Syllabus for Four Year B. A Honors Course of (Subject: Introducing Sociology)

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Syllabus for Four Year B. A Honors Course Effective from the

(Session: 2009- To be continued)

Detailed Syllabus First Year

Course Title: Introducing Sociology

Course Code: 6203, Marks 100, 4 Credits, 60 Lectures

  

1.    Definition, Nature & Scope of Sociology, relationship with other social sciences. Development of Sociology: Contributions of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber

2.    Culture, Beliefs & Values: Norms, sanctions, symbols, language, subculture, counterculture, hegemony & resistance

3.    Globalization, Culture and Society: Globalization and its different dimensions, Cultural globalization, global culture and social change

4.    Urbanization and Social Formation: Definition of urbanization and urbanism, Process of urbanization in developing societies and the social formation, over urbanization, growth of slum & poverty in mega cities

5.    Gender and Society: Discourse of WID, WAD and GAD, Why gender is important in the discourse of development, Gender inequality & women’s subjugation in developing societies.

6.     Environmental Problems, Natural Disasters and Social Crisis: Climate change and its impact on society, Natural disaster, social crisis and vulnerabilities, Climate change, deforestation and mal-development.

7.    Social Inequality: Dimensions of social inequality: Class, gender, age, minority group (religious and indigenous), economic vulnerability, Social inequalities in developed & developing countries.

8.     Types of societies: Marxist view on classifying societies on the basis of the type of control over economic resources and Lenski’s view on classifying societies by their main means of subsistence.

9.    Deviance & Social Control: Definition of deviance, theories of deviance. Crime & justice system, agencies of social control

1       Health, Illness and Society: Nature & scope of the problem, Urbanizations, acute, chronic &       lifestyle diseases, Social, environmental & behavioral factors affecting health, Communicable &   behavioral diseases: STD, HIV/AIDS, TB, Hep-B etc

Reference

Giddens Sociology Tony Bilton et al In