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BA NEP 2021-22 Second Year

Sociology Syllabus

Department of Sociology

Bachelor of Arts Sociology Syllabus

Semester 3

Course outcome:

Sociology originated as an intellectual response to the crisis confronting the mid nineteenth century European society. Its development over a century and a half since then has been influenced by a variety of socioeconomic and political conditions where it has been taught and practised. It is now established as a multi-paradigmatic academic discipline, with its body of theoretical knowledge enriched and its methodological techniques and procedures systematised. Nevertheless, some of its original concerns have persisted and some of its classical theoretical and methodological landmarks are relevant even now. This paper is intended to familiarise the students with the social, political, economic and intellectual contexts in which sociology emerged as a distinctive discipline. Its objective is to help students gain an understanding of some of the classical contributions in sociology, and their continuing relevance to its contemporary concerns.

Paper V: Foundation of Sociological Thought I

Unit I: 

Emergence of Sociology: Social, Economic and Political Factors, the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution.
Intellectual Sources: Enlightenment, Philosophy of History, Political Philosophy,
Social and Political Reform Movements, and Biological Theories of Evolution.

Unit II: 

Auguste Comte: Positivism, the Hierarchy of Sciences, and the Law of Three Stages.
Herbert Spencer: Organicism, Social Evolution, and Social Darwinism.

Unit III:

Emile Durkheim: Social Fact, Division of Labour, Mechanical Solidarity, Organic
Solidarity, Anomic Division of Labour, Suicide – Altruistic, Egoistic and Anomic.

Unit IV: 

Vifredo Pareto: Action – Logical & Non-logical Actions, Residues and Derivatives.
George Simmel: Forms of ‘Sociation’, Consequences of Social Conflict, Emotions
and Violence.

Prescribed Readings:

• Aron, Raymond. 1970. Main Currents in Sociological Thought, Volume I & II. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.     BUY
• Coser, L. A. 1977. Masters of Sociological Thought, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.       BUY
• Durkheim, E. 1938. The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: The Free Press (Hindi translation available).   BUY     PDF
• Giddens, A. 1973. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An analysis of Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, London: Cambridge University Press (Hindi translation available).
• McIntosh, I. 1997. Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Parsons, Talcott. 1937. The Structure of Social Action, New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Ritzer, George. 1996. Classical Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Paper VI: Social Change and Development: Concepts and Approaches

Course outcome
Social change has always been a central concern of sociological study. More recently, it has gained in greater salience partly because of its unprecedented rapidity and partly because of its planned character. Not surprisingly, development has emerged as a pronounced concern and as a remarkable feature of our times. Accordingly, the relevance of the course ‘Sociology of Change and Development’ can hardly be overemphasized. The course is designed to achieve the following
objectives: to provide conceptual and theoretical understanding of social change and development as it has emerged in sociological literature; to offer an insight into the ways in which social structure impinges on development and development on social structure; and to address in particular the Indian experience of social change and development. to prepare the students for professional careers in the field of development planning, including governmental, non-governmental and international agencies engaged in development.

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Unit I: 

Evolution, Change, Development and Progress; Social Change in Structure & Social
Change of Structure.

Unit II: 

Economic Growth, Human Development, Social Development, Sustainable
Development.

Unit III: 

Ecological and Social Modernization Theories of Development (N. Smelser, D. Lerner,
W. W. Rostow, A. Giddens)

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Unit IV: 

Dependency: Centre-periphery (A. G. Frank), Uneven development (Samir Amin).

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Prescribed Readings:

• Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique, Sanjay Kumar, Arvind Mishra. 2010. Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins. Oxford University Press: Delhi.
  
• Dube, S.C. 1988. Modernization and Development: The Search for Alternative Paradigm, New Delhi: Vistar.
  
• Dube, S.C. 1992. Understanding Change. Vikas Publishing House: New Delhi.
• Giddens, A. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity, Stanford: Stanford University Press
• Frank, A.G.1966. “The Development of Underdevelopment”, Monthly Review, September XVIII.

• Parr, Sakiko Fukuda & A.K. Shiva Kuma (eds.). 2009. Handbook of Human Development: Concepts, Measures, and Policies. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
• So, Alvin Y. 1990. Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency and World-SystemTheories, New York:Sage Publications
• United Nations Development Programme. 1995. Sustainable Human Development: From Concept to Operation, New York: UNO.