Objectives :
It is presumed that the student has some familiarity with Indian society by virtue of the fact that he is
a member of it and that he has observed and experienced some facets of it. However, this familiarity is likely
to be superficial, selective and rather fragmentary. The course is aimed at rectifying these limitations by
presenting a comprehensive, integrated and empirically - based profile of Indian society.
The continuity between the present and the past is an evident feature of Indian society. Though this
continuity is reflected in the structure of the course, the focus is on the contemporary Indian society. It is
hoped that the sociological perspective on Indian society presented in this course will also enable students
to gain a better understanding of their own situation and region.
Unit - 1
(A) The textual and the field view of Indian
Society and significance of the filed view the interface between the present and past.
(B) Social composition of Indian society
(C) Rural community - Rural population
Type of Rural Community - Characteristics of rural community
(D) Urban Community
- Urban population - Type of Urban
- Characteristics of Urban community
(E) The tribal people
Tribal population
Characteristics of Tribal Community
(F) Institution - Institutionalization
Meaning, characteristics
Unit - 2 Marriage Institution :
(A) Meaning and forms of marriage.
Monogamy, Polyandry, Polygamy
(B) Hindu marriage as a Sacrament.
(C) Forms of marriage according to Hindu Shastras, Consideration behind made selection.
(D) Restrictions on choice of partners. eg. Endogamy and exogamy.
Bridegroom price, and Bride Price (consent, Age - group, Payments, Partners, inter caste marriage, and
Divorce)
(E) Changes in the institution of marriage in Modern India.
(F) Marriage in Islam.
Unit - 3 Family Institution :
(A) Meaning, functions and forms, eg. Nuclear and Hindu joint family.
(B) Matriarchal and patria Hal. eg. Nair Tarawad, Nambudhri.
(C) Changes in the institution of family in modern India with special reference to the various factors eg.
Industrialization, Modernization. Social Legislation, Mass Communication.
(D) Changes in family relation. eg. Husband - Wife, Parent - Child other relatives.
(E) Intergenerational gap.
Unit - 4 Caste, Class System :
(A) Meaning, features and functions of Caste System.
(B) Change in the institution of caste in Modern India with special reference to the various factors. eg.
Industrialization, Social Legislation, Modernization Mass Communication.
(C) 1. Meaning and Criteria for determine Social Class in India.
2. Caste and Class in present day India.
Unit - 5
(A) Religion Institution
- Meaning characteristics, functions Dysfunctions Religions in India
(B) Political Institution
- Meaning, Characteristics, functions, functions Indian political stucture.
Indian political structure.
Parliament, Lokshbha, Rajyasabha, Assembly Panchayati raj Grampanchayat.
(C) Economy Institution
Meaning, Functions
Form of India Economy
Essential readings :
1. Bose, N.K. 1967, Culture and Society in India. Bombay : Asia Publishing House.
2. Bose, N.K. 1975, Structure of Hindu Society, New Delhi.
3. Dube, S.C. 1990, Society in India (New Delhi : National Book Trust)
4. Dube, S.C. 1995, Indian Village (London : Routledge)
5. Dube, S.C. 1958, India's Changing Village (London : Routledge and Kegan Paul)
6. Karve, Irawati 1961, Hindu Society : An Interpretation (Poona : Deccan College)
7.
Lannoy, Richard, 1971 : The Speaking Tree : A Study of Indian Society and
Culture (Delhi : Oxford
University Press)
8. Mandelbaum, D.G., 1970 : Society in India (Bombay : Popular Prakashan)
9. Srinivas, M.N. 1980 : India : Society Structure (New Delhi : Hindustan Publishing Corporation)
10. Srinivas, M.N., 1963 : India : Social Change in Modern India (California, Berkeley : University of California
Press)
11. Singh, Yegendra, 1973 : Modernization of Indian Tradition (Delhi : Thomson Press)
12. Uberoi, Patricia, 1993 : Family, Kinship and Marriage in India (New Delhi : Oxford University Press)
Pedagogy :
The use of audio-visual media should be a necessary and important component of instruction.
The participation and involvement of students should be ensured through formal and informal discussions
in the class room and field visits. They should be encouraged to write short essays on the local situation
and local issues under the guidance of the teacher.
Wherever possible, illustrations should be drawn from the local situation.
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Objectives :
To understand the influence of population on social phenomena.
To acquaint students with the demographic features and trends of Indian society Vis-a-Vis World population.
To appreciate population control in terms of social needs.
To appreciate population control measure and their implementation.
Board outlines for framing syllabus :
Population size of often considered a crucial variable in appreciating social issues. The problems of developing societies are attributed to their population size. These views demands a proper academic and
objective understanding of the dynamic of population.
Population and Society
Unit - 1
A. - Interface between population size and social development
- Population trends in the world and India - Population pyramid of India and World
B. - Need of population studies in India
- Major source of social demographic studies.
1. Census, uses and limitations. 2. Vital Registration systems uses and limitations.
3. Special surveys.
Unit - 2
A. Basic Demographic Concepts :
Birth Rates, live birth, still birth, reproductive age group, death rate, expectancy of life at birth, sex
ratio, infant mortality rate, population control, family planning, family welfare, small family norms.
B. Meaning of fertility, deferential fertility :
- Factors, affecting fertility - Age at marriage and fertility
- Levels of economic development and fertility - Educational development and fertility.
C. Mortality - cause of death and infant mortality
D. Migration - types and cause of migration
Unit - 3 Population theories :
A. Natural law theories of population (Maltus) B. Social theory of population of Karl mark
C. Theory of Demographic Transition D. Optimum theory of population
Unit - 4 India's Population problems theirs causes :
A. Quantities problems :
Over population, higher dependency ratio, density of population, migration, urbanization.
B. Qualitative problems :
Poverty, unemployment, low standard of family, illiteracy, Food and nutrition, slums, increasing in debases,
crime, prostitutes, beggar, housing shortages.
C. Social dimensions of population education.
Unit - 5
A. Historical review of family planning programme. B. Meaning and need of family planning.
C. Method of family Planning. D. Factors hindering family planning programe in India.
E. India's population policy role of Government and Non Government (N.G.O.) (Voluntary) agencies in family
planning programme.
Essential Readings :
Census of India Reports
Finkle, Jason L and C Ali Mclntosh (Ed) The New Policies of Population. New York : The Population Council, 1994.
Hatcher Robert et al the essential of contraceptive technology baltimere : John Hopkins School of public health,
1997.
Bose, Asish : Demographic Diversity of India Delhi : B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1991.
Premi, M.K. et al : An Introduction to Social Demography Delhi : Vikas Publishing House, 1983.
Rajendra Sharma : Demography and population Problems New Delhi : Atlantic Publisher, 1997.
Srivastava, O.S. : Demography and population studies New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House, 1994.
Chandrashekhar, S. (Ed) Infant Mortality, Population Growth and family planning in India London : George Allen
& Unwin Ltd., 1974.
Reference Books :
1. Agarwala S.N. - India's Population Problems, Bombay : Tata-McGraw-Hill.
2. Mamoria C.B. - India's Population problem.
3. Bhede & T.Kanitkar - 'Principal of population'.
4. K. Srinivasan & S. Mukerji - Dynamics of population on and family - welfare.
5. Rao, Kamala Gopal - 'Studies in family planning : India, New Delhi, Abhinav publication, 1974.
6. Ashish Bose and other : Population in India's Development : 1947, 20 Delhi, Vikas, 1974.
7. Hareley, George.W. : Techniques of population Analysis London, John Wiley and sons. Inc, 1958.
8.
Coale, Ansley J. and Ednar M. Hoover : Population Growth and Economics
Development in low income
countries. Prinction, Princeton -
University Press, 1958.
9. Dadekar kumudini : In Defence of compulsory sterilization economic and political weekly. Vol. 11 No. 12,
May 22, 1976.
10. Ford, Thomas R. and ardon E. Dejone : Social Demography : New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc. 1970.
11. Houser Philip M. (ed) : The Population Dilemma : New jersey : Prentice Hall Inc, 1963.
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Pedagogy :
Study of census reports and writing a brief on the census report studied.
Use of OHP in projecting the diagrammatic representation of demographic features for comparison and under-standing. Alternatively 35 mm colour slides may be prepared and shown for a graphic understanding of the features. Arranging film show on population with films borrowed from films division of the GOI / State Govt.
Demonstration of birth control devices and discussing pros and cons of their use.
Conducting a survey on a small community of the people's reaction to the family welfare programme.
Group discussion with members of the family welfare organization.
Objectives :
Society in India today is undergoing rapid and massive changes. Many of the changes are such that they tend to call into question the ages - old social norms and practices, thus giving rise to some critical social issues and problems.
This course is designed to identify and analyze some of such emerging social issues and problems from sociological perspective. In the interest of systematic ordering the issue and problems have been classified into four sets : structural, familiar developmental and disorganization.
The course seeks to go beyond the commonsense understanding of the prevailing social issues and problems in order to project them into their structure context. Accordingly, it focuses on their structural linkages and interrelationships.
Hence the objectives of the course are to sensitize the student to the emerging social issues and problems of contemporary India, enable them to acquire sociological understanding of these issues and problems over and above their commonsense understanding, empower them to deal with these issues and problems and to serve as change agents both in governmental and non - governmental organizations.
Unit - 1
1. The concept of social problem :
a. Meaning and definition of social problems. b. Characteristics of social problems.
c. Mis-Understanding regarding social problem.
2. Relation of social problems with :
a. Deviant Behavior. b. Social Disorganization.
3. Various Approaches towards social problems :
a. Law, Religion, Art, Journalism. b. Sociological Approach
Unit - 2 Social Problems of modern India :
A. Drug Addication : Meaning, Type, Causes and remedies.
B. AIDS and STD : Meaning, Type, Causes and remedies.
(Sexual Transction Disease)
C. Divorce meaning causes and remedies.
Unit - 3 Social Problems of modern India :
A. Unemployment and : Meaning, Type, Causes and remedies, under employment.
B. Problem of un organized : Meaning, Type, Causes and remedies and Migrated Labour.
C. Dowry meaning, causes.
D. Inequality of gender causes and remedies.
Unit - 4 Social Problem of modern India :
A. Problem of Pollutation : Meaning, Type, Causes and remedies, Air, Water, Noise.
B. Problem of SC, ST and other backward castes and classes.
C. Poverty meaning causes and remedies.
Unit - 5 Social Problem of modern India :
A. Communism Meaning, causes and remedies. B. Problem of Illiteracy : Meaning causes and remedies.
C. Problem of elderly causes and remedies. D. Corruption causes and remedies.
Reference Books :
1. Gillin - Social Problems.
2. Mamoria - Indian Social Disorganization & Social problems.
3. Brij Mohan - Indian Social Problems, Indian International publishers - 1971.
4. Kame J.J. - Social Problems.
Essential readings :
1. Beteille, Andre. 1974. Social Inequality, New Delhi : OUP.
2. Beteille, Andre. 1992. Backward Classes in Contemporary India. New Delhi : OUP.
3. Berreman, G.D. 1979. Caste and Other Inequalities : Essays in Inequality Meerut : Folklore Institute.
4. Dube, Leela. 1997. Woman and Kinship. Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and Southeast Asia.
New Delhi : Saga Publications.
5. Gadgil, Madhav and Guha, Ramchandra, 1996. Ecology and Equality : The use of Abuse of Nature in
Contemporary India., New Delhi : OUP.
6. Gill, S.S. 1998. The Pathology of Corruption. New Delhi : Harper Collin Publisher
7. Guha, Ranjit, 1991. Subaltern Studies. New York : OUP
8. Inden, Ronald. 1990. Imaging India, Oxford : Brasil Blackward.
9. Kothari, Rajani (Ed.), 1973 Caste in Indian Politics.
10. Lewis, Oscar 1966 "Culture of Poverty" Scientific American Vol.II & V No. 4 pp. 1i-25
11. Madan, T.N. 1991. Religion in India, ew Delhi : OUP.
12. Ministry of Home Attairs 1998. Crime in India, New Delhi : Government of India.
13. Salya Murty, T.V. 1996. Region, Religion, Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemportary India, New Delhi :
OUP.
14. Sharma, S.L. 1997. "Towards, Sustainable Development in India" In S.R. Mehta (Ed.) Population, Poverty
and Sustainable Development. Jaipur : Rawat Publications.
15. Sharma, Ursuala. 1983 Women, Work and Property in North West India, London : Tavistock.
References :
1.
Allen, Douglas (Ed.) 1991, Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia. West
Pomconn : Connecticut
University Press.
2. Bardhan, P. 1984. Land, Labour and Rural Poverty. New Delhi : OUP.
3. Breckenbridge, C. 1996, Consuming Modernity : Public Culture in Contemporary India, New Delhi : OUP.
4. Guha, Ramchandra, 1994, Sociology and the Dilemma of Development, New Delhi : OUP.
5. Juegensmeier, Mark 1993, Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State. New Delhi : OUP.
6. Sharma, S.L. 2000 "Empowerment Without Antagonism : A case Reformulation Women's Empowerment
Approach". Sociological Bulletin. Vol. 49, No-1.
7. Waxman. 1983. The Stigma of Poverty : A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies.
Pedagogy :
The course requires a pedagogy that seeks to project the issues and problems contemporary India in a
social structural perspective. For this purpose. the students have to be sensitized to the structural roots of the
problems as well as to the effects of the problems on the existing social structure. In order to give the students
a sympathy understanding of the problems, it will be rewarding to use the methodology of role playing. The students may also encouraged to make on the spot observations of the problems wherever and wherever they
find the recurrence of these problems.
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Objectives :
To acquaint the undergraduate student with the basic concepts in family and kinship studies and demon-
strate how structural principles are used by societies in a consistent logical way to organize groups and categories and infuse them with cultural meanings so that the societal objectives of social integration, social
reproduction and social continuity are realized. The ubiquity of marriage, family and kinship and the variation in
their use of structural and cultural principals necessitates a comparative approach to their study. Within India
the sharp regional variations in kinship and marriage bring home the meaning and significance of cultural diversity and pluralism.
Unit - 1
(A) (1) Family - Characteristics - functions (2) Types - Joint & Nuclear
(3) Functions - change in family
(B) (1) Marriage as a Social Institution
(2) Scope and Restrictions in selection of a mate rules of marriage
Endogmy, exogamy, monogamy, polygamy, polendry
Unit - 2
Kinship in Joint Nuclear Families
Husband and wife
Perent and child
(1) Kinship meaning - type (2) Degree of kinship
(3) Interrelation bases on kinship (4) Function of kinship
Unit - 3
Family Health
(1) Sex education
(2) Small Family norm
(1) Family planning (2) Techniques
(3) Separation and divorce (4) Two roles of women
(5) Generation gap (6) Problems of the aged
(7) Money matters
Unit - 4
(A) (1) Mechanisms for Resolution of crises
(1) Adjustment to new values (2) Change - over of responsibility
(3) Planning for the Future (4) Family counseling services
(5) Legal remedies
Essential Readings :
1. Dube, Leela, 1997. Women and Kinship : Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South East
Asia. New Delhi : Sage Publications.
2. Fox, Robin : 1967, Kinship and Marriage : An Anthropological Perspective Harmondsworth : Penguin.
3. International Encyclopedia of Social Science, 1968.
4. Keesing, R.M. 1975. Kin Groups and Social Structure : New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston.
5. Radcliff Brown, A.R. and Daryll ford (eds.) 1950. Aftican Systems of Kinship and Marriage. London : Oxford
University Press. (Introduction).
6. Shah, A.M. 1998. The Family in India : Critical Essays, New Delhi : Orient Longman.
7. Uberoi, Patricia. 1993. Family, Kinship and Marriage in India. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.
References :
1. Goody, Jack (ed.) 1958. The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups Cambridge : Cambridge University
Press.
2. Graburn, N.(ed) 1971. Readings in Kinship and Social Structure New York : Harper and Row.
3. Madan, T.N. 1965. Family and Kinship : A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir. Bombay : Asia Publishing
House.
4. Radcliffe-Brown 1952. Structure and Function in Primitive Society. London : Cohen and West, Reprinted.
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Students should be exposed to the vast similarities and differences in kinship systems across cultures.
They could be involved in analysing kinship, marriage and family as depicted in deature films and popular literature. Students may also be encouraged to draw genealogies.