Ours
is one
of the oldest Sociology departments in the country. It was started with Iravati Karve teaching
Sociology and Anthropology in 1939 at the Deccan College Post-graduate and
Research Institute. The Department got integrated with the University of
Pune, when the University came into existence in 1948-49. In 1973, the
Department shifted from the Deccan College to the University Campus. In the
year 1977, the departments of Anthropology and Sociology were bifurcated.
Over the years the Department has evolved to define Sociology in different
ways keeping in tune with the regional,
national and international developments. Irawati Karve introduced research
activities in the fields of ethnography and physical anthropology, as well
as a perspective, which blend the indological approach with the fieldwork
tradition of social and cultural anthropology. From the fifties onwards,
with the joining of I.P. Desai and Y. B. Damle, new concerns and
methodologies were addressed, especially structural functionalism; Damle was
a proponent of an indigenous version of it. Along with examining the
complexities of social structure there was an academic shift towards social
dynamics. In 1979, with D. N. Dhanagare joining the Department, the teaching
and research of protest movements, agrarian change and Marxian methodology
was introduced. While R.N. Kulhalli introduced the teaching of Sociology of
Religion, U.B.Bhoite developed interest in Political Sociology and A.
Ramanamma promoted research in Industrial Sociology, Medical Sociology and
Women's Studies.
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