This course introduces the students to the dynamics of development. Besides making the student acquainted with the broad processes of historical evolution and development of human societies, it also engages the students with the new momentum of development those were set in motion through scientific and industrial revolution, modernization and westernization, decolonization and democratization. The growth of capitalist, socialist and the mixed models of developments are also discussed in this course. It has discussed in length the limitations of the growth model of development and the alternatives to it in the form of human, social and sustainable development. Verities of new strategies of development like those of the micro, ethno, people centric and the civil society and state engagement with development have been part of this course. The developmental imbalances, those are encountered by the society in its transitions from agricultural to industrial, industrial to knowledge society and their social ramifications are elaborated in this course.. The course content is founded on a comparative perspective.
Course Credit |
8 |
Prof.
Debal K. SinghaRoy MA, MPhil, PhD, is Professor of Sociology in
the Faculty of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National
Open University, New Delhi.
Professor SinghaRoy is a recipient of an Australian Government Endeavour
Fellowship, 2010. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Cosmopolitan Civil
Societies Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He was
a Commonwealth Fellow and Visiting Professor of Sociology of Social Movements
at The Open University, United Kingdom (2006-2007); a Fellow with the
Alternative Development Studies Programme, Netherlands (2003); Visiting
Research Fellow in the University of Alberta, Canada (2001); Visiting scholar
in the La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, (1999 & 2007). Recently
(2018) he was also in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and University of
McMaster, Hamilton, Canada as Shastri-Indo Canadian Visiting Fellow.
Professor Singharoy has researched extensively in the areas of identity and identity construction, social movements, agrarian studies, social development, marginalization, social exclusion, sociology of distance education and knowledge society. His important publications include Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories, Sage Publication, New Delhi 2018, Towards a Knowledge Society: New Identities in Emerging India: Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2014, Peasant Movements in Post Colonial India: Dynamics of Mobilisation and Identity, Sage Publication, 2004; Social Development and the Empowerment of the Marginalised Perspectives and Strategies(ed), Sage Publication New Delhi, 2002; Women, New Technology and Development, Manohar Publication 1995; Women in Peasant Movements: Tebhaga, Naxalite and After, Manohar Publication 1992; Social Movements: A Course Guide, Athabasca University, Canada, 2006; Dissenting Voices and Transformative Actions: Social Movements in Globalizing World (ed) Manohar Publication, New Delhi, 2010; Interrogating Social Development: Global Perspectives and Local Initiatives (ed), Manohar Publication, New Delhi, 2010; Surviving Against Odds: Marginalized in a Globalising World, (ed), Manohar Publication, New Delhi, 2010. His upcoming book is Partition, Nationalism and Patriotism. He has published several research papers in nationally and internationally reputed journals and in the international Encyclopedia of Social Movements.
Professor SinghaRoy is member of Member Board of Studies, Academic Council and Board of Management of several universities of the country. He is member of several professional
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