INDIAN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Paper Code: 
MSW 122
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Course Outcomes
  • Learning and teaching strategies
  • Assessment Strategies
  • On completion of this course, the students will be able to;
  • CO6:Identify the  basic sociological concepts and processes
  • CO7:Identify the complex interrelationship of various social structures and the problems that emanate from these structures
  • CO8:Analyze the changing dimensions of various social institutions in contemporary Indian society
  • CO9:Understand the need to formulate appropriate strategies for social work intervention
  • CO10: Understand the complex networking of social relationships, the role of norms, values and belief systems in influencing social behaviours.
  • Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Power Point Presentation, Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.
  • Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

12.00
Unit I: 
UNIT-I

• Meaning & features of Society : Community, Associations and institutions.
• Social Groups: Primary, secondary, reference, In Groups and out Groups.

12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT-II

• Concept of social deviance and Social Problems: Crime and Delinquency
• Sociological Theories of Crime
• Problems of Crime and Delinquency in India.
• Social Problems in India: Old age, Destitution, Beggary, Suicide, Prostitution

12.00
Unit III: 
UNIT-III

• Structure and change in Indian Social institutions: Family and Marriage.
• Problems of family and marriage in India: Divorce, desertion, widowhood, dowry, family conflicts.
• Women’s status and Feminism in India: Patriarchy & Gender

12.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT-IV

• Concepts of social structure and sub structure.
• Social structure and social stratification
• Study of Casteism, Communalism, Regionalism and Youth Unrest with reference to applications in social work

12.00
Unit V: 
UNIT-V

• Social Processes: Socialization, Co-operation, conflict and social control.
• Socialization and the development of social self.

Essential Readings: 

• Ahuja Ram., 2016, Social Problems in India, Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
• Sharma, K.L., 2007, Indian Social Structure and Change, Jaipur: Rawat Publications

References: 

• Patel T. & Baviskar B.S., 2010, Understanding Indian Society Past and Present, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
• Ahuja, R., 2016, Society in India, Jaipur: Rawat Publications
• Dahiwale S.M., 2006, Understanding Indian Society, Jaipur: Rawat Publications
• Verma, Pawan K., 1998, The Great Indian Middle Class, Delhi: Penguin Books.
• Gore, M.S., 2002, Unity in Diversity, Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
• Lal, Deepak., 2000, The Poverty of Development Economic, New Delhi: Oxford University Press
• Uberoi P., 1994, Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, New Delhi: Oxford university Press,
• Kothari, Rajni., 1995, Caste in Indian Politics. New Delhi: Orient Longman
• White James M., 2008, Family Theories, London: Sage Publications.

e-RESOURCES
• https://ojs.scholarsportal.info/windsor/index.php/csw
• https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/hsbb/current

Journals:
• Sociological Bulletin, Sage Publications
• Social Change, Sage Publications

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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