Dr. B. R.

AMBEDKAR OPEN UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Social Sciences
B.A. SOCIOLOGY
SYLLABUS

SECOND YEAR
COURSE - 01: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY
COURSE - 02: INDIAN SOCIETY

THIRD YEAR
COURSE - 03: SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY
COURSE - 04: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

COURSE-01: PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

BLOCK-I: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Unit 1: Sociology Definition, Nature and Scope
Unit 2: Sociology and other Social Sciences
Unit 3: Origin and Development of Sociology: The Early Sociologists
BLOCK II: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
Unit 4: Nature of Human Society Distinctions between Human and Non Human Societies
Unit 5: Elements of Social Structure: Norms, Values, Status, Role, Institutions and the
Process of Institutionalizations
Unit -6: Contact and Communication-Nature of Symbolic Interaction
Unit 7: Forms of Interaction Associative and Dissociative Processes
BLOCK III: SOCIAL GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES
Unit -8: Meaning, Functions of Social Groups and Types of Social Groups
Unit 9: Community Definition and Characteristics
Unit -10: Types of Communities Tribal, Rural & Urban
BLOCK IV: SOCIALISATION AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Unit -11: Society and Individual: The Process of Socialization and Personality Formation
Unit -12: Theories and Agencies of Socialization
Unit -13: Deviance: Definition, Meaning and Types
Unit -14: Social Control Meaning, Definition and Agencies
BLOCK V: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Unit 15: Status and Position, Social Stratification
Unit 16: Estate System General Features
Unit 17: Social Classes: Life Chances and Life Styles
Unit 18: Caste System Varna, Jati
Unit 19: Social Mobility: Meaning, Types and Factors
BLOCK VI: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Unit 20: Marriage, Family and Kinship Types, Characteristics & Functions
Unit - 21: Economic Institutions: Technology, Economic Activity and Types of Economy
Unit 22: Property as an Institution Types and Inheritance
Unit23: Political Institutions: State and SocietyForms of State and Social Basis of Political
Unit 24: Religious Institutions Characteristics, Forms and Functions of Religion
Unit 25: Functions of Educational Institutions

COURSE-02: INDIAN SOCIETY

BLOCK-I: COMPOSITION OF POULATION
Unit 1: Indian Society: Composition
Unit 2: Unity in Diversity and Nationalism
BLOCK-II: HINDU SOCIAL ORGANISATION
Unit 3: Normative and Scriptural Basis of Hindu Religion
Unit 4: Varna and Jathi
Unit 5: The Jajmani System
Unit 6: Marriage, Family and Kinship among Hindus
BLOCK-III: SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN & TRIBES
Unit 7: Basic Features of Islam and Christianity
Unit 8: Marriage, Family, Kinship and Inheritance among Muslims
Unit 9: Marriage, Family among Christians
Unit 10: Tribal Religion
Unit 11: Marriage, family, Kinship and inheritance among Tribes
BLOCK-I: SOCIAL CHANGE AND PROCESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Unit 12: Concept of Social Change, Evolution and Progress
Unit 13: Factors of Social Change
Unit 14: Sanskritisation and Islamisation
Unit 15: Westernisation, Modernisation and Secularisation
Unit 16: Industrialization and Urbanisation
BLOCK-V: SOCIAL ISSUES
Unit 17: Violation of Human Rights
Unit 18: Gender Based Inequalities
Unit 19: Ethnicity and Social Integration, Problems of Casteism in India
Unit 20: Industry, Economic Development and Environment
BLOCK-VI: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Unit 21: Religious Movements
Unit 22: Agrarian Movements
Unit 23: Sectarian Movements
Unit 24: Regional Movements
Unit 25: Dalit and Girijan Movements

COURSE-03: SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY

BLOCK I: FIELD OF SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY
Unit 1: Nature and Scope of Social Demography
Unit 2: Sources of Demographic Data
BLOCK II: POPULATION THEORIES
Unit 3: Pre-Malthusian Theories
Unit 4: Malthusian Theory
Unit 5: Demographic Transition Theory
BLOCK III: INDIAN POPULATION COMPOSITION
Unit 6: Population Composition Age, Sex, Marital Composition & Change
Unit 7: Ethnic and Religious Composition
Unit 8: Occupational and Educational Composition
Unit 9: Rural and Urban Differences in Population Composition
BLOCK IV: FERTILITY AND MORTALITY
Unit 10: Meaning and Significance of Fertility
Unit 11: Differential Fertility and Measures of Fertility
Unit 12: Meaning and Significance of Mortality
Unit 13: Differential Mortality and Measures of Mortality
Unit 14: Socio-economic factors affecting fertility & mortality
BLOCK V: MIGRATION
Unit 15: Meaning, Significance and types of migration
Unit 16: Factors and consequences of migration
BLOCK VI: POPULATION PROBLEMS
Unit 17: Under population and Over population
Unit 18: World population growth with special reference to India
Unit 19: Concept of population control and methods of Birth control
Unit 20: Population problem, Economic development & Population education
Unit 21: Family Planning and Family Welfare
Unit 22: Indias Population Policy

COURSE-04: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

BLOCK I: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Unit 1: Origin, Development, Scope and Methods of Social Anthropology
Unit 2: Definition, Characteristics, and Attributes of Culture
Unit 3: Cultural Processes
Unit 4: Differences between Tribe and Caste
BLOCK II: FAMILY. MARRIAGE, KINSHIP AMONG TRIBES
Unit 5: Forms of Marriage and Ways of Acquiring mates
Unit 6: Characteristics, Types of Tribal Family
Unit -7: Kinship Lineage, Clan, Phratry and Moiety
BLOCK III: TRIBAL ECONOMY AND POLITY
Unit 8: Nature and Forms of Tribal Economy
Unit 9: Reciprocity, Redistribution and Exchange
Unit 10: Nature and Forms of Tribal Political organization
Unit 11: Tribal Law and Justice
BLOCK IV: TRIBAL RELIGIOUS ORGANISATION
Unit -12: Tribal Religion
Unit -13: Forms and Functions of Magic
Unit 14: Relationship between Religion, Magic and Science
BLOCK V: TRIBES OF INDIA AND ANDHRA PRADESH
Unit 15: Tribes in India: Racial and Linguistic Classification
Unit 16: Distribution of Tribes in Andhra Pradesh
Unit 17: Tribal issues Land Alienation, Displacement and Rehabilitation
Unit 18: Tribal Health, Education
BLOCK VI: TRIBAL WELFARE
Unit 19: Culture Contact and Tribal Problems
Unit 20; Tribal Policy in Pre-Independence India
Unit 21: Constitutional Safeguards to Tribes
Unit 22: Tribal Welfare in Andhra Pradesh