The Department of Sociology opened in 1995. On 14 August 1995, Sociology Pass course was introduced in Birpara College along with Economics and Geography and on 6 June 2005 Sociology Honours was started. The first departmental faculty members were Smt. Madhukala Karki. and Smt. Malashree Majumder. Later Smt. Anupa Minj joined the department as Guest Lecturer. Currently, there are five faculty members comprising two Assistant Professor and three State Aided College Teachers (SACTs). The current seat capacity in Sociology Honours is 48.
Courses Offered
- Sociology Honours
- Sociology as Generic Elective (GE) course for other Honours subjects in 3rd and 4th semester. Beside this, GE course is also for 5th and 6th semester BA Program course students.
- Sociology as Discipline Specific Core (DSC) from paper I to IV is taught for 1st to 4th semester and DSE (Discipline Specific Elective) Paper I and II is taught for 5th and 6th semester program students.
- Sociology as SEC (Skill Enhancement Course) is taught for 3rd and 4th Semester B.A. Honours students & Program DSC1 students. It also offered for DSC2 5th and 6th semester Program students.
Faculty Contact Details:
- SK Kamruzzaman (HOD)- 7890700264/ 7980005702
- Shaan Anjum-7908944584
- Kajal Das-7074017244
- Mamoni Barman-8967527003
- Shaswati Chakraborty-9593659744
Departmental Resources
The department gives students access to a number of academic resources:
- Stock of textbooks and reference books in the Departmental and Central Library.
- E-Bank of digital books
- E-learning resources on the departmental webpage – Click here
- Departmental YouTube channel – Click here
- Departmental Lecture Series- Click here
- Syllabus for Honours Course- Click here
- Syllabus for Program Course- Click here
Weekly Online Lecture Series
Youtube links to all episodes of online lectures (nos 1-28) on Culture and Personality organised with Educational and Cultural Station, Kolkata in 2020-2021 – Click here
(ACADEMIC RESOURCE FOR HONOURS STUDENTS)
CC-1- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-2- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-3- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-4- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-5- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-6- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-7- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
SEC-1- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
GE-1-CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-8- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-9- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-10- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
SEC-2- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
GE-2-CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-11- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-12- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
DSE-1- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
DSE-2- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-13- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
CC-14- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
DSE-4-CLICK HERE TO OPEN
GE-I (GENDERAND VIOLENCE)
- Gendered Violence: Meaning and Concept
- Gender as Social Construct- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Sex and Gender
- Forms of Gender Violence
- Dowry
- Domestic Violence
- Witchcraft
- Wife Beating
- Causes of Domestic Violence
- Women Trafficking’s
- Caste and Violence
- Women and Violence
- Violence, Harassment at the Workplace
- Sextual Violence
- Gendered Violence: Politics
- Power and subordination in Gender- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Gendered Violence: Public Policy
- Empowerment of Women- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Legislative Measure
CC-VIII (RURAL SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA)
- E-Book-Click Here
- Rural Sociology: Definition, Subject Matter and Scope-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Rural Society: Meaning and Characteristic-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Village community- Concept and Characteristic-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Jajmani system – Features, interrelationship-1. Click Here 2.Click Here 3. Click Here
- Jajmani system – Changing Trend-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Features of Agrarian Economy- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Village Economy, Village Self-sufficiency-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Rural Leadership-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Caste system: Features and Significance-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Agrarian class-Nature and Forms-1. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Peasant Society- Concept and Forms-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Labor Class (Agriculture Labor)-Meaning, Characteristic and Forms-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Sharecropping/ Agrarian Relation System-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Various Agrarian class Structure-1. Click Here 2.Click Here 3. Click Here
- Land Tenure System-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Land Reforms- objectives and Program-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here 4. Click Here
- Operation Barga-1. Click Here
- Gender and agrarian Realities-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here 4. Click Here
- Indian Agriculture- Feature of Indian Agriculture, Types of Crops, Types of Farming, Challenges- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Risk, Farmer’s and Agriculture Crisis in India-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Agrarian movements-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Cooperative Society-Concept, Types, Characteristic- Click Here
- Cooperative Movement-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Green Revolution-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here 4. Click Here 5. Click Here
- Agriculture Technology in India, Digital Agriculture-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Telengana Mevement-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Tebhaga Movement-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Nakshalbari/ Naxalbari Movement-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- The Global Agrarian order-1. Click Here
- Rural Poverty-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Poverty Alleviation Program- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Rural Indebtedness-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Rural Unemployment-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Rural Illiteracy-1. Click Here
- Problems of Food Security in Rural Society-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Problems of Landlessness in Rural Society-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Rural Problems- Click Here
- Rural Health Care and Sanitation-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here 4. Click Here
- Rural Health Mission.-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI):Development, Constitutional Provisions and Structures-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click here 4. Click here
- Panchayati Raj and Rural Development (Function of Panchayat)-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Decentralization and Panchayati raj- Click Here
- Rural Development: Perspectives, Strategies and Program-1. Click Here 2. Click Here 3. Click Here
- Community Development Program-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- PMGSY-Click Here
- IRDP-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY)-1. Click Here
- National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Literacy Program-1. Click Here 2. Click Here
CC-IX (SOCIOLOGY OF KINSHIP)
- Nature, Scope and Subject Matter of Sociology of Kinship
- Kinship: Meaning, Significance
- Kinship: Types
- Degree of Kinship
- Kinship Usages
- Key Terms: Descent, Consanguinity, Filiations, Incest Taboo, Affinity,
- Residence ( House hold dimensions of Family)
- Kinship Approaches on Descent
- Kinship Approaches on Alliance
- Kinship Approaches on Cultural
- Meaning and Types of Clan
- Relationship Between Clan and Lineage
- Totemism and Taboos: Meaning and Nature
- Kinship Terminologies
- Kinship Organizations in India
- Regional Variation of Kinship Organization
- New Dimensions of Kinship in Modern India: Continuity and Change
- Kinship in Modern India: Continuity and Change
- Emerging Family Pattern in India: From the Perspective of Human Dimension
CC-X (SOCIAL STRATIFICATION)
- Meaning of Social Stratification, Characteristics
- What is Social Differentiation and Inequality
- Nature and dimensions of Inequality
- Dimensions of Social Stratification
- Various Theories of Stratification
- Marxian Approach on Class and Status Group
- Weberian Perspective on Class and Status Group
- Functionalist Perspective of Kingsley Davis on Social Stratification
- Functionalist Perspective of Wilbert E Moore on Social Stratification
- Functionalist Perspective of Melvin M Tumin on Social Stratification
- Caste- Meaning, Nature and Change
- Race-Meaning, Nature and Change
- Ethnicity- Meaning, Nature and Change
- Class-Meaning, Nature and Change
- Estate System-Meaning, Nature and Change
- Slavery System-Meaning, Nature and Change
- Feminism and Gendered Stratification
- Social , Cultural Aspects – reproduction
- Social , Cultural Aspects Mobility
- Forms of Mobility
SEC-II (VISUAL SOCIOLOGY)
- An Introductory Survey of Visual and Visual Sociology: Scope
- Method of Visual Sociology as in Sociological Enquiry
- Vision: Meaning and Importance
- Visuality: Meaning and Importance
- Scopic regime: Meaning and Importance
- Simulacrum: Meaning and Importance
- visual cultures: Meaning and Importance
- John Berger Concept of Ways of seeing
- Various Discourse on Visual Sociology and visual culture.
- Discourse on Inter Textuality Discourse
- Discourse on Discursive Formation
- Discourse on Power/knowledge
- Discourse on Regime of truth
- Methodological tools for Visual Sociology: Site
- Methodological tools for Visual Sociology: Production
- Methodological tools for Visual Sociology: Image
- Methodological tools for Visual Sociology: Photography
- Methodological tools for Visual Sociology: Audience
- Methodological tools for Visual Sociology: Modalities
- Documentary Photography: Meaning, How to Frame and Its Importance
- Photo journalism: Meaning, How to Frame and Its Importance
- Poster design: Meaning, How to Frame and Its Importance
- Film Review: Meaning, How to Frame and Its Importance
- Group Discussion: Meaning, How to Frame and Its Importance
GE-II (POPULATION AND SOCIETY)
- Relationship Between Sociology and Demography
- Concepts and Approaches of Social Demography
- Scope and subject matter of demography
- Pre- Malthusian Theories of population
- Malthusian Theory & critique of population
- Post-Malthusian Theories of population
- Marxist Theories of population
- Neo-Marxist Theories of population
- Demographic Transition Theory of Population
- Optimum Theory of Population
- Population Structure: Characteristic
- Population Distribution: Age and Sex Structure,
- Population Distribution: Population Size and Growth
- Fertility-Factors of high growth,
- Reproduction
- Mortality and its Causes of High mortality,
- Infant Mortality
- Recent Trend of Declining Mortality.
- Population Explosion in India
- Trends of Population Growth in Developing Countries
- Population as Constraints and Resources for Development
- Population Program in India
- Population Policies in India
- Migration
CC-XIII ( SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS-II)
- e-Book- 1. Click Here 2. Click Here
- Various Theories at a Glance-Click Here
- Talcott Parsons: A Short Introduction to Life and work
- Structural Functionalism: General Assumption/ Basic Principle
- Talcott Parsons: System Theory
- Talcott Parsons: Social Action Theory
- Person’s Structural Functionalism
- Merton’s Structural Functionalism
- Structuralism: General Assumption/ Basic Principle
- Claude Levi‐Strauss theory of Structuralism
- Symbolic Interactionalism: General Assumption/ Basic Principle
- G. H. Mead approach of Self in Society (Mind, Self and Society)
- G. H. Mead approach of The Genesis of Self
- G. H. Mead approach of The ‘I’ and the ‘Me’
- Self and the work of Erving Goffman
- Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann theory of Social Construction of Reality
- Sociological Imagination: General Approach & Principal
- Sociological Imagination of C. Wright Mills- Click Here
- School of Critical Theory: General Approach & Principal
- Frankfurt School
- Critical Theory of Habermas
DSE-IV (INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS)
- Origin and Development of Indian Sociology
- D P Mukerji Concept of Indian Tradition and Modernity
- D P Mukerji Concept of Middle Class
- Radhakamal Mukerjee Concept of Personality,
- Radhakamal Mukerjee Concept of Society, Values
- Radhakamal Mukerjee Concept of Social Ecology
- G S Ghurye Concept of Caste and Race
- G S Ghurye Concept of City and Civilization
- Irawati Karve Concept of Gender
- Irawati Karve Concept of Kinship
- A R Desai: Ideas of Nationalism
- M.N. Srinivas Concept of Modernization and Westernization (Social Change)
- M.N. Srinivas Concept of Dominant Caste
- M.N. Srinivas Concept of Sanskritization
- Binay Kumar Sarkar’s Contribution to Indian Sociology
- Binay Kumar Sarkar concept of Personality and Social Progrss
- S. C. Dube Concept of Sociology of Development
(ACADEMIC RESOURCE FOR PROGRAM STUDENTS)
1. SOCP-DSC -1-CLICK HERE TO OPEN
2. SOCP-DSC-2-CLICK HERE TO OPEN
3. SOCP-DSC-3- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
4. SOCP-DSC-4- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
5. SOCP-DSE-1- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
6. SOCP-SEC-1- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
7. SOCP-DSE-2- CLICK HERE TO OPEN
DSE-II (SOCIAL STRATIFICATION)
SEC-II (VISUAL SOCIOLOGY)
GE-I (GENDER AND VIOLENCE)
GE-II (POPULATION AND SOCIETY)