Syllabus

Course Code: MSW(C) -401    Course Name: Dynamics of Social Development in View of Globlization

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 - Social Development: meaning, concept, indicators, goals, assumptions and factors of Social Development.
- Basic needs in Social Development and Components of social development.
- Human Development Index, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Problems of social development.
2 - Social and economic transformation in India after independence.
- Models of social development: Gandhian, Nehruvian and General model, Institutionalization model, Push model, input, model, Gandhian and Nehruvian model
- Relationship between Social work and Social development: role and intervention.
3 - Economic development: meaning and indicators.
- Characteristics of developed and developing countries.
- Economic system: Theories of distribution; Ricardo and Marx.
- Theories of economic development- Rostow’s stages of economic growth and balanced growth theory.v - National Income concepts: Gross National Product (GNP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Net National Product (NNP), Per Capita Income (PCI), Personal Income (PI), Domestic Income (DI) .
4 - Globalization and its impact on quality of life.
- Poverty in India: concept of absolute, subjective and relative poverty.
- Causes of poverty, Current poverty alleviation programmes in India.
- Social Inequalities: nature, causes and extent.
- Social exclusion and inclusive Development Policy, planning and administration concerning development of rural area.
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