ABOUT THE COURSE: The content of the course is interdisciplinary. It will enable the students to provide adequate and comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of sanitation in its multi-faceted dimensions - national and global. It will provide deeper insight in to societal ramifications of sanitation, encompassing environment, health, gender, and ethnicity. It will equip the students with conceptual, theoretical and methodological clarity with regard to the critical comprehension of various development programmes and policies by major sectors in contemporary India. It also crafts them towards understanding of the social aspects of sanitation and its application as sociological skills to plan, monitor and evaluate various inclusive development programmes in India with humane concern. INTENDED AUDIENCE: PG students/scholars; University/College faculty in social sciences; Municipalities and Municipal Corporations, government departments related to health and sanitation, environmental groups, health and sanitation workers; corporate firms; policy planners; civil society PREREQUISITES: Understanding of social sciences at UG & PG levelINDUSTRY SUPPORT: UGC, Higher education, Universities Agro-based industry; NGO’s, CSR based activities; Health, Sanitation and Environmental based organizations
Sociology and Sanitation: An Introduction
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and NPTEL via Swayam
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1:
Sanitation Practices in a historical perspective - Underpinning the evolution of sanitation discourse in the global framework and presenting the historiography of prominent nations. Sanitation concerns in India.
Sociology of Sanitation: Definition, Scope and Strategies - Identifying interlinkage between Sociology and sanitation. Meaning, definition, scope, subject matter of sanitation and strategies to ameliorate conditions of sanitation workers.
Perspectives on Sociology of Sanitation - Sociological perspectives; sociological and social theories of action; and contributions of Indian sociologists on sanitation.
Week 2:
Research Methodology in Sociology of Sanitation - Methodological issues involved in the social science research, especially, sociology of sanitation. ; positivism, phenomenology and triangulation.
Social science concepts applicable to sanitation practices - It identifies the array of terms having bearing on sanitation. It includes the concept such as justice, inequality, discrimination, exclusion, empowerment, hygiene, and stigma.
Forms of Sanitation and their Social Implications - It focuses upon the models of solid waste disposal and interrelationship between sanitation and social domains such as health, diseases, ecology, education, gender etc.
Week 3:
Social Movements and Societal Sanitation - Key Social Thinkers - It provides the backdrop of social movements with emphasis on prominent social reformers contributing to sanitation in India, especially Gandhi’s contribution. Examples are given from the different social reform movements in this area in India.
Ramifications of Cultural Practices, Caste and Sanitation in Rural and Urban India - It highlights the issues of caste, practice of untouchability, cultural beliefs, scavenging and social mobility in Indian society. It discusses the ramifications of the caste on sanitation in rural and urban India.
Week 4:
Interventions of Public and Private agencies on Sanitation in India: An Overview - Sources of data on sanitation; indices, statistics and policy measures in relation to sanitation practices in India. It also examines the methodologies of studying impact of the governmental and non-governmental interventions towards sanitation.
Toilet as a Tool of Change: Exemplifying Sulabh International Social Service Organisation - It is towards the praxis of toilet in social life and advocates toilet as a tool for change. It emphasizes the community led toilet schemes in India. It also provides a detailed account of Sulabh International Social Service Organization as an exemplification of toilet as a tool for empowerment and development.
Sanitation Practices in a historical perspective - Underpinning the evolution of sanitation discourse in the global framework and presenting the historiography of prominent nations. Sanitation concerns in India.
Sociology of Sanitation: Definition, Scope and Strategies - Identifying interlinkage between Sociology and sanitation. Meaning, definition, scope, subject matter of sanitation and strategies to ameliorate conditions of sanitation workers.
Perspectives on Sociology of Sanitation - Sociological perspectives; sociological and social theories of action; and contributions of Indian sociologists on sanitation.
Week 2:
Research Methodology in Sociology of Sanitation - Methodological issues involved in the social science research, especially, sociology of sanitation. ; positivism, phenomenology and triangulation.
Social science concepts applicable to sanitation practices - It identifies the array of terms having bearing on sanitation. It includes the concept such as justice, inequality, discrimination, exclusion, empowerment, hygiene, and stigma.
Forms of Sanitation and their Social Implications - It focuses upon the models of solid waste disposal and interrelationship between sanitation and social domains such as health, diseases, ecology, education, gender etc.
Week 3:
Social Movements and Societal Sanitation - Key Social Thinkers - It provides the backdrop of social movements with emphasis on prominent social reformers contributing to sanitation in India, especially Gandhi’s contribution. Examples are given from the different social reform movements in this area in India.
Ramifications of Cultural Practices, Caste and Sanitation in Rural and Urban India - It highlights the issues of caste, practice of untouchability, cultural beliefs, scavenging and social mobility in Indian society. It discusses the ramifications of the caste on sanitation in rural and urban India.
Week 4:
Interventions of Public and Private agencies on Sanitation in India: An Overview - Sources of data on sanitation; indices, statistics and policy measures in relation to sanitation practices in India. It also examines the methodologies of studying impact of the governmental and non-governmental interventions towards sanitation.
Toilet as a Tool of Change: Exemplifying Sulabh International Social Service Organisation - It is towards the praxis of toilet in social life and advocates toilet as a tool for change. It emphasizes the community led toilet schemes in India. It also provides a detailed account of Sulabh International Social Service Organization as an exemplification of toilet as a tool for empowerment and development.
Taught by
Prof. Ashish Saxena
