To orient the students about basic sociological concepts.
• To understand the complex networking of social relationships, the role of norms, values and belief systems in influencing social behaviours.
• To sensitize the students about the emergence of various social problems, policy frame work and to help them learn to apply professional skills to deal with them.
Meaning & features of Elements of Society : Community, Associations and institutions.
• Social Groups : Primary, secondary, reference, In Groups and out Groups.
Concept of social deviance and Social Problems : Crime and Delinquency
• Sociological Theories of Crime
• Problems of Crime and Delinquency in India.
• Social Problems in India: Old age, Destitution, Beggary, Suicide, Prostitution
Structure and change in Indian Social institutions : Family and Marriage.
• Problems of family and marriage in India : Divorce, desertion, widowhood, dowry, family conflicts.
• Women’s status and Feminism in India : Patriarchy & Gender
Concepts of social structure and sub structure.
• Social structure and social stratification
• Study of Casteism, Communalism, Regionalism and Youth Unrest with reference to applications in social work
Social Processes: Socialization, Co-operation, conflict and social control.
• Socialization and the development of social self.
Links:
[1] https://www.sociology.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/indian-society-and-social-problems-3
[2] https://www.sociology.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-session/2015-16