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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Unit 1 : Introduction of Social Research
Meaning
Objectives
Importance
Unit 2 : Approaches and Types of Social research
Approaches : Historical, Case Study, Descriptive, Experimental
Types: Fundamental/Pure/Theoretical and Applied
Unit 3 : Research Procedures:
Identification and formulation of the Research Problem
Survey of Literature
Research Design
Hypothesis
Sample Selection
Methodology and Definition of Concept and Variable
Pilot Survey and Pre-test
Data Collection : Primary and Secondary Sources.
Unit 4 : Tools and techniques of Data Collection
Observation
Questionnaire and Schedule
Survey and Census
Interview
Sociometry
Unit 5 : Analysis of Data and Preparation of a Research Report
Techniques of Data Analysis : Editing, Coding and Tabulation
Kinds of Research Reports and Documentation.
RURAL SOCIETY IN INDIA
Unit 1 : Historical Background of Village Community in India:
Myth and reality of Indian village community.
Importance of its study.
Unit 2 : Social Organization of Indian Village:
Caste System
Features and processes.
Unit 3 : Economic Organization:
Land – Importance of Land; Economic Interdependence;
The so called ‘Janmani’ System;
Impact of market economy/commercialization on village economy;
Changes in agriculture since independence new economic opportunities / challenges.
Unit 4 : Rural Power Structure:
Village Panchayat
Impact of the Democratic process party politics on village
Emerging trends in rural power structure
Decentralization of power.
Unit 5 : Rural Society in Transition:
Appraisal of the impact of urbanization, industrialization, modernization and
globalization.
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Unit 1 : Environment and Environmental Problems:
Interaction between ‘environment’ and ‘society’.
Nature of environmental problems.
Types of environmental problems : Exhaustion, pollution and disturbance
Causes of environmental problems : population growth, quantity of environmental
utilization, quality of environmental utilization, carrying capacity of the earth.
Interests, values and reactions to environmental problems.
Unit 2 : Classical Sociological Tradition:
Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Maxweber on environmental concerns.
Unit 3 : Environmental Sociology:
Issues and theoretical approaches; Social construction of environmental problems.
News Media and environmental communication, Ups and down in the development of
environmental sociology.
Emerging theoretical perspectives in environmental sociology, Zavestoskis, Dunlapand
Catton, Ramachandra Gruha, Patrick Geddes and Radhakamal Mukherji, current debates
on ‘risk society’
Unit:4: Nature and Culture
Ecology and Social Structure, Synthesis of Societal and Environmental Dialect.
Resouce use and abuse; competing claims over nature.
Unit 5 : Social Impact Assessment on Environmental Problesm.
Environmental issues relating to population, water, sanitation, pollution, energy, housing
and urban development and rural poverty
URBAN SOCIETY IN INDIA
Unit 1 : Classical Sociological Traditions as Urban and City Dimensions;
Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Ferdinand Tonnies.
Urban Community and Special Dimensions, Park, Burgess and Mc Kenzie.
Unit 2 : Urban Sociology in India:
Emerging trends in urbanisation
Factors or urbanisation sociological dimensions of urbanisation.
Social consequences of urbanisation.
Unit 3 :Classification of urban centres, cities and towns:
City industrial urban base, its growth and special features.
Industry centered developments.
Unit 4 : Changing Occupational Structure:
Its impact on social stratification class, caste, gender, family Indian city.
Its growth, migration, problems of housing, slum development urban environmental
problems, urban poverty.
Unit 5 : Urban Planning and Problems of Urban management in India:
Urban institutions, Factors affecting planning, regional planning and the links between
social and special theory.
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY II
Unit 1 : Marx and Marxism
Marx’s concept of history and society
class and class consciousness – the inevitable doom of capitalism
Alienation and social being.
Unit 2 : Vilfredo Pareto
Logical and non-logical action
Sociology as logico-experimental science
Residues and derivations
The circulation of elites
Unit 3 : George Simmel
Method: forms of interaction and individually; social types; modern culture
Unit 4 : Pitrim A Sorokin
Sorokin and integralist sociology
SOCIOLOGY OF INDIAN SOCIETY
Unit 1 : The Western Conquest of the Non-western World and India.
The emergence of Orientalism.
Orientalist constructions of Indian society and culture.
Unit 2 : Pre-colonial Indian Society and Culture:
Western Accounts of India;
British reports on 17th and 18th century India; especially on village economy, education,
science and technology;
British Census of India – especially on caste.
Unit 3 : Origin and growth of Sociology in India from Orientalist and Indological Writings.
Contributions of the Pioneers – D.P. Mukherjee, G.S. Ghurye and D.N. Majumdar.
Unit 4 : The Emergence and importance of the field view of Indian Society.
Ethnographic accounts; British Social anthropology and its influence on Indian scholars –
M.N. Srinivas on ‘book view’ and field view’ of Indian society.
SOCIOLOGY OF POPULATION AND HEALTH
Unit 1 : Definition, nature, scope and concepts:
Study of population, relation between population and society
Its relevance, scope and nature.
Basic concepts of population, birth rate, death rate, density.
Composition of India’s population: age, sex, education level and employment Census –
its uses and relevance.
Unit 2 : Theories of Population:
Theories of population pre and post Malthusian theories.
Population pyramid. (Explain using data from census of different countries with
particular reference to India)
Population growth and development – causes and issues.
Ageing population – with reference to developing and developed countries.
Comparative study of population in developed and developing countries (with special
reference to India.
UNIT:3 Migration
Migration – definition, theories, causes.
Migration and urbanisation; Migration and its impact on population, economy, hosing,
transportation.
Population movements and demographic change; Social, economic land cultural changes
in context of migration; rural poverty and emigration.
Impact of globalisaiton, liberalisation (internal migration) and Indian Diaspora.
Unit 4 : Social Components of Health:
Sociology of health definitions and scope.
Four dimensions of health; Health and its relationship with other social components (such
as social, cultural, economic, demographic.)
Community health: concepts, problems in India, health, longevity and illness and
responses related to disease as also health-seeking.
health as a fundamental right, financing health care and health care insurance
Special issues of women, children, aged and disable.
Evaluation of States population and health policy.
SOCIOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Unit 1 : Sociology of Industrial Relations as a distinct Area of Study and Research:
Its Relation to other disciplines viz. Industrial Sociology, Psychology.
Unit 2 : Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Industrial Relations
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Dunlop, Flanders and others.
Marxist Approach to the Study of Industrial Relations and Conflict.
Unit 3 : Industrial Relations and Industrial Conflict:
Social Genesis of Conflict, Manifestations and Consequences – Strikes, Closures,
Lockout.
Unit 4 : Industrial Relations in a Legal Framework.
Legislations Relating to Industrial Disputes / Trade Unions.
A Critical Review of Government’s Labour Policy.
Unit 5 : Industrial Relations and Industrial Democracy.
Workers Participation in Management.
Collective Bargaining as a System of Participative Management.
EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
Unit :1 Introduction
1. Nature and Scope of Sociology of Education
2. Structural-Functional Theory of Education
3. Conflict And Radical perspectives
Unit :2 Socialization and Education
1. Agencies of Socialization: Family, School and Mass communication Media
2. Child- rearing Studies and the Achievement syndrome
3. Causes of Under- Achievement located in Home and School
Unit :3 Education and Stratification
1. Class and Education
2. Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity
3. Education and Social Mobility
Unit :4 Education and Society in India
1. Socio Historical context: Education in Pre- Colonial and Colonial india
2. Education: Diversities and Disparities- Region, Tribe, Gender, Rural- Urban
Differences
3. Education and Modernization
Unit :4 The State and Education
1. Basic Education and Social Development
2. Higher Education in India
3. Education and Information Technology
4. Proffessionalization of Teaching, Social Role of Teachers
MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
Unit 1 : Sociology of Knowledge.
Karl Marx, Herbert Spence, Emile Durkheim, Thorstein Veblen, Karl Mannheim, Pitrim
A. Sorokin and Florian Znaniecki.
Unit 2 : Symbolic Ineractionism.
George H. Mead, Charles H. Cooley and Herbert Blumer
Unit 3 : Ethno Methodology
Harold Grafinkel
Unit 4 : Phenomenology
Alfred Schultz
Unit 5 : Conflict Theory
Karl Marx, Ralf Dahrendorf, Lewis A. Coser and Alvin Gouldner
STATISTICS AND COMPUER APPLICATIONS
Unit 1 : Introduction to Statistics:
Descriptive and Inductive Statistics. Assumptions of qualification and Measurement.
Unit 2 : Handling Data
Tabulation of Data, Diagrammatic and Graphical Representation of Data.
Unit 3 : Methods of Statistical Measurement.
Measures of Central Tendency – Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode
Measures of Dispersion – Range, Quartile deviation, Standard Deviation & Mean
Deviation.
Correlation – Person’s Correlation and Rank Correlation, Factor Analysis.
Association of Attributes – Chi – Square Test.
Unit 4 : vital Statistics.
Methods of Collecting Vital Events, Measures of Mortality and Fertility
Qualitative Data Format and Processing Techniques.
Unit 5 : Computer Operations.
Application of computers in Social Research
Software Packages : MS Office, Excel, Flow Charts and Power Point Prentation
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Unit 1 : Introduction
Definition and Subject Matter of Political Sociology.
Interrelationship between Political System and Society.
Unit 2 : Understanding Basic Concepts.
State, Citizenship, Freedom, Constitution, Power, Democracy, Totalitarian System
Political Parties., Factions, Pressure Groups.
Unit 3 : Theories of Power Distribution.
Mosca, Pareto, Mitchels, C.W. Mills.
Unit 4 : Political Process in India
Role of Caste, Religion, Regionalism and Language in Indian Politics.
Role of Media and Civil Society in Generating Public Opinion and their role in bringing
political change.
Unit 5 : Analysis of Electoral Behaviour with particular reference to India.
Introduction of Psephology – Meaning, Scope and Importance.
SOCIOLOGY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Unit 1 : Basic Concepts
Understanding Development – Differences Between Growth and Development,
Sustainable Development, Human Development and Inclusive Development.
Unit 2 : Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Development.
Modernization Theories, World System Approach, Centre-Periphery Model and Conflict
Theories.
Unit 3 : Social Issues and Development
Social Structure as a felicitator or Inhibitor of Development – Role of Religion, Caste,
Education and Gender.
Unit 4 : Issues in India’s Development
Population, Poverty, Regional Imbalances lack of Entrepreneurship and Environment.
Unit 5 : India’s Experiences in Development
Critical Appraisal of Five year Plans.
Social Consequences of Economic Reforms.
Socio-Cultural Repercussions of Globalization.
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY
Unit 1 : Introduction
Meaning and Characteristics of Stratification
Theories of Stratification
Unit 2 : Forms and Factors of Stratification
Class, Caste and Estate
Education, Occupation, Income, Power and Wealth.
Unit 3 : Understanding Mobility
Meaning of Mobility
Horizontal and Vertical Mobility
Education, Occupation and Income as Determinants of Mobility
Prestige Grading of Occupations.
Unit 4 : Mobility and Polity in India.
Political Participation and Opportunities for Social Mobility
The Constitution of India and Social Mobility
Unit 5 : Leverages of Mobility
Understanding Mobility through Westernization, Sanskritization and Urbanization.
Social Movements and Social Mobility
SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Unit 1 : Introduction.
Definition, Nature and Scope of Social Movements.
Typologies of Social Movement, Structure and Organization.
Unit 2 : Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements.
Emergence of Social Movements.
Marxist and Post-Marxist Weberian
Post – Weberian and Structural – Functional
Unit 3 : Social Movements and Social Change.
Reform, Revival, Counter Movements, Transformation and Decline.
Role and Type of Leadership with special reference to Social Movements in India.
The Bearing of Political Institutions and Processes on Social Movements with reference
to India, and specific reference to Karnataka.
Role of Media.
Unit 4 : Social Movements in India.
A. Reform and Protest Movements
Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Veerasaivism.
Arya Samaj, Satyashodhak Samaj, Sufi Movement and Prarthana Samaj.
B. Peasant and Labour Movements
West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka.
Labour and Trade union Movements in India.
C. Dalit and Backward Classes Movements.
Emergence of Dalit Movement in India.
Role of Jyotiba Phule and Babasaheb Ambedka
Dalit Movement in Karnataka
Backward Classes Movement in India and Karnataka.
D. Tribal Movements.
Issues before Tribal Movements.
Santal and Jarkahad Movements.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest
Rights) Act 2006.
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Unit 1 : Relation between Sociology and Health.
Sociology of Health – Its Aims and Scope.
Health and its Relationship with other Social Institutions.
Concepts of Wellbeing and Quality of Life : Their Indicators
Medical Sociology and Sociology in Medicine.
Unit 2 : Social Epidemiology
Vital and Public Health Concepts
Epidemiology and Resources : Social Components in Therapy and Rehabilitation
Culture and Disease : Attitudes, Beliefs and Values associated with Diseases.
Recent Trends in Diseases with special reference to HIV/AIDS and Communicable
Diseases.
Unit 3 : The Physician in he Changing Indian Society.
The Professionalization and Socialization of the Physician
Doctor – Patient Relationship.
Nursing as an Emerging Para Medical Profession.
Unit 4 : Hospital as a Social Organization
Types of Hospitals, Functions of Hospitals, Coordination and Supervision of Hospitals.
Inter-personal Relationships in Hospitals and Medical Social Service in Hospitals.
Unit 5 : Hospital as a Community Organization
Community Health, Concept of Integrated Health Services.
Functioning of Primary Health Centers in India.
Health Care Delivery and Social Policy
National Health Policy : A Critical Analysis.
GENDER AND SOCIETY
Unit 1 : Social Construction of Gender
The Relevance of Gender Studies to Sociology
Basic concepts in Gender Studies – Sex and Gender, Patriarchy, Gender Bias, Gender
Relations, Gender Equality, Gender Justice, Androgyny and Gender Sensitivity.
Unit 2 : Understanding – Feminism.
Feminism as a Concept and Practice
Theoretical Debates on Feminism – Liberal, Marxist, Radical, Socialist, Existential and
Post – Modern Schools.
Indian Perspectives on Feminism
Unit 3 : Gender and Society in India
The Construction of Gender in Indian Social Institutions – Family, Marriage, Religion
and Caste
Changing Status of Women in India-Pre-Independence, From Independence to the
International Women’s Decade and From Independence to the International Women’s
Decade to Contemporary Times.
Unit 4 : Women and Development Process in India.
Understanding Development from a Gender Angle – WID, WAD and GAD
Women and Development Efforts in India – Review of Five Year Plans and Special
Programmes aimed at Women’s Development – National and State Women’s
Commissions and Women’s Empowerment Year.
Performance of Women in Key Development Sectors – Education, Health, Economy and
Politics.
Unit 5 : Women’s Movement in India
Issues before he Indian Women’s Movement, The Role of Autonomous Women’s Groups
in the Women’s Movement.
Influence of Women’s Movement on State, Law and Civil Society.
Contemporary Challenges before the Women’s Movement – India’s Changing
Demographic Profile – Domestic Violence – Communal Violence and Religions
Fundamentalism.
MARGINALIZED GROUPS
Unit 1 : Introduction
Meaning and Processes of Marginalization.
Scope and Importance of the Study of Marginalization.
Socio-Economic Indices of Marginalization – Poverty, Relative Deprivation,
Exploitation, Discrimination, Backwardness and Inequality.
Unit 2 : Perspectives on Marginalization
Role of Ideology in Marginalization
View of Phule, Periyar, Ambedkar and Lohia
Subaltern Perspectives.
Unit 3 : Marginalized Groups in India.
Scheduled Castes
Scheduled Tribes
Religious Minorities – Muslims, Christians, Parsees and Sikhs
Linguistic Minorities
Women.
Unit 4 : Marginalization and Affirmative Action
Constitutional Provisions
State Policies and Programmes
Role of Voluntary Groups.
Unit 5 : Social Movements and the Marginalized Groups.
Recent Trends in the Movement for Empowerment of Marginalized Groups
Anti-Reservation Agitations.
SOCIOLOGY OF AGEING
Unit 1 : Introduction
Scope and Significance of the Study of Sociology of Ageing
The Emerging Field of Gerontology.
Emergence of Sociology of Ageing as a Sub-discipline.
trends and Patterns of Ageing – Global and Indian Scenario.
Unit 2 : Aspects of Ageing
Factors of Ageing
Problems of Ageing : Physical, Economic, Cultural and Psychological
Changing Family and Ageing.
Unit 3 : Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Ageing.
Structural – Functional and Conflict Perspectives
Symbolic Interactionism.
Phenomenology
Ethno methodology
Unit 4 : Coping with Ageing
Formal and Informal Support Systems
Ageing and Illness
Ageing and Retirement