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Item No. – 5.44 (R)
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
Revised Syllabus for the M.A. (Sociology) (Regular/Hon.)
Sem - III and Sem IV
(As per the Choice Based Credit System with effect from the academic year
2021 -22)
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M.A. (Sociology) (Regular/Hon.) Sem-III and IV Syllabus
INTRODUCTION
The final draft of the revised courses to be taught at Part II Semester III of M.A. Honours and
M.A. Regular programmes in Sociology at the University of Mumbai is presented here. The
syllabus is drafted in accordance with the provisions of the circular issued by the University
of Mumbai in May 2016. Accordingly, in semester III students are required to opt for FIVE
elective courses.
Each course is of SIX credits and the total number of credits required for Semester III is 60.
A total of EIGHTEEN courses are presented here. The courses would be grouped in five
baskets and every student would be required to pick one course from each basket. The
courses that g o into each of the baskets (five baskets in total) could be finalised well ahead of
the start of Semester III every academic year.
Since semester I and II consist of core courses, the effort of the faculty and the syllabus
revision committee has been to of fer the students a variety of specializations to choose from.
Many of the courses have also included field work component within the respective syllabi.
The courses are designed in such a manner that the students get the widest possible choice of
electives . The draft of the syllabus for each course is written by faculty members taking
inputs from the two online meetings that were conducted for the purpose. The suggestions
offered at the meetings have all been incorporated. The course code begins with EC (El ective
Course) followed by the number of the course.
January 2021
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CONTENTS
Sr. No Course title Code
1 Contemporary Feminist Theory EC701
2 Education and Society EC702
3 Environment & Society: Critical Perspectives EC703
4 Family, Marriage and Kinship EC704
5 Food Systems: Social and Environmental Perspectives EC705
6 Gender & Society: Critical Perspectives EC706
7 Industry, Labour and Globalisation EC707
8 Media and Society EC708
9 Political Sociology EC709
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11 Rural Society in India EC711
12 Sociology of Law EC712
13 Sociology of Mega Cities EC713
14 Sociology of Migration EC714
15 Sociology of Public Health EC715
16 Sociology of Religion EC716
17 Sociology of Tribes EC717
18 Visual Cultures in Contemporary India EC718
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CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY
[EC701] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. To complement and build upon basic understandings of gender and patriarchy
2. To develop historical, empi rical and theoretical understanding of feminisms while
debunking myths around it
3. To introduce perspectives from contemporary feminist theories on issues of women,
gender non-conforming people and men
4. To undertake readings of primary and original texts.
Course Outcomes
1. The student will develop advanced theoretical understandings of debates in
contemporary perspectives on gender and patriarchy
2. The learner will be able to critically examine popular misconceptions about feminism
and see it as an important acade mic perspective
3. The student will develop an intersectional understanding of gender as it cuts into
other categories of marginality like class, caste, sexuality
4. The student will be able to recognise that men are also trapped in prevailing
structures of gend er orders
Unit I: Conceptualising and debating feminism
a. Demystifying feminisms
b. Academic feminism as praxis
c. Shifts from classical to contemporary feminist theory
d. Intersectionality, difference, standpoints, identity
Unit II: Identities, Standpoints, Solid arities,
a. Black feminism
b. Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi women’s movements
c. Challenges of Muslim women
d. Disability perspectives
Unit III: Querying the body
a. The LGBTI movement
b. Understanding queerness
c. Many sexes, many genders
d. Performativity
Unit IV: Masculinity Stud ies
a. Feminism and men
b. Emergence of masculinity studies
c. Questioning hegemonic masculinity
d. Alternative / different masculinities
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movement, Contributions to Indian Sociology 45, 1, pp. 1–26.
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Moi, T. (2006). "I Am Not a Feminist, but..." How Feminism Became the F-Word, PMLA,
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politics in Delhi, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 835 -
852.
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India, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 63 No.3, pp. 368-385.
Sundar, N. (2001) Divining Evil: The State and Wi tchcraft in Bastar , Gender, Technology
and Development, Vol.5, No. 3, 425-448.
Basic Texts
Abbott, P. & Wallace, C. (1990). An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives .
London & New York: Rutledge.
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London.
Chaudhary, M. (2005). Feminism in India. New Delhi: Zed Books.
Chopra, R. (Ed.) (2007). Reframing Masculini ties: Narrating the Supportive Practices of
Men. New Delhi: Orient Longman.
Ghai, A. (2015). Rethinking disability in India, Routledge, New Delhi .
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Transnational World. London: McGraw Hill.
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Jackson, S. & Scott, S. (2002). Gender: A Sociological Reader . Routledge, Oxon.
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John, M. (2008). Women’s Studies in India: A Reader. New Delhi: Penguin.
Kittay, E.F. (1999). Love's Labour: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency, Routledge,
New York and Oxon.
Kittay, E.F. (2019). Learning from My Daughter: The V alue and Care of Disabled Minds ,
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Nicholson, L. (Ed.). (1990). Feminism/Postmodernism. London: Routledge.
Nussbaum, M. (1999). Sex and Social Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rege, S. (2003). Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological Knowledge .
New Delhi: Sage Publications.
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London and New York
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London & New York: Rutledge.
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Westview Press.
Walby, S. (2011). The Future of Feminism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
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EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
[EC702] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. The course attempts to study education as a sub-system of society scientifically because it
plays a very important role in social change. It introduces students to the sociological
perspectives and theoretical approaches to educat ion.
2. The course will introduce students to the education system in India and relationship
between education and the society at various levels.
3. The course focuses on the issues of quality education, access to education and social
justice in Indian society.
Course Outcomes
1. The course will give new insight to understand changing nature of education system, the
role of education in society, and new challenges of it.
2. The learner will develop critical ideas to address the issues relating to education in the
context of globalization
Unit I: Introduction
a. Nature and Scope - Educational Sociology and Sociology of Education
b. Education and Socialization
c. Education and Social Mobility and Change
d. Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and Social Stratification
Unit II: Sociologica l Perspectives on Education
a. Functional Perspectives
b. Interactionist Perspectives
c. Liberal Perspectives
d. Conflict Perspective
Unit III: Contemporary Perspectives on Education
a. Radical Perspectives – De-schooling society (Evan Illich)
b. Cultural Reproduction (Bourdieu P.)
c. Knowledge and Power (Foucault M.), Cultural Hegemony (A. Gramsci)
d. Feminist Perspectives
Unit IV: Education and Contemporary Issues
a. Right to Education
b. Privatization of Education
c. Mapping Education Policies
d. Digital and Online Education
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Readings
Banks, O. (1971). Sociology of Education. (2nd Ed.) London: Batsford.
Blackledge, D. & Hunt, B. (1985). Sociological Interpretations of Education . London:
Croom Helm.
Bulle, N. (2008). Sociology and Education: Issues in Sociology of Education . New York :
Peter Lang.
Channa, K. (2001). Interrogating Women’s Education. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat.
Dreze, J. & Sen, A. (2013). An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions . Princeton
University Press.
Gore, M.S. et. al. (Ed.). (1975). Papers on Sociology of Education in India. New Delhi:
NCERT.
Indira, R. (Ed.). (2013). Themes in Sociology of Education . New Delhi: Sage India.
Kabeer, N. & Subramaniam, R. & Nambissan, G, B, (Eds.). (2003). Child Labour and Right
to Education in South Asia: Needs Vs. Right s? New Delhi: Sage.
Karabel, J. & Halsey, H. (1977). Power and Ideology in Education . Oxford: Oxford
University
Press.
Morris, I. (1978). The Sociology of Education. London: Alan and Unwin.
Nambissan, G.B. (Ed.). (2013). Sociology of Education in India: Changing Contours and
Emerging Concerns . New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Ramachandran, V. (2004). Gender and Social Equity in Primary Education. New Delhi.
Sage.
Rustag, P. (Ed.). (2008). Universalization of Elementary education in India . New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Sedwal, M. & Kamat, S. (2008). Education and Social Equity: With Special Focus on
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Elementary Education. Create Pathways to
Access: Research Monograph No. 19 . New Delhi: National University of Educational
Planning and Administration.
Sen, A. & J. Dreze. (1996). India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Sen, A. & J. Dreze. (1997). India: Development Selected Regional Perspectives. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Shah, B.V. & Shah, K.B. (Eds.). (2014). Sociology of Education . Jaipur: Rawat.
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Velaskar, P. (2010). Quality and Inequality in Indian Education: Some Critical Policy
Concerns. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 7 (1), 59 – 93.
Velaska r, P. (2013). Reproduction, Contestation and the Struggle for a Just Education in
India. S. Patel & T. Uys (Eds.). Contemporary India and South Africa: Legacies, Identities,
Dilemmas . New Delhi: Routledge.
Weis, L., McCarthy, C. & Dimitriadis, G. (Eds.). (2006). Ideology, Curriculum and the New
Sociology of Education: Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple. New York
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ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
[EC703] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. To develop an understanding of the relationship between human societies, their
natural and built environments from a sociological perspective.
2. To sensitize students to perceptions & impacts of environmental issues & problems
that shape our engagement with nature. To update the student with the recent
theoretica l debates
3. To sensitize them to debates and policies in global & Indian contexts.
Course Outcomes
1. The students will be familiarised with environmental issues in the field of
environmental sociology.
2. The students will develop a critical perspective in analysing environmental issues.
3. The students will develop a familiarity with critical readings in the field of
environmental sociology.
4. The students will be equipped to carry out research using the critical theoretical
perspectives
Unit I: Socializing Nature : Concepts & Issues
a. Social Nature
b. Environment as Wilderness, as Garden
c. Urban Environments
d. Global Environments
Unit II: Explaining Nature: Theories & Approaches
a. Marxian - Political Ecology
b. Environmental Feminism
c. Risk-Science, Knowledge, Power
d. Environmental History
Unit III: Engaging Nature: Movements & Mobilisations
a. Forest Futures: Local Narratives, Global Politics
b. Blue Ecology: Privatising Water, Wetlands, Fisheries
c. Nature in the city: Urban Forests, City Lakes,
d. Commons: Waste, Infrastructures
Unit IV: Governing Nature: Law & Global Politics
a. Climate Change & Anthropocene Debates
b. Neoliberal Conservation & Biodiversity
c. Law & Governance - FRA, CRZ, SEZ*
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d. Politics of Governance - IPR, SD, NGT**
(* FRA -Forest Rights Act, CRZ -Coastal Regulation Zone, SEZ- Spec ial Economic Zone
** IPR- Intellectual Property Rights, SD -Sustainable Development, NGT - National Green
Tribunal)
Essential Readings:
Agarwal, B. (1992). Gender & Environment Debate: Lessons from India. In Feminist Studies,
18, No.1 (Spring).
Anand, N, A. Gupta, & H. Appel. 2018. The Promise of Infrastructure. Duke University
Press. USA.
Barry, J. 2007. Environment & Social Theory. 2nd ed. Routledge. U.K.
Baviskar, A. (1999). In the belly of the river: tribal conflicts over development in the
Narmada V alley. New Delhi: O.U.P.
Buscher, B. W. Dressler and R. Fletcher (2014) Nature TM Inc.: Environmental
Conservation in the Neoliberal Age. University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
Castree, N. and B. Braun (eds.) (2001) Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Pol itics.
Blackwell, Malden (Selected chapters).
Chhatre, A., & Saberwal, V. (2006). Democratizing Nature: Politics, Conservation &
Development in India. New Delhi: O.U.P.
Escobar, Arturo. (1998) “Whose Knowledge, Whose Nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and
the Political Ecology of Social Movements”, Journal of Political Ecology 5:53-82.
Fortun, Kim (2001) Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, disasters, new global
orders . University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Gidwani, V. & Baviskar, A. (2011). ‘Urban Commons’, Review of Urban Affairs in E.P.W.
Vol. 50, Dec 10.
Heatherington, K. Ed. 2019. Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene. Duke
University Press. USA.
Jalais, Annu (2014) Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the S undarbans .
Routledge.
Kohli, K and M Menon, 2019. Is Conservation Impossible? The Case of Coastal Regulation
in India, in Shahbuddin, G & K Sivaramakrishnan. d. Nature Conservation in the New
Economy - People, Wildlife and the Law in India. Orient BlackSwa n. Hyderabad.
Lele, Sharad and Ajit Menon (2014) Democratising Forest Governance in India . Oxford
University Press, Delhi.
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Levien, Michael.2012. The land question: special economic zones and the political economy
of dispossession in India, in The Journal of Peasant Studies , Vol. 39, Nos. 3 –4, July –October
933–969.
Linkenbach, A. (2007). Forest Futures: Global Representations & Ground Realities in the
Himalayas. Delhi: Permanent Black
Moore, J. ed. 2016. Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of
Capitalism. PM Press. USA
Peet, R., Robbins, P. and Watts, M. eds (2011) Global Political Ecology . Routledge, London
Rao, M. ed. 2021. Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal
India. Routledge. UK.
Rangarajan , Mahesh and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2014) Shifting Grounds: People, Animals and
Mobility in India’s Environmental History . Oxford University Press, Delhi
Rademacher, A & K. Sivaramakrishnan. Ed. 2013. Ecologies of Urbanism in India -
Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability. Hong Kong University Press. HK.
Further Readings:
Baviskar, Amita (2008) Contested Grounds. Essays on Nature Culture and Power. Oxford
University Press, Delhi.
Cederlof, G., & Sivaramakrishnan, K. (Eds.). (2005). Ecological Nationalism s: Nature,
Livelihoods, & Identities in South Asia. Delhi: Permanent Black
Greenough, Paul and Anna L. Tsing (2003) Nature in the Global South: Environmental
Projects in South and Southeast Asia. Duke University Press, NC.
Guha, R. (1989). The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change & Peasant Resistance in the
Himalaya. New Delhi: O.U.P.
Guha, R., & Alier, J. M. (1998). Varieties of environmentalism: Essays North and South .
New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Klein, Naomi (2014) This Changes Everything: Capita lism vs. Climate . Simon and Shuster,
New York.
Shrivastava, A., A. Kothari. 2012. Churning the Earth - The Making of Global India. Penguin.
New Delhi.
Smith, Neil (2010) Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space .
Verso, NY.
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FAMILY, MARRIAGE AND KINSHIP
[EC704] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. The aim of this course is to provide a brief account of the classical approaches to the
study of family and kinship.
2. It exposes the student to newer theorizations that have expanded the scope o f the
field.
3. It also focuses on family and marriage system in the Indian context.
4. It discusses some contemporary issues that pose a challenge to the normative model
of the heterosexual, biologically based nuclear family.
Course Outcomes
1. Students will learn theory of Matrilineal and Patrilineal systems
2. Students will understand the Laws of Dowry and Divorce
3. Students will sensitize themselves to the issues of domestic violence and sexual abuse
4. Students will be familiarised with the contemporary issues of mig ration, diaspora,
kinship and sexuality.
Unit I: Introduction and Theoretical perspectives on kinship
a. Matrilineal, Patrilineal, and Bilateral Kinship Systems
b. Classical theories – Descent theory, Alliance theory
c. Recent theorizations and their implications
d. Gendered Perspective on family and kinship
Unit II: Marriage in Indian context
a. Diversities in marriage patterns and ideologies
b. Dowry and Bride wealth
c. Contemporary trends in Divorce
d. The debate on Personal laws
Unit III: Family in the Indian context
a. Social Construction of the family
b. Changes in household and family patterns
c. Domestic violence and Sexual Abuse
d. Challenges to the normative model of family
Unit IV: Contemporary Issues
a. Migration, Diaspora and Impact on family
b. New Reproductive Technologies (declin ing sex ratio)
c. Caste and Kinship
d. Sexuality
Essential Readings
Fox, Robin. (2005). Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge
University Press . Revised ed. ISBN 9780521278232.
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Goldberg Michelle, (2010), The means of reproduction: Sex, power and the future of the
world, Paperback, Kindle edition.
Mathew, J. (2010). Marriage and Modern Family. New Delhi: Authors Press.
Parkin, R. (1997). Kinship: An Introduction to Basic Concepts. Oxford: Blackwell.
Parkin, R. & Stone, L. (Eds.). Kinshi p and Family: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford :
Blackwell
Uberoi, P. (Ed.). (1993). F amily, Kinship and Marriage in India. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
Further Readings
Das, V. (Ed). (2003). The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Ant hropology in
India . Vols. 1 & 2. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Dasgupta, S. & Lal, M. (Eds.). (2007). The Indian Family in Transition. New Delhi: Sage.
Dube, L. (2001). Anthropological Explorations in Gender: Intersecting Fields . New Delhi:
Sage.
Jamous, R. (2003). Kinship and Rituals Among the Meo of Northern India – Locating Sibling
Relationship. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
John, M. E. (2008). Women’s Studies in India – A Reader. New Delhi: Penguin.
Kapadia, K.M. (1966). Marriage and Famil y In India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press
Karve, I. (1968). Kinship Organization in India. Bombay: Asia Publishing House.
Madan, T.N. (2002). Family and Kinship – A Study of Pandits of Rural Kashmir. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Mason, M. A., Skolnick, A. & Sugarman, S. (Eds.). (2003). All our Families – New Policies
for a New Century . New York: Oxford University Press
Misra, K. Lowry, J.H. (Eds.). (2007). Recent Studies on Indian Women . Jaipur: Rawat.
Patel, T. (Ed.). (2005). The Family in India: Structure and Practice . New Delhi: Sage.
Singh, B. (Ed.). (2011). Indian Family System – The Concept, Practices and Current
Relevance . New Delhi: D.K. Printworld.
Ghosh Arijeet, Sanyal Diksha (2019). How can families be imagined beyond kinship and
marriage? , Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.54, Issue No. 45, 16 Nov, 2019.
Verdon Michel, (1981), Kinship, Marriage and the Family: An Operational Approach,
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 86, Number 4, Jan 1981.
Haller Max (1981), Marriage, Women, and Social Stratification: A Theoretical Critique
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 86, Number 4, Jan 1981.
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FOOD SYSTEMS: SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
[EC705] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. The course examines the social processes shaping the production & consumption of
food.
2. The course examines the inequalities in the production of food through formal
institutions & global economic relations.
3. The course then examines the preparation & consumption of food at the individual /
community/ cultura l / regional level
4. It examines the alternatives that have come up to the dominant food & agricultural
systems
Course Outcomes
1. The student will be able to understand & articulate the sociological insights into the
food & agricultural systems
2. The student wi ll be able to apply a sociological perspective to analyse how food &
eating practices are culturally produced
3. The student will be equipped to analyse the reproduction of social inequalities
through food as a lens.
4. The students will learn to examine how expert & scientific knowledge is used to define
the production & consumption of food.
Unit I: Introduction
a. Why study Food?
b. Food Regimes
c. Environment Degradation & Food Production
d. Global Food in a Risk Society
Unit II: Agribusiness & Food Politics
a. Global Development & Food Politics
b. Neoliberalism & Food Insecurity
c. Hunger Games - Political economy of Agribusiness
d. Food Security & Food Justice
Unit III: Communities, Culture, Knowledge
a. Food Cultures
b. Cultural Shifts in Eating practices
c. Food and Gender
d. Consuming Food- Caste, Class, Ethnicity, Region
Unit IV: Alternatives
a. Food Sovereignty movements
b. Alternative Choices, Alternative Food Systems
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c. Alternative Markets
d. Beyond Food - Challenging Human/ Nature relations
Essential Readings
Agarwal, B. 2014. 'Food sovereig nty, food security and democratic choice: critical
contradictions, difficult conciliations.' The Journal of Peasant Studies . 41(6): 1247 -1268.
Alkon, A. H., & Agyeman, J. (Eds.). (2011). Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and
Sustainability. Cambridge : MIT Press.
Banerjee -Dube, Ishita. 2016. ‘Modern Menus: Food, Family, Health and Gender in Colonial
Bengal’. In Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling, edited by Ishita
Banerjee -Dube, 100–21. Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
Bavisk ar, A.2019. New Cultures in Food Studies, in Critical Themes in Indian Sociology, Ed.
Sanjay Srivastava Yasmeen Arif, Janaki Abraham. Sage, New Delhi.
Baviskar, A. 2012. Food & Agriculture, in Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Indian
Culture, Vasudha Da lmia and Rashmi Sadana (eds). CUP. USA.
DeLind, L. (2011). Are local food and the local food movement taking us where we want to
go? Or are we hitching our wagons to the wrong stars? Agriculture and Human Values.
Dreze, Jean. 2004. ‘Democracy and Right to Food’. Economic & Political Weekly 39 (17): 1723 –
31.
Edelman, M. 2014. 'Food sovereignty: forgotten genealogies and future regulatory
challenges.' The Journal of Peasant Studies. (41) 6: 959-78.
Henrike Donner, ‘New Vegetarianism: Food, Gender and Neo-Liberal Regimes in Bengali
Middle -Class Families’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies n.s. 31:1 (2008), pp.
143–69.
Friedmann, H. 1993. The Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis. New Left Review
Jan./Feb: 197.
Friedmann, H. 2005. From colonia lism to green capitalism: Social movements and
emergence of food regimes. In New directions in the sociology of global development, ed. F.
Buttel and P. McMichael, 227–264. Oxford: Elsevier.
Horrigan L, Lawrence RS, Walker P. 2002. How sustainable agricul ture can address the
environmental and human health harms of industrial agriculture. Environmental Health
Perspectives.
Khare, R.S. 2012. ‘Globalizing South Asian Food Cultures: Earlier Stops to New Horizons’.
In Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia, edited by Krishnendu Ray and
Tulasi Srinivas, 237–54. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Madsen, Stig Toft and Geoffrey Gardella. 2012. ‘Udupi Hotels: Entrepreneurship, Reform,
and Revival’. In Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food , and South Asia, edited by
Krishnendu Ray and Tulasi Srinivas, 91 –109. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Magdoff, F., J Bellamy -Foster, & F. Buttel. Eds. 2000. Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness
Threat to Farmers, Food & the Environment. Mon thly Review Press. Cornerstone
Publications. India.
Mol, A. P. J., & Bulkeley, H. (2002). Food risks and the environment: changing perspectives
in a changing social order. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 4(3), 185-195.
McMichael, Philip. 2000 . “The Power of Food”, Agriculture and Human Values 17:21 –33.
Narayan, Uma. ‘Eating Cultures: Incorporation, Identity, and Indian Food’, Social Identities
1:1 (1995), pp. 63–86; Jennifer B. Saunders, ‘“I Don’t Eat Meat”: Discourse on Food among
Transnatio nal Hindus’, Contributions to Indian Sociology 41:2 (2007), pp. 203–33.
Rege, Sharmila, Deepa Tak, Sangita Thosar and Tina Aranha, eds. 2009. Isn’t This Plate
Indian? Dalit Histories and Memories of Food. Pune: Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s
Studies Centre, University of Pune.
Staples, James. 2014. ‘Civilising Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways’. In
Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of
Jack Goody, edited by Jakob A. Klein and Anne Murcott, 65 –86. New York, NY: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Further Readings :
Beck, U. (1999). World risk society. Malden, Mass: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, P. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Harvard
University Press, Cambridge.
Sidney W. Mintz. 1986. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New
York: Penguin Books,
Mander, Harsh. 2012. Ash in the Belly: India’s Unfinished Battle Against Hunger. New
Delhi: Penguin Books.
Nestle, M. 2007. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.
University of California Press.
Patel, R. 2008. Stuffed and Starved: The hidden battle for the world food system. Brooklyn,
N.Y.: Melville House Pub.
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GENDER & SOCIETY: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
[EC706] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. The course introduces students to a gendered understanding of sociological themes &
issues
2. The course maps the early theories that gave rise to gender studies and introduces the
students to recent theorisation.
3. The course engages with the strategies & forms of resistance as well as the issues
around which mobilisation has occurred.
4. It focuses on specific & substantive concerns within gender studies.
Course Outcomes
1. The students will be able to problematize the ways in which gender is naturalized
within the social sciences.
2. The students will be equipped to examine substantive issues through a gender lens
3. The students will be able to deconstruct social reality through feminist theoretical
perspectives
4. The students will be able to examine issues using feminist research methods.
Unit I: Introduction: Concepts, Histories & Locations
Defining Concepts & Histories
a. Inequalities: Material & Symbolic
b. Intersectional Locations: Caste/ Class/Ethnicity
c. Doing Gender: Symbolic interactionism to Gender performativity
Unit II: Explaining Gender: Mapping theories & methods
a. Early theories
b. Equality/ Difference debates
c. Cultural turn- Queer theory
d. Doing Feminist research
Unit III: Organizing Gender: Shifts in Strategies & forms
Women in Nationalist movement
a. ‘New’ Women’s movement - Post 1970s
b. Contemporary Women’s movements - Post 1990s to present
c. Global Feminist movements
Unit IV: Negotiating Gender in Everyday Life
a. Work & Labour
b. Politics & Representation
c. Environment & Livelihoods
d. Education & Health
Essential Readings:
Abbott, P., C. Wallace & M. Tyler.2008 (1st Indian reprint). An Introduction to Sociology -
Feminist Perspectives. Routledge. London.
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Agarwal . B. 1992. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
Feminist studies. 8 (1), 119-158.
Chakravarty, Uma. (2018). (Revised edition). Gendering caste through a feminist Lens.
Calcutta: Stree.
Geetha, V. (2002). Gender. Calcutta: Stree.
Geetha, V. (2007). Patriar chy. Calcutta: Stree.
Holmes, M. 2007. What is Gender? Sociological Approaches. Sage Publications. London.
Menon, N. 2012. Seeing Like a Feminist. Zubaan. New Delhi.
Rege, Sharmila. (2003). Sociology of Gender. New Delhi: Sage.
Tong R. & T. Botts. 2018 (5th edition). Feminist Thought.Routledge. London.
Suggested Readings
Basu, A. (Ed.).(1995).The challenge of Local Feminism: Women’s Movement in Global
Perspective. Boulder Co., West view Press.
Chadha, G. & M.T. Joseph. ed. 2018. Re -Imagining Sociology in India: Feminist
Perspectives. Routledge. UK.
Choudhari, Maitreyee. (2004). Feminism in India. New Delhi: Women Unlimited.
Custers, Peter (2012) Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labour in Asian Economies,
Monthly Review Press, New York.
Forbes. G. 1996. Women in Modern India. Cambridge University Press. U.K.
Ghosh, Jayati (2009) Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India,
New Delhi: Women Unlimited.
Harding, S. (Ed.). (1987). Feminism and Methodology. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press.
John, Mary. (2008). Women’s Studies in India: A Reader. Penguin.
Khullar, Mala. (Ed.). (2005). Writing the Women’s Movement - A Reader. New Delhi:
Zubaan.
Krishna, Sumi. (ed.). 2004. Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community Resource
Management. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Rege, S. (1998). “Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a
Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position”. Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 33, No. 44
(Oct.31‐Nov. 6, pp. 39‐48).
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INDUSTRY, LABOUR AND GLOBALISATION
[EC707] [06 Credits]
Course objectives
1. The course introduces students to issues relating to industry and labour in the context
of globalisation.
2. It will address restructuring of economy and its impact on labour, micro and small
and medium enterprises, and issues related with labour market in BRICS countries.
3. The course will help learners to understand changing work organisations, the role of
trade unions, e-commerce and labour a global overvi ew, and challenges of
technology.
4. Further Globalisation and its impact on pattern of work, and production.
Course Outcomes
1. The course will give new insight to understand overall changing global economy and
labour
2. The learner will develop critical bent of mind to address labour reforms and response
of trade unions
3. It will also help the learner to examine the issues of sub - subcontracting and
outsourcing, labour standard and decent work.
4. The course will bring out the linkages between economy, work, technolo gy, market
and State
Unit I: Introduction
a. Globalization and restructuring of work and economy
b. Labour in formal and informal sector in India
c. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
d. Migration and work
Unit II : Labour market
a. Labour market in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)
b. Feminisation of labour market
c. New labour Code 2020 and response of trade unions
d. Global perspective: Trade unions and challenges
Unit III: Organisation and Management of Industry
a. New work organization and work culture : IT Industry - recruitment, selection
and training and managers,
b. Work commitment, Productivity and Change,
c. Employment Relations, and Innovative Strategies
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Unit IV: Globalisation, Technology, and Future of Work
a. Advance manufacturing technology: Artificia l Intelligence, Robotics and Production
and Worker’s response (India, China, Taiwan, South Korea, & Japan)
b. Sub-contracting and Outsourcing in global economy,
c. E-commerce and labour
d. Globalisation, labour standard and decent work
e. Future of work
Readings
Bhosale B.V, Informal Sector: Issues of Work and livelihood, special issue Yojana, 2014
(article
Bhosale B.V , (Ed), INFORMAL SECTOR IN INDIA: CHALLENGES AND
CONSEQUENCES: FIELD ANALYSIS, LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, AG &
CO. KG, SAARBRUCKEN, GERMANY, 2010.
Bagchi, A.K. (Ed.). (1995). ‘New Technology and the Workers’ Response’:
Microelectronics, Labour and Society. New Delhi: Sage.
Behal R., Mah A. & Fall B. (Eds.). (2011). “Rethinking Work” Global Historical and
Sociological Perspectives. New Delhi: Tulika.
BergIvar and Arnel.Kallerberg (2001), (Ed), Source Book of Labour
Markets Evolving Structures and Processes, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Bendl Regine , (2015), (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organisations, OUP, UK,
2015.
Bhowmik, S.K. (2012). Industry, Labour and Society , New Delhi: Orient Black Swan.
Banerjee Debdas , (2005), Globalisation, Industrial Restucuring and Labour Standards, Sage
Publications, New Delhi.
Breman, J. (2004). The Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Workin g Class: Sliding
Down the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bromley Patricia Meyer W. John , (2016), Hyper Organisation, OUP, UK.
Bendl Regine , (2015), (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organisations, OUP, UK,
2015.
BuchananJohn, Finegold David, Warhurst Chris, (2016) (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Skills
and Training, OUP, UK.
Chevalier F. & Segalla, M. (Eds.). (1996). Organizational Behaviour and Change in
Europe. New Delhi: Sage.
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China and World Economy . Vol. 20 No.3. (May – June, 2012). Institute of World
Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Deshpande, L., Sharma, A., Karan, A. & Sarkar, S. (2004) ‘Liberalisation and labour’:
Labour Flexibility in Indian Manufacturing. New Delhi: I nstitute for Human Development.
Elms Deborah, Hassani Arian, Low Patrick (Ed), (2017) The Intangible Economy, How
Services Shape Global Production and Consumption, Cambridge University Press, UK
Garud Raghu, Simpson Barbara, Langley Ann, Tsoukas Hardimos , (2016),
The Emergence of Novelty in Organisations, OUP, UK
Himmat Singh Ratnoo (2017), Migration of Labour in India, Routledge, New York
Jha Praveen , Labour in Contemporary India (2016), OUP, New Delhi,
Kumra Savita, Simpson Ruth, and Burke J. Ronald , (Ed), (2016) The Oxford Handbook of
Gender in Organisations, OUP, UK,
Krzywdzinski Martin, Jurgens Ulrich , (2016), New Worlds of Work, OUP, UK.ht
Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age
Kumar Ashok , Monopsony Capitalism, Power and Prod uction in the Twilight of the
Sweatshop Age, (2020) Cambridge University Press, UK
Mamkoottam, K. (2003). Labour and change, Essays on Globalisation, Technological
Change and Labour in India. New Delhi: Response Books.
Nathan Dev, Tewari Meenu, Sarkar Sandip (2016), (Ed), Labour in Global Value Chains in
Asia
Papaola T.S. (Ed.). (2008). Labour Regulation in Indian Industry. New Delhi: Book Well.
Parry J., Breman, J. & Kapadia K . (1999). The Worlds of Industrial Labour. Contributions
to Indian Sociology. 9.
Pereira Vijay and Malik Ashish (2016), (Eds), Indian culture and Work
Organisations in Transition, Routledge, New York.
Ronaldo, M . (2002). Globalisation and Labour, the New “Great Transformation” . New
Delhi: Madhyam Books.
Rasiah Rajesh, McFarane Bruce and Kuruvilla
Sarosh (2016), Globalisation, Industrilisation and Labour Markets in East and
South Asia, Routledge, New York
Scherrer, C. & Greven, T . (2001). ‘Gobal Rules for Trade’ Codes of Conduct,
Social Labeling, Workers’ Right Clauses. Germany: Westfalisches Dampfboot.
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Shyam Sundar, K.R . (2009). Changes in Labour Institutions in China . New Delhi: Book
well.
Volti, R . (2008). A n Introduction to the Sociology of Work and Occupations. New Delhi: Pine
Forge Press, an imprint of Sage.
Wilkinson Ad rian, Wood Geoffrey, Deeg Richard , (2016) (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of
Employment Relations, OUP, UK.
Yates, D. M. (2003). ‘Naming the System’, Inequality and Work in the Global
Economy. Kharagpur: Cornerstone Publications.
Links
http://yojana.gov.in/2014%20 -X-%20October%202014%20(including%20cover)%20Yojana.pdf
http://jsspi.c om/journals/jsspi/Vol_3_No_2_December_2015/1.pdf
https://www.dcmsme.gov.in/ssiindia/MSME_OVERVIEW.pdf
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Course Objectives MEDIA AND SOCIETY
[EC708] [06 Credits]
1. The course aims to introduce basic concepts an d theories in field of Media and
Society studies
2. It also aims to understand relationship between media technology and its role in
community/social change.
3. This course also aims to provide critical understanding of media and its political
economy in present social order of Indian Society.
Course Outcomes
Course outcome can be measured with the performance of students during learning process
such as
1. After completing this course Students shall be able to understand the importance of
media in society in gener al and in social change in particular. It will help them to
study media with different perspectives and its impact on culture too.
2. Students with knowledge of this field may join the field of media and contribute to the
development of Society.
3. As Fourth pillar of democracy media will help Indian society to become just society.
Unit I: Basic Conceptual Understanding
a. Folk Society and Folk Media, Development Communication
b. Types and Institutions of Media, Internet and New Media
c. The Culture Industry
d. Dimension of Freedom versus control
Unit II: Media Society and Culture: Connections and Conflicts
a. Social Constructivism
b. Power and Inequality
c. Social Integration and Identity
d. Space and Time
e. Marxism and Political Economy
Unit III: Media Society Theory
a. The Information Society
b. Mass media and postmodern culture
c. Gender and Media
d. Social Responsibility Theory
Unit IV: Contemporary issues
a. Media Freedom as principal and Global Media governance
b. Media Imperialism
c. Media and Democracy
d. Practical Component -Issue based Field visit
Essential and Suggested Readings:
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Adorno, T and Horkheimer, M.1972. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as mass
deception”, in The Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Herder and Herder.
Anderson, B.1983. Imagined Communities. London. Verso.
Bagdikian, B.1988.The Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon
Castells, M.1996. The Information Age. Vol: 1 Rise of Network Society. Oxford. Blackwell.
Castells, M.2001. The Internet Galaxy. Oxford University Press.
Daniel Lerner.1958. The Passing of Traditional Society: Mod ernizing the Middle
East. Macmillan Pub Co.
Denis Mc Quail. 2010. Mc Quails Mass Communication Theory (6th edition) Theory. Sage
Publications. South Asia.
Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky, 1995. Manufacturing Consent: The Political
Economy of the Mass Me dia. Vintage book London.
Habermas, J 2006. Political Communication in Media Society: Does democracy still enjoy an
epistemic dimension? The impact of normative theory on empirical research, Communication
theory, 16(4):411 -26.
Harvey, D 1989. The Conditi on of Postmodernity. Oxford. Blackwell
Hassan, R.2008. The Information Society. Cambridge: Polity Press
Jurgen Habermas, 1989. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into
a category of Bourgeois Society. Polity Press/MIT
Marcuse, H. 1964.One Dimensional man. London Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Mark Poster. 2013.The Second Media Age. Polity Publications.
Marshall McLuhan 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Mc Graw hill
Publications.
Matterlart, A2003. The Information Society. London sage
Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. 2003. Understanding Power: The Indispensable
Chomsky. Vintage Publications.
Schultz, J.1998. Reviewing the Fourth Estate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Zoonen, L.1994.Feminist Media Stud ies. London. Sage
Additional readings suggested by the course teacher
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POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
[EC709] [Credits: 06]
Course Objectives
1. Introduction to the relationship between society and politics
2. Insight into the working of power in its various forms
3. Unde rstanding of the functioning of democracy at various levels
4. Familiarity with the discourse of rights
Course Outcomes
1. Comparative understanding of the working of democracy in various nation states
2. Understanding of the various models of nationalism
3. Insight into the dynamics of public sphere and civil society in India
4. Developing openness to pluralities
Unit I: Introduction
a. The main concerns of Political Sociology
b. Historical development of the discipline
c. Political sociology in the Indian context
d. Political Philo sophy and conceptualization of Diversity, Pluralism and
Multiculturalism
Unit II: Power and Society
a. Marxist Approaches
b. Weberian Approaches
c. Theorizing the Public Sphere and Social Capital
d. Foucauldian Approaches
Unit III: Nation, Nationalism and Citizenship
a. Colonialism and its power
b. Nations and Nationalisms
c. Intersectional discourses on citizenship
d. Reflections and debates on citizenship rights
Unit IV: Democracy and the Indian State
a. Class, passive revolution, patronage and Indian democracy
b. Casteism, Caste and politics, religious nationalism
c. Development, Rights and the Poor
d. Genders and sexualities
Essential Readings
Foucault, M. (1991). Governmentality in G. Burchell, C. Gordon & P. Miller (Eds.) The
Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality . Chicago: Unive rsity of Chicago Press, 87 –104.
Gramsci, A. (1971). State, Civil Society, Political Society, Hegemony, Ideology and Bloc. In
Selections from Prison Notebooks (Trans. by Q. Hoare) London: Lawrence and Wishart , 144-
153, 167-168, 180-182, 260-264.
Janoski, T. et.al (Eds). (2020). The New Handbook of Political Sociology . Oxford University
Press
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Kaviraj, S. (2012). Trajectories of the Indian State. Orient Blackswan
Kaviraj, S. (2012a). The Enchantment of Democracy in India. Orient Blackswan
Kumar, A. (Ed.). (2013). Readings in Indian Sociology: Vol. VIII. Political Sociology in
India . Sage.
Laclau, E. (1977). Fascism and Ideology. In his Politics and Ideology in Marxist theory.
London: NLB, 81 -142. Debate between Miliband, Poulantzas and Laclau (NLR No. 58, (67-
78), 1969; No. 59 (53-60), 1970; No. 82 (83-92), 1973; No 95, (63-83), 1976
Lee, A. (2020). From Hierarchy to Ethnicity: The Politics of Caste in Twentieth Century
India . Cambridge University Press
Marx, K. (1978). The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. In The Marx -Engels Reader,
Second Edition . New York: EE Norton, 594-617.
Mehta, P.B. (2017). The Burden of Democracy . Penguin Random House India.
Mohanty, M. (2004). Class, Caste, Gender. New Delhi: Sage.
Nash, K. (2010). Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics and Power .
Oxford: Wiley -Blackwell.
Ong, A. (2006). Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Outhwaite, W. & Turner, S.P. (Eds.). (2018). The Sage Handboo k of Political Sociology .
Sage.
Oommen, T.K. (2013). Social Inclusion in Independent India: Dimensions and Approaches .
New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Roy, A. (2010). Mapping Citizenship in India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Thapar, R. et al. (2016) . On Nationalism . New Delhi: Aleph Book Company.
Weber, M. (1978). Domination, Legitimation, Authority and Charisma. In his Economy and
Society: An outline of Interpretive Sociology.Vol.1. Berkeley: University of California Press,
212-30, 241-54.
Further Readings
Ahmad, I. Et al. (2010). Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics . New
Delhi: Sage Publications.
Aloysius, G. (1999). Nationalism without a Nation in India. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press.
Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism . London: Verso.
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Anderson, W. & Damle, S. (2019). Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh and Hindu Revivalism . Penguin
Arif, Y. (2016). Life, Emergent: The Social in the After lives of Violence . New Delhi: Orient
Blackswan.
Dhanagare, D.N. (2014). The Writings of D.N. Dhanagare: The Missing Tradition: Debates
and Discourses in Indian Sociology . Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.
Guha, R. (2016). Democrats and Dissenters . New Delhi: Penguin Random House India.
Gundimeda, S. (2016). Dalit Politics in Contemporary India . Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Habermas J. (1991). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Enquiry into a
Category of Bourgeois Society . Cambridge. MS: The MI T Press.
Kalpagam, U. (2006). Thinking the State with Bourdieu and Foucault. In M. Thapan and R.
Lardinois (Eds.). Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context: Essays from India and France.
London: Routledge.
Kumar, A. (Ed.). (2013). Political Sociology of India. New Delhi: Sage India.
Lukes, S. (2005). Power: A Radical View (Second edition). New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
1-107.
Mehta, P.B. (2003). The Burden of Democracy. New Delhi: Penguin India.
Menon, N. & Nigam, A. (2007). When was the Nation? Power and Contestation: India Since
1989 . London: Zed Books.
Mouffe, C. (1970). Hegemony and ideology in Gramsci. In her (Ed.) Gramsci and Marxist
Theory . London. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 168-04.
Naqvi, S. (2016). Being the Other: The Muslim in India. New Delhi: Aleph Book Company.
Nigam, A. (2005). Civil Society and its Underground Explorations in the Notion of Political
Society. In R. Bhargava et. al. (Eds.). Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship:
Dialogues and Perceptions. New Delhi: Sage, 236-59.
Padel , F. (2009). Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape . New Delhi: Orient
Blackswan.
Puri, J. (2016). Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle to Decriminalise Homosexuality
in India . New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Rao, A. (2009). The Caste Que stion: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India . Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Rao, A. (2013). Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations . New Delhi:
Orient Blackswan.
Yuval -Davis, N. & Werbner, P. (Eds.). (20 05). Women, Citizenship and Difference . New
Delhi: Zubaan.
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Course Deleted due to repetition
Course Objectives
1. To undertake an advanced sociological analysis of the reach and diversity of cultural
expressions in contemporary India.
2. To trace the develop ment of concepts and theories associated with popular culture
3. To assess the critiques from various marginal social locations and standpoints
4. To look at popular culture from the vantage point of the dynamics of power and the
multiple sites of its contestati on.
Course Outcomes
1. The learner will clearly be able to distinguish between folk, classical, mass and
popular culture
2. The student will be able to undertake a theoretical analysis of popular cultural texts
3. The student will be able to deconstruct hierarchie s of power encoded in popular
culture
4. The learner will be sensitized to alternatives to popular cultural production
Unit I: Concepts and Approaches
a. Mass Culture and Folk Culture
b. High Culture and Low Culture
c. Class and Cultural Production
d. Culture Industry
Unit II: Meanings and Representation
a. Encoding and Decoding
b. Structure and Meaning
c. Ideology
d. Identities and Locations
Unit III: Hegemony and Resistance
a. Nationalism
b. Corporatization
c. Feminist Critique
d. Subaltern Locations
Unit IV: Postmodernity and Globaliza tion
a. Global Cultures
b. Ethnic and the Popular
c. Hybridity and Creolization
d. Diasporic Sites
Essential Readings
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Danesi, M. (2008). Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
&
Littlefield
Gokulsing, K.M. & Dissanayake, W. (Eds.). (2009). Popular Culture in a Globalised India.
London
& New York: Routledge.
Kasbekar, A. (2006). Pop Culture India! Media, Arts and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara: ABC -
CLIO.
Srinati, D. (2004). An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture. London & New York:
Routledge.
Storey, J. (2009). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. London: Pearson &
Longman.
Uberoi, P (2009) Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family, and Popular Culture in India,
Oxford University Press
Further Readings
Berger, A.A. (2010) . The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Edensor, T. (2002). National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg.
Fiske, J. (1989). Reading the Popular. London & New York: Routledge.
Guins, R. & Zaragoza Cruz, O. (Eds.). (2005). Popular Culture: A Reader. London: Sage.
Hannerz, U. (1996). Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London & New
York:
Routledge.
McRobbie, A. (1994). Postmodernism and Popular Culture. London & New York :
Routledge.
Rege, S. (2002). Conceptualising Popular Culture: 'Lavani' and 'Powada' in Maharashtra.
Economic and Political Weekly, 37 (11), 1038 – 1047.
Storey, J. (2003). Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization. Oxford:
Blackwell
Publishing.
Weaver, J.A. (2009). Popular Culture: A Primer. New York: Peter Lang.
Wolf, N. (2013). [1991]. The Beauty Myth. London: Vintage Books.
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RURAL SOCIETY IN INDIA
[EC711] [06 Credits]
Course objectives
1. This course aims to orient students to the realities of rural India, in the
changing global context. The course aims at analyzing the rural socio -
economic development.
2. It introduces the students various development programmes and new farmer’s
movements.
3. It focuses on how global market and state recons tituting rural society and
what are the consequences of it on rural people. In the last section, the impact
of globalization and new issues and challenges in rural society of India are
discussed.
Course outcomes
1. The course will help learners to understan d the agrarian social structure and it will
give insights to understand overall changing nature of agrarian society.
2. The learner will develop critical ideas to address the issues relating to agriculture in
the context of globalization
Unit I: Introduction
a. Significance of village studies
b. Agrarian structure and Social Stratification
c. Rural Sociology in India
d. Perspectives on Village studies – Ambedkarian, Gandhian
Unit II: Rural Society: Change and Development
a. Land Reforms in India
b. Co-operatives
c. Panchayati Raj Institutions
d. Self Help Groups and Women Empowerment
Unit III: Contemporary issues and Challenges
a. Health and Education
b. Caste, Violence and Dalit Atrocities
c. Issues of Agricultural Labours and Migration
d. Peasant movements and New farmer’s Movements
Unit IV: Globalization and its impact on Agriculture
a. Farmer’s Suicide and agrarian crisis
b. Food security
c. Issue of Land acquisition and Land Rights
d. Irrigation and Water Management – Issue of disparities
Essential Readings
Brass, T. (1995). New Farmers’ Movements in India. Great Britain. Frank Cass
Desai, A.R. (2008). Rural Sociology in India (New Edition). Bombay: Popular Prakashan.
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Doshi, S.L. & Jain, P.C. (2002). Rural Sociology. Jaipur: Rawat.
Sharma, K. L. (Ed.). (2014). Sociological Probing of Rural Society . New Delhi: Sage India.
Shiva, V. & Bedi, G. (2002). Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of
Globalisation. New Delhi: Sage.
Further Readings
Arunachalam, J. & Kalpagam, U. (Eds.). (2006). Development and Empowerment – Rural
women in India. Jaipur: Rawat.
Dhanagare, D.N. (2014). The Writings of D.N. Dhanagare: The Missing Tradition: Debates
and Discourses in Indian Sociology . Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.
Desai, V. (2005). Rural Development in India. Mumbai: Himalaya Publishing House.
Deshpande, R.S. & Arora, S. (Eds.). (2010). Agrarian Crisis and Farmer Suicides. New
Delhi: Sage.
Jayapalan, (2002). Rural Sociology. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers.
Madeley, J. (2002). Food for All. The need for a new Agriculture. Bangladesh: The
Universi ty Press
Mohanty, B.B. (Ed.). (2012). Agrarian Change and Mobilisation, Studies in Indian
Sociology, Vol.2. New Delhi: Sage.
Prakash, S. Rural Development in India. New Delhi: Himalaya publishing House.
Raju, M. & Lakshmipathi. (Eds). (2007). Women Empo werment – Challenges and Strategies.
New Delhi: Regal Publications.
Rastogi, A.R. (2002). Rural Development Strategy. Jaipur: Wide Vision
Rao, Vasudev B.S.(2007). Rural Resources and Development . New Delhi: Associated
Publication.
Reddy, R. & Subrahmany am. (Eds.). (2003). Dynamics of Sustainable Rural Development .
New Delhi: Serials Publications.
Sainath, P. (2000). Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts .
New Delhi: Penguin.
Sharma, R.K. (1997). Rural Sociology. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers
Sahu, D.R. (Ed.). (2012). Sociology of Social Movements: Studies in Indian Sociology Vol.6.
New Delhi: Sage.
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Course Objectives SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
[EC712] [06 Credits]
1. Introduce to the Students to the visions of Scholarly tradi tions of Sociology of Law.
2. To make students aware how law is important for the functioning of society.ie
traditional and modern democratic
3. Help students to understand the process of making law and its implementation and the
role of sociological jurispruden ce
4. Understand and reflect on the need and role of law in modern democratic societies
such as Indian society.
Course Outcomes
1. After studying this course students shall be able to distinguish between the process of
making of law and implementing law in society.
2. Critically reflect on equal before law/ equality of law and challenges in real life in
heterogeneous society like India.
Unit I: Conceptual Understanding
a. Norms, Moors and Folkways
b. Morality and Law
c. Philosophy of law and Constitution of India
d. Sociolo gical Jurisprudence to Sociology of Law
Unit II: Law and Social Science understanding of law
a. Law and Social Solidarity -Emile Durkheim
b. Rationalisation of Law-Max Weber
c. Marxist idea of law Ideology and Power
d. Law and Justice
Unit III: Sociological Dimensio ns of Law
a. Market economy and law
b. Law and politics
c. Protective discrimination
d. Law between Governance and Discipline: Michel Foucault
Unit IV: Contemporary themes and issues
a. Positivist account of rule of law
b. Rule of law in Democratic society
c. Feminist Perspe ctive on law
d. Field visit Component - Field visit to agency which work in the field of making law or
implementing law
Essential and suggested readings
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Calavita, Kitty. 2010. Invitation to law & society: An introduction to the study of real law.
Chicago Series in Law and Society. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Constitution of India. Government of India Publication 14th Edition
Cotterrell, Roger. 1992. The sociology of law: An introduction . 2d ed. London: Butterworths.
DAVID M. TRUBEK 1972. MAX WEBER ON LAW AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM.
HeinOnline -- 1972 Wis. L. Rev. 720 1972.
Deflem, Mathieu. 2008. Sociology of law: Visions of a scholarly tradition . Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge Univ. Press.
Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labour in Society. Trans. W. D. Halls, intro. Lewis A.
Coser . New York: Free Press, 1997, pp. 39, 60, 108.
Foucault Michel. 1975. Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison. New York. Panthen
Karl Marx .2010. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. People Publishing
House (p) Ltd.
Karl Marx 2010. The Poverty of Philosophy. Peoples Publishing House (P) Ltd.
Roger Cotterrell 1979. Law, Morality, and Solidarity: The Durkheimian Tradition
Tomasic, Roman. 1985. The sociology of law. London: SAGE.
Any other relevant reading suggested by the course teacher
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SOCIOLOGY OF MEGA CITIES
[EC713] [06 Credits]
Course objectives
1. The course will provide in depth analyses of the emergence of global mega cities
2. It aims to provide comprehensive understanding of history, growth, region, urban
planning, development policies and urban governance
3. The course also addresses issues related with urban processes, economy, labour ,
work, migration, ethnicity, segregation, housing, and marginalization
4. The course will provide a global perspective in understanding mega cities in both
developing and developed countries
Course outcomes
1. The learner will get acquainted through case studies of different mega cities its
problems, and challenges
2. The course will prepare students to address the challenging issues of megacities
across globe and develop a vision for sustainable cities
3. It will help the learner to rethink of urban planning and designing better future of
mega cities.
4. A comparative understanding of mega cities and its urban governance will be
developed
.
Unit I: Introduction
a. Mega city, global cities, economy and production
b. Mega cities in the developing and developed world
c. Urban development policies and challenges (India, China, Africa, Malaysia, Korea,
and Latin America)
Unit II: Case studies from North America and South America
New York City:
Brief history, growth and expansion, neo liberalism
Green economy, migration and work
Case studies from South America
Sao Paulo :
Brief history, urban process, neoliberalism, economic transformations,
deindustrialization,
Social organizations/ civil society, power structures, and master plans.
Unit III: Case studies from Europe and Africa
Londo n:
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Brief history, and growth, region and competitiveness, internationalization,
governance,
Brexit its impact on economy, businesses, migration
Moscow:
Brief history, urban growth, economic restructuring, migration, labour market
Urban planning and gover nance
Africa
Johannesburg:
Brief history, urban economy and labour
Business transformations, government and politics, people’s participation.
Unit IV: Case studies from Asia
Tokyo:
Brief history, economy, migrant labour
Industry and labour market
Shanghai :
Brief history, economic and social transformations, Power structures
public and private sector, business corporations, foreign and overseas investment
Readings
Andy Cumbers & Danny MacKinnon (eds) 2006, Clusters in Urban and Regional
Development, Routl edge, London.
Baneerjee Guha , 2010, Accumulation by Dispossession, Transformative Cities in the New
Global Order, Sage publications, New Delhi.
China and World Economy, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences, Vol.20 . No.3, May- Jun, 2012.
Franklin Adrian ,2010, City Life, Sage Publications Ltd, London.
Fujita Kuniko(ed ) 2013, City and Crisis, New Critical Urban Theory, Sage Publications Ltd,
London,
Hall Peter, 1997, Mega cities, World cities and global cities, The First Mega Cities Lecture,
Rotterdam
Kemper Robert , Mexico City, Encyclopaedia of Urban Cultures, Volume,3, PP,184 -
197.Danbury. C.T. Grolier Publishing, Co.,2002.
Lin Jan and Mele Christopher , 2013,) The Urban Sociology Reader, second edition, Urban
Reader Series, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London.
Macionis John, Spates James, (1982), The Sociology of Cities, St. Martin press, New York.
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Masselos Jim and Patel Sujata, (2005) Bombay and Mumbai, The City in Transition (edited)
Oxford University Press.
Parkinson Michael and Boddy Martin 2004, City Matters, Competitiveness, cohesion and
urban governance, The Policy Press, UK.
Research Study by FIG Commission 3, Rapid Urbanization and Mega Cities:
The Need for Spatial Information Management, the International Federation of Surveyors (fig),
Denmark 2010.
Sandhu. S. Ranvinder and Sandhu Jasmeet, (2007) Globalizing Cities, Inequality and
Segregation in Developing Countries., (edited), Rawat Publications, Jaipur
Sharma R.N., Sandhu R.S.,2013, Small Cities and Towns in Global Era, Emerging Changes
and Perspectives, Rawat Publications, Jaipur
Sebegers Klaus, (2007) The Making of Global City Regions, The John Hopkins University
Press.
Saskia Sassen (2005), Global City: Introducing A Concept, Brown Journal of World Affairs,
winter/Spring 2005 • Volume Xi, Issue 2.
Stevenson Deborah (2009), Cities and Urban Cultures, Rawat Publication, Jaipur
Vladimir Kolossov and John O’Loughlin, (2004) How Moscow is becoming a capitalist
mega -city, ISSJ UNESCO. Blackw ell Publishing Ltd, USA .
Links
https:/ /www .london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/br exit-analysis -final.pdf
Kuniko Fujita , Neo-industrial Tokyo: Urban Development and Globalisation in Japan's State -
centred Developmental Capitalism ,2003 ,https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980220080271
Kuniko Fujita , Richard Child Hill,Industrial Districts and Economic Development in Japan:
The Case of Tokyo and Osaka , https://doi.org/10.1177/089124249801200206
https://wol.iza.org/articles/the -labor -market -in-japan/long
https://www.sangyo -rodo.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/toukei/tota l-2017en.pdf
https://www.expat.com/en/guide/asia/japan/tokyo/19834 -the-labour -market -in-tokyo.html
https://www.ilo.org/tokyo/information/labour -policies -in-japan/lang --en/index.htm
https://wol.iza.org/articles/the -labor -market -in-japan
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SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION
[EC714] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. The a im of this course is to familiarise the students about the Socio economic and
demographic aspects of migration.
2. The course focus on an evaluation of the Various Theoretical Perspective of
Migration.
3. The course also deals with issues as well as the Pattern, Determinants and
Consequences of National and International Migration.
4. The course focused on the issues of migration such as labour migration, brain drain,
refugee migration and Illegal migration.
Course Outcomes
1. Students will be familiarised with the concept of Migration and Global Demographic
perspective of migration.
2. On completion of this course students are expected to have expertise over
the scientific definitions of migration, its patterns, trends, causes and consequences.
3. Students are also expecte d to learn about the data sources and their constraints and
the techniques to analyse migration phenomenon.
4. It would help students to understand the trends of Migration at national and Inter -
national level.
Unit: I Introduction
a. Concept of Migration
b. Demog raphic Perspective on Migration
c. Types of Migration, Streams of Migration
d. Causes of Migration
Unit: II Theories of Migration
a. Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
b. Everett Lee’s Theory of Migration
c. Lewis -Fei-Ranis Model of Development / Mobility Field Theory
d. Todar o’s Model of Rural -Urban Migration
Unit: III Pattern, Determinants and Consequences of Migration
a. Internal Migration: Internal migration patterns and characteristics in developing
countries with a special focus on India
b. Determinants of internal migration: Causes of migration at the place of origin and at
the place of destination
c. Consequences of internal migration: demographic, economic, social and political
consequences at the individual, household and community level
d. Patterns of international migration: Historical and recent trends
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Unit: IV Issues of Migration
a. Causes and consequences of international migration
b. Permanent immigrants
c. Indian Diaspora and people of Indian origin
d. labour migration: brain drain, refugee migration and Illegal migration
Essential Readings
Bhagat R.B, Roy Archana, Sahoo Harihar (ed.) (2020), Migration and Urban Transition in
India: A Development Perspective , Routledge India.
Brinley Thomas (1972): Migration and Urban Development, London, Methuen and Co. Ltd,.
Cohen, Robin (1996): Theories of Migration, the International Library of Studies on
Migration, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
Eduardo Arriaga, (1975): Selected Measures of Urbanization, in Sydney Goldstein and
David Sly (Eds.) Measures of Urbanization and Projections of Urban Popula tion, Belgium,
IUSSP .
Inglis Christine,Li, Wei, Khadria Binod (2019): The SAGE Handbook of International
Migration, SAGE Publication.
Kingsley, Davis, (1972): World Urbanization, 1950 -70, Vol. II, Analysis of Trends,
Relationship and Development, Popula tion Monograph Series 4 and 9, Berkeley, University
of California.
Khadria Binod (1999): The migration of knowledge workers: second -generation effects of
India's brain drain, New Delhi, Sage Publication.
Mishra Omprakash (ed.): (2004), Forced Migration , Delhi, Manak Publication.
Mishra Deepak (ed.): (2016), Internal Migration in Contemporary India , Sage Publications
Pvt. Ltd.
Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, (1993): The Age of Migration , New York,
The Gulford Press.
United Nations, (1974): Methods o f Measuring Internal Migration, Manual VI, UN,. New
York.
Further Readings
Oberai, A.S. (1987): Migration, Urbanization and Development, Geneva, International
Labour Office.
Gavin Jones and Visaria, Pravin, (Eds.), (1997): Urbanization in large developi ng countries –
China, Indonesia, Brazil and India, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
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Mitra R. G., (2002): Understanding Patterns of Migration from Census 2001 Data , Cuttack,
Population Stabilization and Development, Council of Cultural Growth and Cultural
Relation s.
Shryock, Henry S. Jacob S. Siegel and Associate, (1980): The Methods and Materials of
Demography Vol.1 U.S., Washington D.C., Bureau of the Census.
Todaro, Michael P. (1976): Internal Migration in Developing Countries , Geneva,
International Labour Office.
United Nations, (1979): Trends and Characteristics of International Migration since 1950,
Demographic Studies No. 64, UN, New York.
United Nations, (1983): Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends , Vol 1, UN,
New York, Chapter -VI.
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SOCIOL OGY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
[EC715] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. Introducing students to the field of public health
2. Familiarization with the contemporary healthcare models and the debates
surrounding them
3. Introduction to epidemiology, social medicine, telemed icine and telehealth
4. Understanding of health care schemes and their role in socio -cultural development
Course Outcomes
1. Insight into the dynamics of globalization and how they impact the scenario of public
health
2. Evaluation of the various models in healt hcare, particularly Public Private
Partnership (PPP)
3. Assessment of the various policies that seek to bridge the divide between healthcare
facilities in rural and urban areas
4. Intersectional awareness of the impact of public health crisis on persons and
comm unities
Unit I: Public Health: An Introduction
a. Sociology in Public Health - Nature and Scope
b. Public Health System and Health Development
c. Epidemiology and Public Health
d. Preventive and Social Medicine
Unit II: Social Basis of Public Health
a. Social Determina nts of Public Health
b. Role of Charisma, Values and Religion in Public Health
c. Health Scenario in India
d. Healthcare Schemes and Social Development
Unit III: Globalization and Public Health
a. Relationship between Globalization and Health.
b. Positive and Negative Impacts of Globalization on Health
c. The Impacts of Pandemic in Globalization.
d. Globalisation, Sanitation and Health
Unit IV: Innovative Technologies and Public health
a. Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Public Health with
special reference to Telemedicine Project.
b. Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Deployment of Innovative Technologies in
bridging the gap of Rural Urban health Divide.
c. Social Distancing, Technologies and Business.
d. Telemedicine - Ethical and Legal Aspects
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Readings
Qadeer Imrana, Sen Kasturi, Nayar K R, (2001) “Public Health and Poverty Reforms - South
Asian Predicament”, Sage Publications., New Delhi.
Thamilrasan, M (2016). Medical Sociology, Rawat Publications, Jaipur
Marie Barry, Anne (2016). Understanding the Sociology of Health, Sage Publications, India.
Weiss, L. Gregory, Denise Copelton. (2020). The Sociology of Health, Healing and Illness,
Routledge, UK.
Warrier Sujata. (2015). Information and Communication Technologies in Public Health, A
Sociological Study. CBS Publishers, New Delhi.
Kawachi Ichiro, Wamala Sarah (2007). Globalization and Health, Oxford University Press,
New York
William A Oleckno. (2019). Epidemiology: Concepts and Methods. CBS Publications, New
Delhi.
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SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
[EC716] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. Introduction to the application of sociological lens to the domain of religion
2. Examination of sociological theories of religion
3. Sociological analysis of religion in the contemporary world
4. Introducing changing forms of religiosit y
Course Outcomes
1. Grasp of the distinct sociological approach to the study of religion
2. Assessment of the major debates about religions in the contemporary world
3. Critical approach to faith and its myriad expressions in the world today
4. Deeper awareness of the issues and debates that surround the domain of religion in
South Asia
Unit I: Origins
a. Religion and the sociological imagination \
b. Marx, Durkheim, Weber
c. Simmel, Freud, William James
d. Magic, Witchcraft, Religion: Tylor, Malinowski & Evans -Pritchard
Unit II: Debates
a. Geertz - Asad debate
b. Secularization, desecularization, secularism
c. Science and religion
d. Hegemony and emancipation
Unit III: Religion in South Asia
a. Sect and cults: dera, panth , sampraday , guru -parampara
b. Rituals, ceremonies and pilgrimages
c. Syncretism, Hybridization & Religious conversions
d. Fundamentalism and communalism
Unit IV: Intersections and Innovations
a. Caste, tribe, gender and sexuality
b. Religion in late modernity, New religious movements
c. Neoliberalism, state and religion
d. Religion and the virtual
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Asad, T. (1993). Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity
and Islam . The Johns Hopkins University Press
Asad, T. (2003). Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford
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Barbalet, J., Possamai, A., & Turner, B.S. (Eds.). (2011). Religion and the State: A
Comparative Sociology . Anthem Press
Brass, P.R. (2011). The Production of Hindu -Muslim Violence in Contemporary India .
University of Washington Press
Cipriani, R. (200 0). Sociology of Religion: A Historical Introduction . Transaction Publishers
Copeman, J. & Ikegame, A. (Eds.). (2014). The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary
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Copland, I. et. al. (2012). A History of State and Religion in India. Routledge
Dube, S. (1998). Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity and Power among a Central Indian
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Dube, S. (2010). After Conversion: Cultural Histories of Modern India . Yoda Press
Durkheim, E. (1995). Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. London: Free Press.
Eller, J.D. (2006). Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate . Routledge
Feldhaus, A. (2003). Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage and Geographical Imagination
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Furseth, I. & Repstad, P. (2006). An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion: Classical and
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Geertz, C. (2017). The Interpretation of Cultures (3rd Ed.) . Basic Books
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Madan, T.N. (2011). Sociological Traditions: Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of
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Madan, T.N. (Ed.). (2011). India’s Religions: Perspectives from Sociology and History. New
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Martikeinen, T. & Gauthier, F. (Eds.). (2013). Religion in the Neoliberal Age: Political
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McKinnon, A. & Trzebiatowska, M. (Eds.). (2014). Sociological Theory and the Question of
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Morton, K. & Weisgrau, M. (1999). Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in
Anthropology of Religion . Westview Press
Nussbaum, M.C. (2012). The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in
an Anxious Age. Harvard University Press
Nyhagen, L. & Halsaa, B. (Eds.). (2016). Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women o f Faith,
Gender Equality and Feminism . Palgrave Macmillan
Proctor, JD. (Ed.). (005). Science, Religion and the Human Experience . Oxford University
Press
Raines, J.C. (Ed.). (2002). Marx on Religion . Temple University Press
Stein, R. & Stein, P.L. (2017) . The Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft (4th
Ed.). Routledge
Robinson, R. (2004). Sociology of Religion in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Robinson, R. (2005). Tremours of Violence: Muslim Survivors of Ethnic Strife in Western
India. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Robinson, R. (2012). Minority Studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Tremlett, P -F., Sutherland, L.T. & Harvey, G. (Eds.). (2017). Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion
and Culture . Bloomsbury
Turner, E. (2012). Communita s: The Anthropology of Collective Joy. Palgrave Macmillan
Turner, V., Abrahams, R.D. & Harris, A. (1995). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti -
structure . Routledge
Wagner, R. (2012). Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality . Routledge.
Weber, M. (1993). The Sociology of Religion (2nd Ed.). Beacon Press
Weber, M. (2000). Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism . Munshiram
Manoharlal
Weber, M. (2001). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . (New Edition).
Routledge
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SOC IOLOGY OF TRIBES
[EC717] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. This course attempts to discuss the concept and identity crises of tribe, the impact of
globalization on tribal economy, and the displacement and alienation resulting from
development projects.
2. The course also deals with the tribal struggles taking place across the country on
issues related to livelihood, human rights, and identity.
3. The course focusses on an evaluation of the welfare programmes undertaken by the
government since independence.
4. The course focusses on the role of NGOs and Government policy in improving the
quality of life of the tribals.
Course Outcomes
1. Students will familiarize themselves with the situation of tribals in India.
2. Students will understand the issues and problems of tribal communities.
3. Students will be sensitized towards the issues of human rights of tribal communities
4. Students will assess the programmes and policies made by government and role of the
state towards the welfare of tribal communities.
Unit I: Introduction
a. Definitions and Distinctive features of Tribe
b. Cultural diversity and Tribal Community
c. Tribal communities in India: Demographic strength
d. Construction of tribal identity
Unit II: Economy and Tribes
a. Nature and Type of Tribal Economy
b. Transformation of Tribal economy in Colonial contexts
c. Globalization and its Impact on Tribal Economy
d. Issues of Health and Education
Unit III: Unrest and socio -political cultural movements
a. Self-determination and Statehood
b. Agrarian and forest -based Movements
c. Transformation of Tribe - Caste
d. Context of Cultural Identity based on script and language
Unit IV: Evaluation of Tribal Development policy and Impact
a. Development Polices: (Isolation, Assimilation and Integration) and their impact on
tribal Communities
b. Tribal welfare Policies of the State: Social Welfare approach, constitution provision,
Programmes Initiated by the State, Five-year plan and Panchashila
c. Reservation for scheduled Tribes (PEASA Act 1966)
d. Role of NGO
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Essential Readings
Bose, A, Nangbri, T. & Kumar, N. (eds.)., (1990). Tribal Demography and Development in
North -East India, Delhi.
Chaudhary. S. N. (Ed.) (2010) “Tribal Economy at Crossroads ”, New Delhi, Rawat
publication.
Furer - Haimendorf, C.V, (1991). Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival, OUP, Delhi.
Mehta, P.L, (1991). Constitutional Protection to Scheduled Tribes in India in Retrospect and
Prospect, H.K, Delhi.
Nandini Sundar, (edit), (2009). Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in
Jharkhand, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
Readings: Antiquity to modernity in Tribal India (1998), Edited Volumes I -IV, Tribal
Studies of India Series, New Delhi, Inter India Publications.
Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, (1999). New Moral Economy for India's Forests? --
Discourses of Community and Participat ion, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
Singh, K. S. (Ed.) (2006) “Tribal Movements in India ”, Volumes I-II New Delhi, Manohar
Publication.
Vidyarthi. L. P. and Rai. B. K. (1976) “The Tribal Culture of India ”, New Delhi, Concept
Publishing Company.
Xaxa, V, (2008) “State, Society and Tribes: Issues in post- colonial India ”, New Delhi.
Pearson Education.
Further Readings:
Dasgupta, A., (Ed.) (2012), “On the Margins: Tribes, Castes and Other Social categories,
Studies in Indian Sociology ,” Volume IV, New Delh i, Sage Publication.
Gupta R., (2007), “ Tribal Contemporary Issues Appraisal and Intervention ”, New Delhi,
Concept Publishing Company.
Hooja, M., (2004) “Policies and Strategies for Tribal Development ”, New Delhi, Rawat
Publications.
Hebbar, Ritambhara. (2014). Reflections on Marginalization of Tribes in South India S.
Yojana.
Hebbar Ritambhara. (2006), Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of Jharkhand.
Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 41, no. 48, 2006, pp. 4952 –4955.
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Misra. R. N. (2006) “Tribal Development Post Globalization, Discovery ”, New Delhi,
Publishing house.
Nathan, D. & Xaxa, V. (2012), “ Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion ”, New Delhi,
Oxford University Press.
Pfefer, G., and Behera, D., (ed.) (2009) Contemporary Society Tribal stud ies”, Edited
Volumes One- Eight, New Delhi, Concept Publishing Company.
Rao, S. and Reddi, M., (2007) “Tribal Development: Issues and Perspective ”, Delhi, The
Associated Publishers.
Sah D. C. and Sisodia, Y., (Eds.) (2004) “ Tribal Issues in India ”, Madhy a Pradesh Institute
of Social science Research, Ujjain, Rawat Publications.
Singh, B. N, Chatterjee, M., (Ed.), ((2005) “Tribes in India ”, Vol. II, Jaipur, Rbsa
Publishers.
Singh K. S., (1997) “The Scheduled Tribe ”, Delhi, OU Press.
Marathi Readings:
Tegmpure Maroti, Adivasi Vikas Ani Vastav, Chanmay Prakashan, Aurangbad.
Gare Govind, Maharashtratil Adivasi Jamati, Continental Publication, Pune.
Gare Govind, Adivasi Vikasache Shilpakar, Shree Vidhya Prakashan, Pune.
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VISUAL CULTURES IN CONTEMPORARY INDI A
[EC718] [06 Credits]
Course Objectives
1. The course aims at introducing students to the area of visual sociology and
anthropology.
2. To introduce the student to the use of the visual as a tool of qualitative research in the
social sciences.
3. To read, interp ret and contextualise modern visual cultures of societies, nations,
communities and groups.
4. To examine visuality, visual cultures and visual artefacts in the everyday worlds and
in structured worlds
Course Outcomes
1. The learner will understand the visual aspect of cultures and societies, particularly
in modern urban settings
2. The learner will realize the social, cultural, political, economic context in which
visuals are produced
3. The learner will learn to ‘read’ visual texts critically and analytically from
standpoints of marginality
4. The learner will, through exercises and assignments, undertake actual readings of
different forms of the visual.
Unit I: Conceptual framework
a. What is the visual? Why study the visual?
b. The visual as a research tool
c. Visual anthropolo gy
d. Visual analysis
Unit II: Theoretical frames
a. Peter Berger’s Ways of Seeing
b. Walter Benjamin’s Culture Industry
c. Visual flows and scapes
d. Phenomenology of everyday visual worlds
Unit III: Indian context
a. Visuals of the Indian Renaissance
b. Politics of visual production
c. Visual and nationalism
d. Hybridities of the visual
Unit IV: Forms of the visual
a. Static Visuals [Frescoes /Painting/ Illustrated Texts/ Hoardings /
Graffiti/Landscaping/Photographs/ Memes]
b. Moving Visuals [Cinema /Television/ Advertisements/ Video
c. Installed Visuals [Weddings /Spectacles /Political Meetings, Sports Events]
d. Performative Visuals [Theatre, Dance, Festivals, Body Art, Protests]
Essential Readings
Adorno, T.W. (2001). The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. New York:
Routled ge.
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Appadurai, A (1996) Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of
Globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Banks, M. & Ruby, J. (2011). Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual
Anthropology.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Banks, M. & Morphy, H. (1997). Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale: Yale University
Press.
Barthes, R. (1981). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Paris: Farrar, Strauss and
Giroux.
Benjamin, W.(1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and
Other Writings on Media , Harvard University Press
Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.
Devereaux, L. & Hillman, R. (Eds.). (1995) Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual
Anthropology and Photography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Hockings, P. (1975). Principles of Visual Anthropology. The Hague: Mouton.
Pink, S. (2006). The Future of Visual Anthropology. Oxon: Routledge.
Ramaswamy, S. (2003). Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern
India .
New Delhi: Sage.
Van Leeuwen, T. & Jewitt, C. (2001). The Handbook of Visual Analysis. New Delhi: Sage.
Further Readings
Collier, J. (1987). Visual Anthropology’s Contribution to the Field of Anthropology. Visual
Anthropology, 1 (1), 1987.
Edwards, E. (1987). Photographic “Types”. The Pursuit of Method, Vol. 1 (1), 1987.
Harper, D. (1987). The Visual Ethnographic Narrative. Visual Anthropology, 1 (1), 1987.
Pink, S. (2003). Interdisciplinary Agendas in Visual Research. Resituating Visual
Anthropolog y, 1
(2), 2003.
Uberoi, P. (1990). Feminine Identity and National Ethos in Indian Calendar Art. The
Economic and Political Weekly, XXV (17), April 28, 1990.
Worth, S. (2013). Margaret Mead and the Shift from “Visual Anthropology” to the
“Anthropology of Visual Communication. Studies in Visual Communication , 6, 15–22.
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M.A Honours/Regular SOCIOLOGY Part -II. SEM -IV
Ability Enhancement course [AEC]:
1) AEC: 801-Qualitative Research
2) AEC: 802-Quantitative Research
3) AEC: 803-Writing Academically
Interdisciplinary Course [IC]
1) IC: 804-Debating the Commons
2) IC: 805-Diaspora Studies
3) IC: 806 - Ethnography
4) IC: 807-Human Rights in India
5) IC: 808-The Making of Mumbai
6) IC: 809- Popular Culture
7) IC: 810- Science, Knowledge & Modernity
8) IC: 811- Sociolo gy of Social Movements
Project Based Courses [PRO I & II]
(List of Broad themes of Projects)
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SEMESTER IV
ABILITY ENHANCEMENT COURSE [AEC]
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
AEC: 801 [Credits: 06]
Course objectives
1. The course aims to provide students an in depth understanding of various aspects of
research process in social sciences.
2. The course aims at equipping the students with a nuanced understanding of qualitative
research in the social sciences
3. The course aims to familiarise students with the debates on the processes of knowledge
production.
Course outcome
1. The students will be equipped with knowledge of the various methods in qualitative
research
2. The students will be trained to undertake qualitative research.
3. The students will be equipped to critical analyse diff erent qualitative methods through
reviews of published works.
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Qualitative Research and the Knowledge Question
e. Philosophical Foundation –Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology
f. What is Qualitative Research?
g. Importance of Qualitative Research
h. Ethics in Qualitative Research
Unit 2: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
a. Hermeneutics
b. Reflexivity
c. Stand Point
d. Narrative Analysis
Unit 3: Qualitative Research Techniques
a. Participatory Observations
b. Interviews
c. Case Studies
d. Ethnography
Unit 4: Methods in Qualitative Research
a. Action Research
b. Visual Methods
c. Life Histories
d. Oral Histories/ Testimonio
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Essential Readings
Atkinson, P. & Delmont, S. (Eds.). (2011). Sage Qualitative Research Methods Vol. 1 – 4.
New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Bernard, H. R. & Gravlee, C.C. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of Methods in Cultural
Anthropology . London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Marvasti, A.B. (2004). Qualitative Research in Sociology: An Introduction . New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
Robben, C.G.M & Sluka, J.A. (Eds.).(20 07). Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological
Reader . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Seale, C. et al. (Eds.). (2004). Qualitative Research Practice . New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Silverman, D. (Ed.). (2012). Qualitative Research: Theory, Method, Pract ice. New Delhi:
Sage Publications.
Further Readings
Amit, V. (Ed.). (2000). Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary
World . London & New York: Routledge.
Boden, D & Zimmerman, D.H. (Eds.). (1991). Talk and Social Structure: Stu dies in
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis . Berkeley: University of California Press.
Emmison, M. & Smith, P. (2007). Researching the Visual: Images, Objects, Contexts and
Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry . New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Francis, D. & Hester, S. (2004). An Invitation to Ethnomethodology: Language, Society and
Social Interaction . New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Garfinkel, H. (1967). Studies in Ethnomethodology . New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Hegde, D.S. (Ed.). (2015). Essays in Research Methodology . New Delhi: Springer.
Malik, A. (2005). Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath: An Analysis and Translation of the
Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan . New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Ragin, C.S. & Becker, H. (Eds.). (1992). What is a Case: Exploring the Foundations of
Social Inquiry . Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
Sidnell, J. (2010). Conversation Analysis: An Introduction . Malden, CA: Wiley -Blackwell.
Speer, S. (2005). Gender Talk: Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analys is. London &
New York: Routledge.
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
AEC: 802 [Credits: 06]
Course Objective:
1. To understand the importance of quantitative research methods.
2. To understand the application of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) in
social research.
3. To create awareness and statistical literacy among social science students.
4. To understand the application of statistical methods in social sciences for finding the
answer to research question.
Course Outcome:
1. The student will be equipped to use quan titative research methods techniques
2. The student will have an understanding of the use of statistical packages in social
science research
3. The student will be equipped to apply statistical packages to their research questions
Course Outline:
Unit.1: Philoso phical Foundations of Social Research
a. Ontology and Epistemology
b. Mata Theory and Methodology
c. Sociometry
Unit. II: Quantitative Research
a. Positivism and Survey Research
b. Identification of problem, forming objective or research questions
c. Data collection methods : Questionnaire: Close ended , open ended
d. Understanding Types of scale of measurement: Interval scale, ordinal scale and
nominal scale.
e. testing of interview schedule
Unit.III: Application of SPSS in Social Sciences
a. Getting to know SPSS
b. Preparation of code book : questionnaire coding
c. Screening and cleaning data
d. Choosing appropriate statistical test for appropriate research question.
Unit.IV: Data Analysis Using SPSS software
a. Descriptive Statistics: frequencies, Measure of central tendency, measure of
Disper sion, outliers
b. Cross tabulation: Chi-square test, correlation, measure of strength of association.
c. Simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, logistic regression (
understanding concept only)
d. Exploring difference between group: independent sampl e t test, paired sample t test
and one way analysis of variance ( understanding concept only)
e. Factor Analysis.
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Essential Readings
Giddens Anthony. 2019 (Reprint). New Rules of Sociological Methods. Rawat Publications.
Stinchcombe Arthur L., 2019. The Logic of Social Research, Rawat Publications.
Kothari. C.R.. 2004. Research Methodology: Methods and Technique.
Bryant .Christopher G.A. 1985. Positivism in Social Theory and Research. MACMILLAN
Publications.
Giddens, A 1979. Positivism and Sociology. Portsmouth. NH Heinemann.
Graham R. Walden 2002, Survey Research Methodology, 1990 -1999: Annoted Bibliography.
Greenwood Publication group.
Judge Paramjit S. 2019. Writing Social Sciences: A Personal Narrative. Rawat Publications
Greasley. Pete 2008: Quanti tative data Analysis Using SPSS: An Introduction for Healthy
and Social Sciences. Open University Press.
Ronald L.Meek1972. Figuring out society: An introduction to the use of quantitative methods
in the social sciences Paperback. Fontana
Keith McCormick , Jesus Salcedo.2017. SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and
Visualization. 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
Schutt. Russel K 2016.Understanding the Social World. Research Methods for 21st Century.
Sage Publications.
Any other relevant reading suggested by teacher
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WRITING ACADEMICALLY
AEC: 803 [Credits: 06]
Course Objectives
1. To inculcate and develop a respect and a joy for academic reading and writing
2. To enable the students to explore nuances of reading academically and writing
academically.
3. To equip the students with the skills needed for academic reading and writing.
4. To equip the student to understand the relationship between academic and non-
academic forms of reading and writing
Course Outcomes
1. The students will be able to recognize and appreciate the nee d for academic language
and will be able to see the role of theory and research in academic reading and
writing
2. The students will be able to see the relationship between academics and other genres
of reading and writing like journalism, diaries, fiction, and blogs to name a few.
3. Students who aim to make careers in academics or elsewhere will benefit in the goal
of taking an academic understanding of the world in whatever they do.
4. Through exercises aimed at application, the course will work alongside the two
projects the students undertake in this semester
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Academic Writing
a. What is academic writing
b. Politics of academic writing
c. The problem of jargon
d. Pleasures of academic writing
Unit 2: Reading in the Social Sciences
a. How to read acade mically
b.Where is the theory
c. Finding the substantiation
d. Locating the reader/ writer
Unit 3: Exploring Genres
a. Journalism
b. Diary/ Journal writing
c. Fiction
d. Academic Blogging
Unit 4: Exercises in practice
a. Writing an academic article
b. Exploring the sociol ogical short story
c. Writing academic poetry
d. The research journal
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Essential Readings
Baumann, J.F. and Graves, M.F. (2010). What Is Academic Vocabulary?, Journal of
Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 4-12.
Coakley, E.G. (1989). Writing Featur e Stories, The Reading Teacher, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp.
270-271.
Eubanks, P. and Schaeffer, J.D. (2008). A Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic
Writing, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 372-388.
Goodman, K. (1989). Journa lism and Philosophy , Proceedings and Addresses of the
American Philosophical Association, Vol. 63, No.1, pp. 35-40.
Greyser, N., Mukhopadhyay, S. and Beetham, G. (2012). Gender Nerds at Heart: An
Interview on Bridging the Blogging/Academic Divide withFemi nisting.com, American
Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 837-839.
Jay, T. and Brooks, P. (2004). Self-Censorship in Course Diaries, College Teaching, Vol. 52,
No. 3, pp. 82-86.
Lackey, C. (1994). Social Science Fiction: Writing Sociological Short Stories to Learn about
Social Issues, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 166-173.
Lambert, M. (1965). Making Journalism Respectable, College Composition and
Communication, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 37-40.
Murray, R. (2013). Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips, The Guardian (Higher
Education Supplement), 6th September.
Murray, R. (2013). 'It's not a hobby': reconceptualizing the place of writing in academic
work, Higher Education, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 79-91.
Pinker, S. (2014). Why Academics Stink at Writing, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Van Dijck, J. (2006). Writing the Self: Of Diaries and Weblogs , in Sign Here!: Handwriting
in the Age of New Media, Neef, S. , van Dijck, J. and Ketelaar, E. (eds.) , Amsterdam
University Press, Amsterdam.
Further Reading
Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing for International Students of Business . London & New
York: Routledge.
Clark, M.D. et al (Eds.). Creative Writing in the Digital Age: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy.
London: Bloomsbury.
Ekegren, P. (2012). The Reading of Theoreti cal Texts: A Critique of Criticism in the Social
Sciences . London & New York: Routledge.
Hayot, E. ((2014). The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities . New York:
Colombia University Press.
Sword, H. (2012). Stylish Academic Writing . Cambri dge, MS: Harvard University Press.
Vallis, G.L. (2010). Reason to Write: Applying Critical Thinking to Academic Writing .
Charlotte, NC: Cona Publishing and Media Group
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INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES [IC]
DEBATING THE COMMONS
IC: 804 [Credits: 06]
Course Objc tives:
1. To develop an understanding of the idea of the shared commons
2. To recognize the nature of the commons and commoning practices
3. To critically examine the concept of the commons from multiple marginal locations
4. To analyse the role of the state and the market in the enclosure of the commons
Course Outcomes:
1. The students will be able to locate the debates on the commons in the social science
literature and in social praxis.
2. The students will be able to develop a familiarity with critical readings in the social
sciences
3. The students will be able to understand the concerns of marginal communities in
terms of inclusion and social justice
4. The students will be able to analyze the commons and commoning practices from both
a conceptual and empirical perspective
Course Outline:
Unit I: Introduction
a. Concept of the Commons
b. Commons, Enclosure & Emergence of Capitalism
c. Theorizing the Commons
d. Feminist Political Ecologies of the Commons
Unit II: The Rural Commons
a. New Enclosures
b. Ecological Commons: Land, Water
c. Commons, Communities and Collective Practices
d. Case Study
Unit III: The Urban Commons
a. Urban Commons & the Right to the City
b. Urban Ecological Commons (air, waterbodies, wetlands, landfills)
c. Urban Civic Commons (streets & sidewalks, public spaces, public transit)
d. Communities & Collective Action
Unit IV: The Cultural & Intellectual Commons
a. Knowledge Commons Online – Digital/Internet Commons
b. The University as Constructed Knowledge Commons
c. Cultural Commons
d. Politics of the Commons
Essential Readings:
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Bakker. K. (2007) The ‘commons’ versus the ‘commodity’: alter -globalization, anti -
privatization, and the human right to water in the global South. Antipode 39(3): 430-455
Banerjee , T. 2001. The Future of Public Spaces -Beyond Invented Streets & Reinvented
Places, Journal of the American Planning Association. Winter, Vol. 67, No. 1.
Baviskar, A. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi. Sage & Yoda
Press. USA.
Clement, F., W. Harcourt, D. Joshi & E. Sato. (2019). Feminist Political Ecologies of the
Comm ons & Commoning, International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 13, no 1 2019, pp. 1 –
15
Federici, S. (2019), Re -Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
Oakland: PM press.
Ghate, R., Jodha, N. and P. Mukhopadhyay (Eds). 2008. Promise, Trust and Evolution,
Managing the Commons in South Asia. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Hardin. G. (1968) The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162(3859): 1243 -1248.
Harvey. D. 2011. The Future of the Commons, Radical History Review, Issue 109 (Winter)
Goldman. M. (1997) ‘Customs in common’: the epistemic world of the commons scholars.
Theory and Society 26(1): 1-37.
Jodha. N.S., Naveen P Singh, Cynthia S Bantilan, 2012. The Commons, Communities and
Climate Change, Economic & Political Weekly, March 31, vol xlvii no 13
Linebaugh, P (2009): The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
(Berkeley: University of California Press)
Madison, M.J., B. Frischmann, K. Strandburg. 2009. The University as Constructed Cultural
Commons, in Journal of Law & Policy, Vol. 30:365.
Manfredini, M. 2019. Urban Commons and the Right to the City, Editorial , in The Journal of
Public Space, 2019 | Vol. 4 n. 4. https://www.journalpublicspace.org .
Ostrom. E. (1990 ) Reflections on the Commons. In: Governing the Commons: The evolution
of institutions for collective action . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-28.
Polanyi, Karl (1944): The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of
Our Time (Boston: Beacon Press)
Sundberg, J., 2016. Feminist political ecology. International Encyclopedia of Geography:
People, the Earth, Environment and Technology: People, the Earth, Environment and
Technology , pp.1-12.
Walljasper, Jay (2010): All That We Share : How to Save the Economy, the Environment, the
Internet, Democracy, Our Communities and Everything Else That Belongs to All of Us (New
York: The New Press)
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Further Readings:
Bollier, D. and Helfrich, S. (2015) Patterns of Commoning , Mass: The Commons Strategy
Group / Off the Commons Books.
Brara. R. 2006. Shifting landscapes: the making and remaking of village commons in India.
Oxford University Press. New Delhi.
Chakravarty -Kaul, M. 1996. Common Lands and Customary Law. Institutional Change in
North India over the past two centuries. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
De Angelis, M (2007): The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital
(London:Pluto Press)
Gidwani V. and Amita Baviskar (2011) Urban commons. Economic and Political Weekly
156(50): 42-43.
Foster, Sheila R. (2013): Collective Action and the Urban Commons. Notre Dam e Law
Review
87(1), pp. 57 –133.
Hardin. G. (1994) The tragedy of the unmanaged commons. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
9(5): 199.
Hardt. M. and Antonio Negri, 2008. Commonwealth. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press.
Neeson, J M (1993 ): Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure, and Social Change in England,
1700 -1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Parthasarathy. D. (2011) Hunters, gatherers and foragers in a metropolis: commonising the
private and public in Mumbai." Economic and Political Weekly 156(50): 54-63.
Reid, H. and Betsy Taylor (2010): Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global
Justice (Urbana: University of Illinois Press)
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DIASPORA STUDIES
IC:805 [Credits: 06]
Course Objectives :
1. This course introduces students to concepts and areas of research in the
interdisciplinary field of Diaspora Studies.
2. It situates contemporary diasporas at the interface of globalization,
transnational mobilities and trans local relationships.
3. The course aims to highlight the specific methodological and theoretical
contributions of anthropology to the field.
4. It describes different forms of migration and formation of diasporas and
addresses the politics of identity and belonging.
5. It analyses transnational dimensions of development, philanthropy and
religious movements in the context of diaspora – homeland relations.
Course Outcomes:
1. 1.The student will be sensitised to the nuances of transnational mobilities and trans
local relationships in diaspora studies
2. The student will be able to undertake a theoretical analysis of research in diaspora
studies
3. The student will be able to analyse Case studies of different ‘types’ of diasporas
Course Outline:
Unit I: Introduction to Diaspora Studies
a. Contemporary significance of Diasporas
b. Historical backdrop: Exile, slave, indentured labour, imperial, trade and other
diasporas
c. Development of Diaspora Studies as an interdisciplinary field
d. Current debates on the term and concept of diaspora
Unit II: Diasporas, Transnationalism and Trans localism
a. Trans local relations in the premodern world (Mediterranean/Indian Ocean
worlds)
b. The fluidity of diaspora in globalization (hybridity, multiculturalism, virtual
diasporas)
c. Transnationalism and its contemporary dimensions (business/philanthropy/
development/socia l movements)
d. Nationalism in a transnational world
Unit III: Case Studies
e. Forced Displacement and Exile (Jewish/ Palestinian/Sri Lankan Tamil/Black
Atlantic/Rohingya migration)
f. Indentured Labour (Indian labour in Africa/Caribbean/South East Asia)
g. 20th century migration to North America (from Asia/ Europe/ Latin America/ Africa)
h. Oil boom and Migration to the Gulf (from South/ South east Asia)
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Unit IV Overview of Indian Diaspora
a. Demographic profile of Indian diasporas and diasporas within India
b. Political and economic significance and evolution of Indian government policy
c. Issues of Identity (homeland vs. host land, internal heterogeneities, Gender)
d. Diasporic Art, Literature and Cinema
Essential Readings
Cohen, R. (2008). Global Diasporas: An Introduction . London: Routledge.
Government of India (2001). Report of the High -Level Committee on the Indian Diaspora .
New Delhi: Indian Council of World Affairs.
Lal, Brij V. (Ed.). (2006). The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora . Singapore: Editions
Didier Millet.
Vertovec, S. (1997). Three meanings of diaspora exemplified among South Asian religions.
Diaspora , 6, 277-299.
Werbner, P. (2000). Introduction: The Materiality of Diaspora – Between Aesthetic and
‘Real’ Politics. Diaspora , 9 (1), 307-24.
Further Readings
Appadurai, A. (1997). Modernity at Large : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Braudel, F. (1995). The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press.
Chaudhury, K.N. (1985). Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History
from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gilroy, P. (1993). Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . London: Verso.
Hannerz, U. (2003). Several Sites in One. In T.H.Eriksen (Ed.). Globalization: Studies in
Anthropology (pp.18 -38). London: Pluto Press.
Inda, J.X. &Rosaldo, R. (2008). Introduction: A World in Motion. In J.X.Inda and R.Rosaldo
(Eds.). The Anthropology of Globalization. New York: Blackwell, 1 – 34.
Pearson, M. (2007). The Indian Ocean . London: Routledge.
Rouse, R. (2002). Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Post Modernism. In J.X. Inda
and R. Rosaldo (Eds.). The Anthropology of Globalization. New York: Blackwell, 157 -171.
Simpson, E. (2008). Sailors that do not Sail: Hinduism, Anthropology and Parochialism in
the Indian Ocean. In H.Basu (Ed.). Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in South
Asia. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 90-120.
Sierstorfer, K. and Wilson, J. M., (eds.) (2017) The Routledge Diaspora Studies
Reader. Oxford: Routledge.
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ETHNOGRAPHY
IC: 806 [Credits: 06]
Course Objectives
1. Introduce the students to the practice of ethnography
2. Familiarise them with the diverse strands and convent ions in ethnographic practice
3. Map the critiques and transformations of ethnography
4. Familiarise them to varieties of ethnographic writing
Course Outcomes
1. Acquisition of skills for ethnographic research
2. Application of critical thinking to ethnographic practi ce
3. Identification of critical sites for research
4. Appreciation of the plurality and diversity of the human condition
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Writing culture
a. Origins of ethnographic practice
b. Ethnography and the colonial episteme
c. The adivasi lifeworld
d. Changin g ruralities
Unit 2: Critical Locations
a. Reflexive and critical ethnography
b. Gendering ethnography
c. Inscriptions of dalit subjectivity
d. Narratives of disability
Unit 3: Diverse Sites
a. Ethnography and the sacred
b. Portrayals of embodiment
c. Narratives of developme nt
d. Tracking the nation
Unit 4: Mapping the contemporary
a. Transcribing the gig economy
b. Ethnography and popular culture
c. Interpreting emotions
d. Life in the anthropocene
References
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Derne, S. (2000). Movies, Masculinity and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men’s Filmgoing
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Womanhood and Nation . Duke University Press.
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HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA
IC: 807 [Credits: 06]
Course objectives
1. The course aims at engaging the students in the discourse of Human rights
2. The cou rse examines specifically the evolution of the idea of human rights
and the notion of individual rights v/s collective rights
3. The course seeks to critically assess the legal, constitutional and
institutional mechanisms that have evolved to address the issues of human
rights.
Course outcomes
1. The students will have a comprehensive understanding of the discourse of Human Rights.
2. The students will be able to address the issues of Human Rights across the globe.
Course Outline:
Unit I: Historical Mapping of the Discourse on Human Rights
a. The Emergence of the Discourse of Human Rights
b. Concept of Human Rights
c. Classification of Rights
d. The Universal declaration of Human Rights, International court of Justice
Unit II: The Human Rights Discourses in India
a. Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties
b. Directive principles of state policy
c. National Human Rights Commission, NCW, NCM, SC/ST commission
d. Human Rights and Role of NGOs and Media
Unit III: Paradoxes and Issues
a. Violence against Marginal Groups (Women, SCs, STs)
b. Commu nal Riots
c. Custodial Violence
d. Rights of Non Normative Sexual identities
Unit IV: Globalization and Human Rights
a. Consumer Rights
b. The Rights of Differently Abled People
c. The Rights of Refugees
d. Right to development Vs Right for identities
Essential Readings
Agosin M. (Ed.). (2003). Women, Gender and Human Rights – A Global Perspective. Jaipur:
Rawat.
Baxi, U. (2012). The Future of Human Rights. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Biswal, T. (2006). Human Rights Gender and Environment. New Delhi: Viva Books
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Rajkhowa, S. & Deka, S. (2013). Economic Social and Cultural Rights Vol. 2. Guwahati:
EBH Publishers
Rajkumar, C. & Chockalingam, K. (2007). Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional
Empowerment. New Delhi: Oxford University Press
Further Readings
Alam, A. (Ed.). (2004). Human Rights in India : Issues and challenges. New Delhi: Raj
publication.
Chavhan, R.S. (2007). Globalization and Human Rights. New Delhi: Radha
Freeman, M. (2002). Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Oxford: Polity Press.
Lakkaraja, J. (2008). Women Prisoners in Custody. NewDelhi: Kaveri Books.
Mahajan, G. (Ed). (1998). Democracy, Difference and Social Justice. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
Murray, A. (2005). Human Rights in the Digital Age. London: Oxford University press.
Pillai, V. K. (2006). Communal Violence: A Sociological study of Gujarat. New Delhi:
Shipra
Rajawat, M. (2001). Burning Issues of Human Rights. New Delhi: Kalpaz.
Sen, A. (2009). The Idea of Justice. New Delhi: Penguin
Sharma (2002) Human Rights Violations: A Global Phenomenon. New Delhi: APH.
Sri Krishana, S. & Samudrala, A.K. (Eds.). (2007). Dalits and Human Rights. New Delhi:
Serial Publications.
Sri Krishana, Samudrala,S. & Anil Kumar. (2008). Refugees and Human Rights. New Delhi:
Serial Publi cations.
Symonides, J. (2003). Human Rights: Concepts and Standards. Jaipur: Rawat.
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POPULAR CULTURE
IC: 809 [Credits: 06]
Course Objectives:
1. To undertake an advanced sociological analysis of the reach and diversity of cultural
expressions in contempora ry India.
2. To trace the development of concepts and theories associated with popular culture
3. To assess the critiques from various marginal social locations and standpoints
4. To look at popular culture from the vantage point of the dynamics of power and the
multiple sites of its contestation.
Course Outcomes:
1. The learner will clearly be able to distinguish between folk, classical, mass and
popular y culture
2. The student will be able to undertake a theortical analysis of popular cultural texts
3. The student will be able to deconstruct hierarchies of power encoded in popular
culture
4. The learner will be sensitized to alternatives to popular cultural production
Course Outline:
Unit I: Concepts and Approaches
a. Mass Culture and Folk Culture
b. High Culture and Low Culture
c. Class and Cultural Production
d. Culture Industry
Unit II: Meanings and Representation
a. Encoding and Decoding
b. Structure and Meaning
c. Ideology
d. Identities and Locations
Unit III: Hegemony and Resistance
a. Nationalism
b. Corporatization
c. Feminist Critique
d. Subaltern Loca tions
Unit IV: Postmodernity and Globalization
a. Global Cultures
b. Ethnic and the Popular
c. Hybridity and Creolization
d. Diasporic Sites
Essential Readings
Danesi, M. (2008). Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
&
Littlefield
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Gokulsing, K.M. & Dissanayake, W. (Eds.). (2009). Popular Culture in a Globalised India.
London
& New York: Routledge.
Kasbekar, A. (2006). Pop Culture India! Media, Arts and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara: ABC -
CLIO.
Srinati, D. (2004). An Introduction to Theorie s of Popular Culture. London & New York:
Routledge.
Storey, J. (2009). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. London: Pearson &
Longman.
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Uberoi, P (2009) Freedom and Destiny: Gender , Family, and Popular Culture in India,
Oxford Universit y Press
Further Readings
Berger, A.A. (2010). The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Edensor, T. (2002). National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg.
Fiske, J. (1989). Reading the Pop ular. London & New York: Routledge.
Guins, R. & Zaragoza Cruz, O. (Eds.). (2005). Popular Culture: A Reader. London: Sage.
Hannerz, U. (1996). Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London & New
York:
Routledge.
McRobbie, A. (1994). Postmodern ism and Popular Culture. London & New York:
Routledge.
Rege, S. (2002). Conceptualising Popular Culture: 'Lavani' and 'Powada' in Maharashtra.
Economic
and Political Weekly, 37 (11), 1038 – 1047.
Storey, J. (2003). Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization. Oxford:
Blackwell
Publishing.
Weaver, J.A. (2009). Popular Culture: A Primer. New York: Peter Lang.
Wolf, N. (2013). [1991]. The Beauty Myth. London: Vintage Books.
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Course Objectives: SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, MODERNITY
IC: 810 [Credits : 06]
1. To develop an understanding of the historical, social, cultural and political context of
the birth of modern science
2. To understand how the discipline of sociology has developed critical perspectives to
science.
3. To critically examine modern science from the perspectives of marginal nations and
people
4. To examine the role of modern science in reproducing multiple social hierarchies
Course Outcomes:
1. The students will be able to locate science and scientific method in social contexts
and see connections between scientific theories and the society in which these
emerged
2. The student will develop a disciplinary familiarity with critical readings from the
sociology of science and knowledge
3. The student will be able to see science in the imagination of nations, progress and
development
4. The student will understand concerns of inclusion and social justice in science
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Framing the context
a. Historical emergence and imperialist expansion of modern western science
b. Debates on scientific method
c. Rethi nking the promise of scientific modernity
d. Science studies.
Unit 2: Perspectives from sociology of science and sociology of knowledge
a. Early approaches to science: Karl Mannheim and Robert Merton
b. Science as social: Thomas Kuhn
c. The Strong Programme : David Bloor and Barry Barnes
d. Laboratory studies: Bruno Latour, Karin Cetina Knorr, Sharon Traweek
Unit 3: Science, nation, progress: The Indian context
a. Contesting ideological perspectives -from independence onwards
b. Imaginations of a national science
c. Status of traditional knowledges
d. Alternative sciences
Unit 4: Exclusions and epistemes
a. Women
b. Caste
c. Gender
d. Disability
Essential Readings
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Achuthan, A. and Chadha, G. (Eds.) (2017). Feminist Science Studies in Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. LII No. 17.
Bloor, D. (1976). Knowledge and Social Imagery. London: Routledge.
Bloor, D. & Barry, B. (Eds.). (1996). Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis.
Chicago: Athlone and Chicago University Press.
Buchhi, M. (2004). Science in Society: An Introduction to Social Studies of Science. Oxon:
Routledge: Oxon.
Chadha, G. (2020). Nature, Nation, Science and Gender in Reframing the Environment:
Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India, Rao M. (ed.), Routledge, New Delhi.
Collins, H. M., & Pinch, T. J. (1993). The Golem: What You Should Know about Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Keller, E.F. & Longino, H.E. (Eds.). (1996). Feminism & Science. Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press.
Krishna, S. and Chadha, G. (Eds.) (2015). Feminists and Science: Critiques and Perspectives
in India (Vol 1.), Stree Publishers, Kolkata (2015).
Krishna, S. and Chadha, G. (Eds.) (2017). Feminists and Science: Critiques and Perspectives
in India (Vol 2.), Stree Publishers, Kolkata and Sage Publications, New Del hi.
Kuhn, T.S. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Kuhn, T.S. (1977). The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scie ntific Tradition and
Change . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Merton, R. K. (1942). The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations .
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press .
Mannheim, K. (1936). Ideology and Utopia . London: Routledge.
Nandy, A. (1980). Alternative Sciences: Creativity and Authenticity in Two Indian Scientists .
New Delhi: Allied.
Nandy, A. (Ed.). (1988). Science, Hegemony and Vi olence: A Requiem for Modernity . Tokyo,
Japan: United Nations University.
Patnaik, B. K. (Ed.). (2014). Sociology of Science and Technology in India . New Delhi:
Sage India.
Prakash, G. (1999). Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. New
Jersey: Princeton University Press.
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Sur, A. (2011). Dispersed radiance, Caste Gender and Modern Science in India. New Delhi:
Navayana.
Tuana, N. (Ed.). (1989). Feminism and Science. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press.
Visvanathan , S. (1997). A Carnival for Science. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Wallerstein, I. (2001). Unthinking Social Science. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Web links
Life of Science: https://thelifeofs cience.com/
March for Science: https://marchforscience.org/
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Course Objectives: SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
IC: 811 [Credits: 06]
1. This course attempts to introduce students to the contexts and concepts of social
movements and attempts to locate them theoretically through concrete case studies.
2. The course critically analyses various social movements on the basis of gender, caste,
class, ethnic groups and other marginalities.
3. The course focuses on the various issues that emerge due to the globalized context.
4. The present course further examines mass mobilizations on digital platforms.
Course Outcomes:
1. The students will be sensitized to the variety and dynamics of Social Movements
2. The students will be able to appreciate the role of social movements in social change
and transformation in India.
3. The students will be able to understand the various approaches to the study of social
movements.
Course Outline:
Unit I: Introduction: Concepts & Theories
a. Definitions & Characteristics
b. Forces and Process of Social Movements
c. Nature of Social Movements -Reform/ Rebellion/ Revival/ Revolutionary
d. Theorising Movements - Resource Mobilization & New Social Movements
Unit II: Analysing Movements: Issues of Leadership, Ideology , Identity
a. Social structure, Ideological Differences
b. Issues of Leadership
c. Multiple Identities
d. Knowledge, Culture, and Conflicts
Unit III: Mapping Movements
a. Peasant/ Farmers
b. Ethnicity, Caste, Tribe
c. Sexuality, Gender, Human Rights
d. Environment, Global Issues
Unit IV: Civil Society, Globalization & New Practices
a. Individual Participation & Movement Subcultures
b. Policing of Protest & Political Opportunities
c. Civil Society & Globalisation
d. Virtual Movements & Social Networking Sites
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Essential Readings
Almeida, P. (2019). Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization. University
of California Press.
Bagguley, P., (1992). Social change, the middle class and the emergence of “new social
movements”: A critical analysis. The Sociological Review 40.1: 26-48
Brian D. Loader, Nixen Paul G. Rucht, (2004). Cyber protest: New Media, Citizens, and
Social Movements, Routledge.
Buechler, S. (1993). Beyond Resource Mobilization: Emerging Trends in Social Movement
Theory. The Sociological Quarterly 34: 217-235.
Della Porta, D., Diani, M. Almeida, P. (2006). Social Movements: The Structure of
Collective Mobilization. University of California Press.
Dhanagare D.N., (2016). Populism and Power: Farmers' Movement in Western India: 1980 -
2014 , Routlege (Manohar), Delhi.
Foweraker J., (1995). Theorizing Social Movements, London, Pluto Press.
Omvedt. G., (1995). Reinventing Revolution. New York. M. E. Sharpe.
Omvedt, Gail (1995). Dalit visions: The Anti-caste Movement and the Construction of an
Indian Identity, (New Delhi, Orient Longman)
Oomen, T.K., (1990). Protest and Change: Studies in Social Movements, Sage Publication,
Delhi.
Oommen T.K., (2004). Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements, Sage Publication, Delhi,
Meyer David S., Whittilev Nancy, Robnett Belinda, (20 02). Social Movements, Oxford, New
York
Petras James, Henry Vettmeyer, (2005). Social Movements and State Power, Pluto Press,
London.
Ray R. and Katzenstein, F.( Eds), Social Movements in India Poverty, Power and Politics.
London, Rowman and Littlefield.
Shah Ghanshyam, (2002). Social Movements and the State, Sage, New Delhi.
Snow, D.A. et al (Eds.). (2019). Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (2nd
edition) . Wiley Blackwell.
Further Readings
Diani, M.,(1992). The concept of Social Movement, Soc iological Review, 40 (1). 1 -25
Gore M. S., (1989). Non Brahmin Movement of Maharashtra, Segment Book Distributors,
New Delhi.
James Petras, Henry Vettmeyer,(2005). Social Movements and State Power, Pluto Press,
London.
Jogdand P.G. (2020). Dalit Movement in India, New Delhi: Rawat Publications (2nd edition).
McAdam, D., McCarthy, J. D. and Zald, M.N.(1996).Comparative Perspectives on Social
Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McGarry, Aidan and James Jasper. 2015.The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and
Collective Identity. Temple University Press, Project MUSE.muse.jhu.edu/book/71222.
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Millward, Peter & S. Takhar. 2019. Social Movements, Collective Action and Activism.
Sociology, 1–12
Omvedt, Gail, (1994): Dalit and the Democratic Revolut ion, Sage, New Delhi.
Omvedt, Gail,(1976). Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: Non Brahmin Movement in
Western India. 1973 -1930., Bombay, Scientific Education Trust.
Pichardo Nelson A., (1997). New Social Movements: A Critical Review, Annual Review of
Sociology Vol. 23: 411-430.
Pawar, S.N, Patil, R.B, & Salunkhe, S.A (Eds),( 2005). Environmental Movements in India,
Rawat, Jaipur.
Rao, M.S.A. (1978). Social Movements in India, Vol. I and II, Manohar, Delhi.
Rao, M.S.A., (1979). Social Movements and Social Transformation, Macmillan, Delhi.
Shah, Ghanshyam, ( 1990). Social Movements in India; a review of the literature, Sage,Delhi.
Shah, Nandita, ( 1992). The Issues at State: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary
Women’s movements in India, Kali for Women, New Delhi
Singh K.S. (1982). Tribal movements in India, (ed.) Vol. I & II Manohar Publications, New
Delhi.
Singh R., (2001). Social Movements, Old and New, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
Shiva, V., (1991). Ecology and the Politics of Survival (New D elhi: Sage)
Tarrow, Sidney., (1998). Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics.
NY: Cambridge University Press.
Tilly, C and S Tarrow. (2015) Contentious Politics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Tilly C., (2004). Social Movem ents 1768 -2004, Paradigm Publishers, LLC.
Zirakzadeh Cyrus E., (1997). Social Movements in Politics a Comparative Study Pearson
Books
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THE MAKING OF MUMBAI
IC:808 [Credits: 06]
Course objectives:
1. This course enables learner to understand the growth and expansion of Mumbai
historically
2. It aims to understand urban restructuring and its impact on development of city.
3. The course focuses on labour market, urban planning and development of Mumbai. The
contributions of different caste and communities in buildi ng mega city.
4. The learner will develop the understanding of the role of the State institutions in making
Mumbai as world class city.
Course Outcomes:
1. The learner will be able to understand brief history, regional expansion and economic
development of Mumbai.
2. It will help students to get acquainted with issues of migration, dynamics of formal and
informal sector economy,
3. Further enable students to reflect on the image of city through cinema, food and tourism.
4. It will help learner to do assessment of urban planning, development and urban
governance
Course Outline:
Unit I: Introduction:
a. A historical overview of Growth, Region and Development of Mumbai
b. Globalisation -Urban Restructuring and Spatial Segregation in Mumbai
Unit II: Labour Markets of Mumbai:
a.Overview of Migration trends, Formal and Informal workers and economy, micro
economic activities
b.Changing Occupational Structure, Caste and Communities,
c.Regionalism and Identity Politics
Unit III: Urban Governance, Urban Planning, and Development (Field work
component)
Development Plans (DCPR 2034), Urban Infrastructure projects, Affordable Housing, Slums
a. MCGM -Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
b. MMRDA -Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
c. MHADA - Maharashtra Housing and Area Develo pment Authority
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d. SRA - Slum Rehabilitation Authority
* Field work: Case study of Dharavi Redevelopment, Bhendi Bazar Redevelopment, Mithi
River Development and protection, Mumbai Trans Harbor Link, Mumbai coastal road, Waste
and Recycling, Solid Waste Management, Salt Pan Lands, Wetlands, Mangroves and
development
Unit IV: Images of Mumbai (Field work Component)
a. Cinema
b. Traditional Food Culture / Street food economy
c. Tourism
Essential Readings:
Baneerjee Guha , 2010, Accumulation by Dispossession, Transfo rmative Cities in the New
Global Order, Sage publications, New Delhi
Bhagat Ram , Jones Gavin , Population Change and Migration in Mumbai Metropolitan
Region: Implications for Planning and Governance, Asia Research Institute , working paper
series 201, 2013
Chandavarkar Rajnarayan, (2003). Origin of Industrial Capitalism in India:
Business Strategies and working classes in Bombay, 1900 -1940,
Cambridge University Press.
Caroline Saglio –Yatzimirsky –Marie, 2013, Dharav i Mega slum to
urban Paradigm, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, New Delhi.
Leela Fernandes, The Politics of Forgetting: Class Politics, State Power and the
Restructuring of Urban Space in India, Urban Studies ,Vol.41,No 12.2415 -2430. 2004,
Carfax Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980412331297609
Morris D.Morris , 1965.The Emergence of Industrial Labour Force. A Study of the Bombay
Cotton Mills,1854 -1947, Oxford University Press.
Mumbai Reader 12, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai.
Patel Sujata & Masselos Jim, (ed), (2005) Bombay and Mumbai, The City in Transition,
Oxford University press, New Delhi .
Sandhu Ranvinder, Sandhu Jasmeet , 2007, Globalising Cities, Inequality and segregation
in Developing Countries, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
Sebers Klaus, (2007 ) The Making of Global City, The John Hopkins University press,
Baltimore.
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Sharma R.N., Mega Transformation of Mumbai: Deepening Enclave Urbanism, Sociological
Bulletin, Volume 59(1) January – April 2010, pp 69-91
https://doi.org/10.1177/0038022920100104
Websites
*MCGM
http://www.mcgm.gov.in/
*MMRDA Plan Document Website -
www.mmrdamumbai.org/search/search.php?Submit.x=1&search=tasks§ionmmrda
*MAH ADA
https://mhada.maharashtra.gov.in/
*SRA
http://www.sra.gov.in/
http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/9 2214
https://portal.mcgm.gov.in/irj/portal/anonymous/qlcoastal1?guest_user=english
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Project Based Courses*
PRO -I
Sr. No. Project Themes I
1 Informal sector
2 Law & social change
3 Tribal Society in India
4 Understanding Partition Narratives from Punjab and Bengal
5 Education in Indian Society
6 Neoliberal Environments
7 Religion, State and Civil Society
8 Health & Social Stigma
9 Indian Society: Structure and Change
Project Based Course
PRO -II
Sr.
No. Project Themes II
1 Tourism economy
2 Media, Communication & Social change
3 Issues of Migration
4 Exploring the digital/ virtual worlds
5 Rural Society: change and development
6 Gender, Space & Livelihoods
7 Neoliberalism & Its Discontents
8 Marginalized Groups and Communities
*Note:
Project Based Course - For the MA Honours CBCS program the student has to do two
(2) projects of 8 credits each , (one from each of the two sets of project themes).
For the MA Regular CBCS program the student has to do one (1) project of 10
credits (from either of the two sets of project themes) .