Program learning objectives:
- Develop a broad understanding of Indian society and intercultural literacy through cultural immersion.
- Deepen your knowledge of Indian development, environmental, and cultural issues through coursework, local engagement, and independent projects.
- Develop a working knowledge of Marathi language sufficient for you to communicate in everyday situations and to understand the place of Maharashtra in Indian history and culture.
- Teacher: ANILA K T FACULTY
- Teacher: Mujeebu Rahman Vazhakkunnan FACULTY
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Catalog Description: This course examines the nature of theory and reviews major sociological theories, especially exchange theory, interpretative tradition in sociology, critical theory and neo functionalism and neo Marxism. Special attention is given to leading figures representing the above schools of thought. The main task will be to make sociological theory relevant to an understanding and appreciation of human society. More specifically, the primary goal is to help students to develop a way of looking at past and contemporary issues “sociologically”, and from a structural rather than individual standpoint. In doing so, we will discuss theory as a tool for organizing existing knowledge and as a means of generating “new’ knowledge. We will attempt to understand each theorist within their own time so that we can appreciate the specific social and historical contexts, which gave rise to their particular forms of theorizing.
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Objectives
- To familiarize with various schools of sociological theory
- To initiate critical discussion on the major schools of thought
- To create an awareness on the relevance of the theoretical premises
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of the major sociological theorist’s ideas and concepts as measured through examinations and online discussion boards
- Students will demonstrate the ability to apply sociological concepts and theories through written essays
- Conceptualize and apply their sociological imagination to explain social issues from a social structural and critical perspective.
- Understand and critically evaluate contemporary sociological theorists; exchange theory, interpretative tradition in sociology, critical theory and neo functionalism and neo Marxism
- Apply classical and contemporary sociological theory to current social issues in Indian society in general and Kerala society in particular.
- Teacher: Mujeebu Rahman Vazhakkunnan FACULTY
Course contents :
Module 1: Gender Dynamics in India
Module 2: Gender and Kerala Society
As the world approached the end of the last millennium, new forms of or dimensions of the relations of oppression, domination, and subordination emerged. It resulted in the emergence of new questions regarding the explanatory capacities of the existing feminist theory and they pointed to their limitations. These changes were in accordance with emergence of a more complex globalized world with so much of diversities like that of race, ethnicity, and class. This was the context for the emergence of what we term as the post-structuralist and post-modernist critique of existing theoretical frameworks. They criticized the assumptions that one could address women as a homogenous group. Significant academic endeavors were made to understand and theorize nuances of experiences with Indian women and their movements like Maitrayee Chaudhuri’s works on Indian women’s movements.However, now we see the emergence of powerful counterpoints to the western feminist theorizing not because due to the problem with the theoretical universalism but with problems with the dominant western concepts and theorizing that have shaped the way we see the world and women experiences.
- Teacher: Dr. Ahammadu Zirajuddeen FACULTY
Igneous processes and phase relations
- Teacher: Mr.PRAVEEN KURIAN THOMAS FACULTY
• To familiarise with quantitative and qualitative research methods
• To familiarise scaling techniques
• To familiarise the various components and format of report
- Teacher: Mujeebu Rahman Vazhakkunnan FACULTY
- Explain the central analytical components of traditional "human ecology" perspectives on cities, and how they describe processes of growth and development associated with industrial cities.
- Describe the central insights and arguments presented by political economy perspective in Urban Sociology, and how they differ from traditional perspectives.
- Explain the history of post-war sub-urbanization, and how it has changed spatial patterns and introduced new challenges to both urban equality and governability.
- Distinguish among measures of segregation commonly used in the United States, and use them to make comparisons across metropolitan areas.
- Analyze relationships of stratification within cities, especially race and class, and how that impacts personal interactions and political dynamics in urban settings.
- Teacher: ANILA K T FACULTY