Social Stratification

Paper Code: 
25DSOC601(A)
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
6.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to develop sociological insights about social realities characterized by stratification, exclusion and inclusion.

 

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Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course

Code

Course

Title

25DSOC601(A)

 

Social Stratification

(Theory)

CO31: Examine the conceptualand  theoretical perspectives of social stratification
CO32: Evaluate the pervasive nature of social inequality and its contextual variations
CO33: Analyze how persistence of inequality in various forms and tensions in social life
CO34: Examine the nature of social exclusion

CO35: Examine the relevance of social inclusion for moving towards egalitarian society

CO36:  Contribute effectively in course specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, DebatesTutorials, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students: Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation through community surveys, presentation.

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

 

Unit I: 
Unit I: Basic Concepts and Theories of Social Stratification
  • Social Stratification: Concept, Features and Theories: Functionalist and Conflict theory

 

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Unit II: 
Unit II: Equality and Justice

·       Concept of equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, inequality and hierarchy

·       Harmonic and Disharmonic Social System

Issues of equality and Social Justice

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Unit III: 
Unit III: Forms of Social Stratification

Race, Caste, Class, Gender, Caste –Class Intersections

 

18.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV : Social Exclusion
  • Social Exclusion: Concept, Classical and Neo-Liberal views
  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in India

 

 

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Unit V: 
Unit V: Social Inclusion
  • Concept, Impediments in social inclusion
  •  Financial and social schemes for inclusive growth in India

 

Essential Readings: 

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: 

Suggested Readings:

  • 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.

 

e-resources:

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Academic Session: 
2025-26
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