The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
Semester ____ 5
Paper Number HSODS5021T
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
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.
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
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.
Texts
Topic 2