Indian Society And Culture

SOC473A

 

3-1-0-11

 

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Approaches to study Indian Society. Social stratification: caste, jati and varna among Hindus, non Hindus. Marriage and Family among Hindus, Muslims and Christians; polyandry and polygyny; regulations of marriage, separation and divorce. Kinship organization in India. Concepts and approaches to social change in India: Sanskritization and Westernization; parochialization and universalization; structural, dialectical, cognitive historical, and indological approaches. Ortilogenelic processes of cultural change in culture traditions and modernization. Heterogenetic processes of cultural change in culture traditions and modernization. Recent processes of change: peasant religious and sectarian movements; dalit and backward caste movements; tribal, labour movements. New Social Movement: Ecological Movement.

 

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