta, Dipankar 1996 : Political Sociology in India : Contemporary Trends, Delhi : Orient

Longman.


8. Kothari, Rajni 1970 : Politics in India, Delhi: Orient Longman.

9. Kohli, Atul 1988 : India's Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State Society

Relations, Delhi: Orient Longman.

10. Kohli, A. (ed.) 2001 : The Success of India's Democracy, CambridgeUniversity Press.

11. Lipset, S. M. (ed.) 1972 : Politics and the Social Sciences, Delhi : Wiley Eastern Pvt. Ltd.

12. Lukes, Steven 1977 : Essays in Social Theory, London: Macmillan.

13. Miliband, Ralph 1973 : The State in Capitalist Society, London: Quartet Books.

14. Mukhopadhya, Amal 1977 : Political Sociology, Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi & Co.

15. Mills, C. W. 1977 : The Power Elite, New York : OxfordUniversity Press

16. Oomen, T. K. 1990 : State and Society in India : Studies in NationBuilding,Delhi :

Sage.

17. Runciman, W. G. 1968 : Social Science and Political Theory, London :

CambridgeUniversity Press.

PAPER-IV (Option-II)

INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY

Regular/Distance Education M. Marks: 100 Time Allowed : 3 Hours

Pass Marks : 25











SECTION-A

(a) Nature, scope and importance of industrial sociology.

(b) Systems of production: Guild, domestic or putting-out, factory.

(c) Formal organization: Concept. A sketch of various roles (executive, supervisor, foreman,

worker). Industrial bureaucracy.

(d) Informal organization: Concept. Hawthorne Plant Study. Functions of informal groups.


SECTION-B

(a) Industrial conflict: Nature and causes.

(b) Industrial relations machinery in India.

(c) Trade Unions: Theories, Growth of trade union movement in India.

(d) Impact of industry on economy, polity, community, social stratification, family.


1. Blau, Peter M. and 1971 : Bureaucracy in Modern Society,

Marshal W. Meyer New York : Random House.

2. Eldridge J.E.T and 1971 : Sociology and Industrial Life,

Joseph, M. London.

3. Giri, V. V. 1972 : Labour Problems in Indian Industry, Asia Publishing House,

Bombay.

4. Gisbert, Pauscal 1981 : Fundamentals of Industrial Sociology, New Delhi : Tata McGraw-

Hill Publishing Company.

5. Hancock, P. and 2001 : Work, Post-modernism and

M. Taylor organization, Delhi: Sage India.

6. Kerr, C. et al 1973 : Industrialism and Industrial Man, Penguin.

7. Miller & Form 1964 : Industrial Sociology,New York.: Harper & Row.

8. Poole, M. 1982 : Theories of Trade Unionism: A Sociology of Industrial Relations,

London : Routledge & Kegan Paul.

9. Parker, S. R. et. al. 1981 : The Sociology of Industry, London: George Allen and Unwin.

10. Ramaswamy, B. A. 1981 : Industry and Labor : An

& Uma Ramaswamy Introduction, Delhi.: OxfordUniversity Press.

11. Sheth, N. R. (ed.) 1982 : Industrial Sociology in India: A Book of Readings, New Delhi:

Allied Publishers.

12. Schneider, E. V. 1971 : Industrial Sociology: The Social Relations of Industry and

Community, London: Mc Graw-Hill.

PAPER-IV (Option-iii)

SOCIOLOGY OF KINSHIP


Pass Marks: 25












SECTION-A

(i) Kinship : Meaning, nature and scope.

(ii) Approaches to study of kinship : Evolutionary, structural functional and structural.

(iii) Concept of descent; decent systems : Unilineal, double-unilineal, non-unilineal, patrilineal and

matrilineal.

(iv) Concept of Alliance, Alliance theories, Descent and Alliance controversy, Filiation and affinity.

SECTION-B

(i) Incest taboos and exogamy.

(ii) Domestic group and developmental cycle. Developmental cycle in north Indian family.

(iii) Kinship terminology and terminological systems.

(iv) Punjabi kinship and Punjabi kinship terminology.


1. Davenport, W. 1959 : 'Lineal and Non-lineal Descent Groups'. In Nelson Graburn (ed.),

Readings in Kinship and Social Structure, New York, Harper and

Row.

2. Dube, L. 1957 : The Sociology of Kinship in India, Delhi : ICSSR.

3. Dumont, Louis 1971 : 'Marriage Alliance'. In Nelson Grabum (ed.), Readings in Kinship

and Social Structure, pp. 233-238.

4. Fortes, M. 1953 : 'The structure of Unilineal Descent Groups'. In Nelson Graburn

(ed.), Readings in Kinship and Social Structure.

5. Fox, Robin 1976 : Kinship and Marriage, Penguin.

6. Fox, Robin 1983 : The Red Lamp of Incest : An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and

Society, University of Notre Dame Press.

7. Graburn, N. 1971 : Readings in Kinship and Social Structure Harper & Row,

Publishers, New York.


8. Goody, J. (ed) 1958 : The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups, Cambridge

University Press.

9. Hallen, G. C. (ed.) 1982 : Family Research in India : Some Strategies, Meerut : Rohini

Publications.

10. International Ency- 1966 : Articles on Marriage, Family, Kinship

clopaedia of Social and Descent Groups.

Sciences

11. Keesing, Roger 1975 : Kin Groups and Social Structure, New York : Holt, Rinehart &

Winston.

12. Levi-Strauss 1969 : The Elementary Structures of Kinship (R. Needham ed.) Boston :

Beacon.

13. Leaf, M 1965 : 'The Punjabi Kinship Terminology as a Semantic System'. In

American Anthroplogist, Vo1.73. pp. 545-554.

14. Madan, T.N. 1965 : Family and Kinship: A Study of Pandits of Rural Kashmir,

Bombay : Asia Publishing House.

15. Murdock, G. P. 1949 : Social Structure, New York,

Macmillan.

16. Pasternak, Burton : Introduction to Kinship and Social Organisation, New Jersey :

Prentice-Hall. Chapter 5-9.

17. Radcliffe-Brown, 1950 : Introduction, In A. R. Radcliffe-

and Forde, D. Brown and D. Forde (eds.) African Systems of Kinship and

Marriage, London : OxfordUniversity.

18. Radcliffe-Brown 1952 : Structure and Function in Primitive Society, London : Cohen &

West, Chapters 1 & 3.

19. Schneider, D. M. 1975 : 'Introduction: The Distinctive Features of Matrilineal Descent

Groups'. In D. Schneider and K. Gough (eds.), Matrilineal

Kinship, New Delhi, Wheelar.

20. Oberoi, P. 1993 : Family, Marriage and Kinship, New Delhi : OxfordUniversity

Press.

21. Tulsi Patel 2005 : Family in India Edited Book, Sage Publication, New Delhi.


(FOURTH SEMESTER) Session : 2018-2019 & 2019-2020

Note: Regular/Distance Education Student each paper is of 70 marks and 30

marks of Internal Assessment.

The Break-up of 30 Marks for Internal Assessment (Theory Papers) is as below:

1. Test 12 Marks

2. Class Attendance 06 Marks

3. Field Work / Project Work/Assignment/

Seminar etc. 12 Marks

TOTAL MARKS 30 Marks

SEMESTER-IV

PAPER-I

SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL

THEORIES-IV


Pass Marks: 25











SECTION-A

i. Symbolic Interactionism : Distinctive features.


ii. G. H. Mead : Self and society, genesis of self, I and Me.

Post-Mead developments : Chicago and Iowa schools - Contrasts

(brief discussion).

iii. Phenomenological : Distinctive features.

Sociology

iv. A. Schutz : Departure from Husserl and Weber; nature and structure of the life-

world (inter-subjectivity, stock of knowledge, typification);

methodology.

Post-Schutz developments : Berger and Luckmann - The social

construction of reality (brief discussion)

v. H. Garfinkel : Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology

SECTION-B

i. Post-Structuralism and : Distinctive features.

Post-modernism

ii. M. Foucault : A new conception of knowledge acquisition; archaeology - history,

discourses, epistimes; genealogy - knowledge, power and

subjectivity.

iii. J. Lyotard : Modernity, metanarratives and their collapse; the advent of the

postmodern condition : little narratives, language games and

paralogy.

iv. P. Bourdieu : Genetic Structuralism : Structures, habitus and practices.


1. Baert, P. 1998 : Social Theory in Twentieth Century,London: Polity Press.

2. Berger, P & T. Luckmann 1991 : The Social Construction of Reality, London: Penguin Book

3. Bourdieu, P 1990 : The logic of practice, Combridge : Polity Press

4. Doshi, S.L. 2003 : Modernity, Postmodernity and Neo-Sociological Theories, Jaipur:

Rawat Publication.

5. Delanty, G 2000 : Modernity and Postmodernity, London : Sage Publications

6. Giddens, A. & 1987 : Social Theory Today, London: Polity Press.

J.H.Turner (eds.)

7. Hunter, J. D. and 1986 : Making Sense of Modern Times : PeterL. Berger and the Vision

Ainlay, Stephen, C. of Interpretive Sociology,London : Routledge and KeganPaul.

8. Lyotard, JF 1984 : The Post Modern Condition, Minneapolis: University of

Minnesota ,

9. Manis, J. G. and 1978 : Symbolic Interaction, Boston :Allyn and Beacon.

Meltzer (eds.)

10. Mouzelis, N. 1995 : Sociological Theory : What wentwrong?London: Routledge.


11. Ritzer, G 2003 : The Blackwell companion to Major Contemporary Social

Theorists, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

12. Seidman, S. and 1992 : Postmodernism and Social Theory, London :Polity Press.

Wagner, David, G.

13. Seidman, S. 2013 : Contested Knowledge : Social Theory Today, MA: Wiley

Blackwell.

14. Sim, S. 1996 : Jean-Francois Lyotard, London :Prentice- Hall.

15. Turner, J. 1978 : The Structure of Sociological Theory, Illinois : The Dorsey, Press.

16. Wagner, H. 1970 : Introduction : Phenomenological Approach to Sociology. In

Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology of Social Relations. The

University of Chicago Press.

PAPER-II

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT


Pass Marks: 25











SECTION-A

(i) Changing Conceptions of Development : Economic growth, human development, social

development, sustainable development.

(ii) Critical Perspectives on Development : Ecological, liberal, Marxian.

(iii) Theories of Development and Under-development : Modernization theories, centre-periphery,

world-system.


(iv) Paths and agencies of development : Capitalist, socialist, mixed

economy; state, market, NGOs.

SECTION-B

(i) Social Structure and Development : Structure as a facilitator; development and socio-economic

disparities.

(ii) Culture and Development : Culture as an aid/impediment to development.

(iii) Indian experience of development and social consequences of economic reforms.

(iv) Socio-cultural repercussions of globalization; social implications of information technological

revolution.


1. Appadurai, Arjun 1997 : Modernity at Large : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization,

New Delhi : OxfordUniversity, Press.

2. Dereze, Jean and 1996 : India : Economic Development and Social Opportunity, New

Delhi

Sen Amartya OxfordUniversity, Press.

3. Dereze, Jean and : India: Development and Participation

Sen Amarty

4. Harrison, D. 1989 : The Sociology of Modernization and Development, New Delhi :

Sage.

5. Heq. Mahbub ue. 1991 : Reflections on Human Development, New Delhi :

OxfordUniversity Press.

6. Sharma, S. L. 1980 : Criteria of Social Development,Social Action, Jan-March.

7. Sharma, S. L. 1986 : Development : Socio-cultural Dimensions, Jaipur : Rawat.

8. Sharma, S. L. 1986 : 'Salience of ethnicity in Modernization',Sociological Bulletin, Vol.

39. 1 and 2, pp. 33-51.

9. Sharma, S. L. 1994 : 'Perspective on sustainable Development in South Asia : The case

of India.' In Sumid Ganguly(ed.)

Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Asia, KualaLumpur :

A.D.P.A.


PAPER-III

GENDER AND SOCIETY


Pass Marks: 25








assessment.




SECTION-A

(i) Basic Concepts : Sex, gender, patriarchy, matriarchy, masculinity, femininity, gender

identity. Sex Ratio and its Social Implications.

(ii) Theories of Feminism : Liberal, radical, marxist, socialist

and Post-modernist

(iii) Women's movement in the West.

(iv) Women's movement in India.

SECTION-B

(i) Women and Family : (a) Role of women.

(i) Biological perspective.

(ii) Cultural perspective.

(b) Social construction of gender.

(ii) Women and Work : (a) Invisibility of women's work.

(b) Role of women in economy.


(iii) Position of Women in : A historical perspective.

Indian Society.

(iv) Emerging Issues : (a) Women in politics.

(b) Violence against women.


1. Chafetz, Janet Satzam 1990 : Gender Equity : An Integrated Theory of Stability and

Change,New Delhi, Sage Publication.

2. Davidson, Laurie and 1979 : The Sociology of Gender, Chicago, Rand McNally.

Girdon, Laura Kramer

3. Desai, Neera & 1970 : Women and Society in India, Delhi :

M. Krishnaraj Ajanta Publications.

4. Dube, Leela 1988 : On the Construction of Gender, Economic and Political

Weekly, April, 30, pp. Ws 11-19.

5. Dube Leela and 1990 : Structures and Strategies : Women

Rajni Perewala (eds.) Work and Family, New Delhi : Sage.

6. Edgell, Stephen 2006 : The Sociology of Work : Continuity & Change in Paid and

Unpaid WorkThousand Oaks, Sage Publication,

7. Forbes, G. 1998 : Women in Modern India,

New Delhi : CambridgeUniversity Press.

8. Gandhi, N. and 1992 : The Issues at Stake : Theory and

N. Shah Practice in the ContemporaryWomen's Movement in India,

New Delhi : Kali for women.

9. Ghadially, Rehana 1988 : Women in Indian Society - A Reader,

(ed.) New Delhi : Sage Publications.

10. Govt. of India 1974 : Towards Equality : Report of the National Committee on

the Status of Women in India, New Delhi.

11. Kalbagh Chetana 1991 : Women and Development, New

(ed.) Delhi : Discovery Publishing House, Vol. 1-7.

12. Leslie, Julia (ed.) 2000 : Invented Identities :The Interplay of Gender, Religion and

Politics in India,New Delhi, O.U.P.

13. Miller, Barbara 1997 : The Endangered Sex,New Delhi, OxfordUniv. Press

14. Nancy Mandell 1995 : Feminist Issues : Race, Class&Sexuality, Canada : Prentice

Hall.

15. Tong, Rosemarie 1989 : Feminist Thought : A Comprehensive Introduction,

Colarado : Westview Press.


PAPER-IV(Option-i)

SOCIOLOGY OF MASS MEDIA AND

POPULAR CULTURE


Pass Marks: 25







question will carry two marks. Thirty (30) marks will comprise of internal assessment




SECTION-A

(i) Importance of popular culture and mass media.

(ii) Basic concepts : Popular culture; mass communications and mass ideology.

(iii) Theoretical approaches : McLuhan (The medium is the message), Baudrillard

(The world of hyperreality), Habermas (The public sphere), Roland Barthes (Semiology)

(iv) Popular culture : Films, Music, Sports, Soap shows.

(v) Components : Artists - Audience.

SECTION-B

(i) Medium : Traditional-Fairs and festivals, Folkore.

(ii) Modern : Cinema, Television, Multimedia, Internet.

(iii) Commercialization of leisure and recreation.

(iv) Mass culture as industry.

(v) Globalization of media and popular culture.


1. Appadurai, Arjun 1997 : Modernity At Large : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, New

Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press.

2. Axford, B. and 2001 : New Media and Politics, London : Sage.


Richard Huggins

3. Barthes, R. 1983 : Mythologies, New York : HilI & Wang.

4. Barthes, R. 1977 : Elements ofSemiology.New York : HilI & Wang.

5. Bandrillard, J. 1983 : Simulations, New York : Semiotext.

6. Bhatia, Sonia 1998 : Women, Democracy and the Media : Cultural and Political

Representation in the Indian Press, Delhi : Sage.

7. Breckenridge, C. 2001 : Consuming Modernity : Public Culture in Contemporary India.

New Delhi : OUP

8. Brosius, C. and 1999 : Image Journeys : Audio VisualMedia & Cultural Change in India,

M. Butcher (ed.) Delhi : Sage.

9. Curran, J. N. and 1991 : Mass Media and Society, London : Arnold.

M. Gurevitch (ed.)

10. French, D. 2000 : Television in Contemporary Asia, London : Michael Richard Sage.

11. Gunaratne, S. (ed.) 2000 : Handbook of the Media in Asia, London : Sage.

12. Habermas, J. 1989 : The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Cambridge :

Polity Press.

13. Harinder Kaur 2004 : Fairs of Punjab : A Semiological Analysis, Delhi : Harman

Publishers.

14. Johnson, K. 2000 : Television and Social Change in Rural India, London : Sage.

15. Leach, E. 1976 : Culture and Communication, Cambridge : CambridgeUniversity

Press.

16. Manuel, P. 2001 : Cassette Culture : Popular Music and Technology in North India,

New Delhi, OUP

17. McLuhan, M. & 2003 : Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man, Barkeley :Gungko

WT Gorden Press

18. McQuaif, Denis 2005 : McQuail's Mass Communication Theory (Fifth edition) N.D:

Vistaar Publications

19. Mitra, A. 1993 : Television and Popular Culture in India, Delhi : Sage.

20. Page, D. and 2001 : Satellites over South Asia, London : Sage.

William Crawely P.

21. Preston, P. 2001 : Reshaping Communications, London : Sage.

22. Robertson, R. 1992 : Globalisation, Social Theory and Global Culture, London : Sage.

23. Singhal, A. and 2000 : India's Communication Revolution, Delhi : Sage.

E. M. Rogers

24. Tunstall, J. 1977 : The Media are American, New York : Columiba University Press.


PAPER-IV (Option-ii)

SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION


Pass Marks : 25











SECTION-A

(i) Sociology of Religion : Nature, scope and development.

(ii) Approaches to the Study of Religion : Evolutionary (Tylor), Historical and Dialectical

(Marx and Weber), Structural (Durkheim), Functional (Malinowski) and Phenomenological

(Eliade ).

(iii) Rites of Passage : Theories of Van Gennep, M. Eliade and Max Gluckman.

(iv) Totemism : Theories of Durkheim, Levi-Strauss and Radcliffe-Brown.

(v) Mystical agents and social control in tribal societies.

SECTION-B

(i) Religious experience and expression.

(ii) Religious organisation : Church, sect, cult and denomination.

(iii) Religious leadership : Prophet, priest and shaman.

(iv) Religion and other social institutions - economy, polity, family.

(v) Religion and modernisation : Religious change, decline and revival.

(vi) Religion in contemporary India : Religious diversity, communalism, fundamentalism and

proselytism



1. Beyer, P. 1994 : Religion and Globalisation, London : Sage.

2. Bhupinder Singh 1988 : Theories of Religion, Delhi : Ajanta.

3. Bruce, S. 1992 : Religion and Modernisation, Oxford Clarendon Press.

4. Bruce, S. (eds.) 1996 : The Sociology of Religion, U.K. : Edwar Elgar Publishing Ltd.

5. Clarke, Peter B. 2009 : The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion:

(ed.) OxfordUniversity Press.

6. Durkheim, E. 1965 : The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life,New York : The Free

Press.

7. Gluckman, M. 1962 : Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations, Manchester :

ManchesterUniversity Press.

8. Kemin J. Christiano 2008 : Sociology of Religion : Contemporary Developments. Lanham,

(ed) .M.D: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

9. Levi-Strauss, C. 1962 : Totemism, Penguin.

10. Madan, T. N. 1962 : Religion in India, New Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press.

11. Maletijt, A. 1968 : Religion and Culture, New York : The Macmillan Company.

12. Mcguire, M. B. 1981 : Religion : The Social Context, Belmont, California : Wadworth

Publishing Co.

13. O'Dea, T. F. 1969 : Sociology of Religion, Prentice-Hall.

14. Pals, D. L. 1996 : Seven Theories of Religion, Oxford : Oxford, University Press.

15. Patra Soumyajit (ed) 2010 : Rethinking Religion : Rawat Publications, New Delhi.

15. Roberts, K. A. 1984 : Religion: Sociological Perspective, HomewoodIllinois: The Drsey

Press.

16. Sills, D. L. 1968 : International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, The Free

Press.

(Articles on sociology of religion, ritual, sects and cults, religious

specialists, myth and symbol).

17. Swatos, W. H. 1993 : A Future for Religion? New Paradigms for Social Analysis, New

Delhi : Sage.

18. Weber, M. 1963 : The Sociology of Religion, Boston : Beacon Press.


PAPER-IV (Option-iii)

SOCIOLOGY OF AGING


Pass Marks : 25











SECTION-A

(i) Sociology of aging : scope and significance

(ii) Trends of increasing aging population in different societies. Factors responsible for the same.

(iii) Theoretical and sociological perspective on aging.

Concept of age grades and the aged in tribal, traditional and modern societies.

(iv) Aged – their status and treatment they get in traditional Hindu Society.

SECTION-B

(i) Problems of the elderly: Economic problems and social problems.

(ii) Physical problems and leisure time problems.

(iii) Social economical and political implications of aging population for developed and developing

societies.

(iv) Family and the aged in the urban and rural settings.


1. Beswas, S. K. (ed.) 1987 : Aging in Contemporary India, Calcutta : Indian Anthropological

Society.


2. Chaudhary, S. K. 1992 : Problems of the Aged of Old Age Homes,

(ed.) Bombay : Akshar Prathi Roop Limited.

3. Dandekar, K. 1990 : Eldery in India, New Delhi : Sage.

4. Desoza Alferd 1982 : Aging in South Asia, Theoretical Issues and Policy Implications,

New Delhi : Indian social Institute.

5. Dhillon, P. K. 1992 : Psycho-social Aspects of Aging in India, New Delhi : Concept.

6. Kohli, A. S. 1996 : Social Situation of the Aged in India, New Delhi : Annual

Publications.

7. Randhawa, M. S. 1991 : The Rural and Urban Aged, New Delhi :

National Book Organisation.

8. United Nations 1994 : Proceedings of the United Nations Round Table the "Aging of

Asian Population", Bangkok.

9. United Nations 1996 : Added Years of Life in Asia : Current Situation and Future

Challenges, New York : United Nations.

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