Dept.Profile : Department of Sociology
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Name and address of the Department:

Department of Sociology
University Post-Graduate College,
Kakatiya University
Nirmal – 506 009.

Telephone number:

08734-42818

 

The department of Sociology is established in the year 1981 with a built-up area of 4,000 sq.ft in the university college campus and is currently headed by Prof.N. Ramulu. The department have academic, administrative and financial autonomy. The department has Sociology Musuem.

 
The different programmes ( Level of Study = Certificate / Diploma / UG / PG Diploma / PG / M.Phil. / Ph.D. / Post Doctoral etc. ) offered by the department :
Programme

Level of Study Cut-off MarksAt entry, in % Student Strength
B.A. U.G. 36%
100
M.A. P.G. 40% 44
M.Phil. Research
50% 12
Ph.D. Doctoral 55% ---
 
The number of teaching and non-teaching staff of the department are:
  Male

Female Total
No. of teachers with Ph.D. as the highest qualification
04
01 04
No. of teachers with M.Phil. as the highest qualification

- - -
No. of Part-time teachers
06 - 06
No. of administrative staff
01 - 01
No. of technical staff - - -
No. of class IV staff 01
-
01
 
About the department :

Books in the department library :

650
Journals/periodicals subscribed
by the department
06
Computers in the department 01
Ongoing research projects and
their total outlay
04
Research projects completed
during the last three years
and their total outlay
03
Teachers who have attended
national seminars during the
last three years :
05
Teacher who have attended
international seminars during
the last three years
02
 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

The major thrust areas within the subject in which research activities are
being actively pursued are:

  1. Rural and Agrarian Studies
  2. Politics and Society
  3. Urban Studies and Migration
  4. Tribal Development
  5. Sociology of Development and Change
  6. Medical Anthropology/Sociology
  7. Migration
  8. Gender and Society
  9. Sociology of Information Society
  10. Globalisation and Society