Rural Sociology

Paper Code: 
SOC124
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;

CO16:Discuss the development of rural sociology and to identify its basic concepts

CO17:Understand the agrarian social structure and discuss the constraints and issues in rural      development.

CO18:Demonstrate skills that can contribute to reconstruction of rural institutions, rural development programmes in terms of planning and critically evaluating the same.

CO19:Analyze the dynamics of change in traditions

CO20:Explore the multi-faceted and complex rural life and the emerging trends.

Lecture and Classroom Discussions (Tool-Power Point Presentations),Exposure to reality with the help of virtual media and field visits to rural areas, Classroom discussion using case studies, Classroom discussions on the basis of assignments.

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

12.00
  • Rural Sociology: Origin and Development
  • Rural urban difference and convergence

 

12.00
  • Basic Concepts:
  • Little Community and  Peasant Society
  • Little and Great Traditions;  Universalization and Parochialization

 

12.00

Rural Social Institutions:                                                                12 hrs

  • Rural family;  Caste system in rural India
  • Agrarian Economy

 

12.00
  • Problems of Rural Society: Poverty and Illiteracy
  • Peasant movements in pre and post-independent India

 

12.00

Rural Development in India                                                       

o   Planned change for rural communities

o   Community Development Programme , Integrated Rural Development Programme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Acts

Rural Power Structure and Leadership

Essential Readings: 
  • Desai, A.R. 2019. (5th Edition), Rural Sociology in India, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Doshi, S.L. & Jain, P.C. 2002, Rural Sociology. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
  • Singh, A.K. 2014. Fundamentals of Rural Sociology. New Delhi: Anmol Publications.

 

References: 
  • Singh Manmohan. 2018, Rural Sociology in India, New Delhi:Rajat Publications .
  • Joshi R.P. & Narwani G.S. 2016, Panchayati Raj in India: Emerging across the States.Jaipur: Rawat Publications
  • Gillette, J.M. 1927, Rural Sociology, Washington: American Sociological Society.
  • Marriott, McKim. 1968, Village India, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Singh, Yogendra. 2004, Modernization of Indian Tradition, Rawat Publications.
  • Chauhan Brijraj, 2012, Study of a Rajasthan Village, Jaipur, Jaipur: Rawat Publications

 

 

e-RESOURCES:

JOURNALS:

  • Journal of Rural Development, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad
  • Indian Growth and Development Review, Emerald Group Publications

 

 

 

 

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