Sociology

Research Methods in Social Sciences

The nature and process of research, selection and formulation of a research problem. Research design: explanatory and descriptive studies, testing of hypothesis. Problems of measurement. Data collection: observational methods, questionnaires and interviews, projective and other indirect methods. Use of available data as source material. Scaling techniques. Sampling. Analysis and interpretation; establishment of categories, coding, tabulation, statistical analysis. The use of non-quantified data in analysis and interpretation. The research report.

Anthropology and Disaster

• History of the social science study of disaster • What can anthropology tell us about disaster? • What is a disaster? Types and causes • Differences between hazard, emergency, disaster, catastrophe • Anthropology of disaster: context, community, aftermath, coping, change & adaptation • Social science theories of disaster: behaviorist or functionalist; hazard approach; political economy approaches and the notions of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ • Disaster and gender, caste, class, race and ethnicity • What can disasters tell us about anthropology?

Social Theory - I

The emergence of social theory The sociological imagination The division of labour in society Capitalism and commodification of social relations Religion and social change The total social fact Social Action, its categories and interpretation Organisation of modern society

Social Movement and Social Change: Contemporary Reflections

Nature, Definitions and Characteristics of Social Movement, Relationship with state and Civil Society Theories of Social Movements Social Movements and Social Change Reform, Rebellion, Revival Revolution, Counter Movement New Social Movements (Peasant movement, Labour movement, Dalit movement, Women’s movement, Ecological/Environmental Movement, Anti-Nuclear Movement, Anti-Globlalization movements Movements, mobilization and current social order

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