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ONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
R .V. Nagar, Kalapet
Pondicherry -605014
II YEAR
SOCIOLOGY
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course it reorient students to sociology related to community and social institution in
India and its relationship with health, illness and nursing.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the student will
COURSE CONTENTS
UNIT I 3 Hours
Introduction
Importance of study of sociology in nursing, relationship of anthropology,
sociology, etc.
UNIT II 5 Hours
➢ Individual and society
➢ Socialization
➢ Interdependence of the individual and society
➢ Personal disorganization.
UNIT IV 8 Hours
➢ Social organization
➢ Social groups, crowds and public groups, nations, race.
➢ Social institutions: The family marriage, education, religion, arts, economic
organization, political organization.
➢ The urban and rural community in India: Ecology, characteristics of the village,
characteristics of the town and city.
➢ Social stratification: Class and caste.
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UNIT V 5 Hours
➢ Social process
➢ Process of Social Interaction: Competition, Conflict-war, cooperation,
accommodation and assimilation
UNIT VI 5 Hours
➢ Social change
➢ Nature and process of social change: Factors influencing cultural change.
Cultural lag.
➢ Social problems
➢ Social disorganization, control and planning: poverty, population, housing,
illiteracy, food supplies, growth of urbanization, prostitution, minority groups,
rights of women and children, child labour, child abuse, delinquency and crime,
substance abuse.
Role of information technology in environment and human health-case studies.
➢ Social issues and environment:
• From unsustainable to sustainable development
• Urban problems and related to energy
• Water conservation, rain water harvesting, water shed management
• Resettlement and rehabilitation of peole: its problem and concern-case studies
• Environmental ethics: issues and possible solutions, climate change, global
warming, acid rain, ocean layer depletion, nuclear accident and holocaust-case
studies
• Wasteland reclamation
• Consumerism and waste products.
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