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(Sociology of Change and Development)

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Objectives
• To provide conceptual and theoretical understanding of social change and development as it has emerged in
sociological literature.
• To offer an insight into the ways in which social structure impinges on development and development on social
structure.
• To address the students the Indian experience of development.

Sr. No. Content

1 Social Change: Definition, Characteristic, Sources, Change in structure and

change of structure,

2 Theories of Social Change: Evolutionary, cyclical, functionalist and conflict

3 Factors of Social Change: Demographic, Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural,

technological, Geographical and Media,

4 Social Change in Contemporary India: Trends of change; Processes of change:

Sanskritization and westernization, Modernization and Secularization

5 Critical Perspectives on Development: Ecological, liberal, Marxian; Paths of
Development: Capitalist, socialist, mixed economy, Gandhian;

6 Agencies of Development: State, market, non-governmental organizations

7 Social Structure and Development: Structure as a facilitator/inhibitor:

Development and socio-economic disparities; Gender and development
8 Culture and Development: Culture as an aid to development; Culture as an

impediment to development

9 Development and displacement of tradition; Development and upsurge of
ethnicity; Indian Experience of Development: Sociological appraisal of Five-

Year Plans; Social consequences of economic reforms, Socio-cultural
repercussions of globalization, Social implications of info-tech revolution

10 Formulating social policies and programmes: policy and project planning,
Implementation, monitoring and evaluation of methodologies