II SEMESTER

Course: 75 hours Preface: - This paper enables the students to fully grasp Indian reality. Their continued exposure to Indian Society will be making it possible for them to understand difficult concepts. A sense of excitement and inquiry is created in the subject.

CHAPTER -1: CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT (20 hours)
a) Meaning, scope and elements of social movements.
b) Types of social movement.
c) Life cycle of a social movement.
d) Theories of social movement.

CHAPTER -2: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA: Case studies (15 hours)
a) Farmers Movement in Karnataka- ‘Raytha movement Karnataka’ Azadi
d) Naxal Bari Movement

CHAPTER -3: SOCIAL CHANGE: Concept of Social change –Sources and Factors of Change- Approaches to Social Change (20 hours)

CHAPTER -4: PROCESSESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE (20 hours)
a) Sankritization –meaning and characteristics
b) Westernisation
c) Globalisation
d) Industrialization
e) Modernization

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:
1) La Piere, T. Richard: Social Change, Mc Growth Hill Series
2) Kuppuswamy B: Social Change in Inaqw2dia, Vikas Publishing House
3) Yogendra Singh: Modernisation of Indian tradition, Rawat Publications
4) Arjun AP padurai : Modernity at Large: Cultural dimensions of Globalisation
5) MSA Rao: Social Movement in India, Manohar Publication
6) MSA Rao: Social Movement and Social transformation, Mc Millan India
7) Nadkarni m.v: Farmer’s Movement in India, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd

ADDITIONAL READING:
1) Ponn Wignaraja(ED), Social Movements in the South, Vistar publications
2) Rajendra Singh, Social Movements, Old and New-A Post modernist Critique , Sage publications
3) Ghanshyam Shah –“Social Movements in India, Sage Publications,
4) Yogendra Singh, - “Cultural Change in India, Rawat Publications.