Global Teachers Academy (UGC-NET-JRF)

Unit -1 : Sociological Theory

1. Classical Sociological Traditions
   • Emile Durkheim
   • Max Weber
   • Karl Marx
2. Structure- Functionalism and Structuralism
   • Bronislaw Malinowski
   • A.R. Radcliffe- Brown
   • Talcott Parsons
   • Robert K. Merton
   • Claude Levi Strauss
3. Hermeneutic and Interpretative Traditions
   • G.H. Mead
   • Karl Manheim
   • Alfred Schutz
   • Harold Garfinkel
   • Erving Goffman
   • Clifford Geertz
4. Post Modernism, Post Structuralism and Post Colonialism
   • Edward Said
   • Pierre Bourdieu
   • Michel Foucault
   • Jurgen Habermas
   • Anthony Giddens
   • Manuel Castells
5. Indian Thinkers
   • M.K. Gandhi
   • B.R. Ambedkar
   • Radha Kamal Mukherjee
   • G. S. Ghurye
   • M.N. Srinivas
   • Irawati Karve

Unit - 2 : Research Methodology and Methods

1. Conceptualizing Social Reality
   • Philosophy of Science
   • Scientific Method and Epistemology in Social Science
   • Hermeneutic Traditions
   • Objectivity and Reflexivity in Social Science
   • Ethics and Politics
2. Formulating Research Design
   • Reading Social Science Research, Data and Documents
   • Induction and Deduction
   • Fact, Concept and Theory
   • Hypotheses, Research Questions, Objectives
3. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
   • Ethnography
   • Survey Method
   • Historical Method
   • Comparative Method
4. Techniques
   • Sampling
   • Questionnaire and Schedule
   • Statistical Analysis
   • Observation, Interview and Case study
   • Interpretation, Data Analysis and Report Writing

Unit -3 : Basic Concepts and Institutions

1. Sociological Concepts
   • Social Structure
   • Culture
   • Network
   • Status and Role
   • Identity
   • Community
   • Diaspora
   • Values, Norms and Rules
   • Personhood, Habitus and Agency
   • Bureaucracy, Power and Authority
2. Social Institutions
   • Marriage, Family and Kinship
   • Economy
   • Polity
   • Religion
   • Education
   • Law and Customs
3. Social Stratification
   • Social Difference, Hierarchy, Inequality and Marginalization
   • Caste and Class
   • Gender, Sexuality and Disability
   • Race, Tribe and Ethnicity
4. Social Change and Processes
   • Evolution and Diffusion
   • Modernization and Development
   • Social Transformations and Globalization
   • Social Mobility

Unit - 4 : Rural and Urban Transformations

1. Rural and Peasant Society?
   • Caste-Tribe Settlements
   • Agrarian Social Structure and Emergent Class Relations
   • Land Ownership and Agrarian Relations
   • Decline of Agrarian Economy, De-Peasantization and Migration
   • Agrarian Unrest and Peasant Movements
   • Changing Inter-Community Relations and Violence
2. Urban Society
   • Urbanism, Urbanity and Urbanization
   • Towns, Cities and Mega-Cities
   • Industry, Service and Business
   • Neighbourhood, Slums and Ethnic Enclaves
   • Middle Class and Gated Communities
   • Urban Movements and Violence

Unit - 5 : State, Politics and Development

1. Political Processes in India
   • Tribe, Nation State and Border
   • Bureaucracy
   • Governance and Development
   • Public Policy: Health, Education and Livelihoods
   • Political Culture
   • Grass-root Democracy
   • Law and Society
   • Gender and Development
   • Corruption
   • Role of International Development Organizations
2. Social Movements and Protests
   • Political Factions, Pressure Groups
   • Movements based on Caste, Ethnicity, Ideology, Gender, Disability, Religion and Region
   • Civil Society and Citizenship
   • NGOs, Activism and Leadership
   • Reservations and Politics

Unit - 6 : Economy and

• Exchange, Gift , Capital, Labour and Market
• Mode of Production Debates
• Property and Property Relations
• State and Market: Welfarism and Neoliberalism
• Models of Economic Development
• Poverty and Exclusion
• Factory and Industry Systems
• Changing Nature of Labour Relations
• Gender and Labour Process
• Business and Family
• Digital Economy, E-Commerce
• Global Business and Corporates
• Tourism
• Consumption

Unit - 7: Environment and Society

• Social and Cultural Ecology: Diverse Forms
• Technological Change, Agriculture and Biodiversity
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Ethno-Medicine
• Gender and Environment
• Forest Policies, Adivasis and Exclusion
• Ecological Degradation and Migration
• Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation
• Water and Social Exclusion
• Disasters and Community Responses
• Environmental Pollution, Public Health and Disability
• Climate Change and International Policies
• Environmental Movements

Unit - 8: Family, Marriage and Kinship

• Theoretical Approaches: Structure-Functionalist, Alliance and Cultural
• Gender Relations and Power Dynamics
• Inheritance, Succession and Authority
• Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction
• Children, Youth and Elderly
• Emotions and Family
• Emergent Forms of Family
• Changing Marriage Practices
• Changing Care and Support Systems
• Family Laws
• Domestic Violence and Crime against Women
• Honour Killing

Unit - 9 : Science, Technology and Society

• History of Technological Development
• Changing notions of Time and Space
• Flows and Boundaries
• Virtual Community
• Media: Print and Electronic, Visual and Social Media
• E-Governance and Surveillance Society
• Technology and Emerging Political Processes
• State Policy, Digital Divide and Inclusion
• Technology and Changing Family Relations
• Technology and Changing Health Systems
• Food and Technology
• Cyber Crime

Unit - 10 : Culture and Symbolic Transformations

• Signs and Symbols
• Rituals, Beliefs and Practices
• Changing Material Culture
• Moral Economy
• Education: Formal and Informal
• Religious Organizations, Piety and Spirituality
• Commodification of Rituals
• Communalism and Secularism
• Cultural Identity and Mobilization
• Culture and Politics
• Gender, Body and Culture
• Art and Aesthetics
• Ethics and Morality
• Sports and Culture
• Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism
• Religion and Economy
• Culture and Environment
• New Religious Movements