Sociology and Building Economics detailed Syllabus for B Architecture ARCH, 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU 5th Sem Syllabus for B.Arch 2018 Scheme, do visit B.Arch 5th Sem 2018 Scheme. The detailed Syllabus for sociology and building economics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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MODULE 1
- Introduction to Sociology: Definition of Sociology; Nature, Scope and Utility of Sociology; Branches of Sociology; Relation of Sociology and its branches to architecture and the built environment.
- Elements of Society: Biosocial and Sociocultural associations; Definitions of sociological terms: society, community, family, culture; Difference between society and community; Different family structures and architectural responses to different family types in and outside India (examination of different housing typologies responding to different family types – traditional and contemporary); Relation between culture and built form (exploration of architectural examples.
MODULE 2
- Communities: Origin, growth and nature of settlements and communities. Their characteristics and spatial patterns.
- Urban and Rural Communities: Definitions of the terms urban and rural. The social, economic and spatial characteristics associated with urban and rural settlements. Relation and interdependencies between urban and rural settlements. Urban sociology and rural sociology.
- Cities and Society: Urbanization – definition; causes. Effects of urbanization on rural areas. Impact of growing urbanization on urban life, viz. health, housing, transportation. Different types of migration. The impact of migration on urban form. The origin and characteristics of slums in European, American and Indian cities. Official definition of slums as per Census of India. Governmental and non-governmental approaches to engaging with issues regarding slums in Indian cities.
- Social Research: The need for research; the research process; ethics of social research; scope of social research. Difference between methodology and methods. Types of research methods: qualitative, quantitative, mixed research methods. Sources of research data: primary and secondary sources. Secondary data sources include literature review, official and unofficial documents. Primary data sources use methods such as field surveys, questionnaires, different types of interviews (open-ended / closed / structured / semistructured), and case study approach.
MODULE 3
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MODULE 4
- Economics and the market: Consumption, wants and needs and their characteristics. Concepts of economics: Opportunity cost; Laws of supply and demand; Laws of increasing, diminishing and constant returns; Standard of living. Analysis of the housing market in Indian cities to understand the dynamics of urban housing supply and demand.
MODULE 5
- Urban land values: Various factors affecting the value of urban land. Difference between land use and land cover. The characteristics of developed land in the city. The Bid Rent theory that defines relationship between location and land value. Theoretical city models based on land use and land value – Burgesss Concentric Zone Theory; Hoyts Sector Theory; Ullman and Harriss Multiple Nuclei Theory.
- Building Costs: Cost and cost indices. Life cycle costs. Total cost of construction. Time value of money. Different sources of financing buildings.
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