Discussion

 

What have we discussed in the first module?

1. General theory of social problems: functionalist, conflict and symbolic interactionist
   
2. History of social problems theory: the medical model, absolutist approach to conditions in society, modern studies of deviance and the subjective nature of social problems
   
3. Cultural deprivation, recidivism and social Darwinism
   
4. Objective reality to social problems: subjectivity and bias (all social research is political; the study of social problems – value-free or not)
   
5. Characteristics, types and causes of and reactions to social problems
   
6. The sociological imagination
   
7. Social structure as the basic unit of analysis: the person-blame approach and the system-blame approach
   
8. Methods to study social problems
   
9. Rural and urban problems in India
   
10. Social problems and social change in India

 

 

References

Ahuja, Ram. 2002. Social Problems in India . Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications.

Eitzen, D. Stanley, Maxine Baca-Zinn and Kelly Eitzen Smith. 2009.  Social Problems . (11th Ed.) Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Kendall, Diana. 1998. Social Problems in a Diverse Society . Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Srinivas, M.N. 1995. Social Change in Modern India . New Delhi: Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd.