Periyar University, Salem

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Sociology has been established in October, 2008 at Periyar University to carve out social equilibrium through its three dimensional phenomena as

Academic
Research
Extension activities

The Department has adopted a village for the multi-faceted growth. The Post Graduate students of the Department visit the village all the alternative Fridays to the village Sangeethapatti to know the issues, problems, developments, challenges etc., through the methodologies viz narratives, interview, and case study. The field visits help them to prepare the periodical reports par with the international reports like Through the adopted village, the Debartment identifies the young child scientists and bring them to the Department celebrates the National Science Day on twenty eighth February every year since 2010 consistently.

VISION

The Department throws its light on societal issues and strives to bring time demanding solutions. It prepares the students and scholars to take up any kinds of academic , research activities and in bureaucracy.

MISSION

To identify the researchable areas for the students of Sociology to pursue both quantitative and qualitative research.
To help the society in all possible ways by deliberating the different issues which have social ramifications.
To bring the social harmony and peace in the different settings - Rural, Urban, Tribes and Industries.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

PROGRAMMES OFFERED	ELIGIBILITY
M.A. (Sociology)	A candidate who passed any UG degree of this University or an examination of any other University accepted by the syndicate as equivalent shall be permitted to appear and qualify for the M.A.Sociology.
M.Phil (Sociology)	[as per University Norms]
Ph.D (Sociology)	[as per University Norms]
Value Added Course	Broucher

Syllabus

S.No	PROGRAMMES	DETAILS
2024 - 2025 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2023 - 2024 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2022 - 2023 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2020 - 2021 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2018 - 2019 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2	M.Phil (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2016 - 2017 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2015 - 2016 ONWARDS
1	M.A (Sociology)	SYLLABUS
2012 - 2013 ONWARDS
1	M.Phil (Sociology)	SYLLABUS

Faculty
Former Faculty

Conference / Workshop

SI.No	Date	Name of the Conference/Workshop	Number of Participants
1	09-03-2020 to 13-03-2020	Artificial Ornaments production training programme	25
2	06-03-2020	Awareness programme on minimum usage of water, electricity and plastics	60
3	22-01-2020 to 24-01-2020	Life skill Training for SC/ST students	176
4	24-10-2018	Mushroom Training programme for village women	48
5	06-02-2018	Hope building programme for slow learners	52
6	09-01-2018	Skill development programme for school students	55
7	28-09-2017	Life skills training for NSS volunteers	90
8	02-03-2016 and 08-03-2016	Embroidary Training programme for village women	32
9	20-08-2015	Soft skill Training for students	85

ACTIVITIES

Village Adoption Programme

The Department of Sociology has adopted the village Sangeethapatti, in Omular Taluk, Salem. Through this adoption programme the department keen on monitoring the social activities taking places in the village. And our department provides necessary awareness programme for their improvement in health, education, self employment, banking, environmental care etc. Every fortnight our students visit the village for knowing the social problems exists in it, this helps the student to do their social research as qualitative and quantitative, and it helps them to interpreting the data effectively.

Weekly Seminar

The department of sociology conducts weekly seminary on every Tuesday. The students, teachers and other experts in various social related activities are participating and discuss about the contemporary social issues to obtain through knowledge on the issue.

Awareness Programme

Rural Employment, Health Camps and motivating the school children are the main activities of the awareness programmes

Parents Teacher Association

Every six month the teachers and parents meeting are held in the department. In this meeting the parents ask to disclose the needs and problems they encounter by their children for pursuing their education.

Celebration of Special day’s

Our department celebrates the special days like human rights day, world elderly day, young child scientist day, etc.

Inviting Speakers Professor/ Exports

Many renounced professors, scholars, and experts are invited to deliver the lecture.

Community Policing

Our head of the department regularly participate in the community policing.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Coaching for Civil Service Aspirants

Mr. K. Sudhakar, IPS, then Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri addresses the Sociology students of Periyar University.
Dr. D. Selvarju, Professor of Sociology and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Head of the Department of Sociology, Annamalai University, Chidambaram delivers his valedictory address during the three day seminar organized by the Department of Sociology on Relevance and Importance of Children in the Tamil Literature (February 13-15, 2014). The programme had been sponsored by Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT), Chennai.
Professor A Elangovan, Head of the Department of Commerce, Periyar University is delivering the valedictory address during the National Seminar on Rural Livelihood
Dr. K. Angamuthu, Registrar, Periyar University, sharing the views on women in the labour sector in a program organized by the Department of Sociology in February 2014
Former Vice-Chancellor of Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University,, Dindigul addressing the sensitization of human rights in the department of Sociology during 2009, August.
Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka and Professor & Head, Department of Sociology delivers the address in a National seminar.
The faculty members and the students of Sociology during the field visit at Yercaud to interact with the tribal children in 2013
The faculty and students of Sociology has gone for the field visit at Nanagavalli in connection with the nutrition programme
Mr. Balamurugan, speaks to the Sociology students on the child development during Tuesday seminar on 2014.
Shri. K. Vanniyaperumal, IPS, DIG of Police visited the department of Sociologyon 2010 to tell about the importance of hard work and bring the laurels to the families, community, society and nation.
Shri. K. Vanniyaperumal, IPS address to the students of Sociology

Department of Sociology	Class room 1	Classroom 2
Lecture Hall	Smart classroom	Equal opportunity cell
Sociology Computer Lab	Sociology Library 1

FUNDED PROJECT

Name of the Faculty	Project Title	Funding Agency	Year	Funds Provided	Status
Dr.T.Sundara Raj	Sociology Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Transgender in Salem District Tamilnadu	ICSSR	2015-2017	22,00,000	Completed
Dr.C.Gobalakrishnan	Effect of open defection - A Sociological study with special reference to women, Adolescent Girls and Children in Tamilnadu	ICSSR	2015-2017	15,00,000	Completed
Dr.T.Sundara Raj	Ageing and Socila Exclusion - An Inquiry into the abuses on Elderly women as a challenge to their dignity of life	NCW	2018-2019	4,00,000	Completed
Dr.T.Sundara Raj	Health seeking behaviour of Malayali Tribal Women in Salem district of Tamilnadu	ICSSR	2019-2021	10,00,000	Ongoing
Dr.C.Gobalakrishnan	Involved Baseline survey for Establising child hassle free union by District Administration	State Balanced Grwoth Fund, Tamilnadu	2019-2020	85,000	Completed

ALUMNI

CONTACT US:

Professor and Head
Department of Sociology
Periyar University
Periyar Palkalai Nagar
Salem – 636011
Tamil Nadu
India
Ph: 0427-2345766 (Ext.No:229 & 230)
E-Mail : sociology@periyaruniversity.ac.in

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