SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

Paper Code: 
DSOC 601(a)
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes(COs):

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to;

CO26: Identify the different forms and institutional manifestations of social stratification are explored here both theoretically and through case studies.
CO27: Evaluate the pervasive nature of social inequality and its contextual variations
CO28: Analyze how persistence of inequality brings in anxiety and tensions in social life
CO29: Examine the impact of social mobility on class relationships and social structure of the society.

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

18.00
  • Social Stratification: Concept, Features and Theories: Functionalist and
    Conflict theory

 

 

18.00
  • Concept of equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, inequality
    and hierarchy
  • Harmonic and Disharmonic Social System
  • Issues of equality and Social Justice

 

18.00
Unit III: 
Forms of Social Stratification I:

 

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Caste, Class and Estate

 

 

18.00
Unit IV: 
Forms of Social Stratification II:

  

  • Gendering Inequality, Poverty and Social Exclusion
  • Caste Class Intersections

 

18.00
  • Social Mobility: Concept, Forms
  • Sanskritization and Modernization: Meaning and features

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Béteille,  A.  1983.  ‘Introduction  in  Andre  Béteille  (ed.):  Equality  and
  • Inequality: Theory and Practice; Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp.1‐27.
  • Gupta, D. 1991. ‘Hierarchy and Difference’ in Dipankar Gupta (ed.):

           Social Stratification Delhi: Oxford University Press , pp 1‐21.

 

References: 
  • William, Jutius Wilson 1978, The Declining Significance of Race:Blacks and Changing American Institution. University of Chicago Press,
  1. 1 – 23 & 183‐188.
  • Breigher,R.L.(ed)1990. Social Mobility and Social Structure. New York; Cambridge University Press, Ch. 5, pp.103‐30.
  • Grusky, D.V. 1994. Social Stratification Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, Part I V, pp 245‐264.
  • Macleod, Jay. 1987. ‘Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes its

Toll’, in Ain’t No Makin It: Aspirations and Attainment in a LowIncome

Neighbourhood. USA: Westview Press, pp. 112‐136.

  • Bettie,  Julie.  2003.  Women  without  Class:  Girls,  Race,  and  Identity.

California: University of California Press, pp 57-94.

 

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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