Sociology
Urban Studies; Development Studies; Rural/Agrarian Sociology; Law and Governance; Legal Pluralism; Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change; Gender and Development; Disaster Studies; Ethnicity and Multiculturalism;; Sociological Theory; Anthropology of corruption; Constitutional Law; Sociology of Higher Education; Sociology of Religion and Kinship; Conversion; Christianity in India; Caste today; Religious Institutions; Hierarchy/Stratification; Sociology in/of India; Contemporary Karnataka; Sociology of Development and Environment; Natural Resource Conflicts; Issues of Livelihoods and Problems of Marginalized Class; Resource Rights; Subaltern Resistance and Movements and Political Ecology; Sociology and political economy of Finance; Political Economy of Development; Indian Political Economy; Theories of Money; Classical Political Economy; New and Old Institutionalism and History of Economic Thought; Issues of Gender and Sexuality; Medical Anthropology; Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment; PostColonial Studies; PostModern Feminist Studies and Southern Theories; Caste: Civility and Democracy; Civil Society, Ethnography Studies; Inclusion and Exclusion; Environmental Sociology; Social and Environmental Movements; Environmental Politics with a focus on Social inequality and Natural Resource Conflicts especially in Rural India; Issues of Livelihood and Problems of Marginalized Class and Political Ecology; Science and Technology Studies; Sociology of Medicine and Public Health.
Sociology - Faculty
Ahonaa Roy
Anush Kapadia
D.Parthasarathy
Ilito H. Achumi
Kushal Deb
Mahendra Shahare
Raile R. Ziipao
Ramesh Bairy T S
Rowena Robinson
Sarmistha Pattanaik
Suryakant Waghmore
Sociology - Course
1. Introduction to Qualitative Methods
2. Ethnography 302226 Participant and Non-Participant
3. Grounded Theory, Narrative Analysis… Read More
Nature, Definitions and Characteristics of Social Movement, Relationship with state and Civil Society Theories of Social Movements Social… Read More
The emergence of social theory The sociological imagination The division of labour in society Capitalism and commodification of social relations… Read More
What is meant by developmen (Why) Do we need development? Who is developmentfor? How do we achieve development?o State capitalism, Elites and… Read More
• History of the social science study of disaster • What can anthropology tell us about disaster? • What is a disaster? Types and causes •… Read More
The nature and process of research, selection and formulation of a research problem. Research design: explanatory and descriptive studies, testing… Read More
Action, structure, function and agency Self and other The social construction of reality Structuralism in sociology / anthropology The… Read More
Urban Social Structure. Social stratification in cities. Modern occupational structure. Urban space and social processes. Tradition and modernity… Read More
Social Inequality and Social Stratification in India: Caste, Tribe, Class (Urban and Rural, Agrarian, Middle Class), Ethnicity) Family and… Read More
How technoscientific and social phenomena interact and influence each other?How scientific knowledge and technological artifacts are constructed… Read More
John Rex, Key Problems of Sociological Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. Jon Martindale, The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory,… Read More
1. The Sociological Imagination: Lying at the intersection of Biography and History, Individual versus social constraint, Private troubles versus… Read More
Indian constitution as a foundation for policy making; Universal human rights and social justice; Fundamental rights and directive principles of… Read More
Course Content(List of the topics/sub-topics to be covered in the lectures/practicals/assignments):
3. GENDER, DEVELOPMENT AND THEORETICAL… Read More
Anand, Nikhil. Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Durham: Duke University Press. 2017.Anand, Nikhil, Akhil… Read More
Sociology and the Environment: Mapping the field and its’ intellectual tradition Ecological PerspectivesSocial Ecology, Cultural Ecology, Eco-… Read More
Relations between the family and civil society - Plato and Aristotle, Civility and Intellectual Autonomy – Kant, Civil Society as the site of… Read More