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The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)
(An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal ) Department HUMANITIES Course B. A. PASS COURSE Year FIRST (2018-19) Subject / Group SOCIOLOGY Title of the Paper Basic Concepts of Sociology/ PAPER - Compulsory / Optional Compulsory Maximum Marks 50 External Marks: 40 Internal Marks: 10 With effect from 2017-
Learning Objectives:
1. To develop and sensitize in students the sociological knowledge and skills that will enable them to think critically and imaginatively about society and social issues. 2. It is presumed that the student has some familiarity with Indian society by virtue of the fact that he is a member of it and that he has observed and experienced some facets of it. 3. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts in the sociology of organizations and the sociology of work. 4. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the academic sociological literature as it relates to contemporary social issues. 5. The major in sociology provides extensive knowledge about culture, social institutions, and everyday interaction as these shape identity, behaviour, social systems.
Learning Outcomes:
1. To make conscious efforts to drive home the relevance and significance of sociology for
understanding society.
2. To serve as preparation for careers in various fields as teaching, administration, journalism and other various applied arts and sciences 3. Exercise the sociological imagination — observing the relationship between individuals and historical, cultural, and social forces.
4. The ability to demonstrate sociological understandings of phenomena, for example, how
individual biographies are shaped by social structures, social institutions, cultural practices, and multiple axes of difference and/or inequality.
5. The ability to demonstrate knowledge of some of the key substantive areas within the field
of sociology.
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)
(An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal ) Department HUMANITIES Course B. A. PASS COURSE Year FIRST (2018-19) Subject / Group SOCIOLOGY Title of the Paper Indian Society / PAPER - Compulsory / Optional Compulsory Maximum Marks 50 External Marks: 40 Internal Marks: 10 With effect from 2017-
Learning Objectives:
1. A deep understanding of Indian society, its history and culture, 2. To demonstrate to the student the universally acknowledged social importances of kinship ties and familiarize them with the rich diversity in the types of networks of relationships created by genealogical links of marriage and other social ties. 3. To provide the knowledge on distinctness of sociological scholarship as a separate cognitive discipline on rural and urban dimensions in India 4. Exercise the sociological imagination — observing the relationship between individuals and historical, cultural, and social forces. 5. To acquaint students with basic concept of kinship, family and marriage in a theoretical perspective.
Learning Outcomes:
1. To make conscious efforts to drive home the relevance and significance of sociology for understanding past and present society. 2. To serve as preparation for careers in various fields as teaching, administration, journalism and other various applied arts and sciences 3. The ability to demonstrate sociological understandings of phenomena, for example, how individual biographies are shaped by social structures, social institutions, cultural practices, and multiple axes of difference and/or inequality. 4. Analyze how numerous sociological events impact their own lives, their families, and communities, and how it impacts the larger society. 5. The student will be able to acquaint Knowledge about Caste, Class and Tribes in India, their conceptualization.
Syllabus
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)
Title of the Paper- Indian Society / PAPER -
Unit I
Dharma, Varna System, Ashram System, Purushartha, Karma, Sanskar.
Unit II
Caste, Class, Family, Marriage, Kinship.
Unit III
Structure of Indian Society, Village, City, Rural- Urban Continuum, Diversity of Indian Society – Demographic, Cultural, Religious, Linguistic.
Unit IV
Family Problems – Dowry, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Problems of the elderly, Youth Tension.
Unit V
Social Problems – Casteism, Regionalism, communalism, Cyber-crime, Gender Inequality.
Suggested Readings:
- Ahuja, Ram (2000): Social Problems in India, New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
- Beteille, Andre (1992): Backward Classes in Contemporary India, New Delhi.
- Desai, A.R. (Ed), Rural Sociology in India, Popular Prakashan.
- Dube, S.C. India’s changing Villages
- Dube, S.C. Indian Village
- Dube, S.C. (1991): Indian Society, New Delhi: National Book Trust.
- Ghurye, G.S. – Caste and race in India
- Ghurye, G.S. (1968): Social Tension, Bombay: Popular prakashan
- Kapadia K.M. Marriage and Family in India
- Karve Irawati – Kinship organisation in India
- Madan, G.R. – Indian Social Problems
- Madan, G.R. – Social change & Problems in India
- Nass, G.D. – Marriage & the family
- Patnaik. N. – Caste and Social change
- Shankar Rao C.N. – Sociology of Indian Society
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)
( An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to
Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Department Humanities Course B. A. PASS COURSE Year SECOND YEAR (2018-19) Subject / Group SOCIOLOGY Title of the Paper Social Processes and Change / PAPER - Compulsory / Optional Compulsory Maximum Marks 50 External Marks: 40 Internal Marks: 10 With effect from 2017-
Learning Objectives:
1. To Incorporate Social Responsibility
2. To Understand social realities
3. The student will be able to analyze a specific social concept as it pertains to the operation
of social institutions.
4. An understanding of social problems and their study in sociology
5. An understanding of the different concepts related to social change.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Develop a thoughtful and useful framework for understanding social life.
2. Cultivate a commitment to live their social lives with more awareness and more understanding.
3. They will get knowledge and information about Social Laws and legislations pertaining to
Indian context, their conceptualization.
4. Identify how culture and identity impact individual and group experience in society.
5. To understand social processes that contributes to social change.
Syllabus
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)
Title of the Paper-Social Processes and Change/ PAPER -
Unit I
Social Structure – Concept and characteristics, Function- Concept and Characteristics, Social Structure and Function, (According to Radcliffe-Brown and T. Parsons)
Unit II
Social Organization- Concept and Characteristics, Social Process- Cooperation, Accommodation, Assimilation, Adaptation and Adjustment
Unit III
Social Disorganization-Concept and Characteristics, Process of Social Disorganization-Competition, Conflict, Deviant behaviour, war
Unit IV
Social Legislation-Domestic Violence Act 2005, The Scheduled caste and tribes (prevention of Atrocities Act 1989), Human Right Act 1993, Right to information 2005, Protection of women under Indian Constitution and criminal Law
Unit V
Process of Social change- Social Movement, Planning, Urbanization, Industrialization, Modernization
Suggested Readings:
- Radcliffe Brown- Structure and Function in Primitive Society.
- ML Gupta and DD Sharma- SamajikPrakriyaavumParivartan-SahityaSadan Agra.
- GK Agrawal- SamajikPrakriyaavumParivartan-SahityaBhavan Agra.
- DharmveerMahajan- SamajikPrakriyaavumParivartan-VivekPrakashan, New Delhi.
- (^) Mukherjee AvumAgrawalSamajikPrakriyaavumParivartan-VivekPrakashan, New Delhi.
- Dr. Dhruv Dixit.SamajikPrakriyaavumParivartan-ShivlalAgrawal& Sons, Agra.
- BhadauriaAvumPatilSamajikPrakriyaavumParivartan-Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Academy, Bhopal.
- DS Baghel Samajshastra- KailashPustakSadan, Bhopal.
- TB Bottomore- Samajshastra-BhartiyaSanskaran, Mumbai.
- CN Shankar Rao-Sociology-S Chand and Company, Delhi.
- Ramgopal Singh- Bhartiya Dalit SamasyayenAvumSamadhan, Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Academy, Bhopal.
Syllabus
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)
Title of the Paper-Rural, Urban & Tribal Society/ PAPER - Unit I
Characteristics of Rural and Peasant Societies, Rural Family, Caste, Occupation & its changing Status, Jajmani System
Unit II
Rural Leadership & Factions, Peasant Tensions, Cooperatives, changing status of Rural women, Migration
Unit III
Urban Society-Housing, Slums, Juvenile Delinquency, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Environmental Pollution
Unit IV
Urban Society – Social Disorganization-meaning, Characteristics and Causes, Crime, Poverty and unemployment, Impact of Information Technology on Society.
Unit V
Tribes-meaning and Characteristics, Tribal Problems, Indebtedness, Land Alienation, Life Style of Gond, Bhil, Bhilala and Korku tribes.
Suggested Readings:
- Rural Sociology in India: A.R. Desai, Popular Prakashan Bombay, 1969.
- Indian Village: S.C. Dubey, Allied Publisher, New Delhi 1952.
- Urban Sociology in India:M.S.A Rao, 1994.
- TB Bottomore –Samajshastra, BharatiyaSanskaran, Mumbai.
- C.N. Shankar Rao, Sociology S Chand & Company, Delhi.
- Shreenath Sharma-JanjatiyaSamajkaSamajshastra Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Academy.
