The course outcomes are as follows:
Introduction to Sociology-I: Introduce students to a sociological way of thinking, providing a foundation for more detailed and specialized courses.
Indian Society-I: Introduce the processes and modes of construction of knowledge of India, drawing attention to key concepts and institutions useful for understanding Indian society.
Introduction to Sociology-II: Provide a general introduction to sociological thought, focusing on original texts to understand how thinkers have conceptualized various aspects of society over time.
Indian Society-II: Draw attention to the variety of ideas and debates about India, critically engaging with multiple socio-political forces and ideologies shaping the nation.
Rethinking Development: Examine ideas of development from a sociological perspective, introducing different approaches to understanding development and tracing the trajectory of Indian experience from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Sociology of Religion: Understand the importance of religion in society, reinforcing positions developed in classical writings and exploring the linkage between social and religious issues.
Sociology of Gender: Introduce gender as a critical sociological lens of enquiry in relation to various social fields, interrogating categories like gender, sex, sexuality, gender roles, inequalities, theories of feminism, and initiatives taken for development.
Rural Sociology in India: Analyze the nature and dynamics of village society and rural areas, bringing out distinctive features, structures, changing features, rural problems, and development programs in rural India.
Sociology of Kinship: Introduce general principles of kinship and marriage by referencing key terms and theoretical statements substantiated by ethnographies, looking at trajectories and new directions in kinship studies.
Social Stratification: Introduce students to the sociological study of social inequalities, acquainting them with principal theoretical perspectives and diverse forms of social inequalities in articulation with each other.
Sociological Thinkers-I: Introduce students to the classics in the making of the discipline of sociology through selected texts by major thinkers.
Sociological Research Methods-I: Provide a general introduction to the methodologies of sociological research methods, offering elementary knowledge of the complexities and philosophical underpinnings of research.
Sociological Thinkers-II: Introduce students to post-classical sociological thinking through original texts.
Sociological Research Methods-II: Offer an introductory course on how research is conducted, emphasizing formulating research design, methods of data collection, and data analysis, providing elementary knowledge on conducting both quantitative and qualitative research.
Sociology of Media: Introduce students to major themes outlining the interconnections between media and society, focusing on the transmission and reception of media content, studying the production, control, and reception of media and its representations.
Visual Sociology: Focus on doing sociology through visual forms, concerned with the visual dimensions of social life, utilizing digital cameras and other recording technology to collect data.
Urban Sociology: Provide exposure to key theoretical perspectives for understanding urban life in historical and contemporary contexts, reflecting on concerns of urban living while narrating subjective experiences of urban communities.
Agrarian Sociology: Explore traditions of inquiry and key substantive issues in agrarian sociology, comparative in nature but paying attention to Indian themes, introducing emerging global agrarian concerns.
Field Work: Equip students with empirical field data collection, analysis, and writing analytical and standard dissertations or research reports in sociology, involving field visits for data collection.
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