Development and Society

Unit I

• Social Progress and Development: Meaning, Features, Conditions and Barriers
• Perspectives on Development and Progress: Comte, Morgan, Marx, Spencer, Tonnies, Durkheim, Weber and Parsons
• Development as a realization of human potential

Unit II

• Change, Modernization and Development:

• Social change: Concept, Features and Causes
• Perspectives on Social Change: Evolutionary, Conflict, Structural-functional and Social-psychological
• Modernization: Concept, Feature and Perspectives

Unit III

• Perspectives of Development:

• Gidden’s theory of Modernity
• Liberal perspective on Development
• Marxian perspective on Development: Historical-Sociological perspective; Neo-Marxian approach; Critical theory
• Gandhian perspective on Development

• Dependency theory of Underdevelopment

Unit IV

• Rural Development in India: Development Plans and Schemes (With Special Reference to Five Year Plans, Green Revolution and MGNREGS)
• Sustainable Rural Development: Concept and Approaches: Micro-planning; Ecology, Environment and Development; Ethnodevelopment

Unit V

• Development and Displacement:

Displacement: Meaning, Concept and Consequences, Theoretical Perspectives on Displacement

• Rehabilitation of the Displaced: Government Policies