MA Sociology Part I (Sem II) Notes Paper III Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology

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CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Unit I: Cultural Materialism and Marxism

• Neo-evolutionism

• Cultural Ecology

• Cultural Materialism

• Marxist Anthropology

Unit II: The Interpretive Turn

• Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

- Concepts and Terms

• Thick Description, Liminality and Communitas

• Theorizing the Nation State, Ethnicities

• Multiculturalism

- Culture

- Interpretive Approach

Unit III: Reflexivity, Feminism and the Subaltern

• Fieldwork and Reflexivity

• Critique of Classical Ethnographies

• Feminism and Anthropology

- Feminist Anthropologists India

- Feminist Anthropologists International

• The Subaltern Turn

Unit IV: Post-Modern Locations

• Post-Structuralism

• Post-colonialism

• Globalization: Hybridity, Flows, Boundaries

• Cultural Studies

MA Sociology Part I (Sem II) Paper II Notes: Marginalized Groups and Communities: Caste, Tribe & Gender

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 Unit I: Historical Context of Marginalization

• Margin, Marginality, and Marginalization

- Forms of Marginalization

- Causes of Marginalization

- Prejudice and Discrimination

• Marginalization of Caste, Class, Tribe, Gender and Minorities

• Multiple marginal Groups and their Discrimination, deprivation and Social Exclusion

- Marginalization and Social Exclusion

Unit II: Perspectives on Marginalization

• Mahatma Phule and Babasaheb Ambedkar

• Periyar Ramaswami and Verrier Elwin

• Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai

Unit III: Social Welfare and Issues of Rights

• Constitutional provisions for reservations

- Recommendations for Better Inclusion

• Issues of Representational

- Reservations for Economically Weaker sections of Society

- Disability

- Transgenders

- Women

- Gender & Reservation

• The Public Sphere

Unit IV: Contemporary Debates

• Critique of Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva

• Dalit feminist standpoint

• Tribes, Caste and Identity Politics

• Sexuality and Marginalization

MA Sociology Part I Notes (Sem II) Paper I Contemporary Social Theories

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Contemporary Social Theories

 Unit I: Structural Functionalism and Micro Sociology

• Structural Functionalism and Conflict Theories

- Functionalism

- Herbert Spencer

- Emile Durkhiem

- Robert Merton

- Malinowski

- Radcliff Brown

- Talcott Parsons

- Conflict Theory

- Classical Theorist - Conflict Theory

- Conflict Schools of the Modern Era

- Elite Theory - Conflict Theory

- Current trends in Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

- Criticisms of Symbolic Interactionism

- George Herbert Mead

- Blumer and the Chicago School

- Geoffman & Dramaturgical Perspective

• Ethnomethodology, Garfinkle & Ethnomethodological Enquiry

- Conversational Analysis

- Ethnomethodologists and Mainstream Sociology

• Narrative Analysis

Unit II: The Critical and Postmodern Turn

• Western Marxism

• Critical Theory

- Ideas of Jurgen Habermas

• The Frankfurt School

• Post-structuralist and Postmodern theories

Unit III: Theorizing Structure, Network and Risk

• Theories of Structuration

• Habitus and Practice

• Theories of Networks

• Risks and Liquidity

Unit IV: Plural Registers

• Post-colonial critique

• Standpoint Theories and Beyond

• The Feminist Critique

• Sociology from Below: Dalit Sociological Perspectives

- The Book View and the Field View

- Major Trends of Social Transformation

MA Sociology Part I Notes: Paper IV Methodologies of Social Research

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Paper IV Methodologies of Social Research

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Unit I : Introduction

 Philosophical foundations: Issuesof Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology 

The Nature of Science and Science of the social 

The Nature of Sociologicalinquiry; Science and common sense

Qualitative and QuantitativeMethodologies

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods part II

Unit II: Methodological Perspectives

Positivism    

Hermeneutic Intervention 

Reflexivity and Social Research 

Feminist MethodologicalPerspectives 

Unit III: Research Methods

 Virtual Research 

Ethics in Virtual Research

The nature and application of Statistics in Sociological research 

Quantitative Methods: Social Survey-questionnaire, Interview schedule, coding practices

Qualitative Methods: Participant observation, Interviews, Case studies and life histories

Unit IV: Planning and Communicating Research

Research Proposal 

Research Design 

Data Collection and Analysis