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Urban Sociology

Prof. Amrita Sen and Prof. Archana Patnaik · IIT Kharagpur

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About

We live in a world that currently faces multiple challenges of enormous magnitude, due to the effects of urbanization. With the rate, scale and shifting geographies of urbanization in the global South, it is important to map both challenges associated with and opportunities offered by cities. Both the challenges and opportunities are of immediate and direct relevance, with much of our urban resources and biodiversity disappearing, increasing poverty and social inequities, damaging pollution levels and landscape transformations. Urban sociology is one of the most prominent branches within the larger domains of sociology which can capture these complexities and help unravel cities as engines of economic development and social optimism. Within this context, this course would offer a mix of theories, concepts and practical cases to students, on how new approaches to think about sustainable urbanization can be framed using epistemological framings.

Intended audience: STUDENTS, CIVIL SERVICE ASPIRANTS, GATE ASPIRANTS, ACADEMICIANS, INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL, WORKING PROFESSIONALS-NGOS

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture-1 : Overview YouTube
  2. Lecture-2 : Sociological Theories of Urbanization and Key Concepts YouTube
  3. Lecture-3 : Globalization, technology and the Growth of Cities YouTube
  4. Lecture-4 : Urban Infrastructure and Governance YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture-5 : Urbanization in the Global South: Approaches of Understanding YouTube
  2. Lecture-6 : Indian context and informality: Cities and slums YouTube
  3. Lecture-7 : Urban Development and Sustainability in India YouTube
  4. Lecture 8 : Major Policies of urban India YouTube
  5. Lecture-9 : Gentrification, migration, inequality and urban social stratification in India. YouTube
  6. Lecture-10 : Recent developments and emerging theories YouTube

Week 3

  1. Lecture-11 : Smart cities - global perspective and Indian perspective YouTube
  2. Lecture-12 : SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES YouTube
  3. Lecture-13 : Community, Smart Citizenship and the Digital Divide YouTube
  4. Lecture-14 : URBAN COMMONS YouTube
  5. Lecture-15 : URBAN GREENS YouTube

Week 4

  1. Lecture-16 : COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY YouTube
  2. Lecture-17 : GENDER RACE AND THE CITY (PART I) YouTube
  3. Lecture-18 : GENDER RACE AND THE CITY (PART II) YouTube
  4. Lecture-19 : Natural and (Un)natural Disaster in the city YouTube
  5. Lecture-20 : URBAN SUBCULTURES YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kharagpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Taught by
Prof. Amrita Sen, Prof. Archana Patnaik
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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