About Department

Post graduate department of sociology was started under erstwhile Institute of Correspondence Course and Continuing Education (ICC&CE;) in 1975; sociology as a subject was quite popular even during those days. When ICC& CE was upgraded as University by government of Karnataka in 1996, M.Phill and PhD programmes were also introduced in the department besides continuing postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. The department has been catering to the needs of learners in pursuing higher studies in the field of sociology. Department of sociology has so far served every year the academic needs of more than 3000 learners on an average from both the years of MA (sociology). The Department comes under the ambit of school of social sciences. Department provides learners self-learning material (SLM) written by professors who are proficient, experienced and conversant with the subject and latest developments in it. SLMs are reviewed by editorial committee comprising of senior professors-subject experts along with the chairman of the department. SLM are prepared in conversational and lucid way which acts as functional equivalent for every day class room teaching.

Vision

To understand the structure, process, problems of modern complex societies and equipping the Learners with methodical Knowledge to approach and solve them.

Mission

To inculcate abstract knowledge about broad range of sociological taxonomies, theories and research methods.

To bestow sociological knowledge to its future practitioners to approach the contemporary issues of society with sociological imagination

To create some definite employable skills in getting job opportunities by dissemination of sociological knowledge

To enable the learners to evaluate competing versions of explanation and to question the assumptions.

To reach learners’ community who are often from humble socio-economic and regional background

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Chairperson

Department Of sociology