The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of Sociology Nr. Kalaghoda, Sayajigunj, Vadodara-390 002

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda
Faculty of Arts ACADEMIC YEAR
Department of Sociology 2016-2017
Nr. Kalaghoda, Sayajigunj, Vadodara-390

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Master of Arts (Sociology)

YEAR I CORE - 01 CREDIT 3
Semester I Paper Code- SOC2101 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course students will be able to

 Acquaint with sociological theory and the distinctiveness of its approach among the
social sciences.
 Focus on history and systematics of sociological theory.
 Acquire knowledge on both macro-sociological and micro-sociological paradigms.
COURSE CONTENT/ SYLLABUS
Title: History and development of Sociological Theory: 11 hrs.
Early social theories; transition from social philosophy to
sociology;
UNIT-I
Enlightenment; The French and Industrial Revolutions;
The pioneers: Comte: positivism
Spencer: Social Darwinism; super organic evolution
Title: General Theory: 11 hrs.
Middle-Range Theory; Axiomatic Theory; Theory and
UNIT-II
Paradigms; Reciprocal Relation between Theory and
Research
Title: Macro-Sociological Paradigms: 11 hrs.
Structural-Functionalism; Neo- Functionalism;
- Alternative Macro-Sociological Paradigms:
UNIT-III Neo-Marxian Theories: Hegelian Marxism, Critical
Theory;
Historically oriented Marxism; post-Marxist theories-
Structuralism; Poststructuralism
Title: Micro-Sociological Paradigms: 11 hrs.
Symbolic Interactionism; Phenomenology, Dramaturgy;
Ethnomethodology;
UNIT-IV
Alternative Micro-Sociological Paradigms:
Exchange Theory; Rational Choice Theory; Network
Theory
REFERENCES
1 Bloch, Marc: 2006. Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organization,(2 Vols.) Delhi:
Asha Jyoti Booksellers and Publishers
2 Aron, Raymond: 1967 (1982 Reprint). Main Currents in Sociological Thought (2 volumes).
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books.
3 Barnes, H.E. 1959. Introduction to the History of Sociology. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press.
4 Coser, Lewis A. Masters of Sociological Thought. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
5 Fletcher, Ronald. 1994. The Making of Sociology (2 volumes). Jaipur: Rawat
6 Zeitlin, Irving. 1998 (Indian Edition)Rethinking Sociology: A Critique of Contemporary
Theory. Jaipur: Rawat
7 Rosenberg, Alexander Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford: Claredon Press,1988
8 Alexander, Jeffery C. Theoretical Logic in Sociology : Positivism, Presuppositions and
Current Controversies, Vol.1, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982
9 Alexander, Jeffery C. 1987. Twenty lectures: Sociological Theory since World War II, New
York: Columbia University Press
10 Merton, Robert K. Social Theory and Social Structure, New York : Free Press,1967
11 Zetterberg, H.L. On Theory and Verification in Sociology, Bedminster P.(3rd ed.) 1969
12 Ritzer, George Sociological Theory (4th ed.), New York etc. : The McGraw-Hill Co.Inc.1996
13 Turner, Jonathan The Structure of Sociological Theory (5th ed.), Belmont,CA : Wadworth,
1991
14 Swingood, Alan A Short History of Sociological Thought, London : Macmillan, 1991
15 Parsons, T. The Social System New York : Free Press, 1951
16 Parsons, T. et. al. (ed.) Toward A General Theory of Action, Cambridge, Mass : Harvard
University Press, 1951.
17 Parsons, T. et. al. (ed.) Theories of Society (2nd Vol.s) New York: Free Press, 1961.
18 Mills, C.W. The Sociological Imagination, New York: Oxford UniversityPress 1959.
19 Held, David Introduction to Critical Theory : Horkheimer to Habermas, Berkley : University
of California Press, 1980.
20 Bottomore, Tom The Frankfurt School Chichester, Eng : Ellis Horwood and London-New
York : Tawistock Publications, 1986
21 Dews, P. 1987, Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of
TheoryI. Verso
22 Frank, M., 1989, What is Neo-Structuralism?. University of Minnesota Press.
23 Harland, R. 1987. Superstructuralism. Methuen
24 Homans, George, C., Social Behaviour : Its Elementary Forms (Rev.ed.)New York: Harcourt,
Brace and World, 1974.
25 Homans, G.C. “Social Behaviour As Exchange”, American Journal of Sociology 63, 1958,
pp. 597-606.
26 Blau, Peter Exchange and Power in Social Life, New York : Wiley, 1964.
27 Blumer, Herbert Symbolic Interactionism : Perspective and Method, Englewood Cliffs, NJ :
Prentice-Hall, 1969.
28 Goffman, Erving Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1959.
29 Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckman The Social Construction of Reality, Garden City, N.T. :
Doubleday 1967.
30 Garfinkel, Harold, Studies, in Ethnomethodology, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice-Hall, 1967.
31 Turner, R.(ed.) Ethnomethodology, Harmondsworth, Eng.Penguin,1974.
32 Levi-Strauss, Claude Structural Anthropology, Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor,1967
33 Kurzewll, Edith The Age of Structuralism : Levi-Strauss to Foucault,New York : Columbia
University Press,1980.
34 Sturrock, John. (ed.). 1979. Structuralism and Since:From Levi-Strauss to Derrida,
Oxford:OUP
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YEAR I CORE – 02 CREDIT 3
Paper Name-
BASIC SOCIAL RESEARCH
METHODS

 Provide an understanding of the Nature of social phenomena.
 Know how to deal with the issues involved in social research.
 Provide the ways and themes of understanding and studying social reality.
 Emphasize the study of research methods.
 Illustrate the various types of research fundamental to understand social phenomena.
Title: Introduction: 12 hrs.
Meaning, Scope and Significance of Social Research;
UNIT-I
Conceptualization and Formulation of Hypothesis;
Scientific study of Social Phenomena
Title: Methods of Research: 11 hrs.
Quantitative Methods; Qualitative Methods;
UNIT-II
Field Study & Ethnography; Case Study;
Content analysis; Survey Research
Title: Types of Research-1: 11 hrs.
UNIT-III Basic & Applied; Historical; Empirical; Descriptive;
Exploratory; Explanatory; Experimental, Evaluatory
Title: Types of Research-2: 11 hrs.
Action Research; Coordination Research;
UNIT-IV
Interdisciplinary Research; Mixed Methods Research;
Grounded Theory
REFERENCES
1 Rosenberg, M.: The Logic of Survey Analysis, New York: Basic Books,1908
2 Jahoda, M. Deutch and S.W.Cook: Research Methods in Social Relations Vol.I & II (refer to
revised edition by Seltiz, C also) New York : Holt-Dryden, 1951 & 1960
3 Wallies, WA and H.V. Robert: Statistics: A New Approach, Free Press, 1956
4 Bulmer,Martin: Sociological Research Methods, London: Mcmillan,1984.
5 Marsh, Catherine: The Survey Method : The Contribution of Survey to Sociological
Explanation, London: Allen & Unwin, 1982.
6 Marsh, Catherine: Exploring Data, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.
7 Burgess, R.G.: In the Field: An Introduction to Field Research, George Allen & Unwin, 1984
8 Bulmer, Martin and Donal P. Warwick (ed.): Social Research in Developing Countries-
Surveys and Censuses in the Third World, New Delhi: Research Press,1993
9 (i) Fink, Arlene: The Survey Handbook, Vol.1, Sage India 1995.
(ii) Fink Arlene: How to Ask Survey Questions, Vol.2, Sage, India, N.Delhi,1995.
(iii) Bourque, Linda B andEve P. Fieldon: How to conduct Self-Administered and Mail
Surveys, Vol.3,
Sage India, N.Delhi,1995
(iv) Frey James H.: How to Conduct Interview by Telephone and Person,Vol.4,Sage
India,1995
(v) Fink, Arlene: How to Design Surveys, Vol.5, Sage India, N.Delhi,1995.
(vi) Fink, Arlene: How to Sample in Survey, Vol.6 Sage India, 1995.
(vii) Litwin, Mark S.: How to Measure Survey Reliability and Validity.
(viii) Fink, Arlene: How to Analyze Survey Data, Vol.8, Sage India,1995.
(ix ) Fink, Arlene: How to Report Surveys, Vol.9, Sage India, N.Delhi,1995
10 Blalock, H. and Ann B. Blalock: Methodology in Social Research, New York: McGrawa
Hill,1968
11 Annual Review of Sociology Relevant articles from all Volumes
12 Thomas R. Black: Understanding Social Science Research, Sage Publications, London
Thousand Oaks New Delhi 2002
13 Jaspal Singh: Methodology and Techniques of Social Research, Kanishka Publishers
Distributors, New Delhi 2001
14 Ram Ahuja: Research Methods, Rawat Publications Jaipur and New Delhi 2001
15 Whyte, William Fott: Learning from the Field, Newbury Park, CA; Sage, 1984
16 Srinivas, M.N.,A.M.Shah and E.A.Ramaswamy (ed.s.): The Field Worker and Field, Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1979
17 Good W. and Hatt, P.: Methods in Social Research, McGraw, Hill, 1952.
18 Festinger, L. and D. Katz (ed.): Research Methods in Behavioural Sciences, New York: Holt-
Dryden, 1953
19 Lazarsfeld, P. and M. Rosenberg (ed): Language of Social Research Glencoe: Free Press,
1955
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Semester I Paper Code-SOC2103 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
INDIAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

 Demonstrate the universally acknowledged social importance of kinship ties.
 Familiarize the student with the rich diversity in the types of networks of relationships
created by genealogical links of marriage and other social ties.
 Expose students to the different approaches, issues and debates in studies of kinship,
marriage and family.
Title: The Kinship System: Basic terms and concepts: 12 hrs.
- Lineage; Clan; Phratry; Moiety; Kingroup; Kindred; incest;
descent; inheritances; succession; consanguinity and affinity;
Kinship terminology
UNIT-I Title: Approaches:
- Historical and evolutionary; structural-functional; structural
cultural and gender perspective
Title: Kinship as an organizing principle:
Descent; descent groups; corporate groups and local groups
Title: The marriage system: 11 hrs.
Alliance theory: Symmetrical and asymmetrical exchange;
Prescriptive and preferential marriage; Monogamy and Polygamy;
UNIT-II Marriage transactions; Stability of Marriage;
Rules of residence: Virilocal, Uxorilocal, Neolocal and
Natolocal;
The Genealogical method; The caste system and its recent trends
Title: The Family System: 11 hrs.
Nature of the family; family and household; elementary
and extended family and developmental cycle
UNIT-III Title: Family and Marriage in India:
Regional diversities; forces of change; family in the
context of care of the child and the aged Demographic
dimensions of family and marriage
Title: The Religious System: 11 hrs.
Definition, religious groups and types of religions; Hinduism,
UNIT-IV
Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Sikkhism; Social significance of
religion in India
REFERENCES
1 Srinivas, M.N.: Caste in Modern India and Other Essay, Bombay etc.: Asia Publishing
House,1962.
2 Dumont, Louis: Homo Hierachicus : The Caste System and Its Implications, Delhi: Vikas
Publications,1970.
3 Gould, Harold: The Hindu Caste System, Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1987.
4 Wiser , William H.: The Hindu Jajmani System, Lucknow: Lucknow Publishing House, 1936.
5 Ishwaran, K.: Change and Continuity in India’s Village, New York: Columbia University
Press,1970.
6 Desai, I.P.: Untouchability in Rural Gujarat, Bombay : Popular Prakashan, 1976.
7 Gore, M.S.: Urbanization and Family Changes, Bombay: Popular Prakashan,1968.
8 Karve, Iravati: Kinship Organization in India (3rd ed.), Bombay: Asia Publishing House,1968.
9 Weber, Max: The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, NJ : Free Press,
1958.
10 Brass, Paul R.: Language, Religion and Politics in North India, Cambridge : Cambridge
University Press, 1974
11 Srinivas, M.N.: The Changing Position of Indian Women, Bombay Oxford University Press,
1978
12 Dumont, Louis: Affinity as a Value, Delhi etc.: Oxford University Press, 1983.
13 Dumont, Louis: A South Indian Subcaste : Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai
Kallar, Delhi :Oxford University Press 1986
14 Betteille, Andre: Castes: Old and New Essays in Social Stratification, Delhi: Asia Publishing
House, 1969
15 Kothari, Rajni: Caste in Indian Politics, New Delhi : Orient Longman, 1970
16 Pocock, David F.: Kanbi and Patidar, London; Oxford University Press, 1972
17 Srinivas, M.N.: Social Change in Modern India, CA: California Press, 1966
18 Karve, Iravati and Y.B.Damle: Group Relations in Village Community, Poona: Deccan College,
1963.
19 Shah A.M., B.S.Baviskar and E.A.Ramaswamy (ed.s), Social Structure and Change Vol.1 to 5,
Delhi etc.: Sage Publications, 1996
20 I.C.S.S.R., A Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol.1 to 3, Bombay :
Popular Prakashan, 1974. (Relevant Articles)
21 I.C.S.S.R., Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 1969-1979, Vol.1 to 3,
New Delhi : Satvahan, 1985. (Relevant Articles).
22 Relevant Articles from Sociological Bulletin
23 Relevant Articles from Contributions to Indian Sociology
24 Relevant Articles from Economic and Political Weekly
25 Uberoi, Patricia (ed.): Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, New Delhi. OUP. 1993.
26 Radciliffe-Brown, A. R.: Structure and function in primitive society, London. Cohen and West.
1952
27 Levi-Strauss, Claude: The elementary structure of Kinship, London. Eyre and Spottiswoode.
1969
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Paper Name-
SOCIOLOGY OF MARGINALIZED
COMMUNITIES

 With the growing emphasis on the contextualization of Indian sociology it has
become imperative to focus on those segments of the population which have lived on
the margins of the society and which have not received until recently adequate
scholarly attention.
 This course is aimed at sensitizing students to the significance of the sociological
study of Dalits, tribal communities and nomadic castes and tribes.
 The focus of the paper is on groups and communities which have suffered extreme
poverty, deprivation and discrimination over a long period of time
Title: Marginalization and its socio-economic indices 12 hrs.
Poverty; relative isolation; deprivation; exploitation;
UNIT-I Discrimination; educational backwardness;
Inequality: a critical view of the caste system;
Untouchability: historical and social roots, dysfunctions
Title: The social structure and culture of marginalized 11 hrs.
communities:
UNIT-II The status of SC, ST, nomadic castes and tribes and de-
notified tribes; problems; social mobility; development;
identity formation
Title: Perspectives on marginalization: 11 hrs.
Role of ideology on marginalization; The views of Jotirao
Phule, Periyar, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Ram Manohar
UNIT-III Lohiya
Title: Perspectives on social movements:
Protest reform sub-nationalism; Nativism; Role of Christian
missionaries in Social Reform movements; Role of NGOs
Title: Social Movements among the marginalized 11 hrs.
communities:
Nature and dynamics
UNIT-IV
Title: Marginalized and affirmative action:
Constitutional provisions; implementation; impact on
marginalized communities; limitations; critical review
REFERENCES
1 Beteille, Andre. 1981: Backward classes and the New Social Order (Delhi: Oxford University
Press)
2 Beteille, Andre. 1992: The Backward Classes in Contemporary India (Delhi: Oxford
University Press)
3 Charsley, S.R. and G.K. Karanth, 1998 – eds.: Challenging Untouchability (Delhi: Sage)
4 Chaudhuri, S.N. 1988: Changing Status of Depressed Castes in Contemporary India (Delhi:
Daya Publishing House)
5 Gore, M.S. 1993: The Social Context of an Ideology: The Social and Political Thoughts of
Babasaheb Ambedkar (New Delhi:Sage)
6 Gupta, Dipankar 1991: Social Stratification (New Delhi: Oxford University Press)
7 Jogdand, P.G. 2000: New Economic Policy and Dalits (Jaipur:Rawat)
8 Jogdand, P.G. 1991: Dalit Movement in Maharashtra (New Delhi: Kanak Publications)
9 Mahajan, Gurpreet, 1998: Democarcy, Differenec and Social Justice (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press)
10 Omvedt, Gail, 1995: Dalit Visions : The Anti-caste movement and the Construction of Indian
Identity(New Delhi: Orient Longman)
11 Omvedt, Gail, 1999: Dalits and the Democartic Revolution (New Delhi: Sage)
12 Oommen, T.K. 1990: Protest and Change: Studies in Social Movements. (Delhi: Sage)
13 Robb, Peter, 1993. ed. Dalit Movements and the Meaning of Labour in India (Delhi: Sage)
14 Shah, Ghanshyam. 1990.: Social Movements in India: A Review of Literature (Delhi: Sage)
15 Singh, K.S., 1998: The Scheduled Castes (Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India)
16 Singh, K.S., 1995: The Scheduled Tribes (Delhi: Oxford University Press )
17 Zelliot, Eleanor, 1995: From Untouchable to Dalit Essays on the Ambedkar Movement (New
Delhi: Manohar)
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Paper Name-
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

 Provide knowledge and scholarship of sociological basis of environment and society
interface.
 Import social skills in environmental concerns in order to understand the human
suffering.
 Focus on environment in sociological theory, both classical and contemporary.
 Provide knowledge of the debate on environment and development.
 Study inter-connections between environment and society.
 Focus on the environmental issues on the perspective of environmental sociology.
Title: Sociology and Environment: 12 hrs.
Emergence, nature and scope of environmental Sociology
UNIT-I Title: Contributions of Social Scientists:
Radhakamal Mukherjee; Ramchandra Guha; Dunlap &
Catton
Title: Major theoretical Approaches: 11 hrs.
UNIT-II Deep Ecology; Eco feminism; Social Constructionism;
Realism; Gandhian Approach
Title: Environmental Issues & Problems: 11 hrs.
State of Natural Resources – Water, Forests, Land and its
UNIT-III degradation; Population growth; Poverty; Sanitation;
Consumption patterns; Industrialization; Urbanization and
Globalization
Title: Environmental Protection & Conservatism: 11 hrs.
Constitutional Provisions & Laws in India;
UNIT-IV
Major Environmental Movements in India;
Sustainable Development and Politics of the environment
REFERENCES
1 Agarwal S. K.: Environmental Issues and Themes. APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi,
1997
2 Catton Williams, Jr. and Dunlap Riley (Ed.): American Sociologist, 13, pp. 41-49; (1980):
American Behavioural Scientist, 24(1) pp. 15-47: (1979) : 1980 Annual Review of Sociology,
(5) pp. 243-273-(1994): American Sociologist. 25(i) pp. 5-30
3 Calvert, Peter and Susan Calvert, The South, The North and the Environment. Pinter, London
and New York, 1999
4 Centre for Science and Environment: The State of India’s Environment. A Citizen’s Report.
1982
5 Gadgil, Madhav and Ramachandra Guha: Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature
in Contemporary India. New Delhi, OUP., 1996
6 Giddens, Anthony: Introduction to Sociology, (4th Ed.). New York: W.W. Norton and Co.,
1996
7 Giddens, Anthony: The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1990.
8 Michael Redclift: Development and Environmental Crisis. Meheun Co. Ltd., New York, 1984
9 Munshi, Indra: “Enviroment in Sociological Theory”, in Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 49, No.2
10 Martel Luke: Ecology and Society: An Introduction. Polity Press, 1994.
11 Sharma S. L: “Perspectives on Sustainable Development in South Asia”, in Samad (Ed.):
Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Asia. Kuala Lampur: ADIPA.
12 Satapathy, Nityanand: Sustainable Development: An Alternative Paradigm. Karnavati
Publications, Ahmedabad, 1998
13 Satyanarayana B. (Ed.) Social Sciences and Planning for Sustainable Development. Himalaya,
Mumbai, 1998
14 Riley E. Dunlap: “The Evolution of Environmental Sociology” in The International Handbook
of Environmental Sociology, Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate (Eds.) Edward Elgar,
Cheltanham, V. K. 1997
15 Rao P. K. Sustainable Development-Economics and Policy. Blackwell, 2001.
16 Limmermom M. E. and Other (Ed.): Environmental Philosophy from Animal Rights to Redical
Ecology. Prentice Hall, Englewood Clifts, New Jersey 1993
17 Pravin Sheth: Environmentalism, Politics, Ecology and Development. Rawat, New Delhi 1997
18 World Bank: World Development Report. 1995
19 Wallerstein, Immanuel: The Modern World System. New York. OUP.
20 World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future. 1987
21 Relevant Articles from the Journals like Sociological Bulletin, EPW, Social Change, Seminar
etc.
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YEAR I IDE – 01 CREDIT 3
Paper Name-
DEVIANCE AND CONTROL

 Explain the meaning of social deviation.
 Describe the concepts of deviant behaviour and human behaviour.
 Examine the various theories of deviant behaviour.
 Discuss various types of deviant behaviour.
 Explain the various measures to reduce deviant behaviour
Title: 12 hrs.
Social Deviation;
UNIT-I Deviant Behavior as Social Behavior;
Urbanism & Deviant Behavior;
Theories of Deviant Behavior
Title: Types of Deviant Behavior: 11 hrs.
Delinquent and Criminal Behavior;
UNIT-II
Types of Criminal offenders;
Deviant Sexual Behavior
Title: Types of Deviant Behavior: 11 hrs.
The Slum and Deviant Behavior;
UNIT-III
Poverty, Anomie and Deviant Behavior;
Suicide
Title: Deviant Behavior & Social Control: 11 hrs.
The Prevention of Deviant behavior;
UNIT-IV The Group Approach to Social Reintegration;
The Use of Total Institutions;
Converging Trends and Future Prospects
REFERENCES
1 Clinard, M.B. 1968. Sociology of Deviant Behavior Holt, Rinehart, Winston, New York
2 Cohen, A.K. 1970. Deviance & Control Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd New Delhi
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Semester II Paper Code-SOC2201 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
CONTEMPORARY
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

 Understand the substantive, theoretical and methodological issues which have shaped
sociological thinking in the latter half of the 20th century, and which continue to
concern the practitioners of sociology today.
 Describe the theoretical dialectics and can attempt to synthesize them.
 Know the recent trends in sociological theorizing, and multicultural social theory.
 Examine the theoretical relevance and analytical utility of the premises, methodology
and conclusions of these diverse theoretical perspectives in understanding social
structure and change.
Title: Theoretical Dialectics and Attempts to Synthesize 12 hrs.
UNIT-I them:
Micro-Macro Synthesis; Agency-Structure Synthesis
Title: 11 hrs.
Conflict-Consensus Synthesis;
UNIT-II Recent trends in Sociological theorizing:
Structuration: Anthony Giddens;
Habitus and Field: Bourdieu
Title: Postmodernism: 11 hrs.
Moderate and Extreme Formulations; Postmodernism and
UNIT-III
Sociological Theory; Critique of Postmodernism;
Semiotics, Convergence
Title: 11 hrs.
Multicultural Social theory: Emancipatory Sociology;
UNIT-IV
Feminist Theory: Different phases; Queer Theory;
Postcolonial Theory Orientalism: Said Subaltern: Spivak
REFERENCES
1 Bauman, Z., 1992, Intimations of Postmodernity. Routledge.

2 Norris, C., 1990, What’s wrong with Postmodernism? Harvester Wheatsheaf.
3 Giddens, Anthony, 1979. Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and
Contradiction in Social Analysis, Berkeley: University of California Press
4 Giddens, Anthony,1978. The Construction of Society : Outline of the Theory of Structuration,
Berkeley; University of California Press.
5 Derrida, Jacques Writing and Difference, Chicago : University of Chicago Press
6 Foucault, Michel,1965 Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity In the Age of Reason,
New York : Vintage
7 _______The History of Sexuality. Vol.1. Random House
8 Smart, Barry, 1985. Michel Foucault Chichester, Eng.: Ellis Harwood
9 Smart, Barry Postmodernity, 1993.London : Routledge,
10 Best, Steven and Douglas Kellner, 1991. Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations New
York : Guilford Press
11 Lyotard, Jean-Francois,1984. The Postmodern Condition, Minneapolis:University of
Minnesota Press
12 Lash, Scott, 1990. Sociology of Post-Modernism, London and New York: Routledge
13 Archer, Margaret S. Culture and Agency : The Place of Culture in Social Theory Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,1988
14 Alexander, Jeffery C. et. Al. (ed.s.) The Micro-Macro Link, Berkeley : University of
California, 1987
15 Ritzer, George (ed.) Frontiers of Social Theory : The New Syntheses New York : Columbia
16 Cuff, E.C. et al.,2009. Perspectives in Sociology (Fifth Edition) Routledge
17 Wallace, Ruth A. and Alison Wolf, 2008. Contemporary Sociological Theory (Sixth Edition)
Prentice-Hall of India
18 Amin S. and Chakrabarty, D., 1996, Subaltern Studies IX: Writings on South Asian History
and Society Oxford University Press
19 Butler, J., 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge
20 _________ 1994, ‘Feminism and the question of postmodernism’, in S. Seidman (ed.), The
Postmodern Turn. Cambridge University Press
21 Chaturvedi, V., 2000, Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. Verso.
22 Fanon, F., 1968, The Wretched of the Earth. Penguin
23 Gagnon, J.H. and Simon, W., 1967, Sexual Deviance. Harper and Row
24 Haraway, D., 1991, Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. F.A.Books
25 Harding, S., 1991, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s lives. Cornell
University Press
26 Oakley, A., 1974, The Sociology of Housework. Martin Robertson
27 Parsons, T., 1954, ‘Age and sex in the social structure of the United States’, in his Essays in
Sociological Theory. Free press
28 Popper, K. 1957, The Poverty of Historicism. Routledge and Kegan Paul
29 Said, Edward., 1978, Orientalism. Routledge and Kegan paul
30 Seidman, S., 1997, Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics.
Cambridge University Press
31 Smith, D. 1990, The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge.
North-Eastern University Press
32 Spivak, G., 1988, ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ in C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (eds.), Marxism
and Interpretation of Culture. Macmillan EducationTilly, L.A. and Scott, J.W., 1978, Women
Work and Family. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
33 Wittfogel, K., 1957, Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Yale
Uni.Press
34 Turner, Bryan (ed.), 2004. The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Second Edition),
Blackwell Publishing
35 Lemert, Charles (ed.), 2004. Social theory:The Multicultural and Classical Readings Jaipur:
Rawat
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Paper Name-
CULTURE, PERSONALITY AND
SOCIETY

 Provide knowledge of the inter-linkages between culture, personality and society.
 Explain the concept of culture, its rise and development in society.
 Explain the various theories dealing with culture.
 Make the students understand the importance of personality dimension in sociological
analysis.
 Explain the various personality theories dealing with social phenomena.
Title: Culture and Society: 12 hrs.
Rise and Development of Culture;
UNIT-I Study of Culture and Society;
Concept of Culture; Symbols of Culture;
Cultural diversity; Sub-cultures; Cultural Conflicts
Title: Theories of Culture: 11 hrs.
Evolutionary school of thought; Functional school of
UNIT-II
thought; Functional-Structural school of thought; Pattern
school of thought
Title: Culture and Personality: 11 hrs.
Variations of culture and behavior and universal
behaviorism;
UNIT-III
Significance of Personality dimension in Sociological
analysis;
Socialization, Re-Socialization, Anti-Socialization
Title: Theories of Personality: 11 hrs.
UNIT-IV
Sigmund Freud; Kurt Lewin; and Dollard & Miller
REFERENCES
1 Freilich, M.(ed.): The Meaning of Culture, Lexington, M.A.: Xerox, 1972

2 Langness, L.L.: The Study of Culture, (rev.ed.), Novato, C.A.: Chandler and Sharp, 1987
3 Geertz, Cliford: The Interpretation of Culture, New York:Basic Books,1973
4 Goodenough, W.Culture: Language and Society, Menlo Park Calif.Benjamin/Cummings,
1981
5 Steward, J.H.: Theory of Culture Change, Urbana III, 1955.
6 Hatch, E.: Theories of Man and Culture, New York, 1973
7 Harris M.: The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Culture, New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell,1968.
8 Murdock, G.P.: Culture and Society, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1965.
9 Benedict, Ruth: Patterns of Culture, Boston : Houghton Miffin, 1934.
10 Kluckhon, Clyde: Culture and Behaviour, New York : Free Press, 1962.
11 Inkeles, Alex “Sociology and Psychology” in S.Koch (ed.): Psychology: A Study of
Science,Vol.6, New York : McGraw-Hill,1963
12 Inkeles, Alex, “Personality & Social Struct ure” in Merton, R.K.et.al. (ed.): Sociology Today,
Basic Books, 1959
13 Durkheim, E.: The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: Free Press, 1938.
14 Parsons, Talcott and Shils E. (ed.): Toward A General Theory of Action, Harvard University
Press, 1951
15 Parsons, Talcott: Social Structure and Personality, Macmillan Free Press, 1964.
16 Levine, Robert A.: Culture, Behaviour and Personality, (2nd ed.),Aldine,1982.
17 Hall, C.S. and Lindzey G.: Theories of Personality, (2nd ed.) New York : Wiley, 1970.
18 Kaplan, B.(ed.): Studying Personality Cross-Culturally, New York : Harper, 1961
19 Lindzey, G. and E. Aronson (ed.s): The Handbook of Social Psychology (2nd) Vol.1 to 5, New
Delhi etc.:Amerind 1969
20 Annual Review of Sociology (Relevant articles from all volumes)
21 Spratt, P.Hindu: Culture and Personality. Bombay: Manaktalas, 1966
22 C.R. Ember & M.Ember: Anthropology (7th ed.)
23 S.L. Doshi & P.C. Jain: Social Anthropology
24 Honigman J.J.: Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology , Vol. 1& 2 (ed.)
25 Jha, Makhan: An Introduction to Anthropological Thought. Vikas Publishing House, New
Delhi. 1994
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Paper Name-
INDIAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS

 Describe the concept and approaches of social problems.
 Describe the structural issues and problems.
 Examine the familial issues and problems.
 Discuss the developmental and disorganizational issues and problems.
Title: Structural Problems: 12 hrs.
Poverty; inequality of caste and gender; Disharmony –
UNIT-I
religious, ethnic and regional, Minorities, backward classes
and dalits
Title: Familial Problems: 11 hrs.
Domestic violence; dowry; divorce;
UNIT-II
Intra and intergenerational conflict;
Youth unrest and agitations
Title: Developmental and Disorganizational: 11 hrs.
Development induced displacement; ecological degradation;
UNIT-III
Consumerism; crisis of values; changing profile of crime
and criminals; corruption; drug addiction; suicide; terrorism
Title: Perspectives: 11 hrs.
Socio Cultural and Political Economy;
UNIT-IV
Perspectives of issues and problems of Indian Society;
Theoretical Approaches to Social Problems
REFERENCES
1 Beteille, Andre.: Social Inequality, New Delhi: OUP, 1974

2 Beteille, Andre.: Backward Classes in Contemporary India, New Delhi: OUP, 1992
3 Berreman, G.D.: Caste and Other Inequalities: Essays in Inequality. Meerut: Folklore Insitute,
1979
4 Dube, Leela: Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and
Southeast Asia. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997
5 Gadgil, Madhav and Guha, Ramchandra: Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in
Contemporary India, New Delhi: OUP, 1996
6 Gill, S.S.: The Pathology of Corruption. New Delhi: Harper Collin Publishers, 1998
7 Guha, Ranjit.: Subaltern Studies. New York:OUP, 1991
8 Inden, Ronald: Imagining India, Oxford: Brasil Blackward, 1990
9 Kothari, Rajani: Caste in Indian Politics, New Delhi: OUP, 1973
10 Ministry of Home Affairs: Crime in India, New Delhi: Government of India, 1998
11 Satya Murty, T.V.: Region, Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemporary India. New Delhi:
OUP, 1996.
12 Sharma, S.L.: “Towards Sustainable Development in India” in S.R. Mehta (ed.), Population,
Poverty and Sustainable Development, 1997
13 Breckenbridge, C.: Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in Contemporary India, New Delhi:
OUP, 1996
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Paper Name-
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND
SOCIAL MOBILITY IN INDIA

 Understand the salient concepts and theories of social stratification and social mobility
in the world.
 Get familiarized with the systems and processes of social stratification and social
mobility
in Indian context.
Title: Theories of Stratification: 12 hrs.
Functional theory; Theory of Kingsley Davis and Wilbert
Moore; Critique of Functionalism;
UNIT-I
Conflict Theory: Karl Marx;
Class, Status, and Party: Max Weber;
Theory of Power Elites: Mills
Title: 11 hrs.
Race, Ethnicity and Gender;
UNIT-II Different Conceptions of Caste and Varna:
Contributions of G.S. Ghurye; M.N. Srinivas;
B.R. Ambedkar; Joan P. Mencher
Title: 11 hrs.
Different Conceptions of Caste and Varna:
UNIT-III Contributions of Louis Dumont; Dipankar Gupta;
McKim Marriot; C. Bougle; Gerald D. Berreman;
Caste Profiles; Caste in Contemporary India
Title: Basic Concepts in Social Mobility: 11 hrs.
Contributions of Pitrim A. Sorokin; Bernard Barber; Bendix
and Lipset; Gerhard Lenski;
UNIT-IV Causes and consequences of social mobility in
contemporary India;
Social mobility among Tribes, Backward Castes, Dalits in
Contemporary India
REFERENCES
1 Beteille Andre: Social Inequality

2 Barbar Barnard: Social Stratification
3 Bendix R.& Lipset S.M.: Class, Status & Power
4 Beteille Andre: Caste, Class & Power
5 Beteille Andre: Backward Class in Contemporary India
6 Chanana Karuna: Socialization, Education & Women
7 Desai I.P.: Untouchability in Rural Gujarat.
8 Dumont Louis: Homo Hierarchicus
9 Desai I.P., Shah Ghanshyam, Pradipkumar Bose, Punelekar S.P. & Gupta, Dipankar: Caste,
Caste Conflict & Reservations
10 Desai Neera & Krishnaraj M.: Women & Society
11 Grusky David: Social Stratification: Class, Race & Gender in Perspective
12 Ghurye, G.S.: Caste, Class & Occupation 1961
13 Gould Harold: Caste Adaptation in Modernizing Indian Society (The Hindu Caste System Vol.
2)
14 Gupta, Dipankar: Social Stratification (ed.)
15 Klass M.: Caste- The Emergence of the South Asia Social System
16 16. Karlekar Malvika: Poverty & Women’s Work
17 Kerbo, Harold R. Social Stratification and Inequality. 4th edition, 2000.
18 Lipset, S.M.& Bendix R: Social Mobility in Industrial Society
19 Lenski G.: Power & Privilege
20 Mahar J.M.: The Untouchables of Contemporary India
21 Misra B.B.: The Indian Middle Classes
22 Michael S.M.: Dalits in Modern India
23 Nandu Ram: The Mobile Scheduled Castes: Rise of a New Middle Class
24 Phadnis Urmila: Ethnicity and Nation Building in South Asia
25 Ramu G.N. : Women Work & Marriage in Urban India
26 Schermerhorn R.A.: Ethnic Plurality in India
27 Shah Ghanshyam: Caste Association & Political Process in Gujarat
28 Shah A.M., Baviskar B.S. & : Social Structures & Change (Vol. 1 to 5) Ramaswamy E.A.
(ed.)
29 Singh Yogendra : Indian Sociology
30 Srinivas M.N. : Social Change in Modern India
31 Srinivas M.N.: The Changing Position of Indian Women
32 Sharma K.L. : Social Inequality in India
33 Sharma K.L.: Social Stratification & Mobility
34 Sharma K.L.: Social Stratification in India : Issues & Theories
35 Shah Vimal : Reservation: Policies, Programmes & Issues Agrawal, Binod
36 Tumin M.M. : Social Stratification
37 Weiner Myron : Sons of the Soil
38 Relevant Articles from Journals – Sociological Bulletin
39 Contributions to Indian Sociology ICSSR (Survey of Research in Sociology and
Anthropology
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Semester II Paper Code- SOC2205 HOURS 45
Paper Name- INDIAN DIASPORA

 Describe the concept and historical background of Indian Diaspora.
 Explain the perspectives on Indians abroad.
 Describe various case studies of Indian Diaspora.
 Acquire knowledge about Gujarati Diaspora
Title: Introduction 12 hrs.
The Study of Indian Diaspora;
Perspectives on Indians Abroad;
UNIT-I Historical Background of the Indian Diaspora;
Scope and Significance of Diasporic Studies;
Outsider as Insiders: The Phenomenon of Sandwich Culture
– Prefatorial to a Possible Theory
Title: Case Studies of the Indian Diaspora: 11 hrs.
Process of Social Adjustment of Indian Immigrants in
Britain;
On Migrating to Canada: The First Generation Indian &
Pakistani Families in the Process of Change;
UNIT-II
Contemporary Research on People of Indian Origin in
Canada;
Indian Migration to South Africa;
Indian in England: A Study of the Interactional
Relationships of Sending, Receiving and Migrant Societies
Title: Case Studies of the Indian Diaspora: 11 hrs.
The influence of Indian Islam on Fundamentalist Trends in
Trinidad and Tobago;
The Dynamics of Language in Indian Diaspora: The Case of
UNIT-III
Bhojpuri/Hindi in Trinidad;
Race Relation, Ethnicity, Clan and Culture: A Comparison
of Indians in Trinidad and Malaysia;
The Uneven ‘Inclusion’ of Indian Immigrants in Mauritius
Title: Gujarati Diaspora: 11 hrs.
UNIT-IV Twice Migrants and Linkages with Central Gujarat:
Patidars in East Africa & Britain; London Patidars
REFERENCES
1 Jayaram, N. (ed.): The Indian Diaspora – Dynamics of Migration, Sage Publications, New
Delhi, 2004
2 Rao, M.S.A. (ed.): Studies in Migration- Internal and International Migration in India
Manohar, New Delhi. 1986
3 Sociological Bulletin Special No. on Indians Abroad (Guest ed.: S. L. Sharma), 38 (1) 1989
4 Jain, Ravindra K.: Indian Communities Abroad: Themes and Literature Manohar, New Delhi.
1993
5 Shah, Ghanshyam., Mario Rutten., Hein Streefkerk (Editors) Development and Deprivation in
Gujarat
Sage Publications, New Delhi
6 Tambs-Lyche, H.: London Patidars: A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity Routledge and Kegan
Paul, London, 1980
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Paper Name-
SOCIOLOGY OF POPULAR
CULTURE & MASS
COMMUNICATION

 Learn popular culture in its various forms.
 Understand the role of mass media of communication in society.
 Provide a sociological perspective on the role of popular culture and mass media in
modern society and also in the context of Indian society.
Title: Popular culture, mass culture, folk culture, elite 12 hrs.
culture:
Role of mass media in popular culture; Relationship
between popular culture and leisure and recreation; identity
and community consciousness as mediated and reinforced
UNIT-I through popular culture; relationship between popular
culture and social and political movements;
Development in information and communication
technology and their impact on popular culture; television
and the commercialization of leisure; popular music and its
social reach
Title: Globalization, popular culture and the mass media: 11 hrs.
Global media as an agency of globalization; syncretism in
global culture; control of MNCs over global information
UNIT-II flow as well as entertainment; the diffusion of global culture
through the mass media and its impact on youth in respect
of values, consumerism, food preferences, fashions and
entertainment
Title: Theoretical perspectives on popular culture and the 11 hrs.
media:
Little and Great traditions; universalization and
parochialization; Critical theory; the medium as the
UNIT-III
message
Title: The impact, social uses and abuse of the media:
Dissemination of awareness about social issues; social
marketing; violence and the media
Title: The Indian context: 11 hrs.
Folk groups of musicians in traditional Indian society;
Popular culture as reflected in festivals, pilgrimages,
folklore, films & their social significance and impact;
UNIT-IV
satellite television and its impact on youth culture;
commercialization of folk culture; media and social policy;
television as an agency for the dissemination and
popularization of classical and folk music
REFERENCES
1 Bathla, Sonia,: Women, Democracy and the Media : Cultural and Political Representation in
the Indian Press (Delhi : Sage), 1998
2 Breckenridge C.: Consuming Modernity : Public Culture in Contemporary India
3 Broslus, C. and M. Butcher, eds.: Image Journey : Audio Visual media and cultural change in
India (Delhi : Sage), 1999
4 Curran, J and M. Gurevitch, eds : Mass Media and Society (London : Edward Arnold), 1991
5 French, D and Michael Richard, eds.: Television in Contemporary Asia (London : Sage), 2000
6 Gunaratne, S.: eds.: Handbook of the Media in Asia (London : Sage) 2000
7 Johnson, K.,: Television and Social change in rural India (London : Sage), 2000
8 Manuel, P.: Cassette Culture : Popular Music and Technology in North India, 1998
9 Mitra, A. : Television and Popular Culture in India (Delhi : Sage), 1993.
10 Singhal, A. and E. M. Rogers: India’s Communication Revolution (Delhi : Sage), 2000
11 Appadorai, Arjun: Modernity at Large : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (New Delhi :
Oxford University Press), 1997
12 Axford, B and Richard Huggins: New Media and Politics (London : Sage), 2001
13 Leach, E.: Culture and Communication (Cambridge : Cambridge Univeristy Press), 1976.
14 Preston, P.: Reshaping Communications (London : Sage), 2001.
15 Robertson, R.: Globalisation, Social Theory and Global Culture (London : Sage), 1992
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Semester III Paper Code-SOC2301C11 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS

 Understand the societal changes emanating from Industrial Revolution and
consequent transformation of mode of production.
 Know the different perspectives and distinct analysis of these changes.
 Equip with theoretical insights to know, analyze and interpret the social scenario.
 Get familiarized with the different sociological perspectives and theories.
Title: Karl Marx I: 12 hrs.
Marx’s theory of social change; Marxian dialectical
materialism as a philosophical perspective of change and its
UNIT-I laws; Materialistic interpretation of history: as a perspective
of explaining transformation of human society through
different stages, economic determinism, mode of production
and social structure; basic structure and super structure
Title: Karl Marx II: 11 hrs.
Marx’s analysis of emergence and development of
capitalism: laws of increasing accumulation and
concentration of capital and of increasing misery; concepts
of surplus value and exploitation; Emergence of classes and
UNIT-II
class conflict; Proletarian revolution and future of
capitalism; classless society; Alienation in the capitalist
society- factors responsible for alienation and its social
implications; views on political power; future of state after
proletarian revolution
Title: Emile Durkheim: 11 hrs.
Order and disintegration of society, social disintegration as
legacy of industrial revolution, increasing division of labor
in the capitalist society, mechanical and organic solidarities,
explanation of increasing division of labor, pathological
forms of division of labor.
Theory of Suicide: review of earlier theories of suicide,
suicide rate, his distinctive sociological approach, types of
UNIT-III
suicide, problem of integration of the individual with
society.
Theory of Religion: Earlier theories of emergence and role
of religion, structure of religion, sacred and profane, society
as supreme god, religious rituals – their types, social role of
religious beliefs and rituals.
Contributions to the Methodology of Sociology:
Sociology as a Science, social facts, sociologism
Title: Max Weber: 11 hrs.
Theory of social action: types of social action
UNIT-IV Analysis of modern capitalism: views on the role of ideas
and values of social change with reference to the
relationship between Protestant ethic and emergence of
capitalism,
Theory of Authority: Authority and power, types of
authority and basis of their legitimacy, their distinctive
features, methods of administration and modes of
inheritance.
Theory of Bureaucracy: Capitalism and growing
rationalism, emergence of modern bureaucracy, his model
of bureaucracy
Concepts of class, status and power; Contributions to the
methodology of social science: meanings, sociology as
interpretive science, verstehen, and ideal types
REFERENCES
1 Ritzer, George, Classical Sociological Theory (2nd ed.), New York etc.: Tata McGraw-Hill
Companies Inc., 1996
2 Martindale, Don, The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory, Boston : Houghton,
Mifflin,1981
3 Coser , L.A.: Masters of Sociological Thought : Ideas in Historical and Social Context , (2nd
ed.) New York : Harcort , 1977
4 Aron, R. : Main Currents in Sociological Thought Vols.I,II. London : Weidenfeld,1976
5 Heilborn ,Johan, The Rise of Social Theory, London: Polity Press, 1996
6 Weber,M.,The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. Free Press. P.B.1964
7 _________, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
8 Durkheim, E., Rules of Sociological Method. Free Press. 1958
9 __________, Division of Labour
10 __________, Suicide
11 __________, Elementary Forms of Religious Life
12 Bierstedt: The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
13 Marx, Karl and F.Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, New York : International
Publishers, (1848) 1948
14 Marx, Karl. Contributions to the Critique of Political Economy
15 _________. Capital
16 Turner, S.P. (ed.), Emile Durkheim : Sociologist and Moralist.London : Routledge, 1993
17 Nisbet, Robert, The Sociology of Emile Durkheim, New York : Oxford University Press 1974
18 Mclelland, David, Marx, London : Fontana\Collins, 1975
19 Gurvitch, G.and W.E.Moore (eds.),Twentieth Century Sociology, New York : Philosophical
Lib.1945
20 Timasheff, N.S.and G.A. Theodorson, Sociological Theory : Its Nature and Growth (4th ed.),
New York : Random House,1976
21 Barnes, H.E. (ed.), An Introduction to the History of Sociology, Chicago : University of
Chicago Press, 1948
22 Turner, Jonathon, Classical Sociological Theories : A Positivistic Interpretation, Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1993
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Faculty of Arts
Department of Sociology ACADEMIC YEAR
2016-2017
Nr. Kalaghoda, Sayajigunj, Vadodara-390 002

Semester III Paper Code-SOC2302C12 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
SOCIOLOGY OF REGION

 Pay attention to micro level dimensions of society, culture, polity, economy and
institutions within the given spatial aspects.
 Describe the socio-spatial dimension of society with the significance for a regional
and local level.
 Provide an additional capacity for the students to discover enough about the society in
the region.
 Develop skills for regional sociological approach analogous to regional economics in
order to plan for development and action strategies.
 Enable students to construct the local knowledge on culture and nature of the region as
social space.
Title: 12 hrs.
Concept of Region and Regionalism;
Region as a social spatial space; Region as a historical
UNIT-I
construct; Geographical construct; Region as a Socio-Cultural
construct; Notion of region: Diversity, Plurality, Unity and
Identity of Indian Sub-continent
Title: Methodological Approach to study region: 11 hrs.
Perspectives from below; subaltern dimensions; local history;
UNIT-II
folklore; indigenous records; and dairy manuscripts
Folk-art and culture; Folk-fairs and folk festivals
Title: Bhils of Ratanmal: 11 hrs.
Introduction
UNIT-III Social Structure
Economic Structure
Religion and Witchcraft
Title: Case studies of Gujarat Region: 11 hrs.
UNIT-IV Tribal Studies, Family Studies, Caste Studies,
Industrial Studies and Studies of Migration
REFERENCES
1 Alexender Forbes : Rasmala

2 Madan T N: Pathways, Approaches to the Study of Society in India, Oup, New Delhi, 1994
3 Edward W Soja.: Post Modern Geography: The reassertion of critical social theory,
Blackwell, 1989
4 Edward W Soja.: The Third Space: Blackwell, 1996
5 Dhanaghre D N: Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology, Rawat Publications, 1993
6 Desai I.P.: Some Aspects of Family in Mahuva. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1964
7 Desai I. P.: The Patterns of Migration and Occupation in a South Gujarat Village. Poona:
Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, 1964
8 Desai I. P.: “The Slogan of a Separate State by Tribals of South Gujarat”. ICSSR Research
Abstract Quarterly, No.4, February, 1971
9 Desai I. P. and G. A. Pandor: A Profile of Education among the Scheduled Tribes in Gujarat.
Surat: Centre for Regional Development Studies, 1974
10 Desai I. P. and A. M. Shah: Division and Hierarchy: An overview of Caste in Gujarat Delhi:
Hindustan Publishing Corporation, 1988
11 Desai I. P. and Others: Caste, Caste-Conflict and Reservation. Surat: Centre for Social
Studies, 1985
12 Desai I. P. and Banwarilal Choudhry: History of Rural Development in Modern India (Vol.II),
New Delhi, Impex India, 1977
13 Joshi, V. H.: Economic Development and Social change in a South Gujarat Village. Baroda:
MSU, 1966
14 Nath, Y. V. S.: Bhils of Ratanmal. Baroda: MSU, 1960.
15 Pearson, Michael N., Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the
Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976
16 Pocock D. F.: Kanbi and Patidar: A Study of The Patidar Community of Gujara.. Oxford at
The Clarendon Press, 1972
17 Lancy, Lobo. The Thakores of North Gujarat
18 Shah A. M.: “Untouchability, The Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat”. In Paul
Hockings (ed), Dimensions of Experience: Essays in Honour of David G. Mandelbaum.
Berlin:
Mouton, 1987
19 Shah A M: Exploring India’s Rural Past: A Gujarat Village in the Early Nineteenth Century,
20 Shah, Ghanshyam: Caste Association and Political Process in Gujarat: A Study of Gujarat
Kshatriya Sabha. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1975
21 Shah A M,: Sociology in Regional Context, Seminar, 495, 2000
22 Sheth N. R.: The Social Framework of an Indian Factory. OUP, Indian Branch, 1968
23 Trivedi, Harshad R. The Mers of Saurashtra. Baroda: MSU, 1961
24 Hardiman, David. Histories for the subordinate. Seagull books. March 2007.
25 Hardiman, David. Usury, Dearth and Famine in Western India. In Past and Present, No.152
(Aug, 1996), pp. 113-156
26 Rajaram, N. Social Processes and Communal Tension – A Case Study of Vadodara City.
NFCH. New Delhi, 2006
27 Rajaram, N. “Politics and Cotton Cooperatives in Central Gujarat”., EPW, Mumbai: Vol.
XXXIV, No. 30, pp. 2095-2103, 1999
28 Williams, Raymond B.: Swaminarayan Hinduism. Cambridge University Press, 2001
29 Bhowmik S. & Meena Patel.: Empowering Marginalised Women: Unionisation of Tobacco
Workers in Kheda, Gujarat. In Martha Chen, Marilyn Carr and Renana Jhabvala (eds.),
Speaking out: Economic Empowerment of Women in South Asia, New Delhi, Sage India. Pp.
143-166, 1997
30 Breman, Jan.: Beyond Patronage and Exploitation: Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat.
Oxford Univ. Press, 1993
31 Dave, Parul (ed).: Profile of Women in Gujarat. WSRC.MSU, 2005
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Semester III Paper Code- SOC2303C13 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
INDIAN SOCIOLOGY AND
SOCIOLOGISTS

 Explain the development of social sciences in Asia.
 Study the significant contributions of eminent sociologists of India.
 Understand the various perspectives through which these scholars studied the
social aspects and issues.
 Know the scholarly discourses of these sociologists.
Title: Development of Social Sciences in Asia: 12 hrs.
Growth points in Asian and Pacific Sociology;
UNIT-I Sociology in the Indian Campus;
New Sites and Modes of doing Sociology;
Sociology for India: An Issue for Indian Sociology
Title: The Call for Indigenization: 11 hrs.
Indigenization and the Case of Indian Sociology;
UNIT-II
Ideology, Theory and Methods in Indian Sociology;
Indian Sociology: Retrospect and prospect
Title: Sociological Contributions: India 11 hrs.
UNIT-III D.D. Kosambi; Romila Thapar; Ranajit Guha; Andre
Beteille
Title: Sociological Contributions: Gujarat 11 hrs.
UNIT-IV
A.M.Shah; Ghanshyam Shah; Neera Desai; NR Sheth
REFERENCES
1 Atal, Yogesh: Indian Sociology: from Where to Where, Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat
Publications. 2003.
2 Singh, Yogendra: Ideology and Theory in Indian Sociology, Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat
Publications, 2004
3 Singh, Yogendra.: Indian Sociology:Social Conditioning and Emerging Concerns, New Delhi
: Vistaar Publications, 1986.
4 Thapar, Romila: Ancient Indian Social History-Some Interpretations, Orient Blackswan Pvt.
Ltd., Delhi, 2012 (2nd ed.)
5 Thapar, Romila: Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History New Delhi:Oxford India
Paperbacks. 2003
6 Thapar, Romila: The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History New
Delhi:Aleph Book Company. 2014
7 Desai, Neera & Krishnaraj, Maithreyi: Woman and Society in India Ajanta Publications,
Delhi, 1987
8 Desai , Neera & Vibhuti Patel : Indian Women Change & Challenge in the International
Decade 1975-1985, Popular Prakashan (1985)
9 Shah, Ghanshyam: Caste Association & Political Process in Gujarat, Popular Prakashan,
Bombay, 1975
10 Shah, Ghanshyam (ed.): Social Movements & the State, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2002
11 Shah, Ghanshyam: Social Movements in India 1990
12 Shah, Ghanshyam: Dalit Identity & Politics, Vol.- II, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001
13 Kosambi, D.D. : An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Popular Prakashan, Bombay,
1985
14 Kosambi, D.D. The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Outline (Routledge
& Kegan Paul, London) 1965
15 Kosambi, D.D. Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture (Popular
Prakashail, Bombay) 1962
16 The Oxford India Kosambi – Compiled, edited and introduced by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
(Oxford University Press, New Delhi) 2009
17 Guha, Ranajit (ed): Subaltern Studies VI-Writings on South Asian History &
Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1989
18 Guha, Ranajit (ed.): Subaltern Studies III-Writings on South Asian History &
Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1984
19 Guha, Ranajit: Dominance without Hegemony-History & Power in Colonial Society, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1982
20 Guha, Ranajit: Subaltern Studies I-Writings on South Asian History & Society, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1982
21 Shah, A.M.: The Writings of A.M.Shah: The Household and Family in India Orient Blackswan
2014
22 Shah, A.M.: Division and Hierarchy Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1988
23 Shah, A.M.: Sociology and History: Dialogues Towards Integration Orient Blackswan 2015
24 Shah, A.M. & M.N. Srinivas: The grassroots of democracy: field studies of Indian elections
Permanent Black: New Delhi (2007)
25 Shah, A.M. :The Structure of Indian Society: Then and Now Routledge 2012
26 Beteille, Andre : Caste, Class & Power, University of California, Berkeley, 1965
27 Beteille, Andre : Social Inequality (ed.), Penguin Education, England, 1976
28 Beteille, Andre: Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1977
29 Beteille, Andre: Society & Politics in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991
30 Beteille, Andre: The Backward Classes in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press,
Delhi, 1992
31 Beteille, Andre: Chronicles of our Time, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2000
32 Beteille, Andre: Sociology- Essays on Approach and Method, Oxford University Press, Delhi,
2002
33 Andre Beteille Omnibus: Oxford University Press Delhi, 2011
34 Sheth, N.R.: The Social Framework of an Indian factory, 1968
35 Sheth, N.R. : Industrial Sociology in India, 1982
Faculty of Arts
2016-2017

Paper Name-
MODERNIZATION,
GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL
CHANGE IN INDIA

 Provide conceptual and theoretical understanding of modernization, social change,
globalization and development as it has emerged in sociological literature.
 Offer an insight into the ways in which social structure impinges on development and
development on social structure.
 Address in particular the Indian experience of social change and development.
 Delineate the characteristics, benefits and disadvantages of globalization.
Title: Modernization: 12 hrs.
Concept of Modernization;
UNIT-I Development and underdevelopment;
Modernization Theories;
Modernization and the Indian experience
Title: Globalization: 11 hrs.
The historical and social context of globalization;
UNIT-II Characteristics, benefits and disadvantages of globalization;
Agencies of globalization; globalization and the Indian
Experience
Title: Social change: 11 hrs.
Meaning, forms of social change;
UNIT-III
Theories and factors of social change;
Social change in contemporary India
Title: Case Studies: 11 hrs.
The Hindi Commercial Cinema in the days of Globalization;
Globalization and Regional Inequalities;
UNIT-IV
Myth, History and Reason: Culture and Nation-Building in
India;
Social Change: Rise of Popular Culture
REFERENCES
1 Amin, Samir: Unequal Development. New Delhi: OUP, 1979

2 Appadurai, Arjun: Modernity At large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 1997 New
Delhi: OUP
3 Dereze, Jean and Amartaya Sen: India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity. New
Delhi. OUP, 1996
4 Desai, A.R.: India’s Path of Development: A Marxist Approach. Bombay: Popular Prakashan,
1985
5 Giddens, Anthony: The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge. Polity press, 1990
6 Giddens, Anthony: “ Global Problems and Ecological Crisis” in Introduction to Sociology.
IInd edition. New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 1996
7 Haq, Mahbub Ul.: Reflections on Human Development. New Delhi: OUP, 1991
8 Sharma, SL.: “Criteria of Social Development”. Journal of Social Action. Jan-Mar, 1980
9 Sharma, SL.: Development – Socio-cultural Dimensions. Jaipur: Rawat, 1986
10 Srinivas, M.N.: Social Change in Modern India. Berkeley: University of Berkeley, 1966
11 Symposium on Implications of Globalization.: Sociological Bulletin. Vol. 44, 1995
12 UNDP.: Human Development Report. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
13 Wallerstein, Immanuel: The Modern World System. New York: OUP, 1974
14 Walters, Malcoln.: Globalization. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1995
15 World Bank.: World Development Report, 1995.
16 World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future. (Brundland
Report) New Delhi:OUP, 1987
17 Singh, Yogendra. Culture Change in India: Identity & Globalization.2000. Rawat Publications,
Jaipur & New Delhi
18 Somayaji, Sakarama & Ganesha Somayaji (ed). Sociology of Globalisation.2006,Rawat
Publications, Jaipur
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Paper Name-
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA

 Sensitize students to the variety and dynamics of social movements.
 Examine the role of movements in social transformation.
 Enable the students to look at social movements in a sociological and comparative
perspective
Title: Introduction: 12 hrs.
Concept, Genesis & Definition of Social Movements;
Conceptual Problems of Social Movements;
UNIT-I
The Study of Social Movements;
Types of Social Movements;
Theories of Social Movements
Title: Social Movements – 1: 11 hrs.
Reformist movements, Peasant movements; Labor and Trade
UNIT-II
Union movements; Tribal movements, Nationalist
movements
Title: Social Movements – 2: 11 hrs.
Naxalite Movements; Liberation Movements; Terrorist
UNIT-III
Movements, Cultural Movements, Religious & Sectarian
Movements
Title: New Social Movements: 11 hrs.
Dalit movements; Women’s movements; Ecological,
UNIT-IV
Environmental and Ethnic movements, Schisms, Splits;
Counter movements
REFERENCES
1 Banks, J.A.: The Sociology of Social Movements (London: Macmillan), 1972

2 Desai, A. R. Ed.: Peasant Struggles in India (Bombay: Oxford University Press), 1979
3 Dhanagare, D. N.: Peasant Movement in India1920-1950 (Delhi: Oxford University Press),
1983
4 Gore, M.S.: The Social context of an ideology: Ambedkar’s Political and Social Thoughts
(New Delhi: Sage), 1993
5 Oomen, T.K.: Protest and Change: Studies in Social Movements (Delhi: Sage), 1990
6 Jain, P.C.: Tribal Movement in India.
7 Rao, M.S.A.(ed): Social Movements in India, 2000
8 Singh, K.S.: Tribal Movements in India (New Delhi: Manohar), 1982.
9 Selliot, Eleanor: From Untouchable to dalit: Essay on the Ambedkar Movement (New Delhi:
Manohar), 1995
10 Gouldner, A.W.: Studies in Leadership (New York: Harper and Brothers), 1950 ed.
11 Shah, Ghanshyam: Social Movements in India (Delhi : Sage), 1990
12 Shah, Ghanshyam (ed): Social Movements and the State, 2002
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Semester III Paper Code- SOC2308E03 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
TRIBAL CULTURE & SOCIAL
SYSTEM

 Provide a comprehensive profile of tribal people in terms of their social structure and
social organization.
 Understand socio-cultural aspects of tribal life.
 Discuss the process of development and problems among the tribal people.
 Explain the social mobility and change among the tribes.
Title: Primary Institutions: 12 hrs.
Kinships; Marriage; Family and Religion;
UNIT-I Descent groups – Lineage, Sib, Phratry, Moiety;
Voluntary groups – Secret Societies, Clubs, Age, Classes,
Sodalities
Title: Tribal Political Organization: 11 hrs.
UNIT-II
State; Law; Education; Property; Authority; Leadership
Title: Tribal economy: 11 hrs.
UNIT-III Simple technology; Family labor unit; Community
cooperation; Gift exchange; Periodic markets
Title: Religious Organization: 11 hrs.
Customary regulations, religious beliefs, practices, rituals;
UNIT-IV Tribal cultural traditions;
Tribal development and problems;
Social mobility and change
REFERENCES
1 Lowie, R.H.: Social Organization. Routladge & Regan Paul. London. 1950 (2nd Reprint
1956)
(Chs. 1, 4-14 )
2 Murdock, K.P.: Social Structure. Macmillan. New York. 1949. (Chs.1-5)
3 Royal Anthropological Institute of Gr. Britain and Ireland (eds.): Rotes and Quries on
Anthropology. Routledge and Kegan Paul. London. 1954. (5th Edn. 6th Reprint)
4 Vidyarthi, L.P. and Rai, B.K.: The Tribal Culture of India. Concept Publishing Co. Delhi.
1977
5 Harmendorf, C.V.F. (ed.): Caste and Kin in Nepal, India and Ceylon: Anthropological studies
in
Hindu-Buddhist Contact Zones. Asia. Bombay. 1966
6 Ghurye, G.S.: The Scheduled Tribes. Popular. Bombay, 1959 (2nd Edn.)
7 Kuper, A.: Anthropologists and Anthropology: The British School 1972-73. Penguin Book.
England. 1973. (P.B.)
8 Schusky, E. L.: Manual Formanship Analysis. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. New York. 1965.
(P.B.)
9 Lengness, L.B.: The Life History in Anthropological Science. Holt. Rinehart & Winston. New
York. 1965. (P.B.)
10 Collier, J.J.: Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. Holt, Rinehart &
Winston. New York. 1937 (P.B.)
11 Korober, A.L. (ed.): Anthropology Today. Chicago U.P. Chicago. 1953. (4th Reprint 1957).
(refer articles under “Problems of Process” pp. 401-738)
12 Goodenough, W.H. (ed.): Explorations in Cultural Anthropology: Essays in Honour of G.P.
Hurdock. McGraw-Hill. New York. 1964
13 Levi-Strauss, C.: Structural Anthropology. Basic Books. (P.B.) New York. 1963
14 Radcliff-Brown, A. and Forde, D. (eds.): African Systems of Kinship and Marriage. Oxford
U.P. (P.B.) London. 1960. (4th reprint 1950)
15 Fortes, and Evans-Pritehard, (eds.): African Political System. Oxford U.P. (P.B.) London. 1940
(6th reprint 1960).
16 Geertz, C.: The Religion of Java. Free Press. (P.B.) New York. 1960
17 Refield, R.: Little Community: Peasant Society and Culture. Chicago U.P. Chicago. 1956.
(P.B.) Combined volume
18 Dube S.C.: Tribal Heritage of India. Vol. I: Ethnicity, Identity and Interaction, Vikas.
Delhi.1977
19 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: Notes and Queries on
Anthropology, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1951
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Semester IV Paper Code-SOC2401C16 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS

 Understand the societal changes emanating from Industrial Revolution and
consequent transformation of mode of production.
 Know the different perspectives and distinct analysis of these changes and predict
the future of the society.
 Equip with theoretical insights to know, analyze and interpret the social scenario
around them.
 Get familiarized with the different sociological perspectives and theories.
Title: C.H. Cooley: 12 hrs.
Symbolic Interaction;
‘Looking Glass Self’;
UNIT-I
Individual and Social Consciousness;
Social Self, Meaning and Phases of ‘I’,;
Primary Groups, Primary Ideal
Title: Thorstein Veblen: 11 hrs.
Pecuniary emulation;
UNIT-II
Conspicuous leisure and vicarious leisure;
Conspicuous consumption and vicarious consumption
Title: Vilfredo Pareto: 11 hrs.
Contributions to the Methodology;
UNIT-III
Logico-experimental method;
Classification of Logical and Non-logical actions
Title: Vilfredo Pareto: 11 hrs.
Theory of Residues and Derivatives;
UNIT-IV
Theory of Social Change: Elites and Masses, Types of elites,
their classification, circulation of elites
REFERENCES
1 Ritzer, George: Classical Sociological Theory (2nd ed.), New York etc.: Tata McGraw-Hill
Companies Inc., 1996
2 Martindale, Don: The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory, Boston : Houghton,
Mifflin,1981
3 Coser , L.A.: Masters of Sociological Thought : Ideas in Historical and Social Context , (2nd
ed.) New York : Harcort , 1977
4 Aron, R.: Main Currents in Sociological Thought Vols.I,II. London : Weidenfeld,1976
5 Heilborn ,Johan: The Rise of Social Theory, London: Polity Press, 1996
6 Simmel, George: The Sociology of George Simmel (ed.& trans.by Kurt Wolff) New York :
Free Press, 1950
7 Cooley , C.H: (i) Social Organization (ii) Human Nature & Social Order. Free Press P.B.
1964 (Combined Volume)
8 Veblen, T.: The Theory of the Leisure Class. (P.B.Edn.with Introduction by C.W.Mills)
Mentor. N.Y.1953
9 Pareto,Vilfredo: A Treatise on General Sociology (4 vol.’s), New York : Dover, 1935
10 Powers, C.H: Vilfredo Pareto, Newbury Park, Calif : Sage, 1986
11 Rosenberg , Bernard, Thorstein Veblen : Selection from His Work, New York : Crowell, 1963
12 Gurvitch, G.and W.E.Moore (eds.): Twentieth Century Sociology, New York : Philosophical
Lib.1945
13 Timasheff, N.S.and G.A. Theodorson: Sociological Theory: Its Nature and Growth (4th ed.),
New York : Random House,1976
14 Barnes, H.E. (ed.): An Introduction to the History of Sociology, Chicago : University of
Chicago Press, 1948
15 Turner, Jonathon: Classical Sociological Theories: A Positivistic Interpretation, Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1993
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Paper Name-
METHODS IN SOCIOLOGICAL
RESEARCH

 Provide exposure to the fundamentals of various research techniques and methods.
 Try to build upon the basic assumptions in adopting different methodologies for
different kinds of research themes.
 Introduce certain philosophical ideas underlying the emergence of different
methodologies in social sciences.
 Attempt to sensitize students to develop a critical outlook at the existing perspectives
and methods.
 Evolve conceptual clarity among students, which can lead them in their future
research.
 Teaching various methods enable them to organize and analyze the gathered data and
information.
 Enhance the research interests and inculcate the spirit of inquiry among students who
may be motivated to continue higher studies in research.
Title: History of Sociological Research: 12 hrs.
Positivism; Post-positivism; phenomenology; philosophical
UNIT-I approach;
Concepts, constructs and variables;
Methodological perspectives in sociological theory
Title: Techniques of Data Collection: 11 hrs.
UNIT-II Observation; Interview; Questionnaire and Interview
Schedule; Statistical Techniques
Title: Field Work: Encounters and Experiences: 11 hrs.
M. N. Srinivas; Raman Unni; Sunanda Patwardhan;
UNIT-III
A. M. Shah; Anand Chakravarti; Khadija A. Gupta; Anita
A. Minocha
Title: Data analysis, Presentation and Report writing: 11 hrs.
Processing data and tabulation;
UNIT-IV
Diagrammatize representation and analysis of data;
Report writing
REFERENCES
1 Rosenberg, M.: The Logic of Survey Analysis, New York: Basic Books,1908
2 Jahoda, M. Deutch and S.W.Cook: Research Methods in Social Relations Vol.I
& II (refer to revised edition by Seltiz, C also) New York : Holt-Dryden, 1951 & 1960
3 Wallies, WA and H.V. Robert: Statistics: A New Approach, Free Press, 1956
4 Bulmer,Martin: Sociological Research Methods, London: Mcmillan,1984
5 Marsh, Catherine: The Survey Method : The Contribution of Survey to Sociological
Explanation, London: Allen & Unwin, 1982
6 Marsh, Catherine: Exploring Data, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988
7 Burgess, R.G.: In the Field: An Introduction to Field Research, George Allen & Unwin, 1984
8 Bulmer, Martin and Donal P. Warwick (ed.): Social Research in Developing Countries-
Surveys and Censuses in the Third World, New Delhi: Research Press,1993
9 (i) Fink, Arlene: The Survey Handbook, Vol.1, Sage India 1995.
(ii) Fink Arlene: How to Ask Survey Questions, Vol.2, Sage, India, N.Delhi,1995.
(iii) Bourque, Linda B andEve P. Fieldon: How to conduct Self-Administered and Mail
Surveys, Vol.3, Sage India, N.Delhi,1995.
(iv) Frey James H.: How to Conduct Interview by Telephone and Person,Vol.4,Sage
India,1995.
(v) Fink, Arlene: How to Design Surveys, Vol.5, Sage India, N.Delhi,1995.
(vi) Fink, Arlene: How to Sample in Survey, Vol.6 Sage India, 1995.
(vii) Litwin, Mark S.: How to Measure Survey Reliability and Validity.
(viii) Fink, Arlene: How to Analyze Survey Data, Vol.8, Sage India,1995.
(ix ) Fink, Arlene: How to Report Surveys, Vol.9, Sage India, N.Delhi,1995.
10 Blalock, H. and Ann B. Blalock: Methodology in Social Research, New York:
McGrawaHill,1968
11 Cochran, William G.: Planning and Analysis of Observational Studies, New York:
Cohn Wiley,1983.
12 Annual Review of Sociology Relavent articles from all Volumes.
13 Thomas R. Black: Understanding Social Science Research, Sage Publications, London
Thousand Oaks New Delhi 2002
14 Jaspal Singh: Methodology and Techniques of Social Research, Kanishka Publishers
Distributors, New Delhi 2001
15 Ram Ahuja: Research Methods, Rawat Publications Jaipur and New Delhi 2001
16 Betoeille,A. and T.N. Madan (ed.s.): Encounter and Experience: Personal Accounts of
Fieldwork, Honolulu: University Press of Hawai,1975
17 Whyte, William Fott: Learning from the Field, Newbury Park, CA; Sage, 1984
18 Whyte William Foot and Kathleen King: Learning from the Field: A Guide from
Experience, Beverly Hills, C.A.: Sage, 1984
19 Srinivas, M.N.,A.M.Shah and E.A.Ramaswamy (ed.s.): The Field Worker and Field, Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1979.
20 Good W. and Hatt, P.: Methods in Social Research, McGraw, Hill, 1952.
21 Festinger, L. and D. Katz (ed.): Research Methods in Behavioural Sciences, New York: Holt-
Dryden, 1953
22 Lazarsfeld, P. and M. Rosenberg (ed): Language of Social Research Glencoe: Free Press,
1955

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Paper Name-
PERSPECTIVES ON INDIAN
SOCIETY

 This course is meant for students to acquire a fairly adequate and comprehensive
understanding of Indian society in all its multi-faceted dimensions at postgraduate
level.
 It is aimed at sensitizing them to the diversity as well as interconnectedness of
theoretical perspectives on Indian Society, thereby adding depth as well as insight
to their understanding of the subject.
Title: Theoretical perspectives-1: 12 hrs.
Historical Perspective (D. D. Kosambi, Romila Thapar);
UNIT-I
Indological and Textual (G.S. Ghurye, Louis Dumont);
Structural Functionalism (M.N. Srinivas, S.C. Dube)
Synthesis of Textual and Field Views:
UNIT-II (Irawati Karve, A.M. Shah);
Marxism (D.P. Mukherjee, A.R. Desai);
Civilizational View (N.K. Bose, Surajit Sinha)
Subaltern Perspective (Ranjit Guha, B.R. Ambedkar, David
UNIT-III
Hardiman)
Cultural Perspectives (Yogendra Singh)
Title: Current Debates: 11 hrs.
contextualization, indigenization;
UNIT-IV
the use of native categories in the analysis of Indian society;
text and context; sociology for India
REFERENCES
1 Kosambi, D.D. 1956. An Introduction to the Study of Indian History. Mumbai: Popular
Prakashan
2 Thapar, Romila. 2000. Cultural Pasts. Delhi: OUP
3 Chaudhari, Maitrayee 2010. ed.: Sociology in India: Intellectual and Institutional
Practices (Jaipur: Rawat)
4 DeSouza, P.R. ed. 2000 Contemporary India – Transitions (New Delhi: Sage)
5 Dhanagare, D.N. 1993: Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology (Jaipur: Rawat)
6 Dube, S.C. 1973: Social sciences in a Changing Society (Lucknow: University Press)
7 Dube, S.C. 1967: The Indian Village (London: Routledge)
8 Dumont, Louis 1970: Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications (New
Delhi: Vikas)
9 Karve, Irawati 1961: Hindu Society: An Interpretation (Poona: Deccan College)
10 Momin, A.R. 1996: The Legacy of G.S. Ghurye: A Centennial Festschrift (Popular
Prakashan: Mumbai)
11 Mukherjee, D.P. 1958: Diversities (Delhi: People’s Publishing House)
12 Oommen, T.K. and P.N. Mukherjee, eds. 1986: Indian Sociology: Reflections and
Introspections (Bombay: Popular Prakashan)
13 Singh, K.S. 1992: The People of India: An Introduction, (Kolkatta: Seagull Books)
14 Singh, Y. 1986. Indian Sociology: Social Conditioning and Emerging Concerns (Delhi:
Vistaar)
15 Singh, Y. 1973: Modernization of Indian Tradition (Delhi: Thomson Press)
16 Srinivas, M.N.. 1960: India’s Villages (Mumbai: Asia Publishing House)
17 Tylor, Stephen: India: An Anthropological Perspective
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Paper Name-
ETHNICITY, PLURALISM AND NATION

 Acknowledge and appreciate the existence of cultural diversity across the countries and
within the country.
 Focus on the rethinking of conventional social science categories such as nation, nation
state and homogenous national cultures.
 Get sensitized to the dynamics and ramifications of these changes and their sociological
significance
Title: Nature and Characteristics of ethnicity: 12 hrs.
Ethnicity and culture; ethnicity and politics; ethnicity and identity;
UNIT-I the primordialist and instrumentalist views of ethnicityl;
Globalization and the world- wide resurgence of ethnic
consciousness
Title: 11 hrs.
Ethnic movements; cultural diversity in comparative perspective;
UNIT-II defining features of multicultural societies; international
migrations, globalization, and multiculturalism; resurgence of
ethnic identities in multicultural societies
Title: Historical and social background of the emergence of 11 hrs.
nations:
Nation and nation states; the emergence of nationalism and
its defining features; nationalism and ethnicity; nationalism
UNIT-III
and ethnic assimilation in comparative perspective;
colonialism and the emergence of nation-states in Asia and Africa;
Ethnic conflicts in the Third World; the question of re-
conceptualizing the dominant model of the nation-state.
Title: The Indian Context: 11 hrs.
The scale and magnitude of cultural diversity in India;
The emergence of nationalism in India; nationalism and ethnicity;
UNIT-IV
ethnic conflicts and their management; ethnic (sub-national)
movements;
Nation building and its attendant problems; national identity
REFERENCES
1 Anderson, B. 1983: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
(London: Verso)
2 Bhargava, Rajiv, A.K. Bagchi and R.Sudarshan, 1999, eds. Multiculturalism, Liberalism, and
Democracy (Delhi: Oxford University Press)
3 Calhoun, Craig. 1997: Nationalism (Buckingham: Open University Press)
4 Chatterjee, P. 1986: Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derative Discourse (London:
Zed Press)
5 Guibernau, M. and John Rex, eds. The Ethnicity Reader
6 Kedorie, E. 2000: Nationalism 4th ed. (Oxford University)
7 Miller, D. 2000: Citizenship and National Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press)
8 Oommen, T.K. 1997. Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity (Cambridge: Polity Press)
9 Parekh, Bhikhu, 2000: Rethinking Multiculturalism (London: Macmillan)
10 Kymlicka, Will. 1998. Multicultural Citizenship Clarendon Press
11 ____________. 2001. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship
Oxford: OUP
12 Taylor, Charles. 1994. Multiculturalsim: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Princeton:
Princeton University Press
13 Phadnis, Urmila. 1990. : Ethnicity and Nation Building in South Asia (Delhi: Sage)
14 Sharma, S.L. and T.K. Oommen, 2000, eds.: Nation and National Identity in South Asia (Delhi:
Orient Longman)
15 Singh, K.S. 1992: The People of India: An Introduction (Kolkatta: Seagull Publishing Company)
16 Smith, Anthony 1986: The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford : Blackwell)
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2016-2017

Semester IV Paper Code- SOC2405C20 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL
SOCIOLOGY

 Understand the organizations and their structures and functions.
 Acquire knowledge on the various theories of management.
 Describe the industrial relations.
 Describe the social structure of Trade Union movements in India.
 Highlight the influence of industry upon society, community and family.
Title: 12 hrs.
Bureaucracy and Modern Complex Organizations;
Theoretical approaches to Organizational effectiveness and
UNIT-I efficiency;
Formal and Informal Organizations:
Functional and Dysfunctional aspects;
Organizational environment and ecology
Title: Industrial Relations: 11 hrs.
Conflicts, causes and types of resolution of conflict,
UNIT-II conciliation, abstraction, and adjudication;
Collective bargaining;
Trade union movement in India
Title: Participatory Management: 11 hrs.
Varieties of such management;
UNIT-III Industrial community labour management;
Women and child labour, family, industrial city;
Social and environmental issues
Title: Industrial & Organizational Studies: 11 hrs.
UNIT-IV The Social Framework of an Indian Factory;
The Indian Industrial Worker
REFERENCES
1 Gerth, H.H. and C.W. Mills (ed.s.): From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, New York:
2 Etzioni, Amitai: Modern Organizations, New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India, 1965
3 Roethlisberger, F. and W.J. Dickson: Management and Worker, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
4 Blau, Peter M.: The Dynamics of Bureaucracy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963
5 Merton, Robert K.: Social Theory and Social Structure, New Delhi etc. : Amerind 1968
6 Peter L. F. and R. Hull: The Peter Principle, New York: Morow, 1969
7 Brinkerhoff, M.B. and Philip B. Kunz (ed.s.): Complex Organizations and Their
Environments, Dubuge, Lowa : Brown, 1972
8 Hannan, M. T. and J. Freeman: Organizational Ecology, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1989
9 Pondy, Louis: Organizational Symbolism, Greenwhich, CT: JAI Press 1983
10 Davies, D.: Information Technology at Work, London: Heinmann, 1986
11 Sheth, N.R.: The Social Frame work of an Indian Factory, Delhi: Hindustan Publishing
Corporation (India), 1981
12 Dore, Ronald: British Factory, Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in
Industrial
Relations, London: Allen and Unwin, 1973
13 Myers, C.A. and S.Kannappan: Industrial Relations in India. Bombay: Asia Publishing
House,
1970
14 Singer, Milton (ed.): Entreprenurship and Modernization of Occupational Cultures in South
Asia, Duke University, N.D.
15 Monappa, Arun: Industrial Relations, New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.Ltd. 1995
16 Karnik, V.B.: Indian Trade Unions: A Survey, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1978
17 Relevant articles from Annual Review of Sociology
18 Brown, Richard: Understanding Industrial Organizations, London: Routledge, 1992
19 Albrow, Martin: Bureaucracy, London: Pall Mall Press, 1970
20 Goodman, P.S. and J.M. Pennings, (ed.s.): New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness,
San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 1977
21 Perrow, Charles: Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman,
1972.
22 Merton, Robert K.el. al. , (ed.s.): A Reader in Bureaucracy, Macmillan\Free Press, 1965
23 March, J.G. and H.A.Simon: Organizations, New York: Wiley, 1958
24 Blau, P.M. and R. Scott: Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach, San Francisco:
Chandler, 1962
25 Caplow, Theodore: Principles of Organization, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964
26 Etzioni, A.: A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations, New York: Free Press, 1961
27 Likert, Rensis: New Patterns of Management, New York: McGraw Hill, 1961
28 March, J.G. (ed.): Handbook of Organizations, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965
29 Sheth N.R. and P.J.Patel: Industrial Sociology in India, Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1979
30 Ramaswamy, E.A. and Uma Ramaswamy: Industry and Labour: An Introduction, Delhi, etc.:
31 Giri, V.V.: Labour Problems in Indian Industry, Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1975
32 Toffler, A.: The Third Wave, New York : Morrow, 1980
33 Jackson, Michael P.: Industrial Relations (3rd ed) London: Croom Helm, 1986
34 Ramaswamy, E.A.: Worker Consciousness and Trade Union Response, Delhi: Oxford
35 Relevant articles from Economic and Political Weekly
36 Relevant articles from Indian Journals of Industrial Relations
37 Sharma, B.R. 1974. The Indian Industrial Worker, Vikas Publishing House Pvt.Ltd., Delhi
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2016-2017

Semester IV Paper Code-SOC2409E04 HOURS 45
Paper Name-
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

 Examine the social relevance of politics.
 Understand the political system as a component of total social structure.
 Explain the nature & functioning of political systems & processes.
 Describe the relation between politics and various social institutions.
Title: 12 hrs.
Introduction;
Methods & Techniques of Political Sociology;
UNIT-I
Relationship of Political Sociology with the Other Sciences;
Power;
Intellectual Background of Modern Political Sociology
Title: 11 hrs.
Political & Non-Political Systems;
Politicisation, Political Participation;
Political Communication;
UNIT-II
Political Mobilization;
Political Culture;
Voting Behavior;
Social Structure & Political Process in India
Title: 11 hrs.
Social Status & Social Distance;
Caste & Faction among the Dominant Caste:
UNIT-III
The Reddis and Kammas of Andhra;
Caste & Political Factions in Rajasthan;
Caste & Political Recruitment in Bihar
Title: 11 hrs.
Caste in Indian Politics;
Federating for Political interests: The Kshatriyas of Gujarat;
UNIT-IV
Political Culture & Socialization;
Religion in Indian Politics;
Mobilizing Hindutva
REFERENCES
1 Jangam, R.T. 1982. Textbook of Political Sociology. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. New
Delhi
2 Kothari, Rajni. (ed.) 1995. Caste in Indian Politics. Orient Longman Limited, Hyderabad
3 Kothari, Rajni. 1970. Politics in India. Orient Longman Ltd, New Delhi
4 Ludden, David (ed.) Making India Hindu
5 Dowse, R.E. & Hughes. 1971. Political Sociology, Basic Book, New York
6 Horowitz, Irving L. 1972. Foundation of Political Sociology. Harper & Row, New York
7 Runciman W.G. 1965. Social Sciences & Political Theory. Cambridge University Press,
London
8 Eisenstadt, S.N. (ed.) 1971. Political Sociology. Basic Book, New York
9 Kornhauser, W. 1971. The Politics of Mass Society. Penguin
10 Merton, R.K. (ed.) 1952. Reader in Bureaucracy. The Free Press, Glenco
11 Key, V.O. 1964. Politics, Parities & Pressure Groups, Crowell, New York
12 Mills, C.W. & Hans Gerth. 1946. Essays in Sociology, Oxford, New York
13 Samuel P., Huntington. 1969. Political Order in Changing Societies. Yale University Press,
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