Syllabus (SOCIOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-17

Semester: 8

Course Code: BSOMAJ17T

Course Title: Sociology of Work and Leisure

(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: This paper introduces the students to the sociological understanding of work and leisure. It will help them to view work and leisure as an integral part of a society. The course tries to identify and contextualize the emergence and changing nature of work

Learning Outcome: 1. To throw light on the complex interplay between work, leisure and social life. 2. To address contemporary issues like unpaid work, gender, forced labour and hazardous work that have created work related social inequality in society.

Contents of the Course

1. Sociological Meaning of Work and Leisure

Work in historical perspective

Relationship between work and leisure; Play

History of recreation and leisure

Culture and leisure; Leisure class

2. Forms of Industrial Culture and Organisation

Industrialism, Post- industrial society, Information society

3. Sectors and Industry (Indian and global context)

Concept, types, emergence and growth

4. Organisations

Types, structure, nature, relationships

5. Work and Labour

Informal and formal

Feminisation of work

Paid and unpaid labour/work

Changing labour profile

6. Industrial Risk, Hazard and Disaster

7. Risk Management and labour Laws

8. Conceptualising Leisure

Theory, nature, types, forms and motives

Readings and References

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2. Grint, Keith. 2005. The Sociology of Work: An Introduction. Polity Press: Cambridge.
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4. Bell, Daniel. 1976. The Coming of Post-Industrial society. London: Heineman.
5. Kumar, Krishan. 1999. From Post-Industrial to Post –Modern Society. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
6. Edgell, Stephen. 2006. The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Unpaid Work. New Delhi: Sage. (pages 153-181)
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8. Breman, Jan. 2003. “The Informal Sector” In Veena Das (ed.) The Oxford Indian Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, pp1287-1312. New Delhi: OUP
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10. Godwyn, Mary and Gittellhoffer, Jody 2011. Sociology of Organizations Structures and Relationships, Sage.
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14. Suzman James. 2020. Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the age of robots. Penguin Random House.

15. Parker, Stanley. 1975. “The Sociology of Leisure: Progress and Problems” In The British Journal of Sociology , Vol.26 (1), pp 91-101.
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21. Harris, David, 2005, Key Concepts in Leisure Studies, London, Sage Publications
22. Kraus, Richard, G., 1998, Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society, Sadbury, MA, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
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25. Rojek. C.1999. Leisure and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.

26. Cross. S. Gary. 1990. A Social History of Leisure Since 1600.Venture Publication.