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Syllabus
https://www.caluniv.ac.in/ccf-ug/files/ccf-sociology.pdf
Learning Outcome
Program Outcome
Bachelor of Arts (General) program is designed to provide students with an exposure to variety of arts subjects during their three years of graduation. After completion of B.A general course a student can appear before various competitive examinations. A student can also pursue higher education in any open university in distance mode.
Program Specific Outcome
Studying sociology has a liberating experience: sociology enlarges our sympathies and imagination, opens up new perspectives on the sources of our own behavior, and deepens our sense of cultural settings different from our own. Sociological thinking is a vital help of self understanding, which in turn can be focused back upon an improved understanding of the social world. Sociological knowledge challenges dogma, gives us insight into the working of social institutions. The subject enhances the possibilities of human freedom.
Course Outcome
CC1: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
It shapes students to develop a scientific approach towards the study of society.
Students learn about the diverse scope of sociology
Students become able to break free from the immediacy of personal circumstances and put things in wider context, thus, broadening their outlook
It studies role of the institutions in the development of the individual.
Students become aware of cultural differences.
By learning the relation of sociology with other social sciences, students develop a wholistic approach towards analyzing society.
CC2: SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA.
It helps in understanding the need of sociological perspective in studying rural life.
It has become necessary for students to have a systematic study of the changing social structure after independence.
Students get to know the building blocks of Indian society in the form of the institutions of caste, tribe, kinship, family and how these institutions have been changing over centuries. What implications they have in present society.
Students know how society deals with the difficult challenges posed by the immense diversity of Indian society. They learn to step outside from their normal thinking and understand the hard complexes of Unity in Diversity.
Studying social movements will help students analyse the activitist who sought social change, as well as help critical thinking skills about the process of social change.
CC3: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
Students get the background of the origin of sociology.
It helps students to understand how the shattering of traditional way of life resulted in the attempts of thinkers to develop a new understanding of both the social and natural world.
How social thinkers have used science instead of religion to understand society.
Students know about the methods applied in understanding society.
CC4: METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL ENQUIRY
Students learn how to break away from the speculative manner in which the ordinary person usually consider such questions
Students learn the use of sound research procedure to able to analyse the world accurately.
Students learn how to apply research methods in a given study and how to best analyse the result.
They learn how researches are to be planned and carried out.
SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSE
SEMESTER 3, 4, 5 and6
SEC-A: Semester3/5
SEC-B: Semester4/6
SEC-A(1): TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH.
Students learn about the specific methods and procedures for acquiring the information needed.
Students learn about the various methods of data collection.
It ensures students that requisite data in accordance with the problem at hand is collected accurately.
While studying data analysis students get to know about how to inspect, clean, transform and remodel data with a view to reach to a certain conclusion for a given situation.
While studying this, they also learn about project report writing. They get to know how to gather all thoughts, processes and creations together in one place and document the project.
SEC-A(2): GENDER SENSITIZATION.
The program addresses life issues such as equality and responsibility within relationships, marriage and families.
Modification of behavior by raising awareness of gender equality.
Students learn about the basic requirement for the normal development of an individual.
Students as individuals learn the need to be more open-minded, rational and unbiased in their thoughts and actions.
Students need to know that they need to shatter the orthodox belief and biased values and to accentuate progressive mentality of both the sexes.
SEC-B(1): THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DEVELOPMENT.
Development of sociology is the study of the causes and consequences of economic changes in society.
Sociology of development addresses issues on growth development debate. Population and economic growth. Production and reproduction of social and economic inequality.
The sociology of development has been an essential component of the sociological study of stratification and inequality.
SEC-B(2): APPLICATION OF STATISTICS FOR SOCIOLOGY.
Data analysis in human sciences require the use of statistical methods.
Statistical techniques provide explanations of how and why some statistical methods are used. Some methods are more suitable for qualitative. Some other for quantitative data.
Students learn the necessity to deal with some simple and more complex statistical procedure such as descriptive and inferential statistics based on sample survey.
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVES
Semesters 5 and 6
DSE-A:Semester-5
DSE-B:Semester-6
DSE-A(1) Religion and Society
Since religion is such an important part of societies around the world,sociologists are very interested in studying it. Sociologists study religion both a belief system and a social institution. As belief system,religion shapes what people think and how they see the world.
DSE-A(2) Family and Kinship
Kinship has several importance in a social structure. Kinship decides who can marry with whom and where marital relationship are taboo. It determines the rights and obligations of the members in all the sacraments and religious practices from birth to death in family life. We study families in order to better understand ourselves. When we can see our own family within the greater context of the experiences of other families and societal influences and trends, we understand ourselves better. We also study families in order to better understand other families and society. In this way we recognize both the uniqueness of each family and the ways in which groups share identities and experiences.
DSE-B(1) Social Stratification
Sociological studies of inequality and stratification examine the distribution of wealth and power within and across societies and the systems of stratification that develop including class, caste, race and gender. Forms of inequality that arise among individuals and groups may include income, occupation, education or health.
DSE-B(2) Gender and Sexuality
Sociological research points to the ubiquity of genders influence in both private and public sphere, and it identifies differences and similarities-- in how genders are treated socially and factors that change this treatment. The sociological study of gender is often combined with the study of sexuality. The sociology of gender examines how society influences our understandings and perception of differences between masculinity and femininity. We examine how this, in turn influences identity and social practices. We pay special focus on the power relationship that follow from the established gender order in a given society.