M.

A IN SOCIOLOGY

REVISED SYLLABUS (TO BE INTRODUCED FROM 2000-2001)

As per Order No. GA1/B1/2452/96 DT 18.10.2000

Duration of the Course

The Course for the Degree of Master of Arts in sociology shall consist of two
academic years.

Scheme of Examination
Each student will take a total of 8 courses of which courses Course 1 to Course 6
will be compulsory.; Two elective courses will be chosen out of the courses listed as
Elective. However, only regular students are eligible for choosing Research Dissertation
as one of the electives.

COURSE OF STUDY AND SCHEME OF EXAMINATION FOR SCHOOL OF

DISTANCE EDUCATION AND PRIVATE CANDIDATES

Core Hrs of Mark

Uni Exam Distribution Distribution

First Year

01 Classical Social Theory 3 hrs 140 Marks

02 Social Research Methods and Quantitative
Technique 3 hrs 140 Marks

03 Social Structure and Change in India 3 hrs 140 Marks

04 Population and Society 3 hrs 140 Marks

Second Year

05 Schools of Sociological Theory 3 hrs 140 Marks

06 Studies in Agrarian Social Structure 3 hrs 140 marks

07 Sociology of urban Development 3 hrs 140 marks

08 Women and society 3 hrs 140 marks

09 viva voce 100 marks

Total marks 1220 Marks

 M.A. PREVIOUS

Paper 1 – Classical Social Theory

This course intends to provide not merely a history of ideas of the pioneering
sociological thinkers, but more significant familiarization with the current debates about
the aims, scope and relevance of the classical social theory to study contemporary
societies.

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Emergence of classical sociology from the enlightenment social philosophy
1.2 The development of classical inheritance, Political, economic and social contexts.
1.3 Industrial revolution, rise of capitalism and growth of socience.
1.4 Urbanization religious change, rise of socialism

2. AUGUSTE COMTE
2.1 Law of three stages
2.2 Hierachy of sciences
2.3 Social statics and social dynamics

3. HERBERT SPENCER
3.1 Evolutionary theory and social Darwinism
3.2 Structural differentiation, Militant and industrial societies.
3.3 Organic zoology

4. EMILE DURKHEIM
4.1 Discovery of social facts: Objectivity, social facts as things, use of statics to
identify social facts, sociologism; The normal and the pathological – the
normality of crime. Suicide as a social fact, its underlying cause: critique of
Durkhaim’s methodology
4.2 Social integration and system integrationl types of solidarity. The division of
labour
Mechanical and organice solidarity

Repressive law and the conscience allective, the function of the division of labour
Durkhaims functionalism, organic solidarity and restitative law individualism and
dependency in modern societies. Abnormal forms of the division of labour social
conflict industrialism and capitalism, the forced division of labour, Managerial
deficiencies.

4.3 The Sociology of religion and knowledge: The nature of religion: sacred/profane,
totenism, religious beliefs as representations of the social, casual interpretive and
functional analyses of religion

The sociology of knowledge: Use of Kant’s categories, link between social

 structure and structure of thought.

4.4 The sociology of morality and politics education: Moral and social, morality and
social change, aims of moral education: Education of punishment towards
humanist ideals, state and the governing of secondary groupings, state as the
defender of individual rights.

4.5 History and social change: The organise analogy and theory of history. The
division of labour and social species. Durkhims conservatism and socialism.

5. KARL MARX
5.1 Marx’s methods: The primary of production importance of practical every day
life, the action/structure duralism. Dialectical thinking and the separation of
analysis and history.
5.2 Theory of alienation: Human nature as a transformative power Alienations:-
different forms, empirical study of alienation. Commodity fetishism, the
continuity between Marx early and later work. Commodity fetisism as the
alienation of human relationships, the free market.

5.3 Economics of capitalism: labour theory of value labour power as a commodity

with use and exchange value, exploitation, crises of capitalism – forces and
relations of production

5.4 Social class: Peasantry, Bourgeois, petty bourgeoisie, proletariat, Lumpen-

preletariat, continued significance of class. The state as alienated human power,
revolutionary democracy, class and citizenship.

5.5 Historical laws and laws of history. The types of society modes of production.
Asiatic mode – oriental depotism Germanic mode of production Ancient, Feudal
and capitalists modes of Production

Class analyses of history. Dynamics of capitalism. Communism Judaism,

Ancient Judaism & protestant ethic and the spirit of

6. MAX WEBER
6.1 The primicy of social action and different types of meaningful action
understanding social action, ideal types value and value freedom.

6.2 Legitimacy, conflict communal and associative relationships corporate groups and
different forms of control, nature of politics and the state, power as an end in
itself.
6.3 Pre conditions of capitalist economy, advantage of the market, formal and
substantive rationality, pre-condition of the development of national accounting
of production enterprises. Different types of capitalism peculiarities of western
capitalism.
6.4 Weber’s theory of social structure – class, status and party class situation as
market situation and life – chances, the possibility of solidary class relations,
complexity of class structure status as social esteem and life style: relation
 between status and class status groups, education, professional groups self-
interests-Weber’s determinism.

6.5 Power domination and authority. Type of domination charistruatic leadership the
rentinization of charisma, traditional patriauchal domination and its development
in patrimonialism, feudalism and its development, legal proportional domination
and two modern state, the absence absolute basis for authority, legitimacy in legal
nation domination – Bureaucracy.

6.6 Sociology of religion-Tradition and progress/differentiation prophecy and the

growth of Universality. Class analysis of religion. Chinese Religion, Hinduism
Buddhism, ancient Judaism – The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

7 GEORGE SIMMEL
7.1 Society as a form and process the outsiders view. Social forms and the life-
process. Protection of individuality methods and organizational principles.
7.2 Society and the individual individuation and the development of individual
norms, multiple and conflict roles, critigue of universal institutions, Size of
groups, the internal pragility of the dyad from dyad to larger groups.
7.3 The philosophy of Money: Value and exchange. Representations. Money as the
extension of freedom and its psychological consequences.

The growth of objective culture and the structure of subjectivity. Simmel’s theory
of alienation.
7.4 Relationships: Faithfulness and gratitude, sociability, domination, the sociology
of conflict, secrecy and the secret society

Social types: The miser and the spend thrift,the adnter the stranger.
7.5 Modernity: The metropolis, Fashion social groups the poor, the nobility women,
love and sexuality

7. VILFRED PARETO
Logical and non-logical action, Residues and Derivations circulation of elites social
change, socialism and Fascism

9. MAHATMA GANDHI
9.1 Individual, society, freedom, Religionand Science gender and family
9.2 Democracy and politics of the people Trustership Economics with a humanface
Revolution
9.3 Critique of development.

BASIC READINGS:
1. Raymond, Aron: Main currents in sociological thought (2 vols) Hammands worth,
Middle
2. Lan Craib: Classical social theory Oxford, University Press 1997
3. Ronalf Fietcher: The making of sociology (2 vol) 1992
4. Antony Giddens: Capitalism and modern social theory 1971
 5. John Hughes etal: Understanding classical sociology: Marx, Weber and Durkheim
1995
6. George, Ritzer, sociological theory (3rd Edn) 1992
7. J. Turser etal, The emergence of sociological theory 1995
8. Inving. M. Zeitlin Ideology and the Development of sociological thought 1986
9. Leuis. A Coser, Masters of sociological thought

PAPER II

SOCIAL RESERCH METHODS AND QUANTITATIVE

TECHNIQUES

Note: Questions of 50% marks each must be answered from sections A and B

Section: A

Unit 1; Nature of science and social phenomena, values and social sciences, scientific
methods,theory and social research

Unit 2 : Definition and scope of social research, contributions of pure and applied
research to sociology

Unit3: Selection of topic for research, formulations of research problem and hypotheses,
Definition of concepts, establishing working definition, identification of variables.

Unit 4: Research designs: Exploratry, descriptive, experimental and action research.

Unit 5 : Data collection, primary and secondary sources, social surveys, questionnaire,
interview. Types of interviews, comparison between questionnaire and interview methods
observation, Types of observations, Projective Techniques, case study, content analysis,
sociometry, Ethical problems in field research.

Unit 6: Recent trends in qualitative research. Textual analysis and Documentary realities
conversation analysis and institutional talk Analysis of Activities in face of Face inter
action using video.

Addressing social problems through Qualitative Research.

SECTION B

Unit 7 Sampling, Randon, systematic, stratified, multi stage purposive quota and mixed
sampling, problems in sampling and non-sampling errors.

Unit 8 Sealing techniques. The basic problems construction of Bogardus, Thurston and
likert’s scales- validity and reliability of scales.
Unit 9 Data analysis and interpretation, classification and fabrulation. Manual and
mechanical processing of data, diagrammatic graphic representation of
data. Report Writing Descriptive and interteretial statistics parametric
and non parametric statistics, importance of statistics in social research,
misuse of statistics and its consequences. Selection of appropriate
statistical tools for application

Unit 10 Calculation of Mean, median, mode, range,mean deviation, quartile

deviation and standard deviation. Application of the measures in sociology
research.

Unit 11 Correction and Regression: Scatter diagram: Karl pearson’s coefficient of

correlation, rank correlation Coefficient of Conenssent deviation, Linear
regression
Unit 12 Elementary ideas of Probability. The bionomial Poisson Distributions,
Normal Curve.
Unit 13 Test of association chi-square test

BOOKS FOR STUDY

1. C. Selfi. M. Jahoda - Research methods in Social relations

M. Dentrch & S.W Coak
2. W.J. Goode and P.K. Halt – Methods in social Research
3 P.V. Young Scientific social surveys and Research
4 Madge,John The tools of social science
5 L. Festinger and D Katz Research Methods in behavioural sciences
6 Ede Vaids Scaling techniques
7 Lillian cohen Statistics for social scientists
8 Hagood and price Statistics for sociologists
9 Sjoberg and Net. R A methodology for social research
10 Smelser, Neil. J Comparative methods in Social research
11 David Silverman (ed) Qualitative Research sage, 1997

Books for references

1. Blumer, Martin (ed) Sociological Research methods An introduction

2. Madge, John Origins of Scientific sociology
3. Hubert M. Blalock Social statistics
4. D.C. Miller Hand book of social Research Design and social Measurement
5 F.S Chabin Experimental Designs in social research
6 A. Cicrered Method and Measurement in Sociology
7 MC call G. Js. Simon, J.L Issues in Participant observations A text and Reader
8 Earl Bablies Survey Research Methods

PAPER III

SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CHANGE IN INDIA

 This course intends to provide a theoretically informed and substantively adequate
introduction to the Sociology of Indian society.

Unit 1 Sociology as a discipline in India: emergence

a. Accounts of Foreigners on Indian social life
b. Orientalist and indological constructions
c. British reports on Indian society
d. Graphic and social anthropological studies
e. Contributions of pioneers

D.P Mukkergi
G.S.Ghurye

Unit II Approaches to the study of Indian social structure

a. Evolutionary approaches Sanskritization and westernization” little and great
Traditions
b. Structural Approaches : Structure, differentiation and mobility
c. Cognitive-Historical approaches
d. Dialectical approach
e. Integrated approach to Indian social reality Yogendra Singh’s views
D.N. Dhanagre’s views

Unit III Critical study of Caste

a. Historical emergence: Hinduization of and sects.
b. Field views on caste
M.N Srinivas
Louis Dumont
Mickim Marriot
c. features of Caste Systems
Caste as a descant group
d. Caste and class in India
e. Dominant cast and Jajmani system
f Politicization of caste Mobility and caste reform movements, emergence of caste
associations
f. Dalit movement, Backward castes and anti caste struggles

Unit III: Family, Marriage and Kinship

a. Kinship organization in India with special reference to the southern region
b. Family and Household, variations in Family structure Life-cycle of family
c. Joint Family, C0-parcenary system, inheritance, Degrees of Jointness
d. Changes structure and function of family in India
e. Matrillineal family and inheritance in Kerala changes in colonal and post colonial
periods
f. F. Marriage; principles and forms: Marriage among Hindus, Muslims and
Christians, Divorce, widow marriage, Dowry-changes
g. Women’s role in family/household Roots of Women’s inequality-decision-
making in family
 h. Recent trends; impact of legislations and socio economic changes upon family,
marriage and kinship

Unit IV Village Community in India

a. physical organization settlement patterns
b. Framework for studying village community, Little community, peasant society,
folk culture and rural urban continuum; Asiastic Mode of production.
c. Village polity: patterns of dominance, facit imallsm; Panchayat Raj
d. Economic structure; agrarian relations, rural class structure, reforms before and
after independence.
e. Processes of social change in rural India, parochialization and Universalization,
industrialization modernization
f. Review of village studies in India
g. Rural urban interactions and rural development

Unit V Nation Building: Society and State

a. Social background of Indian Nationalism
b. Nation building and its problems
c. Political parties and new elites
d. Problems of minorities
e. Plural society, secularization and democratization
f. Problems of gender inequality

Unit VI Critical issues in Indian society

a. Economic and social inequalities
b. Caste conflict and Reservation
c. Communal tension and violence
d. Regionalism and nationalism

Unit VII Social Movements in India

a. Women’s movement
b. Agarian movement
c. Labour movement
d. Student movement

Readings
1. Ahmed. 1 (ed.), : Caste and social stratification among Muslims in India
2. Ahmed e (ed) : Family, kinship and marriage among Muslims in India
3. Beteille. A : Caste, class and power
4. Desai. A.R : Rural Sociology in India
5. Desai. A.R : Modernization of under developed societies (vol.)
6. Desai. I.P : Some aspects of Family in India
7. Daniele.Y.B : Caste, Religion and politcs in India
8. Kolenda. PM : Caste in contemporary India
9. Mandelbum D.g : Society in India
10. Kapadia. K.M : Marriage and Family in India
11. Singer M. & Cohn B (ed) Structure and change in Indian society
12. Singh, Yogendra : Modernization of Indian Tradition
 13. Singh, Yogendra : Indian sociology – social conditioning and emerging
concerns
14. Srinivas. MN : Caste in modern India and other Essays
15. Srinivas. MN : Social changes in Modern India
16. Shrinivas. M.N : On living in a Revolution and other Essays 1992
17. Kothari Rajini : Caste in Indian Politics
18. Mydral G : Asian Drama ( 3 vol)
19. Dube. S.C India’s villages
20. Dumont. L Home Hierarchies
21. Rose. A The Hindu Family in an urban setting
22. Shrinivas, M.N (ed) India’s villages
23. Lemerciner. G Religion and ideology in Kerala
24. Srinivas T.N and BardhanP.K(Ed)- Rural poverty in south Asia
25. Das, Veena Structure and Cognition Aspects of Hindu caste and Ritual
26. Frnkas & Rao MSA (ed) Dominance and state power in Modern India(2 Nos)
27. Iswaran. K Change and continuity in Indian villages
28. Kawe Irawati Kinship Organizing in India
29. Alavi H & Havis J (ed)Sociology of Developing societies south Asia
30 G.H. Ghunge Caste in India
31. Thomas Trautman-Dravidian Kinship
32. Schnieda D, Gough K (ed) Matrilincal Kinship
33. Chris Fuller Nairs Today
34. D.H. Dhanagre Themes and perspectives in Indian Sociology, 1993

PAPER IV

POPULATION AND SOCIETY

Unit 1
Introductory: Nature and scope of demography field ofdemography mutual dependence
of on and society develolment of PPn studies Basic demographic concepts

Unit 2.
Sources of ppn data. Primary – secondary-teritary census vital statistics and sample
surveys sample Registration schemel in India – Analysis of ppn data evaluation accuracy
and error. The social significance of the census

Unit 3
Population theories: Early views on ppn issues Chines, Greek, Roman thinkers- Religion
and ppn issues- Pre-Malthusian theory, classical and neoclassical, Biological theories,
Social theories, Marxist and socialist views, Optimum ppn theory demographic transition
theory.

Unit 4
Population structure and characteristics sex-age structure of population factors
determining the age sex structure of developed and developing countries. Marital status,
occupational status educational attainment and literacy, rural Urban, ethnic religious and
cultural characteristics, labour unemployment, population pyramid: changes in
population composition and consequences on children, women and the aged, welfare
policies.

Unit 5
Fertility-Fecundity. Measurement of fertility – social psychological and cultural factors
of fertility, levels and trends in fertility in developed and developing countries, fertility
differences between the developed and developing nations. Differences of fertility in
Indian population. Fertility control programmes in India and other developing countries,
theories of fertility. Women and fertility programme in India – girl child in India.

Unit 6
Mortality Morbidity Measurement of mortality, mortality by age and sex, causes of death,
determinants of death, levels and trends in mortality in developed and developing
countries with special reference to India. Infant mortality, factors affecting infant
mortality, mortality differentials, social effects of societal differences in mortality.

Unit 7
Migration internal and international migration - measurement of internal migration,
differential migration by age, sex marital status and by educational attainment. General
theories of internal migration, internal migration in India. Impact of male migration on
women.

Unit 8
World population – Growth and distribution; factors in population distribution; Urban
and Rural population; ecology and population human geography

Unit 9
Indian population-Growth and distribution – social and demographic characteristics of
Indian population. Component of population growth – social implications of population
growth in India current population situation in India and comparison with populations of
other developing countries.

Unit 10
Population policy. Pronatalist andantinalalist policies, migration influencing and
population redistribution policies; population growth and socio-economic development;
Social economic and political determinants of population policy. Indian population
policy and programmes role of legislation in defining population policies.

Unit 11
Kerala population – Demographic transition-Growth and distributions of Kerala
population comparative analysis of population of the districts of Kerala. Fertility,
mortality and migration pattern of Kerala. Demographic structure of Kerala.
Determinants of demographic change-consequences of demographic change.

Readings
1. Agarwala. S.N - India’s population problems
2. Baroclay GN - Techniques of population Analysis
3. Bogue D.J - Principles of Demography
4. Bose A - Patterns of population change in India 1951-61
5 Bose A - India’s Urbanization 1901-2001
6 Chandrasekhar. S - Infant Mortality. Population growth and family
planning in India.
7 Clarke. Jl - Population Geography
8 Houser and Duncan - A study of population: An inventory and Apprisal
9 Mohanthy S.P and A.R Momin Census as social document
10 Mandelbaum D.G Human Fertility in India
11 Mahafrbsn. K and Sumangala M- social development cultural change and fetility
decline
12 Thompson and Lewis Population problems
13 Srivastava. S.C Studies in Demography
14 Mamoria CB India’s Population problems
15 Premi K.K. Ramanamma
A and Usha Bambawale An introduction to social & demography
16 Asha A. Bhende and Tarakanitkar- Principles of population studies
17 United Nations The determinants and consequences of poplation
trends
18 United Nations World population trends and policies Vols 1 and II
19 Krishnan TV Parperising Agriculture
20 O.S. Shrivastava A text book of Demography
21 K.C. Zacheriah and S. Irudaya Rajan (ed) Kerala’s demographic transition
Determinats and consequences.

M.A. FINAL
PAPER – V

SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Nature of Sociological theory, Meaning characteristic
1.2 Levels of theorization
1.3 Theory and Research: Reciprocal bearings

2. FUNCTIONAL THEORY

2.1 Origin-Utilitanianism,
Organismic analogy
Basic Postulates and
Functional pre-requisites

2.2 Functional theory of Bimalinowshi

2.2.1 functional analysis of cultural system
2.2.2 Theory of needs: institutional analysis
2.2.3 Analysis of purpose-social Action
2.2.4 Levels of needs and institutions

2.3 The Analytical Functionalism of T. Parsons

2.3.1 Basic assumptions of action theory and systems theory
2.3.2 Functional pre-requisites-A Gil

2.4 Empirical Functionalism of R.K. Mert on

2.4.1 Theories of the middle Range
2.4.2 Toward the condification of functional analysis in sociology
2.4.3 Vocabyularies and criticisms of the prevailing postulates
2.4.4 A paradign for cunctional analysis, manifest and latent functions

2.5 Criticism of Functional theory

2.5.1 Critism as a method
2.5.2 Substantive criticism
2.5.3 Criticism as a perspective: A historical, conservative, unable to analyses change,
logical criticisms, Teleology Tautology

2.6 Neo-functionalism of J. Alexander

3. CONFLICT THEORY
3.1 Origin of conflict perspective-criticisms of functionalism – influence of K. Marx.
M. weber and G. simmal
3.2 Karl Marx: The overall perspective, Theory of class, Alienation, The sociology
of knowledge, Dynamics of social change, critical strains in Marx’s thought.
3.3 George simmel: conflict cunctionalism, critique of Marx’s emancipatory theory,
simmel’s views on modern culture Dialectical method, for all sociology
4.3.4 Legitimatation of power leadership and power in formed organizations
4.3.5 Cognitive dissonance, Exploitation, Role of values in complex structure.
4.3.6 Homans and Balue: Comparison and contrast: critical appraisal

4. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

5.1 Major Historical Roots:

Pragmatism, Behaviourism, Darapnism Between Reductionism and Sociologism
5.2 George Herbert Mead
The priority of the social: That act, Gestures, significant symbols a mental
processes and mind theory of self, Role taking Generalised other Play stage and
Game State “Me and I’ two phases of self society.

5.3 Symbolic interactionism: Basic Principles:-

Capacity for thought, thinking and interaction

Learning meanings and symbols
Action and Interaction, making choices

5.4 C.H. Cooley

Looking glass self, primary group
 Communication, Organic theory of society

5.5 Herbert Blumer

Symbolic interation:
Interprective processes
5.6 Eriving Goffman
The self, groups and society
Process of impression management.
Expressive dimension of behaviour
Asylums, Roles and Freedom
Public gatherings and situations criticism

3.4 Mewis A. Coser

3.4.1 Functional analysis of conflict.
Images of social organization
3.4.2 Propositions of conflict processes
The course of conflict
3.4.3 The violence of conflict
Duration of conflict
A critical appraisal

3.5 Ralf Dahrendorf

3.5.1 The dialectics of conflict
3.5.2 Image of social order
Imperatively co-ordinated Associations
3.5.3 Methodological problems
Critical Appraisal

5. EXCHANGE THEORY
4.1 Behaviorism, Rational choice Theory
The social psychology of groups
4.2 George C. Homans

4.2.1 Exchange, Justice and Power

4.2.2 Homan’s propositions, success. Stimulus, value, Deprivation-Satiation
Aggression approval, Rationality propositions
4.2.3 Homan’s application on able and the Gang and ‘The bank wiring Room’.
4.2.4 Criticism

4.3 Peter M. Blau

4.3.1 Process of exchange:
Four stages
4.3.2 Values, norms and interests in social exchange
4.3.3 Power and its differentiation:
Alternatives to submission using the principles. Hanold garfinkel’s
ethnomethodological experiments.
6.4.5 Phenomenology and ethnomethodology compared
7. Structuralism
7.1 Claude
7.1.1 Linguistic origin:
Sassur’s conceptions of structure language and parole
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures
7.1.2 Myths, Tolemism, Kinship
Culinary triangle
7.1.3 Criticism
7.2 Structuralist Marxism
7.2.1 Louis Althousers’
Contributions:
7.2.2 Nicos. Podulatutzaz’s contributions
7.2.3 Criticisms

8 Critical Theory
8.1 Role of the Institute for social Research, Frankfurt in the emergence of
Critical theory
8.2 Philosophical and methodological foundations
8.3 Max Harkheimer’s project on the cumulative integration of working class into
post-liberal capitalism
6. Phemenology and Ethnomethodology
6.1 Edmend Hussrel emergence of Phenomenology
6.2 Karl Mannheim
The sociology of knowledge
6.3 Alfred schutz
6.3.1 Phenomenological interactionism knowledge of others, Reciprocity of
perspectives, Multiple Realities
6.3.2 Common sense and Scientific concepts
Typicality of Every day Experience
“In order to “ motives and “ Because’ Motives
6.3.3 common sense and social science
The constructs and models of social science
6.4 Ethnomethodology: Definition

6.4.1 Origin and influence of blumer, Goffman, Schutz and Husser

6.4.2 Nature of Ethnomethodology
The Diversification of Ethnomethodology early examples-Breaching
6.4.4 Reflexive action and interaction indesicality of meaning; general interactive
methods: Searching for the normal form doing a receiprocity of perspectives.Doing
Shyness (and self confidence)
Experiments accomplishing sex
6.4.3 Conversation analysis
Telephone conversations: identification and recognition, irritating laughter,
generating applause Booing the Interactive emergence of sentences and stories
Formulations, integration of talk and non Verbal Activities
Doing Shyness (and self-confidence)

8.4 Contributions of Fredrich Pollock and Erich from to Horheimers Project

8.5 Weakness of early critical theory
8.6 Inner and outer circles
8.7 Attempt of the outer circle to re-formulate the declining critical theory
8.8 Theredore and Adorno:
Philosophy of negative dialectics. The dialectic of enlightenment critique of
existentialism
8.9 Jurgen Habermas:

The public sphere, Critique of Science, Universal Pragmatics,

Reconceptualisation of social evolution. Different types of actions –
teleological,Normative, dramaturgical and communicative. Redefining
rationality, life world and system world: The crisis of capitalist society

Critical theory today

9 Neo-Marxian Theory
9.1 Radical sociology of C. Wright Mills sociological imagination power, elite white
collar society
9.2 Hegelian Marxism – Antonio Gramses
9.3 Historically oriented Marxism
The modern world system

Readings:
1. Martindale: The nature and types of sociological theory
2. Tuvner. J Structure of sociological theory
3. Ritger G. Sociology, A Multiple paradigum science Rawatt.Jaip
4. Ritzer G Modern Sociological Theory 4th Ed. MC grawill 1996
5. Blaw Exchange and power in Social life
6. Coser L.A – Masters of sociological thought
7. Irving M. Zeithia: Rethinking Sociology. A Critique of contemporary Theory
8. Gartinkel H. Studies in Ethnomethodology
9. Gottman, H. The presentation of self in society
10. Gouldner A. the coming crisis of western sociology
11. Anothany Giddins: Central problems in social theory
12. Anthery Giddens: profiles in social theory

PAPER VI
STUDIES IN AGRARIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Unit1 : Introduction: emergence of peasant society in

History (a) Peasants and Primitives, Civilization
(b) Caloric minima and surpluses – social surplus
(c) The role of city – The place of peasantry in society
(d) Importance of the study of peasant society

Unit. 1 Economic aspects of peasantry

a) Peasant ecotypes: paliotechnic and Neotechnic ecotypes
 b) The provision of complementary goods and services. The disposition of
peasant surplus
c) Types of Domain, Patrimonial, probendal and Mercantile domains
d) Market and peasant economics
e) Sociological problems of the occupation of farmers

Unit III Modes of production in agriculture

(a) concept of mode of production
(b) Feudal, semifeudal and capitalist relations of production
(c) Institutional changes and their impact
Unit IV Agrarian Relations
a) Social Hierarchy in Agrarian society
b) Social inequality and Economic inequality
c) Trimini system,Halisystem and Jemi system

Unit V The social context of agriculture technology

a) The context of Green Revolution

b) Green revolution and class-formation in India agriculture
c) Technological changes and their impact

Unit VI Social aspects of peasantry

a) The domestic group in Peasantry: Peasant family types: patterns of inheritance
b) Selection processes and defensive strategies
c) Peasant coalitions and the larger social order
d) Religion in peasant society

Unit VII Peasant movement

a) Theories of peasant movement
b) Phases of peasant movement in India
c) Agarian legilsation and Peasant movement in India

Unit VIII Peasant Unrest and peasant movements in colonial and Post-colonial
India
a) Moplah Rebellion
b) Bardoli Satyagraha
c) Tebhaga movement
d) Telengana movement
e) Nexalbari movement

Unit IX Peasant organizations

a) Farmers Association
b) Agricultural labourer’s Association

Books for study

1. Eric, R. Wolf: Peasants, Printers Hall inc 1966
 2. Teodn shanon Peasants and Peasant societies Penguin books Ltd 197
3. A.R.Desai Peasant struggles in India OUI 1979
4. Andre Beleithe Studies in Agrarian structure New Delhi OUI 1974
5. Andu Beteithe Six essays in comparative sociology Delhi OUP 1974
6. D.N Dhanagone Peasant movements in India New Delhi OUP
7. K.C. Alexander Peasant organizations in south IndiaNew Delhi, Indian Soc
Inst.1981
8. M.S.A Rao Social movement in India vol.
9. Joan P. Mercher The Social Anthropology of Peasantry Bombay, Somaiya
Publications 1989
Books for Reference
1. J. Harries Capitalism and peasant farming New Delhi OUP 1982
2. Eric states The Peasant and the Raj-studies in Agrarian society and
peasant Rebellions in colonial India, New Delhi Vikas,
1978.
3. Bhowani Sen Evolution in Agrarian Relations India, Delhi PPH 1962
4. Ranajith Gupta Elementary aspects of peasant in Surgency in colonial
India OUP1988
5. P. Radhakrishnan Peasant struggles in Malabar- Suga publications
6. K.P. Kannan Of Rural Production struggles OUP 1988
7. T.K OOmman From mobilization to institutionalization The dynamics of
agrarian movements in 20th Century India
8. S.K. Lal (Ad) Sociological problems of land reforms, New Delhi 1992

9. K.N. Zanikkar Against: ord and State New Delhi OUP

10. A.R.Desai (Ed) Peasant movements in Indian 1978 OUP Bombay

11. K. gough Rural society in South East India 1981 Cambridge

University Press
12. E. Wolf Europe and the people without History 1982, University
press, California

PAPER VII ELECTIVE – I

SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Unit – 1 Introduction
a Origin and Development of Urban society
b Nature and scope of Urban Sociology

Unit II
a.City b. Urbanism c. rural-urban continuum and industrialization e. urbanization –
factors and measurement of urbanization –Urbanization in India

Unit III
Historical Analysis of city
A Ancient
B Medival
C Pre-industrial
D Colonial
E Modern and Metropolis

Unit IV
Classification of cities – problems of classification-different bases of classification –
Population size, edonomic function, social area Analysis

Unit V
Urban ecology-Ecological processes- centralization, decentralization, segregation,
invasion

Unit VI
Theories of Urban growth – concentric zone theory, sector theory, Multiple Nuclear
theory-Transportation theory

Unit VII
Evolution of modern urban system. Sources of Urban growth. Technology and industry,
demographic context, migration, aggregation versus dispersal as forces in metropolital
ecology – suburbanization exurbia, neighbour hood Rural-urban conurbation,
agglomeration. Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: Herbert J. Gan’s critique of
Louis wirth

Unit VIII
Urban social structure and Urban problems. Urban family, Urban religion, Urban
recreation, education Urban problems crime juvenile delinquency environmental
pollution

Unit IX
Urban planning- Meaning and significance of Urban Planning fundamentals of Urban
Planning, Relevance of sociology in town planning – Urban renewal, slum, urban hosing,
satellite centres, new town movements.

Unit X
Cities in Developing Societies: Urbanization in the developing world: Poverty and Urban
Social organization Urban to economic organization – modern and small – scale sectors,
class – relations and the state.

Unit XI
Urbanization in India; historical trends, over-urbanization on rural India, Indian policy
on urban development, the urban city,, industrialization and new town development,
planning for regional growth. Future of urbanization.

Readings
1. Alfread de souza(ed): The Indian city 1983.
2. Anderson N. The industrial urban community
3. Bersel E.E. Urban sociology
4. Berry, Erian J.L – The Human consequence of Urbanization.
5. Bose, A- Indias urbanization 1900-2001.
6. Brecre G. – The city in Newly Developing countries.
7. Castells, M-The urban. Question A Marxist Approach
8. Desai. A.R. and Pillai, S.D(ed) slume and urbanization.
9. Fishman, R-Urban Utopias in the 20th century.
10. Fox R.G.(Ed), Urban Indian society, space and Image.
11. Hansen, P.M. and schore L.F- The study of urbanization
12. Jakobson, L and Prakash, V-Urbanization and National Development
13. Manickam. T.J. and Vagalo, S.B. et al- New Jewns in India.
14. Mc Gee, T.G.-The Urbanization process in the third world.
15. Meadows, P and Mozanichi, E.H.(eds) Urbanism, Urbanization and Change;
Comparative
prospectives. Mumford, L-citics in History
17. Noble, A. and Dutt, A-(eds)- Indian Urbanization and planning.
18. Smith, W.J. Urban Development, the process and problems.
19. Southall, a (ed) cross- cultural studies of Urbanization.
20. Sovani, N.V- Urbanization and urban India.
21. Jurner, Ray India’s urban future.
22. UNESCO, Urbanization in Asia and far East.
23. Quinn-Urban Sociology.
24. M.S. Gere-Urbanization and Family change.
25. Gist of fava – Urban Society.
26. Meller J.R. Urban Sociology in Urbanized society.
27. Ajay K. Mchra – The politics of Urban Development.
28. H.Alavi E.T. Shanian – sociology of Developing Societies.
29. Brock.R.(etal) An Introduction to Sociology.

PAPER VIII (ELECTIVE II)

WOMEN & SOCIETY

Unit 1. Nature and significance of women’s Studies;

Women studies in India – Necessity and Rationale for Studying Women’s
Studies In international Setting.

Unit II Women and society.

A. Theories regarding sex roles:
1) Biological II) Psychological III) sociological IV) anthropological.
B. Feminism and Sociology

Unit III Contemporary Feminist Theory:

1. Theories of gender 1960-Present
Macro – Social theories of gender Functionalism
Analytic Conflict theory
World – systems theory
Micro – social theories of gender.

2. Theories of gender differences cultural feminism

Biological
 Institutional and Socialization
Social – psychological

3. Theories of gender inequality

Liberal feminism.
Marxian – Marx and Engel’s explanation
4. Theories of gender oppression
Psychoanalytic feminism.
Radical Feminism.
Socialist Feminism

5. Third – World feminism.

Diversity – critique – Vectors.

Unit V Women in the Indian Family;

Changing family structures and their effects on Women, role of
employed and unemployed women in various family structures, socialization of Women
violence in the family.

Unit VI Gender and Economic Political inequality:

A. Economic inequality, definition – productive and unproductive visible and
invisible, paid and unpaid work; and their effects on women; changing forms of domestic
labour; Domestic labour in pre-capitalist and capitalist societies; women in agriculture,
industry and service sectors, Impact of technological development of women
b. Women in the political process

Unit VII Women and Law:

Women in the Indian constitution Laws relating to women’s property, inheritance,
industrial laws, conditions, of work and pay, marriage, divorce, dowry, rape

Unit VIII Women’s Movement:

A social Reform movement, Women’s Role in the Freedom Movement-Post-
independence development of women’s Movement, Eco-feminism as a movement,
Women’s movement in Kerala
B Comparison of women’s movement from one of the developed countries (USA/UK)
and one of the developing countries (Sri Lenka/Africa/Latin America)

Unit IX Contemporary problems and issues concerning women:

A)Social Problems :- i) Dowry ii) Divorce iii) suicide iv) Sexual harassment and
exploitation v) Prostitution vi) Media violence vii) Rape viii) problems of destitute and
aged women ix) Educational problems of women.

B) i) Obstecles to implementation of legal provisions

ii) Health problems of women iii) Economic problems of working women, dual
role; women and development

Unit X Methodologies in Women’s Research

Generational Studies
ii) Content Analysis iii) Case studies iv) oral History: Historical Research Modification
of survey Techniques and indept interviews:

References
1 .Evelys reed – women evolution from in matriarchal clan to patriarchal
Family,New York, Patthfinder 1975

2. Eamilton Roberta The liberation of Women: A Study of patriarchy and

capitalism,London (George Allen& Unwin) 1978)

3. Maria Mies Indian women and Patriarchy, New Delhi, concept

company,1979

4. Mahajan V.S Women’s contribution to India’s Economic and social

development. New Delhi, Deep & Publications 1989

5 Murali Manohar Socio-Economic Status of Indian women; New Delhi;

Seema Publications, 1983

6. Maithreyi Krishnaraj Women’s Status in India. Some Perspectives: Popular

Prakashan 1986

7. Chandrakala A Changing Status of Women: Bangalore allied Publishers,

Pvt. Ltd 1969

8. Prathima, Asfeena Women’s Movement in India, Bombay Himalaya

Publishing House 1988

9. Neera Desai Women’s Movement in India, Bombay Himalaya

Publishing House 1988

10 . Neera Desai and - Women and Society in India: Research Centre for
women’s Maithreyi Krishnaraj Studies, SNDT Women’ University,
Bombay 1989

11. Maria Mies Partirchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. Women in

The international Division of Labour, zed Books, 1986.

12. Claudia von weslh (et’al) Women the last colony, Kali for Women, zed Books

13. Hatkey Afshan ed Women Development and survival in the Third World,
London Longman-1991

14. Vandana Shiva, Staying alone-Women Ecology and survival in India

15. Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies – Eco-Feminism Kali for women, 1993

16 Vina Mazumdur and– women’s studies New Perspectives and

Kumud sharma challenges EPW Vol. XIV November 3, January 20,1979

17. Women’s studies and social sciences in Asia Bankok, Unesco, 1983

18. Shrinnivas M,.N Changing position of Indian women

19. Parashar, Archane Women and Family Reform in India sage, New Delhi 1992
20. Einstein, Hester Contemporary Feminist Thought, London, Unwin Paper
books
1984 Chapter 1,2,7&9

21. George Rizes Modern Sociological theory the Mc Gaw Hill companies,
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