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Hello everyone, I am interested to join Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University for studying PhD in Sociology course. So, can I know the course syllabus of this PhD program of this university? Please let me know about the course syllabus asap.

PhD in Sociology is a 3 year duration course. This course is based on advanced level courses in research methods, statistical inference and sociology which increases the understanding of human society but also helps to classify human social behavior systematically. The detailed syllabus is given below.

Social Mobility
Social Stratification
Caste
Economic Development
Women's Issues
Drug Addiction
Cultural Study

Course syllabus of PhD (Sociology) in Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University are as mentioned below:-
The meaning and characteristics of sociological theory
Types of theories
Relationship between theory and research
Structural-Functionalism
The emergence of Functionalism
Functional dimensions of social system: Talcott Parsons
Codification of Functional analysis: Robert King Merton
Conflict theory
Marx critique and dialectics of conflict: Ralf Dahrendorf
Conflict Functionalism: Lewis Coser
The power elite: C. Wright Mills
Interactionalist perspective
Symbolic Interactionism: Herbert Mead
Phenomenological sociology: Alfred Schutz
Ethnomethodology: Harold Garfinkel
Structuralism, post-structuralism and post-modernism
Anthropological structuralism: Claude Levi-strauss
Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida
Relationship between knowledge and power: Michel Foucault