Socio - development approaches in Social Work

Paper Code: 
MSW 223
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Understand political economy and Systems for economic order
  • Develop skills for social analysis
  • Understand development & its impact
     
Unit I: 
  • Social development: Meaning, concept and indicators
  • Under Development and its causes: A historical overview with reference to developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
  • Contemporary Development Dynamics: North-South relations, world trades, MNCs and their influences on third work economies.
Unit II: 
  • Modernization and development
  • Impact of Globalisation on Developing Countries: Privatisation, Liberalisation and Structural adjustment programmes; role of international financial institutions.
Unit III: 
  • Approaches to development: Capitalist, Socialist and Gandhian approaches
  • Contemporary perspectives: Participation, Empowerment and Entitlement (Prebisch, Samir Al Amin, Amartya Sen)
Unit IV: 
  • Sustainable development and human development : Concept
  • Millennium Development goals
  • UN declaration, efforts and right to development
Unit V: 
  • Development programmes in India post independence (Five - year plans): Their impact on poverty
  • Other programmes like MNREGA, IRDP, NRHM, JNNURM
References: 
  1. Desai: M. Monteiro A. and Narayan Lata (ed): 1998 – Towards people centered development, TISS, Mumbai
  2. Midgley, J.: 1995 – Social Development, Sage Publications, New Delhi
  3. John Elster and John WE. Roemer: 1993 – Interpersonal comparisons of well-being, Cambridge University Press, USA
  4. Human Development Reports, Oxford University Press, New Delhi
  5. Gore, M.S: 1985 – Social aspects of development, Rawat Publications, Jaipur
  6. Dreze Jean and Sen Amartya: 1995 – India: Economic development and social opportunity, Oxford University Press, Delhi
  7. Kumar Hajira: 2005 – Social work and development issues, Aakar books, Delhi
  8. Sen, Raj Kumar: 2006 – Economic reforms and development, Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi
  9. Preston, P.W : 2001 – Development theory and introduction, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Rawat Booksellers, Delhi
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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