Poverty and Deprivation

 UNIT-II

Poverty and Deprivation

Effects or problems of poverty -Causes of Poverty -Measures or methods of eliminating or alleviating poverty -Deprivation: A Socio Psychological Analysis -Meaning of Deprivation -Aspects or Dimensions Deprivation -Types of Deprivation -Consequences, problems or effects of Deprivation

Anti-social Behavior

Forms of anti-social behavior (Corruption, Briber, Crime, delinquency - Meaning of Corruption -Forms of Corruption -Causes of Corruption -measures for controlling corruption -Meaning and nature of crime. Meaning and nature of Juvenile Delinquency -Types of Crime *Causes of Crime -Remedial Measures of crime -What is Delinquency? -Difference between Delinquency and Crime -Causes of Delinquency -Treatment and Education of Delinquent Children -Role of Education for Treatment on Juvenile Delinquent-Disadvantaged children: Treatment and Education -Educational programs for Disadvantaged children -School age Compensatory Education

UNIT-III

Domestic Violence: Atrocities against Women

Meaning of Domestic Violence -Types of Domestic Violence -Factors or causes of domestic -Remedial Measures- Population Explosion and Health Problems-Population -Population Growth and Population Explosion -Causes of Population Growth -How to Control Population Explosion? -Factors or causes of Good or Bad Health -Techniques for Good Mental Health

Aggression: A social Problem

Characteristics of Aggression -Theories of Aggression -Causes of Aggression

-Measures for Preventing and Reducing Aggression

Communalism: A Severe Social Problem-Meaning of Communalism -Causes of Communal Tension -Remedial Measures of communal Tension to Communalism

Terrorism: A Very Severe Social Problem-What is Terrorism*Types of Terroristic Activities-Causes of Terrorism -Measurement or Strategies of controlling Terrorism

UNIT-IV

Suicide: A Social and Psychological Issue

Meaning of suicide -Incidence -General Symptoms -Causes of Suicide -Prevention of suicide

Stress-Meaning and Characteristics of stress -Reaction to Stress -Measurement of stress-Categories of stress -Strategies for coping Stress -Management of Stress -Theories of Stress-Predisposing factors to stress-Decomposition under Excessive Stress

Issues of social Justice and Injustice-Meaning of social Justice -Dimensions of Social Justice -Principals of social Justice -Theories of social Justice-Criteria that Render A Law Unjust -Social Injustice -Causes of social Injustice -Measures or methods of tacking Social Injustice -Process of controlling Social Injustice-Social Change in Indian

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Context

Meaning of social Change -Characteristics of social Changes -Types or forms of social Changes -Various Dimensions of social Changes -Stages of social Changes -Factors influencing on social Change -Effects of social Change -Social change in India -Resistance to social Change -causes or bases of Resistance to change -Sanskritization -meaning of sanskritization -Characteristics of sanskritization -Westernalization -Meaning of Westernalization -Characteristics of Westernalization - Westernalization and social Change.

REFERENCE BOOKS

▪ Baron, Robert A. and Byrne, D. (2001). Social Psychology (8th edition) Reprint, New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt Ltd.

▪ Brehm, S.S. and Kassin, S.N. (1996). Social Psychology (3rd edition). USA:Houghton Mifflin Company.

▪ Crisp, R.J. and Turner, R.N. (2007). Essential Social Psychology. New Delhi: SagePublications.

▪ Doshi. D. R. (1018) Psychology of Indian Problems, jk printing shop, Rajkot

▪ Myers, D.G. (2002). Social Psychology (7th international edition). New York: McGraw Hill Companies.

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FACULTY OF ARTS

Syllabus

Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

Course (Paper) Name & No: STRESS AND STRESS MANAGEMENT/ECT-04

Name

of course

Semester

Core/Elective/

Allied/Inter Disciplinary

Course/Paper code

Course/Paper Title

Credit

Internal Marks

External Marks

Total

Exam Marks

External Exam Time Duration

M.A.

II

Elective

ECT-04