MA - Sociology
Study of Majority & Minority Groups
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Introduction to Minorities
Meaning, scope, importance and recent trends in minority
studies, groups
Ethnic groups, majority-minority relations
Types of minority
Social stratification of minority
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Minority Groups in India
Minority groups in India, Historical perspectives of
majority, strategies
Minority relations and the population distribution
Linguistic minorities in India, their problems and survival
Block Demographic & Socio-Economic Profiles, Scheduled
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Castes & Tribes & Islam
Demographic and the socio-economic profiles of Hindus
Scheduled caStes and tribes, islam as a religion and a way
of life- The holy Quran.
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Christianity - The Holy Bible
Demographic , socio-economic profiles of Christians,
Problems and the prospects.
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Jainism & Buddhism
Demographic , socio-economic profiles of Jainism &
Buddhism
Problems and the prospects.
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Zorastrianism & Anglo Indians
Demographic , socio-economic profiles of Zorastrians and
Anglo Indians
Problems and the prospects.
Majority- minority conflicts in India- Hindu- Muslim
Block Cause & Effect of Strained Community and the Communal
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Harmony Effects
The communal harmony and National Integration
Constitutional provisions for Minority groups and legal
measures.
Research Methods & Statistics
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Scientific Method & Social Research
Social Research - Meaning & Application
Scientific Method- it's meaning & it's application.
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Hypothesis
Meaning, sources, characteristics, importance of Hypothesis &
Sampling.
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Questionnaire,Interview & Schedule
Meaning, types, merits & demerits of Questionnaire
Schedule & Interview
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Analysis & Representation of Data,Statistics & Report
Meaning, types ,
Importance & limitations of statistics,
Preparation of Research report, analysis, tabulation &
representation of data.
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Measures of Central Tendency
Different measures of Central tendency
Mode & Median & Measures of Dispersion like Range, Quartile
Deviation,
Coefficient of Variation , Standard Deviation
Mean Skewness - it's meaning , merits & demerits & also it's
computation.
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Correlation & Association of Attributes
Meaning & calculation of Correlation and the
Different association of attributes.
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Probability, Vital Statistics & Test of Significance
The test of significance including the t-test
Probability distributions
Age & sex composition & vital statistics including
measurement of fertility & mortality.
Social Problems Then And Now
Topics
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Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
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Social Organization and Social Disorganization -Concept Characteristics - Causes of Social Disorganization in IndiaDifferences -The Way Out
Community Organization and Community Disorganization Types of Community Conflicts -Causes -Measures
Family Disorganization -Nature -Causes -Manifestations
Measures
Personal Disorganization -Meaning -Types -Maladjusted
Personalities - Psychological and Sociological Theories Measures
Social Problems -Concept -Meaning -Approaches Marital
Conflicts - Modem Trends in Marital Relations ~ Marriage
and its Disorganising Influences - Characteristics of
Unhappiness and Conflict -Causes of Marital Conflicts
Adjustments
Dowry-Meaning-Causes-Evils-Efforts of Regulation-Some
measures for Eradication Divorce in India-Divorce and
Unit 6 desertion -
The Concepts-Past and-Present Trends - Causes of Divorce Consequences-Role Adjustments after Divorce -Position of
the Children of Divorced
Persons -Legislations relating to Divorce
Prostitution -History -Definition -Types -Causes -Effects Unit 7 measures
Sex Offences -Types -Heterosexnal Crimes -Other Unnatural
Offences -Pre- Marital Relations -Extra-Marital Relations Unit 8 Treannent
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Crime -Meaning -Definition -Theories -Types -Causes- Effects
Unit 9 - Prevention
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Punishment -Types -Theories -Correctional Methods
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Juvenile Delinquency -Meaning -Definition -Causes -Types 11
Effects - .Rehabilitative Measures
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Child Labour -Definition -Social Aspects -Employment of
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Child Labour - Legislative Protection -The Role of UD
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Poverty-Concept-Meaning-Definition-Magnitude-CausesUnit
Problems -Consequences-Anti-Poverty Strategies-Remedial
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Measures.
Unemployment -Meaning-Classification-CansesUnit
Consequences "-Expert Communities Recommendations 14
Measures
Housing Problem-Housing Conditions-Magnitude-CansesUnit
Effects-Government Role in Housing Programmes-Progress15
Suggestions Growth of Slums-Causes-Measures
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Beggary -Meaning -Definition -Extent of the Problem-Types 16
Causes -Effects - Measures
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Physically Handicapped-Blindness-Deafness-Crippled
Children - Leprosy - Mentally Retarded -Causes -IncidencePrevention
Problems of the Aged -Nature of the Problem Changing
Roles of the Family and Community-Protection-Recreation Remedies
Alcoholism -Meaning -History -Types of Addicts -Causes Effects -Remedies
Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction -Aberrant Behaviour- Causes
- Measures
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Youth Unrest -Causes-Consequences -Remedies Role of
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Youth Organizations
Commercial Recreation in Urban Areas-Featnres-AgenciesUnit
Cabarets and Brothels-Gambling and Smoking-Drinking-The
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Movies-Radio Television
Corruption -Definition -Corruption through the Ages -Causes
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- Santhanam Committee - Consequences -Anatomy of
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Corruption - Prevention
Terrorism -Concept -Origin -Characteristics -Perspectives Unit
Terrorism in India - Terrorism in other Countries -0
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Combating Terrorism
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Black Money -Concept -Magnirude -Causes -Social Effects 25
Measures of Control
Population Problem-India's DemograpbicProfile-Theories of
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Population-Causes of Over population-Consequences-Birth
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Control Measures-population Policy
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Nutrition -Some Pre-Independence and Post-Independence
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Diet Surveys-Incidence of Malnutrition-Basic Food
Components-Nutrition Programme
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Environment pollution-Meaning-Causes-Different Forms-Air
(Pollution - Water Pollution-Sound pollution-Soil Pollution Nuclear Radioactive
Pollution -Evil Effects- Prevention -Goverrunent Efforts Some other Measures
Social Statics & Social Dynamics
Topics
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Unit Social Stratification-Meaning-Characteristics-Types1
Slavery-Estate-Caste-Class
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Theories of Stratification
Caste as an Institution and Basis of Stratification Unit Meaning-features-Theories of Caste-Changing Roles
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of Caste
Class-Meaning-Bases of Class-Wealth-EducationUnit Occupation-Power-Lifestyle-Standard of Living4
Comparison of India,UK & USA
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Unit Religion-Meaning-Theories of Origin of Religion5
Religion and Magic-Religion and Science
Unit Family-Meaning-Household Dimension of the Family6
Emerging Issues in the Sociology of Family
Unit Sport-as a Microcosm-Functionlist and Conflict
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Views of Sport-Sport and Societal Values-Sport and
Social Class-Sport and Social Mobility
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Court as an Institution-Law and Society-Recent
Trends in Indian Judicial System
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Changes due to Cultural Interaction-Hinduization-
Man and Society-Nature-The Origin of SocietyHuman Society versus Animal Society
Culture - Meaning-Types-Characteristics-Differences
between Culture and Civilization
Socialization-Meaning-Importance-Stages-TypesAgencies
Social Control-Meaning-Importance-TypesConformity-Deviance
Social Mobility-Meaning-Types-Horizontal-Vertical
Bases of Mobility-Education-Income
Occupational Mobility-Prestige Grading of
Occupation
Industrialization-Urbanization
Social Change-Meaning-Characteristics-Induced and
Uninduced change
Theoretical Explanations of Factors of Social Change
Processes of Social Change-SecularizationCompartmentalization
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Islamization-Christianization
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Development-Menaing-Concepts of Growth and
Development-Characteristics of Developed and
Developing Countries
Theories of Development - Adam Smith-MalthusMyrdal-Schumacher-Amartya Sen
Non Economic Factors in Economic Developmentreligion-Caste-Family-Values-Education-Politics
Issues in india's EconomicDevelopment-Health and
Development-Entrepreneurship and DevelopmentRegional Imbalance and Development-Poverty and
Development
Modernization-Meaning-Characteristics-SpheresConcepts of Mobile Personality-Empathy
Modernization in India - Relation between Tradition
and Modernity
Problems of Social Modernization-Problems of
Political Modernization
Hurdles of Modernization - The Model of TransitionInstitutional Arrangements-The Role of Elites
Theories And Thinkers In Sociology
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Unit 1 Theory -Definition -Characteristics -Importance
Sociological Theories -Types -Characteristics Unit 2 Relationship between Theory and Research.
Theory Construction -Reciprocal Relationship between
Theory and Empiricism - Conflict between Theory
Unit 3 Building and Empiricism
Social Order as the Central Problem of Sociological
Theories -Coercion Theory - Interest Theory -Value
Unit 4 Consensus Theory -Inertia Theory
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Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Approaches to Social Reality -Structuralism -Radcliffe
Brown -S F Nadel- Levi Strauss - M J. Levy -Evans
Pritchard.
Functionalism -B. Malinowski -Robert K. Merton Talcott Parsons.
Conflict Approach -Karl Marx -Geroge Simmel-Lewis
Coser -Ralf Dahrendorf -c. Wright Mills
Evolutionary Perspectives -Unilinear -Universal
Cyclical
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Recent Trends in Sociological Theories -Exchange
Theory -Prazer - Malinowski - George Romans -Peter
Unit 9 M.Blau.
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Symbolic Interactionisrn -C.H. Cooley -G.H. Mead10
Herbert Blumer
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Ethnomethodology-Harnold Garfinkel And Others
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Phenomenology -Alfred Schutz -Karl Mannheim
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Auguste Comte -Intellectual Background -Inflnences
on Comte -Law of Three Stages -Positivism -Social
Statics and Social Dynamics - Hierarchy of Sciences Religion of Humanity.
Herbert Spencer -Intellectual Background -Organic
Analogy-Theory Of Social Evolution
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Emile Durkheim -Intellectual Background -Social
Facts -Social r Division of Labour
Emile Durkheim -Theory of Anomie and Deviance Theory of Suicide -Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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Max Weber - Intellectual Background -Typology of
Social Action - Types of Authority - Ideal Types.
Max Weber-Protestant Ethic and Spirit of CaptalismBureaucracy
Karl Marx -Intellectual Background -Dialectical
Materialism -Theory of Class Struggle -Theory of
Social Change
George Simmel-Intellectual Background -Formal
Sociology - Sociology of Small Groups
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Vilfredo Pareto-Intellectual Background -LogicoExperimental Sociology - Theory of Residues and
Derivations -Theory of Circulation of Elites
Ferdinand Tonnies -Intellectual BackgroundGemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Thorstein B.Veblen - Intellectual Background-Theory
Of Leisure Class-Technological Determinism
Franklin Henry Giddings-Intellectual BackgroundStages Of human society- Basis of Evolution of
civilization-Political Power
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Pitirim A. Sorokin -Intellectual Background -Integral
Sociology - Socio- Cultural Dynamics
TalcottParsons -Intellectual Background -Theory of
Social Action - Social System - Pattem Variables
Robert K. Merton -Intellectual Background -Middle
Range Theory - Latent and Manifest Functions
Mills -Intellectual Background -Sociological
Imagination
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Second year
Study of Rural Society
Block -1 Rural Society- Nature - Subject Matter - Relevance
Historical Development of rural Sociology - West - India
Village Community - Origin and Growth - Settlement Patterns
Rural Society - Characteristics - Rural Urban Comparsion –
Rural Urban Continum
Rural Urban Interpendence
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Trends of Growth of Rural Population - World - India Karnatka
Feritlity - Mortality Meaning - Determinants
Migration - Meaning - related Concepts - Types - Causes - Effect of Mig
Theories of Migration - Revenstein's law of Migration - Everett Lee's Th
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Rural Institutions - Marriage - Family - Kinship
Rural Religion - Rural Recreation
Social Stratification Bases - Then and Now - Concept of
Dominant Caste - Agricultural Ladder
Mobility in caste System - Sanskritization - Westernization
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Rural Economy - rural Occupation - Agricultural and Non Agricultural P
Globalization on Agriculture - Jajmani System - Expenditure Patterns - P
Revolutionary Changes - Green Revolution - White Revolution - Blue Re
Rural Credit - Insutional and Non Institutional Sources
Village-Co-operative - Meaning - Characteristics - History - Types , Statu
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Major Rural problems - Rural Indebtedness - Bonded Labour
Caste Conflicts
Literacy
Environmental Degradation
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Rural Reconstruction - Bhoodan - Gramdan, Gandhian Approach
Panchayati Raj System - origin and Development
Objectives - Structure and Functions- Reports of the
Committees - 73rd Constituion Amendment Act - Panchayati Raj in Kar
Industrial Sociology
Rural Leadership - Characteristics - Recent Changes.
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Rural Development Programmes - Early Attempts - CDP
20 Point programme - SFDA and MFAL - DPAP –
TRYSEM - IRDP - JRY
Role of Voluntary Sectors in Rural Development -Role of NGOs
Rural Society at the Cross Roads.
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Industrial Sociology- Definition, Nature, Scope and Importance of Study.
Origin and Development of Industrial Sociology - Elton Mayo –
Human relations Apporach – hawthrone
Experiments - Evolution of Industry in India
Productive System - Guild System - Meaning- classification
Function’s - Causes for the Decay Guild
System in India
Putting out System - Origin - Nature Merits and Demerits Factory System Conditions
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Process of Industrialization in India Meaning Characteristics - past and prese
rationalization - Meaning - Nature- Importance Rationalization in India and
Benefits - problems - Measures
Organizational Analysis of Industry - Formal and Informal Organization - C
Line Staff Conflicts
Industrial Bureaucracy - Meaning Characteristics - Types of Bureaucracy - M
India - Advantages and Disadvantages
Block Work and Industry - Concept of Work - Wages , Rewards and Incentives - C
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Retirement and Retrenchment
Management in Industry - Meaning - Levels - Functions Communication –
formal - Informal - Grapevine
Workers Participation in Management - Concept - Meaning - Objectives –
problems -Levels
Major Industries of India - Iron and Steel - Cotton textile - Jute - Sugar - cem
Engineering - Machine tools
Block Industrial Relations and Disputes - Meaning - magnitude of Induatrial
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Disputes - Causes - Consequences
Methods of Settlement of Industrial Disputes - Mediation - Arbitration –
Adjudication - Conciliation –
Their Working in India . Workers Education and Training
Industrial Problems - Absenteeism - Meaning - causes - effects - Measures .
role strians - Causes - Effects Labour Turn Over - Definition Causes Effects
Industrial Morale and Indiscipline - Meaning - Causes - Consequences .
Industrial Sickness - Magnitude –
Causes Government Policy. Strikes Forms Prevention
Trade Unions - Defintion - Origin and Development Approaches –
Block Types - Functions - problems - defects –
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Prospects - Role of Trade Union Federation
Industrial Unrest and Industrial Peace - Collective Bargaining - Concept –
Definition - Features - Principles
- Stages - Strategies .
Labour Welfare - labour Laws in India - laws relating to Weaker Sections - S
Specific matters - Trade Unions and industrial Relations -Social Security
Measures
Housing of Industrial labour - Conditions - Effects - Housing Schemes
for Workers problems.
Block Industrial Productivity - Meanong - Mmeasurement , Determinants –
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tools - productivity in India
Industrial Policy - Policy Resolution , 1948 - Policy Resolution ,
1956 - review of Industrial Licensing System –
Policy Development in 1970s - Industrial Policy Statement , 1980 –
Recent Trends.Wage Policy - Wage Regulation .
Regualtion of Industries - Industries (Development and regulations) Act –
Industrial licensing - MRTP Act –
Price and Distribution control - Price Policy in India
Small Scale Industires - Importance - Development of VSI under the
Plans - Khadi and Village
Industries -KVIC - Modem Small Scale Industires - Ancillary Industires . D
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Development of Backward Regions - Policy - Approaches Progress
Recent Trends in Industrial Development - Concept of World Economy –
Globalization - Role of ILO
Industrial Planning in India - Strategies adopted by developing Economics Challenges to Industrial Society - Future of Industrial Society.
Education, Health & Society
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Education and Society - Theories and Perspective - Emile Durkhei
Education- Definition - Scope - Importance
Social Fucntions of Education - Education as a means of Cultural
Control - Education and Social Change
Languages as Medium of Instruction - Curriculum and Idenity - th
Related Problems
Formal , Informal and Non Formal Education - Agenices of Educa
Mass Media
History of Education durning Pre British Period - Vedic Period - B
History of Education durning British Period - Charter Act of 1813
1854 - Government Education Policy
Education durning the post - Independence Period - primary Educa
Education - Educational Advancement in Plan Period
Indian Consitution and Legislaions relating to Education - Educati
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The School as a Social System - School Community Relations - T
Community Centre.
Education and Social Stratification - A study of the Academic and
opportunity and Achievement . Education and Social Mobility
National Education Policy - The role of education in National Inte
National reconstruction
Distance Education India - The Concept - Objectives - developme
- comparison between Conventional and Distance Education Syst
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Major Educational Issues - Unplanned Growth of education - wast
educated unemployment
Problems of education among disadvantaged sections - scheduled
The teacher in indian society - Academic and social roles - teacher
organizations.
The Role of NCERT - UGC - DEC - subjects specific as associatio
Other Educational Councils - The Role of UNESCO in educationa
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Sociology of Health and Medicine - nature - scope - importance - o
sociology in India
Medicine and its relevance to social Institutions - Medicine and re
and caste - Medicine and family
Systems of Medicine - Naturopathy- Homepathy -Ayurvedic Unan
scientific status
Medicine as an Institution - Belief Systems - Concept of Illness . T
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The Physician in a Changing Society - The Professionalization and
Doctor - Patient relationship Physician and social change
Nursing and the Emerging Paramedical Practioner - Nursing , Past
Hospital as a Social Organization - Types of Hospitals - general ho
Dispensaries - Teaching and Co-operate Hospitals - functions of H
supervision in hospitals - medical social service in hospitals
Social Epidemiology - vital and public health concepts and statisti
history of disease - man and his environment social etiology - soci
disease
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Community Healthy - The concept community health .problems i
service - the primary health centres - Their organizations and Func
Utilization of health programmes in India - Rural and Urban
Health Care Delivery and social Policy - Social Legislation in hea
Medico - Socio Problems - food and drug - Mental Illness
Adulteration - Ageing - Handicapped rehabilitation.
Medicine , health care and developments - The Medical Counicl o
Association - issues of consumer Protection - role of WHO and M
Social Movements in India
Block 1
Social Movement - Definition - Nature - historical review - Scope - Im
basic Cocnepts - Conceptual problems - Genesis - Element Types
Structure and Organization - Idelogy - Social Movement as a Cause an
Arya Samaj - Brahmo Samaj as Reform Movements.
Block 2
Satya Shodhak Samaj - Kabir Panth - Prarthana Samaj.
Buddhism as a Reigious Movement.
Veerasaivism as a religious Movement.
Naxalite Movement.
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Dravidian Movement
Telanagana Movement.
Shivasena Movement
Akali Movement.
Block 4
Backward class Movement in India
Backward Class Movement in Karnataka.
Backward Class Movement in Kerala - SNDP
Backward Class Movement - Nadar Movement in Tamil Nadu - Yadav
Block 5
Tribal Movement - Jharkhand - Santal - Bodo.
Dalit Movement in Maharashtra
Ambedkar's outlook of Indian Society.
Legislation and Social Change.
Block 6
Peasant Movements in Pre - Independent India - Indigo - Deccan Riots
Peasant Movements - karanatka - tamil nadu - Maharashtra - Uttar Pra
Consumer Movement.
Trade Union Movement.
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Nationalist Movement - Before Independence - After Independence.
Women's Movement
Student Movement.
Environmental Movement .
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