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Mphil - Scientific Socialism Syllabus Nagarj University
Mphil - Scientific Socialism Syllabus Nagarj University
Mphil - Scientific Socialism Syllabus Nagarj University
PART - I, PAPER I - SYLLABUS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Chapter - I Chapter - II Concepts of research and scientific method in social research Major steps in social research, types of research designs
Chapter - III Sources of data collection - observation method, interview method, questionnaire and schedule, source of secondary data. Chapter - IV Sampling techniques - census and sample study, types of sampling and sampling errors, classification and tabulation. Measures of Central Tendency - mean, mode and median, dispersion mean deviation, standard deviation, correlation, significant test - chisquire test. Model research design on selected topic.
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Chapter - VI
REFERENCES: S. P. Gupta Wilkinson and Bandarkar Goods and Halt Sipson and Kafka William G. Cochran C. N. Gupta Statistical Methods Social Research Methods in Social Research Basic statistics Sampling Techniques An Introduction to Statistical Methods.
Nature of Marxian Methodology: Class approach, base, super structure, law of dialectics and their application to socio-historical phenomena. Contemporary development in methodology and the need to orient marxian methodological concerns. Pre-capitalist modes of production - development of capitalism - theory of surplus value - Nature and characteristics of capitalism - profit and wages. Crisis of capitalism - Nature and Characteristics of imperialism - Export of capital - stock market clashes. Globalisation, nature and effects of globalisation on the third world nations, impact of WTO on Indian economy. Role of the TNCs, IMF, IBRD and its impact on third world. Disinvestment and privatisation - Public Sector and impact of privatisation Basic laws of socialism - objective conditions for Socialism - Towards socialist transition and peoples movements - The Role of the state in building socialism. Social transformation and peoples movements i.e. ecology and environment movements, self- help groups, sub-altern groups
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