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M.A. SOCIOLOGY

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

FIRST YEAR

Paper Subjects Duration Total

Hours Marks

I Principles of Sociology 3 100

II Sociological Theories 3 100

III Research Methodology &

Social Statistics 3 100

IV Indian Society 3 100

V Sociology of Development 3 100

SECOND YEAR

VI Rural Sociology 3 100

VII Urban Sociology 3 100

VIII Sociology of Education 3 100

IX Sociology of Health 3 100

X Information Technology
& Society 3 100

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INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. DEGREE COURSE IN SOCIOLOGY

SYLLABUS
FIRST YEAR

PAPER I - PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

1. Nature and Scope of Sociology- Emergence of

Sociology – Need for the study of Sociology

2. Approaches to the study of Sociology – Relationship

with other Social Sciences

3. Individual and Society: Society – Origin- Nature –

Relationship between Individual and Society.

4. Social Groups : Characteristics – Classification and

Functions – Interdependence and Types.

5. Social Change : Meaning – Definition – Theories –

Factors of Social Change – World Religions –
Characteristics.

6. Culture and Civilization – Definition of Culture – Types

of Culture

7. Features and Elements of Culture – Culture and

Civilization – Cultural Lag.
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8. Social Processes: Associative and Disassociative

Processes.
9. Social Control : Agencies of Social Control – Formal
and Informal Agencies of Social Control.
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Bottomore, T.B. Sociology: A Guide to Problems and
Literature, London – George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1962.
2. Horton Paul B and Chester, L Hunt. Sociology, New
Delhi : Mc.Graw Hill Kogakucha Ltd. 1976.
3. Inkeles, Alex What is Sociology?, New Delhi : Prentice
Hall of India Pvt., Ltd. 1987.
4. Ogburn, William F and Mayer, F.Nimkoff. A Hand Book
of Sociology, London: Routledge and Keganpaul
Ltd.1964.
5. Page, Charles H and R.M.Maclver Society, London: Mac
Millan Co, Ltd, 1962
6. Raka Sharan A Hand Book of Sociology : Indian
Perspective, Anmol Publication Pvt Ltd, New Delhi,
1991.
7. Smelser, Neil J Sociology, (Fourth Edition) Prenctice
Hall of India, New Delhi, 1993.

PAPER II - SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

1. August Comte : The Law of Human Progress –

Hierarchy of Sciences – Social Statics and Dynamics

2. Herbert Spencer : Evolutionary Theory – Organismic

Analogy
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3. Emile Durkheim : Methodology of Social Science –
Sociology of Religion – Theories of Suicide – Division
of Labour – Anomie

4. Karl Marx : Historical Materialism – Class Struggle –

Alienation – Social Change

5. Max Weber : Ideal Type – Types of Authority – Class,

Status and Power – Bureaucracy.

6. Talcott Parsons : Social Action – Social System – Pattern

Variables

7. Rober K.Merton : Therory and Research – Manifest and

Latent Functions – Anomie and Reference Group
Theory

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Collins, Randall. Sociological Theory, Jaipur, Rawat

Publication, New Delhi, 1997.

2. Coser, Lewis A and B.Rosenberg, Sociological Theory,

New York: Macmillan , 1964

3. Coser, Lewis A, Functions of Social Conflict, Glancoe :

The Free Press, 1956

4. Coser.L.A, Masters of Social Thought Harcourt Brace

Lavarno Vich, U.S.A 1971.

5. Merton, Robert K, Social Theory and Social Structure,

New Delhi, Amerind Publishing Company Pvt Ltd., 1968

6. Mills C.W. Sociological Imagination, London : Oxford

University Press, 1972
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7. Nisbet R .Sociological Tradition, New York ; Basic

Books, 1956
8. Oommen T.K. & Partha N Mukherji, Indian Sociology –
Reflections and Introspection Popular Prakashan Pvt
Ltd, Bombay 1986
9. Parsons, Talcott, The Social System, New Delhi,
Amerind Publishing Company 1972.
10. Pramanick S.K.Sociology of G.S.Ghurye, Rawat
Publications, New Delhi, 2001
11. Preston P.W .Development Theory – An Introduction,
Blackwell Publications and Introspections Popular
Prakashan Pvt Ltd, Bombay 1986
12. R.K.Mukherjee – Social Structure of Values – Popular
Prakashan Bombay, ‘1963
13. Ritzer, George. 3rd edn. Sociological Theory, McGraw
Hill, New York, 1992.
14. The Polity Reader in Social Theory, Polity Press,
Cambridge,U.K, 1994.
15. Timashoff. Sociological Theory : Its Nature and Growth,
New York, Doubleday and Company, 1955
16. Treston S.Brayan. The Blackwell Companion to Social
Theory, Blackwell Publications and Introspections
Popular Prakashan Pvt Ltd., Bombay 1986
17. Turner, Jonathan H. 4 th edn, The structure of
Sociological Theory, Rawat Publication, New Delhi,
1987.
18. Turner, Jonathan H. Leonard Beeghley, Charles H
Powers 5th edn, The Emergence of Sociological Theory,
Wadsworth, USA, 2002.
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 PAPER III - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND
SOCIAL STATISTICS

UNIT – I INTRODUCTION

• Objectives of Research in Social Science

• Research and Theory

• Objectivity and Value Neutrality in Social Research

• Reliability and Validity

UNIT II SOURCES OF DATA

• Primary Data

• Secondary Data

UNIT III PROBLEM FORMULATION AND TYPES OF

HYPOTHESIS

• Selection of Research Problem

• Issues in Problem Formulation

• Shaping and Refining the Problem

• Types of Hypothesis

UNIT IV QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

• Research Design

• Sampling Design

• Survey Techniques and Tools of Data Collection

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UNIT V QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

• Participant Observation/Ethnography

• Case Study

• Oral History

• Qualitative Data Processing

UNIT VI WRITING FOR RESEARCH

• Writing proposals for Research Grants

• Writing Research Report

UNIT VII STATISTICAL APPLICATION

• Mean, Median, Mode

• Mean Deviation and Standard Deviation, Correlate

and Representation

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Dvane R. Monette, Thomas IJ Sullivan, Cornell

R.Dejong 5th End (2002), Applied Social Research –
Tool for the Human Serves, Marcourt College Publishers

2. Bose, Pradip Kumar (1995), Research Methodology,

ICSSR, New Delhi

3. Bryman, Alan (1998), Quality and Quantity in Social

Research, Unwin Hyman, London

4. Hughes, John (1987), The Philosophy of Social

Research, Longman, London

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5. Mukherjee P.N (eds) (2000), Methodology in Social
Research, Dilemmas and Perspectives, Sage
Publication India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi

6. Punch, Keith (1986), Introduction to Methodology, Sage

Publication India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi

7. Monette R Duane et al, (2002) Applied Social Research,

Harcourt college publications, U.S.A

8. Hoyle H.Rick et al, (2002) Research Methods in Social

Relations, Wadsworth, Publication, U.S.A

9. Rick H Hoyle, Monica J Harris, Charles M Judd 7th Edn

(2002) Research Methods in Social Relations

PAPER IV - INDIAN SOCIETY

UNIT–I APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INDIAN

SOCIETY

• Indological Approach

• Structural Functional Approach

• Dialectical Approach

• Subaltern Approach

UNIT- II - CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN SOCIETY

• Caste System : Structure – Changing trends in Caste

– Caste conflicts

• Joint Family System – Characteristics – Changing

Scenario
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• Village Organisation – Physical – Social – Economic

– Political Organisation

• Social and Cultural Diversity in India

UNIT III COLONIAL CONTEXT

• Colonial Ethnography and Fragmentary view of

Society

• Imperial Gazatter and Colonial Policy

• Colonial Legacy, Neo-colonialism

UNIT IV – POST COLONIAL CONTEXT

• Indian Constitution

• Legislative History

• Social Legislation, Social Policy and Social Change

UNIT V CURRENT DEBATES

• Contextualization

• Indigenization

• Text and Context

• Sociology of India

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Desouza P.R (ed) (2000), Contemporary India,

Trensiteri Sage Publication, New Delhi

2. Dhanagare D.N (1993), Themes and Perspectives in

Indian Sociology, Powal Publication, Jaipur
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3. Dube S.C (1967), The Indian Village, Routledge,
London
4. Dumont, Louis (1970), Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste
System and its Implications, Vikas Publication, New
Delhi
5. Mukherjhee D.P (1958), Diversities, People’s
Publishing House, Delhi
6. Oommen T.K and P.N.Mukerjee eds. (1986), Indian
Socology, Reflections and Introspections, Popular
Prakashan, Bombay
7. Singh, Y (1986), Indian Sociology, Social Conditioning
and Emerging Concerns, Vistaar, Delhi.
8. Srinivas M.N, (1960), India’s Villages, Asia Publishing
House, Bombay

PAPER V - SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

UNIT - I : INTRODUCTION
• Development and Changes
• Human Development and Social Development
• Sustainable Development – Socio-Cultural
Sustainability – Multiple Sustainability
UNIT- II : THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
DEVELOPMENT
• Functional Perspective
• Marxist Perspective
• Ecological Perspective
• Liberal Perspective
• Social Action Perspective
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UNIT- III - THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT AND

UNDERDEVELOPMENT

• Modernisation Theory

• Centre-Periphery Theory

• World Systems Theory

• Unequal Exchange Theory

UNIT - IV : MODELS AND AGENCIES OF DEVELOPMENT

• Models : Capitalism – Socialism – Mixed Economy

• Agencies : Market Forces – Non-Governmental

Organisations

UNIT -V : INDIAN EXPERIENCE OF DEVELOPMENT

• Planned Development Through Five Year Plans

• Impact of Globlisation

• Impact of Information Technology

• Regional Development : Select Case Studies of U.P.,

West Bengal and Kerala
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Appadurai, Arjun,(1997), Modernity at Large: Cultural
Dimensions of Globalisation, OUP, New Delhi
2. Dereze, Jean and Amartya Sen (1996), India, Economic
Development and Social Opportunity, OUP, New Delhi
3. Harrison,D (1989), The Sociology of Modernization and
Development, Sage, New Delhi
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4. Haq, Mahabub UI (1991), Reflections on Human
Development, OUP, New Delhi

5. Sharma S L, (1980), “Criteria of Social Development”.

Journal of Social Action, Jan-Mar.

6. Sharma S L (1986), Development: Socio-Cultural

Dimensions, Jaipur, Rawat (Chapter – I)

7. Symposium on Implications of Globalization (1195),

Sociological bulletin, Vol 44 (Articles by Mathew, Panini
and Pathy)

8. World Bank (2002), World Development Report, New

York

9. Amin, Samir, (1979), Unequal Development, OUP, New

Delhi

10. Giddens, Anthony (1990), The Consequences of

Modernity, Polity Press, Cambridge

11. Kiely, Ray and Phil Marfleet, eds (1998), Globalisation

and the Third World, Routledge, London

12. Sharma,S L (1992), Social Action Groups as Harbingers

of Silent Revolution

13. UNDP, Sustainable Development, (1974), The Modern

World System, OUP, New York.

14. Wallerstein Immanuel (1974), The Modern World

System, OUP, New York.

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PAPER VI - RURAL SOCIETY IN INDIA

UNIT- I : INTRODUCTION

• Characteristics of Agrarian and Peasant Society

• Habitat and Settlement in Rural Society

• Caste and Religion in Rural Society

• Family in Society

UNIT - II : AGRARIAN STRUCTURE AND CHANGE

• Socio Economic Inequalities

• Land Reforms and Social Changes

• Green Revolution and Social Change.

UNIT-III : PLANNED CHANGE FOR RURAL SOCIETY

• Panchayati Raj and Local Self Government

• Community Development Programmes

• Rural Development Strategies

UNIT-IV : AGRARIAN MOVEMENT

• Peasant Movements : Causes and Structure

• Farmers’ Associations

• Agricultural Labourers Associations

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UNIT - V : PROBLEMS OF RURAL SOCIETY

• Landless Labourers

• Rural Poverty and Rural Indebtedness

• Problem of Rural Industries and Rural Marketing

• Impact of GATT & WTO

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Berch, Berberogue, (1992) Class, State and

Development in India 1,2,3 and 4 Chapters, Sage , New
Delhi

2. Desai A.R., (1977), Rural Sociology in India, Popular

Prakashan, Bombay

3. Mencher J.P., (1983), Social Anthropology of Peasantry

Part III, OUP

4. P.Radhakrishnan, (1989), Peasant Struggles : Land

Reforms and Social Change in Malabar 1836-1982,
Sage Publications, New Delhi

5. Thorner Daniel and Thorner Alice, (1962) Land and

Labour in India, Asia Publications, Bombay.

6. Dhanagare D.N., (1988), Peasant Movements in India,

OUP, New Delhi

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PAPER VII - URBAN SOCIOLOGY

UNIT- I : INTRODUCTION

• Classical Theories; Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max

Weber & Tonnies

• Urban Community and Spatial Dimensions : Park-

Burgess, Mekenzie, Simmel, Louis Wirth and Redfield

UNIT - II : URBANIZATION IN INDIA

• Trends in Urbanization

• Factors of Urbanization

• Causes of Urbanization

• Consequences of Urbanization

UNIT - III : URBAN CENTRES

• Classification of Town, Cities and Metropolis

• Characteristics of Urban Society

• Urban Social Structure : Caste, class, Family

UNIT - IV : URBAN SOCIAL PROBLEM

• Urban Housing

• Slums

• Urban Crimes

• Environmental Problems

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UNIT - V : URBAN MANAGEMENT

• Urban and Regional Planning

• Urban Services

• Urban Development Programmes and Polices

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Pickwance C.G (ed)1976, Urban Sociology, Critical

Essays, Methuen

2. Saunders Peter, 1981, Social Theory and Urban

Question, Hutchionson

3. Bose Ashis, 1978, Studies in India Urbanisation 1901 –

1971, Tata McGraw Hill, Delhi.

4. Abrahimson m, 1976, Urban Sociology, Englewoot,

Prentice Hall

5. Ronnan, Paddison, 2001, Handbook of Urban Studies,

Sage Publication, India

6. Bharadwaj, R.K., 1974, Urban Development in India,

National Publishing House, New Delhi.

7. Gold, Harry, 1982, Sociology of Urban Life, Prentice

Hall, Englewood Cliff]

8. Cooling Worth J>B 1972, Problems of Urban Society

Vol.2, George and Unwin Ltd

9. Alfred de Souza 1979, The Indian City, Poverty, Ecology

and Urban Development, Mahonar, Delhi

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10. Desai A.R and Pillai S.D (ed) 1970, Slums and
Urbanisation, Popular Prakashan, Bombay

11. Ramachandran R 1991, Urbanisation and Urban

Systems in India, OUP, Delhi

12. Ellin Nan 1996, Post Modern Urbanism, Oxford, UK

13. Fawa F Sylvia 1968, New Urbanism in World

Perspective – a Reader, T.Y Cowell, New York

PAPER VIII - SOCIOLOGY OF EDUATION

UNIT - I : THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

• Functionalist Perspective

• Radical Perspective

• Micro Interpretative Approach

• Post Modern Perspective and Social Construction

UNIT- II : EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES

• Rural and Urban Disparities

• Disparities by Caste

• Disparities by Gender

• Problem of Tribal Population

• Positive Discrimination and Reservation Policy

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UNIT - III : AGENCIES PROMOTING EDUCATION

• Role of State

• Role of Religious Organisations

• Role of Industries

• Role of Private Organisations

UNIT - IV : EDUCATION AND SOCIETY

• Education and Social Change

• Education and Social Development

• Education and Social Mobility

• Education, class and Social reproduction

UNIT - V : IDEOLOGIES AND ALTERNATIVES

• M.K.Gandhi

• Paulo Freire

• Ivan Illich

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Ahmad Karuna, 1984, Social Context of Women’s
Education 1921-81, New Frontiers in Higher Education,
No.3, PP 1-35
2. Banks, Olive, 1972, 2nd Edition, Sociology of Education,
Batsford, London
3. Blackledge D and Hunt B, 1985, Sociological
Interpretations of Education, Crom Helm, London.
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4. Brint, Steven 1988, Schools and Societies, Thousand

Oaks, Pine Forge Press, California

5. Chitnis, Suma & P.G.Alrbach 1993, Higher Education

Reform in India, Experience and perspectives, Sage,
New Delhi

6. Friere, Paulo, 1972, Pedagogy of the Oppressed,

Harmondsworth, Penguin Books

7. Gore M.S et al 1975. Papers on the Sociology of

Education in India, NCERT, New Delhi

8. Halsay A.H et al 1961, Education, Economy and Society,

A Reader in the Sociology of Education, Free Press,
New York

9. Illich, Ivan 1973, Deschooling Society, Penguin, London

10. Jayaram N, 1990, Sociology of Education in India,

Rawat Publication, Jaipur

11. Kamat A.R. 1985, Education and Social Change in India,

Somaiyam, Bombay

12. Karabel J and Halsey A.H.,(ed) 1977, Powers and

Ideology in Education, Oxford University Press, New
York.

13. Meighan, Roland and Iram Siraj Blatchford, 1997, 3rd

edn, A Sociology of Educating, Cassell, London

14. Naik J.P, 1975, Quality, Quantity and Equality in

Education, Allied Publishers, Whole Book, New Delhi

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15. Robinson P, 1987, Perspectives in the Sociology of
Education, An Introduction, Routledge and Kegan Paul,
London

16. Sen, Amartya, 1992, Inequality Re-examined, Oxford

University Press, Delhi

17. Tyler, William 1977, The Sociology of Educational

Inequality, Methuen, London.

PAPER IX - SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH

UNIT- I : INTRODUCTION

• Scope and Importance of Sociology of Health

• Four Dimensions of Health

• Evolution of Social Medicine in India

UNIT- II : SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Social Epidemiology of Diseases

• Social Etiology of Diseases

• Social Ecology of Diseases

UNIT - III : HEALTH CARE PLANNING

• History of Public Health in India

• National Health Policy

• Health Planning in India

• Health Care System in India

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UNIT- IV : COMMUNITY HEALTH

• Bhore Committee Report

• Primary Health Centres at Four Levels

• Health Care Delivery Model

• Holistic Approach to ‘Health for All’

UNIT - V : HEALTH PROGRAMMES IN INDIA

• National Health Programmes – Objectives and

Strategies

• Implementation of Health Programmes and their

Effectiveness

• Role of International Organization – WHO – other

United National Agencies – Health Work of Bilateral
Agencies

• HIV/AIDS & National Policy in India

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Albrecht , Gary L and Fitzpatrick R 1994, Quality of Life
in Healthcare – Advances in Medical Sociology , Jai
Press, Mumbai
2. Cockerham, Willam C.1997, Medical Sociology,
Prentice Hall, New Jersey
3. Cockerham, William C 1997, Readings in Medical
Sociology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey
4. Conrad, Peter et.al 2000, Handbook of Medical
Sociology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey
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5. Fox Renee C 1988, Essays in Medical Sociology –
Journeys into the field, Transaction Publishers, New
York

6. Nayar K.R 1998, Ecology and Health – A system

Approach, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi

7. Schwatz, Howard 1994, Dominant Issues in Medical

Sociology, McGraw Hill, New York

PAPER X - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

AND SOCIETY

UNIT - I : TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND CHANGE

• Industrialism

• Capitalism

• Informationalism

UNIT- II : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION

• Transition from Manufacturing to Service Sector

• Transition from Industrialism to Informationalism

• New Work Culture

UNIT -III : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LABOUR

MARKET
• Organisational Network
• Changing Concept of Work
• Changes in the Production Relations
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UNIT- IV : Information Technology and New Social

Divisions

• Global Disparities

• Rural Urban Disparity

• Gender Disparity

UNIT - V : CYBER – CRIME

• Economic Crimes

• Spread of Terrorism through Internet

• Internet and Social Deviance

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Arivind Singhal and Rogers Everett, India’s

Communication Revolution from Bullock Carts to Cyber
Mart, Sage Publication, New Delhi.

2. Barrie Axford and Richard Huggin (eds) 2001, New

Media and Politics, Sage, India

3. Bhatnagar Subhash 2000, Information and

Communication, Technology in Development, Sage
Publication, India.

4. December and Randall, 1994, The World Wide Web

Unleashed, Macmillan Computer Publishing

5. Joann Yates and John Van, Mannen, 2001, Information

Technology and Organisational Transformation, Sage
India.

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6. Manuel, Castells 1996, The rise of Network Society,
Blackwell Publishers

7. Mark Taylor and Esa Shrinivas 1994, Imagologies,

Routledge, London

8. Melkote Sjromovas 2001, The Information Society

Leslies H Steves

9. Michael H, 1993, The Metaphysics of Virtual Society,

OUP, London

10. Preston P, 2001, Reshaping Communications –

Technology Information and Social Change, Sage
Publications, New Delhi.

11. Verena A Conley 1993, Rethinking Technology,

Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press.

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