INDEX IGNOU BA Sociology

ESO11: The Study of Society

1. Nature and Scope of Sociology

2. Basic Concepts in Sociology

3. Simple Societies

4. Complex Societies

5. Family

6. Marriage

7. Kinship

8. Nature of Socialisation

9. Agencies of Socialisation

10. Processes of Education

11. Educational Institutions

12. Economy and Technology

13. Production Processes

14. Distribution Processes

15. Consumption Pattern

16. Stateless Societies

17. State in Traditional Societies

18. State in Modern Societies

19. State and Other Institutions

20. Religious Beliefs and Practices

21. Culture I : Main Characteristics

22. Culture II : Diversity and Change

23. Values

24. Norms

25. Concepts of Social Structure

26. Social Roles

27. Social Networks

28. Social Functions

29. Social Stratification

30. Social Control

31. Social Deviance

32. Social Conflict

33. Social Change

34. Social Development

ESO-12 Society in India

1. Unity and Diversity

2. Rural Social Structure

3. Village and the Outside World

4. Patterns of Urbanisation

5. Urban Social Structure

6. Family and its Types

7. Marriage and its Changing Patterns

8. Kinship-I

9. Kinship-II

10. Rural Economy

11. Urban Economy

12. Rural and Urban Poverty

13. National Politics

14. Regional and State Polities

15. Hindu Social Organisation

16. Muslim Social Organisation

17. Christian Social Organisation

18. Sikh Social Organization

19. Zoroastrian Social Organisation

20. Caste Structure and Regional Patterns

21. Caste Continuity and Change

22. The Scheduled Castes

23. Class in India

24. Backward Classes

25. Tribes Social Structure I

26. Tribes Social Structure-II

27. Religion in Tribal Societies

28. Tribes and Modernization in India

29. Status of Women in India

30. Women s movements in India

31. Women and Work

32. Women and Education

33. Contemporary Women s Issues Health and Legal Aspects

34. Ethnic Relations and Conflicts

35. Social Movements

36. Development Planning and Change

37. Ecology and the Future of Society

ESO-13 Sociological Thought

1. Emergence Of Sociology In Europe

2. Founding Fathers I

3. Founding Fathers-II

4. History And Development Of Sociology In India -I

5. History And Development Of Sociology In India II

6. Historical Materialism

7. Forces, Relations and Modes of Production

8. Class and Class Conflict

9. Dialectics and Social Change

10. Sociology as Science

11. Comparative Method

12. Collective Representations

13. Forms of Social Solidarity

14. Ideal Types

15. Religion And Economy

16. Power And Authority

17. Rationality

18. Methodology Marx, Durkheim And Weber

19. Religion Durkheim And Weber

20. Division of Labour Durkheim And Marx

21. Capitalism Weber & Marx

22. Concept of Culture and Function-Malinowski

23. Magic, Science and Religion Malinowski

24. Concept of Social Structure Radcliffe

25. Concept of Function -Radcliffe-Brown

26. A Critique of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown

27. The Concept Of Social System Parsons

28. Functionalism And Social Change Parsons

29. Manifest And Latent Function Merton

30. Theory Of Reference Group Merton

31. Critique Of Parsons And Merton

ESO-14 Society and Stratification

1. Social Stratification- Meaning and Approaches

2. Approaches to Social Stratification

3. Caste and Class in India

4. Stratification- Implications of Gender and Ethnicity

5. Marx and Weber

6. Parsons and Davis

7. Coser and Dahrendorf on Social Classes

8. Theories of Stratification- Towards A Synthesis Lenski, Luhmann, Berghe

9. Ethnicity as a Basis of Stratification

10. Tribal Ethnicity- The North-East

11. Religious Ethnicity- The Case of the Punjab

12. Linguistic Ethnicity in India

13. Gender as a Basis of Discrimination

14. Formation of Gender Identities

15. Gender Status and Power

16. Womens Empowerment- Some Illustrations

17. The Basis of Caste Hierarchy- Purity and Pollution

18. Dimensions of Caste- Rituals and Power

19. Caste Identity- Attributional and Interactional Approaches

20. Caste Dynamics- Economic and Political

21. Status of Dalits

22. Other Backward Classes

23. Scheduled Tribes

24. Marginalised Groups and Their Changing Status

25. Agrarian Class Structure

26. Industrial Classes

27. Middle Classes in India

28. Class Conflict

29. Concepts and Forms of Social Mobility

30. Social Mobility in Caste and Class

31. Factors and Forces of Social Mobility

32. Consequences of Social Mobility

ESO-15 Society and Religion

1. Sociology and the Study of Religion

2. Evolutionary Theories of Religion

3. Functionalist Theories of Religion

4. The Study of Religious Beliefs

5. The Study of Religious Symbols

6. Comparative Sociological Theories of Ritual

7. Ritual-I- A Case Study from Africa

8. Ritual-II- A Case Study from South-East Asia

9. Civil Religion
10. Religion and the Economic Order

11. Religion and Politics/State

12. Religious Organisations- Sects, Cults and Denominations

13. Religious Specialists- Shamans, Priests and Prophets

14. Religion- Social Stability and Change

15. Fundamentalism- Some Case Studies

16. Secularism and Secularisation

17. Religious Pluralism in India- As Fact and Value

18. Tribal Religion- Two Case Studies

19. Hinduism

20. Jainism and Buddhism

21. Christianity

22. Islam

23. Sikhism

24. Medieval Religious Movements I- Bhakti and Sufism

25. Medieval Religious Movements I- Veerashaivism

26. Modern Religious Movements II- Arya Samaj

27. Modern Religious Movements II- Ramakrishna Mission

28. Life Cycle Rituals-I- Birth and Marriage

29. Life Cycle Rituals-II- Death

30. Social Significance of Pilgrimages

31. Social Significance of Religious Festivals

32. Fundamentalism, Communalism and Secularism

ESO-16 Social Problems in India

1. Social Transformation and Problems

2. Approaches and Paradigms

3. Social ProblemsThe Indian Context

4. Social Demography

5. Migration

6. Urbanisation

7. Changing Family Structure

8. Unemployment

9. Labour Industrial

10. Labour Rural

11. Labour Women

12. Labour Children

13. Poverty and its Social Dynamics

14. Crime and Delinquency

15. Drug Addiction and Alcoholism

16. Violence and Terrorism

17. Children

18. Youth Identity And Alienation

19. Women

20. The Aged

21. Scheduled Castes

22. Scheduled Tribes

23. Minorities

24. Ethnicity

25. Land Access, Control and Management

26. Water Access, Control and Management

27. Forests Access, Control and Management

28. Role of the State and Other Associations

INDEX IGNOU MA Sociology

MPS-003 India Democracy and Development

1. National Movement

2. Development Models

3. Constitution And Social Transformation

4. Diversity

5. Inequality

6. Political Economy

7. Economy-Structure And Growth

8. Legislature

9. Bureaucracy, Police, Army

10. Judiciary

11. Federalism

12. Self Government

13. Political Parties

14. Workers And Peasents

15. Media

16. Interest Groups

17. Caste, Regligion, Language

18. Civil Society

19. Human Development

20. Gender

21. Regional Imbalances

22. Migration

23. Environment

24. Economic Reforms

25. Religious Politics

26. Ethnicity

27. Democracy And Development-Assessment

MSO-001 Sociological Theories and Concepts

1. Social Theory and its Context

2. Concept and Theory

3. Theory and Paradigm

4. Social Construction of Reality

5. Concept and Theories of Structure

6. Structure and Function

7. Structure, Function and Neo-Functionalism

8. The Conceptual and Theoretical Issues of Power

9. Class and Legitimacy

10. Power- Functional Perspective

11. Power and Institutions

12. Power/Knowledge

13. Evolution, Development and Function of Capitalism

14. Rationality, Work and Organisation

15. Entrepreneurship and Capitalism

16. Freedom and Liberty

17. Alienation

18. Sovereignty
19. State; Power as Elaborated by Marx, Weber, Parsons and Others

20. Citizenship

21. Civil Society and Democracy

22. Conceptualising Ethnicity

23. Construction of Identities

24. Boundaries and Boundary Maintenance

25. Concepts of Difference and Inequality

26. Class

27. Gender and Social Stratification

28. Theories of Origin of Caste System

29. Theories of Modernisation and Modernity

30. Tradition and Modernity

31. Post Structuralism and Post Modernism

MSO-002 Research Methodologies and Methods

1. Logic of Inquiry in Social Research

2. Empirical Approach

3. Diverse Logic of Theory Building

4. Theoretical Analysis

5. Issues of Epistemology

6. Philosophy of Social Science

7. Positivism and its Critique

8. Hermeneutics

9. Comparative Method

10. Feminist Approach

11. Participatory Method

12. Types of Research

13. Methods of Research

14. Elements of Research Design

15. Sampling Methods and Estimation of Sample Size

16. Measures of Central Tendency

17. Measures of Dispersion and Variability

18. Statistical Inference- Tests of Hypothesis

19. Correlation and Regression

20. Survey Method

21. Survey Design

22. Survey Instrumentation

23. Survey Execution and Data Analysis

24. Field Research I

25. Field Research II

26. Reliability, Validity and Triangulation

27. Qualitative Data Formatting and Processing

28. Writing up Qualitative Data

29. Using Internet and Word Processor

30. Using SPSS for Data Analysis Contents

31. Using SPSS in Report Writing

32. Tabulation and Graphic Presentation- Case Studies

33. Guidelines to Research Project Assignment

MSO-003 Sociology of Development

1. Development and Progress-Economic and Social Dimensions

2. Change, Modernisation and Development

3. Social, Human and Gender Development

4. Sustainable Development

5. Modernisation

6. Liberal Perspective on Development

7. Marxian Perspective on Development

8. Gandhian Perspective on Development

9. Dependency Theory of Underdevelopment

10. Social and Human Development

11. Gender Perspective on Development

12. Micro-Planning

13. Ecology, Environment and Development

14. Ethno-Development

15. Population and Development

16. India

17. Canada

18. Zimbabwe

19. Brazil

20. Economic, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation

21. Liberalisation and Structural Adjustment Programme

22. Globalisation, Privatisation and Indigenous knowledge

23. WTO, GATT, GATS- Capital and Human Flows

24. Dimensions of Knowledge Society- Issues of Access and Equity

25. Critique of Knowledge Society

26. Changing Roles of Media and ICTs on Employment

27. Dam and Displacement

28. Green Peace Movement

29. People Science Movement

30. Civil Society Movements and Grassroots Initiatives

MSO-004 Sociology in India

1. Social Background of the Emergence of Sociology in India

2. Emergence of the Discipline -Issues and Themes

3. Village Studies in India

4. The Colonial Perspective

5. Brahminical Perspective

6. View from the Field

7. Ambedkar and Lohia on Caste

8. Census Perspective

9. The Household and the Family

10. The Household as a CooperativeConflicting Unit

11. Marriage and Its Changing Patterns

12. Descent and Alliance Approaches to the Study of Kinship in India

13. Agrarian Classes and Categories

14. The Working Class

15. The Middle Class

16. Gender, Caste and Class

17. Tribe, Territory and Common Property Resources

18. Tribe and Caste

19. Elwin and Ghuryes Perspectives on Tribes

20. Social Differentiation among Tribes

21. Religion and Politics

22. Religion and Culture

23. Cohesive and Divisive Dimensions of Religion

24. Secularisation

25. Urbanization

26. Migration

27. Industrialisation

28. Globlisation

29. Social Movements- Meanings and Dimensions

30. Types of Social Movements

31. Peasants Movements

32. New Social Movements

MSOE-001 Sociology of Education

1. The Concept of Education

2. Theoretical Approaches

3. Thinkers on Education- I

4. Thinkers on Education- II

5. Education Knowledge and Power

6. Politics of Educational Curriculum

7. Education, Nation-building, State and Ideology

8. Education and Socialization

9. Education and Social Change

10. Education and Social Mobility

11. Role of Education in Social and Human Development Emerging Perspectives

12. Role of Education for Empowerment of the Marginalized

13. Education and the Policy of Positive Discrimination and Affirmative Action
14. Education Pluralism and Multiculturalism

15. Education in SAARC Countries Case Studies-1

16. Education in Europe Case Studies-2

17. Education Expansion and Growth

18. Constitutional Provisions and Educational Policies in India

19. Universalization of Elementarv Education

20. Crises in lndian Higher Education

21. Expansion of Professional Education and Private Sector

22. WTO, GATS, ICTS and Higher Education

23. Education Social Commitment vs. Commodification

24. Social and Philosophical Foundations of Open and Distance Learning

25. Critical Issues in Open and Distance Learning

26. ODL Problems and Prospects

MSOE-002 Diaspora and Transnational Communities

1. Conceptual Understanding of Indian Diaspora and Transnational Studies

2. Approaches to the Study of Indian Diaspora

3. Diasporic Communities of the World

4. Migration and Settlement of Indians Abroad

5. Indian Emigration During Colonial Rule

6. Post Independence Patterns of Migration

7. Indians in the Carribean

8. Indian Diaspora in Africa

9. Indian Diaspora in South and South East Asia

10. Indian Diaspora in Europe

11. Indian Diaspora in the New World North America

12. Indians in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji

13. Indian Diaspora in West Asia

14. Immigration and Emigration Policies and their Implications

15. lndian State and Diaspora

16. Socio-Cultural Linkages Between lndian Diaspora

17. lndian Diaspora-Homeland Linkages

18. lndian Diaspora in Cyberspace

19. Films

20. Indian Diasporic Writing

21. Popular Perception

22. Identity, Nation-State and Diaspora

23. Sub-National Identities and Diaspora

24. Globalisation, Nationalism and Transnational Communities

MSOE-003 Sociology of Religion

1. Religion Sociological Perspectives

2. Anthropological Approaches

3. Historical and Comparative Approach

4. RELIGION- PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES

5. Marxian Theory

6. Durkheim and Functionalism

7. Weber and the Question of Meaning

8. M N Srinivas The Coorgs

9. Evans Pritchard- The Nuer

10. T N Madan- Non- Renunciation

11. Sudhir Kakar- Shamans, Mystics and Doctors

12. Peter Berger- Phenomenology of Religion

13. Clifford Geertz- Cultural Analysis

14. Levi-Strauss Totemism

15. Sikhism

16. Jainism and Buddhism

17. Christianity

18. Islam

19. Hinduism

20. Secularism and Secularization

21. Communalism and Fundamentalism

22. Religious Conversion

23. Transcendental Meditation

24. Hare Krishna Movement

25. Radhasoami Satsang

26. Sai baba of shirdi

MSOE-004 Urban Sociology

1. What is Urban Sociology

2. Urban Centre, Urbanisation and Urban Growth

3. City and Metropolis

4. Rural-Urban Continuum

5. Invasion, Succession, Concentration, Centralization and Segregation

6. Models of Urban Growth Concentric Zones, Sectors, Multiple Nuclei, Explai

tative, Syrn bolic

7. Social Area Analysis and Recent Advances

8. Ancient, Medieval and Colonial Cities Case Studies

9. Typologies of Cities

10. Temporal Evolution of Ancient, Modern, Pre-Industrial and Industrial Cities

11. Functional Classification of Cities Commercial, Administrative and Pilgrimage

Towns

12. Trends and Pattern of Urbanisation

13. Development of Urban Sociology

14. Urban Sociology in lndia

15. Level, Trends and Patterns

16. Marriage, Family and Kinship

17. Traditional Neighbourhoods and Modern Cities

18. Urban lnf luences on Rural Areas

19. Formal Sector

20. Urban Informal Sector

21. Changing Occupational Structure and Impact of Economic Liberalization

22. Poverty

23. Slums

24. Environment and Infrastructure

25. Local Self Government and the Emergence of Voluntary Organisation

26. Urban Planning

27. Media and Urban Governance

Syllabus: UPSC Sociology (Mains) Paper 1

1. Sociology The Discipline:

i. Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology.

ii. Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.

iii. Sociology and common sense.

2. Sociology as Science:
 i. Science, scientific method and critique.

ii. Major theoretical strands of research methodology.

iii. Positivism and its critique.

iv. Fact value and objectivity.

v. Non- positivist methodologies.

3. Research Methods and Analysis:

i. Qualitative and quantitative methods.

ii. Techniques of data collection.

iii. Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.

4. Sociological Thinkers:

i. Karl Marx

i. Historical materialism

ii. mode of production

iii. alienation

iv. class struggle.

ii. Emile Durkheim

i. Division of labour

ii. social fact

iii. suicide

iv. religion

v. Society

iii. Max Weber

i. Social action

ii. ideal types

iii. authority
 iv. bureaucracy

v. Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

iv. Talcolt Parsons

i. Social system

ii. pattern variables.

v. Robert K. Merton

i. Latent and manifest functions

ii. conformity and deviance

iii. reference groups.

vi. Mead Self and identity.

5. Stratification and Mobility:

i. Concepts

i. equality

ii. inequality

iii. hierarchy

iv. exclusion

v. poverty

vi. Deprivation

ii. Theories of social stratification

i. Structural functionalist theory

ii. Marxist theory

iii. Weberian theory

iii. Dimensions

i. Social stratification of class

ii. status groups

 iii. gender

iv. ethnicity and race.

iv. Social mobility

i. open and closed systems

ii. types of mobility

iii. Sources and causes of mobility.

6. Works and Economic Life:

i. Social organization of work in different types of society

i. slave society,

ii. feudal society,

iii. industrial /capitalist society.

iv. Formal and informal organization of work.

v. Labour and society.

7. Politics and Society:

i. Sociological theories of power.

ii. Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.

iii. Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.

iv. Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.

8. Religion and Society:

i. Sociological theories of religion.

ii. Types of religious practices:

i. animism

ii. monism

iii. pluralism

iv. sects
 v. cults.

iii. Religion in modern society

i. religion and science

ii. secularization

iii. religious revivalism

iv. fundamentalism.

9. Systems of Kinship:

i. Family, household, marriage.

ii. Types and forms of family.

iii. Lineage and descent.

iv. Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.

v. Contemporary trends.

10. Social Change in Modern Society:

i. Sociological theories of social change.

ii. Development and dependency.

iii. Agents of social change.

iv. Education and social change.

v. Science, technology and social change.

Syllabus: UPSC Sociology (Mains) Paper 2

#1: Introducing Indian Society:

a. Perspectives on the study of Indian society:

i. Indology (GS. Ghurye).

ii. Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas).

iii. Marxist sociology (A R Desai).

b. Impact of colonial rule on Indian society :

 i. Social background of Indian nationalism.

ii. Modernization of Indian tradition.

iii. Protests and movements during the colonial period.

iv. Social reforms.

#2: Social Structure

1. Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:

i. The idea of Indian village and village studies.

ii. Agrarian social structure evolution of land tenure system, land

reforms.

2. Caste System:

i. Perspectives on the study of caste systems: GSGhurye, M N Srinivas,

Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.

ii. Features of caste system.

iii. Untouchability forms and perspectives.

3. Tribal communities in India:

i. Definitional problems.

ii. Geographical spread.

iii. Colonial policies and tribes.

iv. Issues of integration and autonomy.

4. Social Classes in India:

i. Agrarian class structure.

ii. Industrial class structure.

iii. Middle classes in India.

5. Systems of Kinship in India:

i. Lineage and descent in India.

ii. Types of kinship systems.

 iii. Family and marriage in India.

iv. Household dimensions of the family.

v. Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.

6. Religion and Society:

i. Religious communities in India.

ii. Problems of religious minorities.

#3: Social Changes in India:

7. Visions of Social Change in India:

i. Idea of development planning and mixed economy.

ii. Constitution, law and social change.

iii. Education and social change.

8. Rural and Agrarian transformation in India:

i. Programmes of rural development, Community Development

Programme, cooperatives, poverty alleviation

ii. schemes.

iii. Green revolution and social change.

iv. Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture .

v. Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration.

9. Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:

i. Evolution of modern industry in India.

ii. Growth of urban settlements in India.

iii. Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.

iv. Informal sector, child labour.

v. Slums and deprivation in urban areas.

10. Politics and Society:

 i. Nation, democracy and citizenship.

ii. Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.

iii. Regionalism and decentralization of power.

iv. Secularization.

11. Social Movements in Modern India:

i. Peasants and farmers movements.

ii. Womens movement.

iii. Backward classes & Dalit movement.

iv. Environmental movements.

v. Ethnicity and Identity movements.

12. Population Dynamics:

i. Population size, growth, composition and distribution.

ii. Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.

iii. Population policy and family planning.

iv. Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality,
reproductive health.

13. Challenges of Social Transformation:

i. Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and

sustainability.

ii. Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.

iii. Violence against women.

iv. Caste conflicts.

v. Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.

vi. Illiteracy and disparities in education.

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