MSO 004. Sociology in India

By Prof. Debal K. SinghaRoy | Indira Gandhi National Open University

Learners enrolled: 1512

This course introduces students to Indian society and to the sociological understanding of Indian society in terms of its institutions, social processes and their dynamics. Towards this endeavour besides engaging the students with the historical understanding of development of sociology in India, it engages them with the dynamics of caste, tribes, religion, gender, family marriage, kinship, social classes in the contests of fast change and transformation in the society. It also focuses on the issues of migration, industrialization, globalization, communalism, secularism and social movements in Indian society and their sociological understanding.

Course Credit

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Not Applicable
Duration :	16 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	8
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	15 Jul 2020
End Date :
Enrollment Ends :	14 Oct 2020
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Sociology in India
BLOCK 1:
Week 1		Unit-1 Social Background of the Emergence of Sociology in India
Week 2		Unit-2 Emergence of the Discipline: Issues and Themes Unit-3 Village Studies in India
BLOCK 2:
Week 3		Unit-5 Brahminical Perspective Unit-6 View from the Field
Week 4		Unit-7 Ambedkar and Lohia on Caste Unit-8 Census Perspective
BLOCK 3:
Week 5		Unit-9 The Household and the Family Unit-10 The Household as a Cooperative—Conflicting Unit
Week 6		Unit-11 Marriage and Its Changing Patterns Unit-12 Descent and Alliance Approaches to the Study of Kinship in India
BLOCK 4:
Week 7		Unit-13 Agrarian Classes and Categories Unit-14 The Working Class
Week 8		Unit-15 The Middle Class Unit-16 Gender, Caste and Class
BLOCK 5:
Week 9		Unit-17 Tribe, Territory and Common Property Resources Unit-18 Tribe and Caste
Week 10		Unit-19 Elwin and Ghurye’s Perspectives on Tribes Unit-20 Social Differentiation among Tribes
BLOCK 6:
Week 11	Unit-21 Religion and Politics Unit-22 Religion and Culture
Week 12	Unit-23 Cohesive and Divisive Dimensions of Religion Unit-24 Secularisation
BLOCK 7:
Week 13	Unit-25 Urbanization Unit-26 Migration
Week 14	Unit-27 Industrialisation Unit-28 Globlisation
BLOCK 8:
Week 15	Unit-29 Social Movements: Meanings and Dimensions Unit-30 Types of Social Movements
Week 16	Unit-31 Peasants Movements Unit-32 New Social Movements

Books and references

This course is self-contained.

Instructor bio

Prof. Debal K. SinghaRoy

Indira Gandhi National Open University

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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