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B.A. Programmme CourseTruncated Syllabus 2021 BA PROGRAMME IN SOCIOLOGY UNDER CBCS.docxNorth Bengal University
C.B.C.S. U.G. Truncated Syllabus 2021
For B.A. Programme Course
Subject : Sociology
Semesters : 2nd, 4th, and 6th
SEMESTER 2
Core -2
D.S.C.--02: Sociology of India
Unit-1: India - A Plural Society
Features of Pluralism,
Unity in Diversity
UNIT-2: Social Institutions and Practices
Caste – concept, definition, Characteristics,
Tribe - Notion, definition, Characteristics, Tribal economy. Problems of tribes
UNIT-3: Institution of Family and Kinship
http://www.ebookbou.edu.bd/Books/Text/SSHL/BABSS/bso_4303/Unit-02.pdf
Family - Definition, Forms, Structural and Functional Change
Marriage - Definition, Forms, Structural and Functional Change
UNIT- 4: State and Society:
Civil society – Meaning , Feature , Role in contemporary Society
Communalism – Causes of growth, Impact on contemporary Indian Society
Secularism - Meaning, concept, Challenges of Secularism in India
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Some More Open Educational Resources (আরও কিছু উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষামূলক সম্পদ)
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Cast System in India ( NIOS Course-ware)
Casts in India by B.R. Ambedkar, 1916 (B.R. Ambedkar Open University Library)
"শ্রেণি, জাতি, অস্পৃশ্যতা: স্বাধীনোত্তর ভারত" -- স্বপন শর্মা (Journal Article - Pratidhwani the Echo)
SEMESTER 4
CORE -04
DSC-4: Techniques of Social Research
** সম্পূর্ণ ইউনিট সম্পর্কে বাংলায় [W.B.N.S.O.U. Course-ware || See Pg. No. 76]UNIT-1. Research Design
§ Social research - meaning , definition, characteristics, significance
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-01]
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-02]
§ Quantitative- Definition, types , significance
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-07]
http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/9594/1/Unit-1.pdf
http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/9590/1/Unit-3.pdf
§ Qualitative: Definition, types, significance
http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/9592/1/Unit-2.pdf
http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/9589/1/Unit-4.pdf
§ Sampling
http://www.ebookbou.edu.bd/Books/Text/SSHL/BABSS/bso_6305/Unit-07.pdf
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-17]
http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/9564/1/Unit-4.pdf
UNIT-2. Data Collection
http://www.ebookbou.edu.bd/Books/Text/SSHL/BABSS/bso_6305/Unit-08.pdf
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-05]
§ Primary Sources
§ Secondary Sources
§ Interview
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-12]
§ Observation
https://youtu.be/hzMhlNs_hB4 [Choose Paper : P-03 & Module : M-13]
§ Questionnaire
UNIY-3. Data Analysis
§ Content Analysis
§ Narrative Analysis
Skill Enhancement Course
SEC-02: Visual Sociology
(S.E.C. - 1, Paper - 2 : যে সমস্ত ছাত্রছাত্রীরা D.S.C-1 হিসাবে সমাজবিদ্যা নিয়েছেন।)
Group A
1. Visual Sociology as Method of Sociological Enquiry
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper: P-03 and Module: M-29]
§ An Introduction to Visual Sociology
§ Vision, Visuality, Scopic regime, Simulacrum, visual cultures.
Scopic Regimes of Modernity -- Martin Jay
YouTube Video -- An Introduction to Simulacra and Simulation by The humanities
2. Ways of seeing : John Berger
3. Methodological tools for Visual Sociology.
§ Site, Production, Image, Photography , Audience
YouTube Video -- Vidya Mitra
4. Discourse and visual culture.
§ Discursive formation
YouTube Video -- Foucault - Discursive Formations - Epoché Magazine
§ Power/knowledge
YouTube Video -- Michel Foucault's Conception of Discourse as Knowledge and Power
Group B
5. Project work:
§ Documentary Photography
§ Photo journalism
§ Poster design
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Some More Open Educational Resources (আরও কিছু উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষামূলক সম্পদ)
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Photography and Sociology -- Howard S. Becker, Studies in Visual Communication
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to interpretation of visual materials -- Gillian Rose. 2001
Visual Sociology, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism:It’s (almost) All A Matter of Context -- Howard S. Becker
Vision and Visuality -- Hal Foster
The Visual Culture Reader -- Mirzoeff Nicholas
SEMESTER 6
Discipline Specific Elective (D.S.E.)
D.S.E. - 01 / D.S.E. - 02 - [ Paper II ] : Social Stratification
UNIT-1 : Social Stratification:
§ Concept, Definition , Characteristics and Approaches
http://www.ebookbou.edu.bd/Books/Text/SSHL/BABSS/bso_2301/Unit-08.pdf
https://www.nios.ac.in/media/documents/331courseE/L-16%20SOCIAL%20STRATIFICATION.pdf
UNIT-2 : Forms of Social Stratification
http://www.wbnsou.ac.in/online_services/SLM/BDP/ESO-02.pdf [সামাজিক স্তরবিন্যাস, See Block 7, Page :141]
https://elearning.raghunathpurcollege.ac.in/files/0393211215865959570.pdf [Raghunathpur College, elearning]
§ Race: concept, nature of inequality
https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/10-2-the-meaning-of-race-and-ethnicity/
http://www.surendranathcollege.org/new/upload/BIVA_SAMADDER2020-05-11caste%20system%20.pdf
§ Ethnicity: Concept, Definition, characteristics, nature of inequality
§ Caste: Concept, Definition, characteristics, nature of inequality
UNIT-3 : Gender
§ Concept – social and cultural construction, inequality, Gender and exclusion
UNIT-4 : Poverty: Concept, Nature of poverty, Factors and forces of poverty in India
§ Nature and cause of rural poverty in India
§ Social Exclusion: Concepts and Dimensions
UNIT-5 : Social mobility
§ Meaning, Types Barriers of social mobility, mobility and change.
http://www.ebookbou.edu.bd/Books/Text/OS/HSC/hsc_1859/Unit-09.pdf
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/social-mobility/
http://www.wbnsou.ac.in/online_services/SLM/BDP/ESO-01-Mod-1-4.pdf (পর্যায় - ৪)
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Some Important Links
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Sociology -- Open Textbook
Skill Enhancement Course
SEC-04: Visual Sociology
(S.E.C. - 2, Paper - 2 : যে সমস্ত ছাত্রছাত্রীরা D.S.C-2 হিসাবে সমাজবিদ্যা নিয়েছেন।)
Group A
1. Visual Sociology as Method of Sociological Enquiry
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 [Choose Paper: P-03 and Module: M-29]
§ An Introduction to Visual Sociology
§ Vision, Visuality, Scopic regime, Simulacrum, visual cultures.
Scopic Regimes of Modernity -- Martin Jay
YouTube Video -- An Introduction to Simulacra and Simulation by The humanities
2. Ways of seeing : John Berger
3. Methodological tools for Visual Sociology.
§ Site, Production, Image, Photography , Audience
YouTube Video -- Vidya Mitra
4. Discourse and visual culture.
§ Discursive formation
YouTube Video -- Foucault - Discursive Formations - Epoché Magazine
§ Power/knowledge
YouTube Video -- Michel Foucault's Conception of Discourse as Knowledge and Power
Group B
5. Project work:
§ Documentary Photography
§ Photo journalism
§ Poster design
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Some More Open Educational Resources (আরও কিছু উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষামূলক সম্পদ)
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Photography and Sociology -- Howard S. Becker, Studies in Visual Communication
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to interpretation of visual materials -- Gillian Rose. 2001
Visual Sociology, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism:It’s (almost) All A Matter of Context -- Howard S. Becker
Vision and Visuality -- Hal Foster
The Visual Culture Reader -- Mirzoeff Nicholas
Generic Elective
G.E. ( Paper – II ) : Population and Society
(যে সকল ছাত্রছাত্রীরা তৃতীয় সাবজেক্ট G.E. হিসাবে সমাজবিদ্যা নিয়েছেন।)
** সম্পূর্ণ ইউনিট সম্পর্কে বাংলায় [ দ্রষ্টব্য : পর্যায় ২৭ এবং পর্যায় ২৮ || W.B.N.S.O.U. Course-ware]Unit-1 : Introducing Population Studies:
Scope and subject matter of demography
Unit-2 : The Theories of population
Malthusian Theory
Post-Malthusian
Marxist
Unit-3 : Population, Social Structure and Processes:
Fertility-Factors of high growth, Reproduction,
Mortality concept and Causes of High mortality
Recent Trend of Declining Mortality.
Unit-4 : Population Dynamics and Development
Population Programmes and Policies