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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Urban Sociology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Syllabus for Urban Sociology

Major elective · Sociology · Semester 5 · TY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours

Module 1: Basic Concepts

  • a Classification of Cities: Pre-industrial, Post-industrial, Millionaire City, Mega City, World/Global Cities, Capital City, Primate City, Dual city, Metropolis.
  • b Rural Town, Town and Cities
  • c Urban, Urbanism, Urbanization

Module 2: Traditional Theories

  • a Louis Wirth and George Simmel
  • b Ernest Burgess and Homer Hoyt
  • c Robert Ezra Park

Module 3: Contemporary Theories

  • a Manuel Castells
  • b David Harvey
  • c Henri Lefebvre

Module 4: Urban Processes and Transformations

  • a Industrialization, Migration and Urban Expansion
  • b Spatial Segregation and Urban Ecology
  • c Globalization and Changing Urban Landscapes

Reference Books

  • Bergill, E. E. (1995). Urban Sociology. McGraw Hill.
  • Bhagat, R. B. (2017).Urban migration trends, challenges and opportunities in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Castells, M., & Sheridan, A. (1977). The Urban Question. Edward Arnold.
  • Das, V. (2006). Urbanisation. In Handbook of Indian Sociology. Oxford University Press.
  • Datta, A. (2019). Gated communities and privatization of urban space in India. Urban Studies, 56(14), 2903–2918.
  • Davis, K. (Ed.). (1973). Cities: Their Origin, Growth and Human Impact. W.H. Freeman.
  • Deshingkar, P. (2020). Seasonal migration and livelihood strategies in India. Migration and Development, 9(2), 196–214.
  • D’Souza, A. (Ed.). (1978). The Indian City: Poverty, Ecology and Urban Development. Manohar.
  • Fischer, C. S. (1984). Theories of urbanism. In The Urban Experience (2nd ed.).
  • Flanagan, W. G. (1999). Urban Sociology: Images and Structure. Allyn & Bacon.
  • Gaston, K. J. (2010). Urban Ecology. Cambridge University Press.
  • Gold, H. (1982). The Sociology of Urban Life. Prentice Hall.
  • Gold, H. (2002). Urban Life and Society. Prentice Hall.
  • Hannerz, U. (1980). Exploring the City: Towards an Urban Anthropology (pp. 19–58). Columbia University Press.
  • Harvey, D. (1985). The Urbanization of Capital. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Harvey, D. (1989). The Urban Experience. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Kennedy, L., Robbins, G., & Scott, J. (2014). Transforming cities: Urban infrastructure and mega-projects in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Kundu, A. (2020).Urban development and urban research in India: Issues and challenges. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Lefebvre, H. (1996).Writings on cities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Park, R. E. (1936). Human ecology. American Journal of Sociology, 42(1), 1–15.
  • Patel, S., & Deb, K. (Eds.). (2006). Urban Studies. Oxford University Press.
  • Patel, S., & Thorne, A. (Eds.). (1995). Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India. Oxford University Press.
  • Ramachandran, R. (1994). Urbanization and Urban Systems in India. Oxford University Press.
  • Rao, M. S. A. (1981). Some aspects of the sociology of migration. Sociological Bulletin, 30(1), 21–38.
  • Rao, M. S. A. (1991). A Reader in Urban Sociology. Orient Longman.
  • Sandhu, R. S. (1993). Urbanization in India: Sociological Contributions. Sage.
  • Shaw, A. (2018). Indian cities in transition: New directions in urban policy and governance. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.
  • Sivaramakrishnan, K. C., Kundu, A., & Singh, B. N. (2019). Handbook of urbanization in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Simmel, G. (1976). The Metropolis and Mental Life. Free Press.
  • Smith, W. F. (1975). Urban Development: The Processes and Problems. University of California Press.
  • Stevenson, D. (2003/2009). Cities and Urban Cultures. Rawat.
  • Varshney, A. (2002). Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. Oxford University Press.
  • Weber, M. (1966). The City (D. Martindale & G. Neuwirth, Eds.). Free Press.
  • Wirth, L. (1991). Urbanism as a Way of Life. Irvington.
  • Zukin, S. (1995). The Cultures of Cities. Blackwell. EPW and Journals:
  • Aijaz, R. (2019, March). India’s Peri-Urban Regions: The Need for Policy and the Challenges of Governance (Issue Brief No. 285). Observer Research Foundation.
  • Denis, E., &Zérah, M.-H. (2014). Rural-Urban Linkages: India Case Study (Working Paper No. 124). Rimisp. Environment and Urbanization. (2003, April). 15(1).
  • Kundu, A. (2022). Urbanization, migration and infrastructure challenges in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(15), 42–50
  • Mehta, N. (2021, January 30). Rural economic growth and emerging pattern of rural towns. Economic and Political Weekly, 56(5).
  • Mukhopadhyay, P. (2020). Infrastructure development and urban transformation in India. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(6), 889–906.
  • Sarkar, S. (2021). Shopping malls, multiplexes and the transformation of urban consumer culture in India. South Asian Journal of Business Studies, 10(2), 219–234 Webliograhy:
  • 1 https://blogs.Ise.ac.uk/southasia/2020/05/26/one-foot-in-the-city-one-in-the- village indias- urban-poor-and-their-rural-bonds/
  • 2 https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/5/special-articles/rural-economic-growth-and- emerging- pattern-rural.html
  • 3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198941930143X
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