MA Sociology Part I Notes Paper II Competing Perspectives on Indian Society

 

Paper II Competing Perspective on Indian Society

 

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Unit I: Introduction-brief overview of Sociology in India

• Schools of Sociology in India with special focus on the Bombay “School”

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• Approaches: Indological, Civilizational, Historical and Field-work

• ‘Indianizing’ and ‘Indigenizing’Sociology

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• Non-Brahmin Perspectives on Indian Society 

 

Unit II: Theorizing Caste

• Ambedkar’s theorizing of Caste and the‘Caste Question’ 

• Dumontian and Post-Dumontianapproaches to theorizing Caste

• Gender and Caste (Gail Omvedt, Leela Dubeand Sharmila Rege)

• Caste Today: Power, Hierarchy, Difference and Identity (works of Beteille, D.

Gupta and Ilaiah) 

 

Unit III: Constructing the Nation and Nationalism

• Nation as spiritual and Political (ParthaChatterjee) 

• Critique of the “Project Homogenization” (TK Oommen)

• Nationalism sans Nation (G Aloysius) 

• Women and Nationalist Discourse (Victim, Mata and Sevika) (Tanika Sarkar

and others) 

 

Unit IV: Critical Perspectives on complex Social Transformation: Globalization

and Indian society

• Social Consequences of changing State-Market relations: Education, health,

Employment 

• Traditional Hierarchies in Globalizing Society: Multiple, Intersecting and complex

Marginalities

• Economic Transformations and Tribal Communities: Marginalization, claims and

struggles

• Identity Politics: Region, religion, class as contexts of homogenized and

fragmented identities.