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Paper:SOC-HC-4016&nbsp;Semester:&nbsp;Fourth&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Credits:&nbsp;6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Marks:100 marks&nbsp;

Course Objective:&nbsp;

• Rural Sociology studies the various components of rural social structure such as village&nbsp;community, family, caste etc.&nbsp;

• It also analyses the effect of religion, customs and tradition on rural social structure.&nbsp;Course Outcome:

• It will enable students to make a scientific, systematic and comprehensive study of the ruralsocial organisation of its structure, function and objective tendencies of development.

• And on the basis of such a study it will help students suggest ways for improving village&nbsp;conditions and discover the laws of its development.

Course Outline:

Unit 1- Introducing Rural Sociology (4 weeks)

a. Origin and Development of Rural Sociology in India

b. Perspectives on Rural Sociology

c. Indian Village Communities :Types and Features&nbsp;

d. Rural- Urban Linkages and Differences&nbsp;

Unit 2- Rural Agrarian Social Structure (3 weeks)&nbsp;

a. Agrarian Social Structure- Class, Caste

b. Agrarian Unrest and Farmers Movements in India

c. Rural poverty in India: conditions and problems of the agricultural labourers

Unit 3- Rural Institution (3 weeks)

a. Rural Social Institution- Family, Caste, Jajmani relations

b. Rural Economy- Landownership and its type

c. Rural Politics- Democratic Decentralization, Panchayati Raj Institutions: structure and&nbsp;function, Power to women and weaker sections.

Unit 4- Rural India in transition (5 weeks)

a. Trends in Rural Change: Nature and Dimension ,Agents of change(e.g. Corporate&nbsp;Initiatives in Agriculture and Its Implications)&nbsp;

b. Programmes of Rural Development:

c. Process of change in rural society- Green Revolution, Migration, Mobility

d. Globalisation and its impact on rural society&nbsp;

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Paper:SOC-HC-4026 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Semester: Fourth &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Credits: 6 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Marks:100 marks&nbsp;

Course Objective:&nbsp;

• This course provides an exposure to key theoretical perspectives for understanding urban life in&nbsp;historical and contemporary contexts.&nbsp;

• It also reflects on some concerns of urban living while narrating the subjective experiences of&nbsp;urban communities.&nbsp;

Course Outcome:&nbsp;

• It will enable students to make a scientific, systematic and comprehensive study of the urban&nbsp;space, its social organisation , structure and function&nbsp;

• With case studies from India and other parts of the world this course will help students relate to&nbsp;the complexities of urban living.&nbsp;

Course Outline:&nbsp;

Unit 1: Introducing Urban Sociology&nbsp;

a. Urban,

b. Urbanism&nbsp;

c. the City&nbsp;

Unit 2: Perspectives in Urban Sociology

a. Ecological&nbsp;

b. Political Economy&nbsp;

c. Network&nbsp;

d. City as Culture&nbsp;

Unit 3. Movements and Settlements&nbsp;

a. Migration

b. Community&nbsp;

Unit 4. Politics of Urban Space&nbsp;

a. Culture and Leisure

b. Caste, Class and Gender

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Paper: SOC-HC-4036&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Semester:&nbsp;Fourth &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Credits:&nbsp;6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Marks:&nbsp;100marks

Course Objectives:&nbsp;

• To elaborate and compare the concepts of family, marriage and kinship as a social institutions,&nbsp;its development as a subject of sociological study.

• To analyze socio-cultural, economic and political forces that shapes family, marriage and&nbsp;kinship.

Course Outcomes:

• The course will enable students to conceptualize and theorize the social institutions of family,&nbsp;marriage and kinship.

• The course will enable students to understand the changes in the institutions family, marriage&nbsp;and kinship in contemporary period.

Course Outline:

Unit 1- Nature and Significance (3 weeks)

a. Basic Concepts: Descent, Inheritance, Incest, Consanguinity, Affinity, Clan,&nbsp;Lineage, Kindred, Family, Marriage.

b. Descent: Unilineal, Double and Cognatic Descent, Authority, Alliance

Unit 2- Family and Household (4 weeks)

a. Family Structure and Composition

b. Functions of Family

c. Changes in Family

d. Family and Gender Issues

Unit 3-Conceptualising Marriage (4 weeks)

a. Marriage as a Sacrament and Contract

b. Rules of Marriage: Endogamy, Exogamy, Prescriptive and Preferential Marriage,&nbsp;Monogamy, Polygamy, Levirate and Sorrorate, Hypogamy and Hypergamy

c. Rules of Residence

d. Marriage transactions: Dowry, Bride Wealth, Bride Price

Unit 4- Kinship (4 weeks)

a. Kinship and Gender

b. New Reproductive Technologies

c. New forms of Family

d. Kinship Organizations in India

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Paper: SOC-HG-4016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Semester:&nbsp;Fourth &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Credits:&nbsp;6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Marks:100 marks

Course Objective:&nbsp;

The course is a general introduction to the methodologies of sociological research methods. The&nbsp;course is an introductory course on how research is actually done.&nbsp;

Course Outcome:&nbsp;

With emphasis on formulating research design, methods of data collection, and data analysis, it will&nbsp;provide students with some elementary knowledge on how to conduct both, quantitative and&nbsp;qualitative research.&nbsp;

Outline:&nbsp;

Unit 1: Introduction to Sociological Research

a. What is Sociological Research?&nbsp;

b. Process of Social Research

c. Objectivity in social sciences.

Unit 2: Fundamentals of Social Research&nbsp;

a. Concepts and Hypothesis&nbsp;

b. Methods of data collection: Sampling, Questionnaire, Interview, Participant, non-participant observation&nbsp;

c. Methodological Perspectives: Comparative method, Feminist method.

Unit 3: Statistical Analysis&nbsp;

a. Methods of Central Tendency: Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode

b. Graphical and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data

(Bar diagrams, Pie-diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Smoothed frequency curve&nbsp;and Ogives).&nbsp;

Unit 4: Research Projects&nbsp;

COURSE CONTENTS AND ITINERARY

Unit 1: Introduction to Sociological Research (Weeks 1-9)

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a. What is Sociological Research? (Weeks 1&amp;2)

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;• Mills, C. W. 1959, The Sociological Imagination, London: OUP Chapter 1 Pp. 3-24&nbsp;

b. Process of Social Research (Weeks 3&amp;4)&nbsp;

• Bailey, K. (1994). The Research Process in Methods of social research. Simon and&nbsp;Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Pp.3-19.

c. Objectivity in social sciences. (Weeks 5-9)

• Durkheim, E. 1958, The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: The Free Press,&nbsp;Chapter 1, 2 &amp; 6 Pp. 1‐46, 125‐140&nbsp;

• Weber, Max. 1949, The Methodology of the Social Sciences, New York: The Free&nbsp;Press, Foreward and Chapter 2 Pp. 49‐112&nbsp;

Unit 2 Fundamentals of Social Research (Weeks 10-19)

a. Concepts and Hypothesis&nbsp;

• Goode, W. E. and P. K. Hatt. 1952. Methods in Social Research. New York:&nbsp;McGraw Hill. Chapters 5 and 6. Pp. 41-73.&nbsp;

b. Methods of data collection: Sampling, Questionnaire, Interview, Participant, non-participant observation&nbsp;

• Bailey, K. (1994). Survey Sampling in Methods of social research. Simon and&nbsp;Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Ch-5. Pp. 81- 104.

• Bailey, K. (1994). Questionnaire Construction and The Mailed Questionnaire in&nbsp;Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York&nbsp;NY 10020. Chs-6 and 7. Pp. 105-172.

• Bailey, K. (1994). Interview Studies in Methods of social research. Simon and&nbsp;Schuster, 4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY 10020. Ch8. Pp.173-213.

• Bailey, K. (1994). Observation in Methods of social research. Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;4th ed. The Free Press, New York NY10020. Ch 10. Pp.241-273.

• Whyte, W. F. 1955. Street Corner Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.&nbsp;

c. Methodological Perspectives: Comparative method, Feminist method,&nbsp;Functionalist method

o Comparative method:&nbsp;

Radcliffe‐Brown, A.R. 1958, Methods in Social Anthropology, Delhi: Asia&nbsp;Publishing Corporation, Chapter 5 Pp. 91‐108

Beiteille, A. 2002, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, New Delhi:&nbsp;OUP, Chapter 4 Pp. 72‐94&nbsp;

o Feminist Method:&nbsp;

Harding, Sandra 1987, “Introduction: Is there a Feminist Method?” in Sandra&nbsp;Harding (ed.) Feminism &amp; Methodology: Social Science Issues, Bloomington:&nbsp;Indiana University Press, Pp. 1‐14

Unit 3: Statistical Analysis (2 weeks)

a. Methods of Central Tendency: Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode

• Gupta, S. P. (2007). Elementary Statistical Methods. Sultan Chand &amp; Sons. Pp. 155-168, 173-180, 187-197.

b. Graphical and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data

(Bar diagrams, Pie-diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Smoothed frequency curve&nbsp;and Ogives).&nbsp;

• Gupta, S. P. (2007). Elementary Statistical Methods. Sultan Chand &amp; Sons. Pp.101-108, 115-118, 131-137

Unit 4 : Research Projects

No Specific readings for this section. Research Projects at the discretion of the teacher. The&nbsp;syllabus has been made in broad and inclusive manner to help the research project.

Note:&nbsp;Numerical to be taught for individual, discrete and continuous series for the topics&nbsp;

mentioned above. No specific method for calculating the same be specified.

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Paper:SOC-SE-4024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Semester:&nbsp;Fourth&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Credits:&nbsp;4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Marks:100 marks

Course Objectives

• To understand the fundamentals of doing social research.

• To illustrate the steps of conducting research.

• To understand the techniques of data collection, sampling and report writing

Course Outcomes

• The course will provide first-hand experience to students in designing and conducting&nbsp;research in their own field of interest.

• The course will assist students for higher studies, competitive examinations andresearch work.

Course Outline:

Unit 1- Fundamentals of Social Research (5 weeks)

a. Values and Ethics of Research

b. Practice and Theory&nbsp;

c. Types of Research: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods

d. Writing Research Proposal

Unit 2- Questionnaire (4 weeks)

a. Preparing a questionnaire for Survey Research

b. Approaching the Field and Selection of Sample

c. Quantitative Data Collection

d. Test of Hypothesis

Unit 3- Interview Schedule (4weeks)

a. Preparing an Interview Schedule for Qualitative Research

b. Approaching the Field and Selection of Sample

c. Qualitative Data Collection: Observation, Ethnography, Narrative, Focus Group,&nbsp;Content Analysis, Interview Guide, Schedule and Case Study

d. Test of Hypothesis

Unit 4- Data Analysis and Report Writing (5 weeks)

a. Data Entry

b. Coding

c. Presentation of Data: Tabulation, Diagrammatical and Graphical Representation of&nbsp;Data

d. References and Bibliography

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