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SYLLABUS

Social Stratification

Objectives
1. To familiarize the student about the concept of social stratification.
2. To familiarize the students about the changing dimensions of social stratification and about the concept of social mobility.

Sr. No. Description

1 Understanding Social Stratification: Concept, Characteristics, Basic concepts relating to stratification

2 Theories of Social Stratification I: Theoretical formulations of Davis & Moore, Parsons

3 Theories of Social Stratification II: Theoretical formulations of Karl Marx and Max Weber

4 Forms of Social Stratification: Caste, Class, Gender, Social Stratification in Urban and Industrial Settings

5 Caste: Concept, features of caste system, caste system as a system of stratification

6 Class: Concept and as system of stratification, Class and mobility: Occupation and mobility

7 Race and Ethnicity: Race, Racial group, ethnic groups, minority & majority relations

8 Gender and Stratification: Gender as basis of stratification, Patriarchy and the Subordination of Women,
women’s empowerment

9 Social Mobility: Determinants, Patterns of Mobility in Caste and Class; Mobility in closed and open systems of
stratification;

10 Changing Dimensions of Social Stratification: Emerging patterns of social stratification in India, Emergence
of Middle Class system