Calicut University Sociology Syllabus

I am student of the Calicut University doing my BA sociology course and want the BA sociology 1st year syllabus of the Calicut University. Can you help me in providing the BA sociology 1st year syllabus of this University? Also tell me the lists of subjects available in the BA sociology 1st year?

My sister wants to do MA Sociology Course from Calicut University in Distance Education Mode. She is looking for its syllabus, so do you know on which site she can download syllabus of MA Sociology Distance Education Course of Calicut University?

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As you are looking for syllabus of MA Sociology Distance Education Course of Calicut University, so here I am providing syllabus:

Calicut University MA Sociology Distance Education Course Syllabus:

1st Year:
Paper I Classical Social Theory
Paper II Social Research Methods and Quantitative Techniques
Paper III Social Structure and Change in India
Paper IV Population and Society

2nd Year:
Paper V-Schools of Sociological Theory
Paper VI-Studies in Agrarian Social Structure
Paper VII-Sociology of Urban Development (Optional I)
Paper VIII-Sociology of Women and Society (Optional II)
Viva Voce

Detailed Syllabus:

SO1 C 01 CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY

MODULE 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Emergence of Classical Sociology from the enlightenment social philosophy
1.2 The development of Classical inheritance, political, economic and social contexts
1.3 Industrial revolution, Rise of Capitalism, Growth of Science
1.4 Urbanisation, Religious change, Rise of Socialism

MODULE 2 AUGUSTE COMTE
2.1 Law of Three Stages
2.2 Hierarchy of Sciences
2.3 Social Statics and Social Dynamics
2.4 Critique of Comte

MODULE 3 HERBERT SPENCER
3.1 Evolutionary Theory and Social Darwinism
3.2 Organic Analogy
3.3 Militant and Industrial Societies
3.4 Critique of Spencer

MODULE 4 EMILE DURKHEIM
4.1 Discovery of Social Facts‐Objectivity, Social facts as things, Use of Statistics to identify
Social Facts, Sociologism, The normal and pathological, The normality of Crime, Suicide as a social fact, its underlying causes

4.2 Social Integration and system integration, Types of Solidarity, Mechanical and Organic Solidarity, The division of labour, Repressive law and the conscience collective, The function of the division of labour, Durkheims functionalism, Organic Solidarity and and restitutive law, Individualism and dependency in modern societies, Abnormal forms of division of labour, Social Conflict, Industrialism and Capitalism, The forced division of labour, Managerial deficiencies

4.3 The Sociology of Religion and Knowledge, The nature of Religion: Sacred and Profane, Totemism, Religious beliefs as representations of the social, causal, interpretative and
Functional analysis of religion, The Sociology of knowledge: Use of Kants categories, link between social structure and structure of thought

4.4 Critique of Durkheim

MODULE 5 KARL MARX
5.1 Marxs methods: The primacy of production, Importance of practical everyday life, The action /structure dualism, Dialectical thinking and the separation of analysis and history

5.2 Theory of Alienation: Human nature as transformative power, Alienations: Different forms,
Emperical study of Alienation, Commodity Fetishism, The continuity between Marxs early and later works, Commodity Fetishism as the alienation of human relationships, The free market

5.3 Economics of Capitalism, Labour theory of Value, Labour power as a commodity with use and exchange value, Exploitation, Crises of capitalism, Forces and relations of production

5.4 Social Class‐ Peasantry, Bourgeoisie, Petty bourgeoisie, Proletariat, Lumpen proletariat, continued significance of class, The state as alienated human power, Revolutionary democracy, Class and citizenship

5.5 Historical laws and laws of history, The types of society/modes of production, class analysis of history, Dynamics of capitalism, Communism

5.6 Critique of Marx


Calicut University MA Sociology Distance Education Course Syllabus:
universityofcalicut.info/syl/MA_sociology_sde_syl.pdf

It would be very useful to have a syllabus for all the three years in B A sociology and psychology