Introduction to Sociology I
Week 01 : 01: Enlightenment
02: Industrial Revolution
03: French Revolution
Week 02 : 04: Conservative Romantic Reaction
05: Birth of Sociology
06: Auguste Comte I
Week 03 : 07: Auguste Comte II
08: Understanding Social Stratification
09: Class and Intersectionality
Week 04 : 10: Introduction to Classical Sociological Thought I Marx
11: Classical Sociological Thought II Weber
12: Classical Sociological Thought III Durkheim
Week 05 : 13: Feminist Theories: An Introduction
14: Sociology and Postmodern
15: Kinship
Week 06 : 16: Understanding Work
17: Sociology and science
18: Sociology and Common sense Week 07 : 19: Research Methods: Competing Paradigms
20: Sociology of Consumption
21: Understanding India: Approaches to the Study of Indian Society
Week 08 : 22: The tradition-modernity debate
23: Modernisation
24: The Rising importance of the Middle Classes in India
Week 09 : 25: A Silent Revolution: Dalit Politics and the rise of the lower castes
26: Media, Culture, Society
27: Introduction to Sociology of Gender
28: Caste, Class and Gender
Week 10 : 29: Social Structure and Social Change
30: Socialisation
31: Marriage: Patterns and Change
32: State
Week 11 : 33: Education and Social inequalities
34: The challenge of ethnic identities
35: The language debate in India
36: Religious Pluralism and the debate on Secularism
Week12 : 37: Social Institutions Online
38: Social Institutions and Everyday life
39: Family in Flux
40: Markets and Globalization