The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology

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Course: Discipline Specific Elective

Semester ____ 5
Paper Number HSODS5021T

Paper Title Sociology of Everyday Life


No. of Credits 6
Theory/Composite Theory
No. of periods assigned Th: 5 + 1

Name of Faculty member(s)

Course description/objective
The Sociology of the Everyday emerged in the 1970s which also
witnessed the radical displacement of Positivist methodologies. The
shift in focus from the macro to the micro and the inter-personal
domains has marked this new turn in Sociology. The objective of the
Course is therefore to introduce students to an often neglected area of
social life, the everyday. The dominant focus in sociology has been
the study of institutions but what underlies institutions has not been
studied in the manner it could have been. The paper therefore tries to
not merely study the everyday but also the everyday in the institutions
and outside them. Thus it tries to problematise the everyday and the
institutional and place them in a complex inter-relationship.

Syllabus
Introducing Sociology of Everyday Life: (Week 1)
Emergence
Consequences
Ordering of the Everyday: (Week 2)
Time
Space
Identities and/in the Everyday: (Week 3-6)
Class
Gender
Religion
Caste
Race
Migrant/Refugee
Sexuality
Everyday life and Institutions: (Week 7-9)
Social
Political
Economic
Everyday life and Violence (Week 10-12)
Event and Everyday
Public
Institutional
Inter-Personal

Texts

Reading/Reference Lists Core Readings:


Sztompka, Piotr. 2008. The Focus on Everyday Life: a New Turn in
Sociology in European Review. Vol. 16. Pp 1-15.

Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: A


Feminist Sociology. NEUP. Pp 15-43, 105-145 & 151-225.
Giddens, Anthony. Sociology. Chapter 8: Everyday Life. Polity
Press, London.

Banerjee, Mukulika (ed). 2008. Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in


India. Yoda Press Delhi.

Chatterji R and Deepak Mehta. Living with Violence: An


Anthropology of the Events and the Everyday. Routledge, Delhi. Pp.
Vi-X; 1-27 & 105-128 & 153-181.

Robinson, Rowena. 2005. Tremors of Violence: Muslim Survivors of


Ethnic Strife in Western India. Sage, Delhi. Pp 13-112 & 194-250

Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled


Identity. Simon and Chuster, Chicago. Pp. 1-104

Phoenix, Ann and Julia Brannen. 2014. Researching family practices


in everyday life: methodological reflections from two studies.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2014 Vol. 17,
No. 1, 11–26.

Chang, Leslie T. 2008. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a


Changing China. Spiegel and Grau, New York. Part One: The City.

Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of


Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Doubleday, New York. Pp. 1-170
.
Fuller, CJ and Benei Veronique. 2010. The Everyday State and
society in Modern India. Social Science Press, Delhi. Pp. 1-25 & 68-
109.

Suggested Readings:
Burkitt, Ian. 21010. The Time and Space of Everyday Life in Cultural
Studies Vol. 18 Nos. 2-3. Pp. 211-227. Taylor and Francis, London.

Sztompka, Piotr. 2003. Trust: A Sociological Study. Cambridge


University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 1-40 & 151-190.

Warin, Megan and Simone Dennis. 2009. Telling silences:


unspeakable trauma and the unremarkable practices of everyday life
in Sociological Review, Blackwell, Oxford. Pp 100-116

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. Death Without Weeping: The


Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. UCP, California. Pp. 1-30 &
268-339.

Evaluation CIA (Presentation/Project): 20


End-Sem: 80

The end semester examination will have the following paper structure
i) Long Answer type questions : 20 x 2 = 40 marks (out of 4 )
ii) Short answer type questions : 10 x 4 = 40 (out of 8)
Course: Discipline Specific Elective

Semester 5
Paper Number HSODS5011T

Paper Title Environmental Sociology


No. of Credits 5
Theory/Composite Theory
No. of periods assigned Th: 5 + 1

Name of Faculty member(s)

Course description/objective This course is designed to introduce students to the core debates of
environmental sociology, different approaches within the
sub‐discipline and how these approaches may be used to understand
environmental issues and movements in India.

Syllabus 1. Envisioning Environmental Sociology (3 weeks)

1.1. What is Environmental Sociology?


1.2. Realist‐Constructionist Debate.
2. Approaches (6 weeks)

2.1 Treadmill of Production


2.2 Ecological Modernization
2.3 Risk
2.4 Ecofeminism and Feminist Environmentalism
2.5 Political Ecology
3. Environmental Movements in India (3 weeks)

3.1 Forest based movement – Chipko


3.2 Water based movement – Narmada
3.3 Land based movements – Anti‐mining and Seed

Texts

Reading/Reference Lists Topic 1 :


Bell, MM. (2008). An Invitation to Environmental Sociology.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 3rd ed. Ch 1.( pp. 1‐5).

Hannigan, J. A. (1995). Environmental Sociology. Routledge, London


and New York, 2nd ed. Ch1 and 2. (pp. 10‐15,16‐ 35).

Leahy, T. (2007). Sociology and the Environment. Public Sociology:


An Introduction to Australian Society. Eds. Germov, John and
Marilyn, Poole. NSW: Allen &Unwin, Ch 21 (pp. 431‐442).

Evanoff, R. J. (2005). Reconciling realism and constructivism in


environmental ethics. Environmental Values, 61‐81.

Topic 2

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