Sociology

Social Inequality and Social Stratification in India: Caste, Tribe, Class (Urban and Rural, Agrarian, Middle Class), Ethnicity)  Family and Kinship: Institutions and Transformation  Gender and Patriarchy: Honour, Violence, and Intersectionality  Agrarian Change and Urbanism in India: Persisting and Emerging Inequalities, Opportunities for Mobility  Social Mobility: Trends, Possibilities, Policies  Social Movements and Social Conflicts in India: Women, Students, Peasants and Farmers, Working Class, Region and Ethnicity, Environment  Religion and Faith in India: Religiosity, Materiality

Action, structure, function and agency  Self and other  The social construction of reality  Structuralism in sociology / anthropology  The interpretation of cultures  Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology  Feminism and the subversion of identity

Urban Social Structure. Social stratification in cities. Modern occupational structure. Urban space and social processes. Tradition and modernity in Urban India. Changes in gender, kinship and family. Aspects of urban culture. Ethnicity and social movements. Urban conflicts and violence. The city in a globalizing economy.

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