Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)
India Tests Social Theory
Price: 695.00
ISBN:
9780199476510
Publication date:
10/07/2017
Hardback
240 pages
Price: 695.00
ISBN:
9780199476510
Publication date:
10/07/2017
Hardback
240 pages
Dipankar Gupta
Making a plea for intersubjectivity and comparative sociology, the essays in this volume emphasize the criticality of engaging with Indian data, so that social theories are put to test across cultures. This should demonstrate how important it is to view the other as one would view oneself.
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Dipankar Gupta
Description
Sociology in India enjoys a special epistemological location as the country is at once traditional and modern, rural and urban, and rich and poor. These contradictions pose a challenge to theory-building because they offer instances that are not easy to accommodate at a universal, analytical level.
Taking up unresolved conceptual issues in the fields of health, agricultural unrest, caste, and the understanding of modernity, this volume shows how the many complexities in India should not tempt one to exoticism because that does little to combat social prejudice. If, instead, these unique facets are put to work in order to enhance universal social theory, then that would not only contribute lastingly to knowledge, but also close the distance between peoples.
Making a plea for intersubjectivity and comparative sociology, the essays in this volume emphasize the criticality of engaging with Indian data, so that social theories are put to test across cultures. This should demonstrate how important it is to view the other as one would view oneself.
About the Author
Dipankar Gupta has taught sociology for nearly three
decades at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Dipankar Gupta
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction: Intersubjectivity, Theory, and Philosophy
1. Everyday Resistance or Routine Repression? Exaggeration as a Stratagem in Agrarian Conflict
2. For a Sociology/Anthropology of Illness: Towards a Delineation of Its Disciplinary Specifics
3. To Transform or to Transmorph: From Totemism to Traffic Lights to Caste
4. The Metaphors of Culture: Multiculturalism as a Way of Everyday Life
5. Caste and Politics: Identity over System
6. Cultural Clash: Ethnic Imago s and Correlative Spaces
7. Project Modernity: The Significance of Iso-Ontology
8. Conceptualizing the Public and the Private: Tradition, Modernity, and Ethics
Appendix: Caste and Race
References
Index
About the Author
Dipankar Gupta
Features
- Emphasizes the criticality of engaging with Indian data and generalizations at a theoretical level
- Makes a plea for intersubjectivity and comparative sociology
- Explores compelling areas of social theory, from health, to peasantry, to modernization, to ethnicity under Indian conditions to understand how important it is to view the other as one would view oneself
Dipankar Gupta
Description
Sociology in India enjoys a special epistemological location as the country is at once traditional and modern, rural and urban, and rich and poor. These contradictions pose a challenge to theory-building because they offer instances that are not easy to accommodate at a universal, analytical level.
Taking up unresolved conceptual issues in the fields of health, agricultural unrest, caste, and the understanding of modernity, this volume shows how the many complexities in India should not tempt one to exoticism because that does little to combat social prejudice. If, instead, these unique facets are put to work in order to enhance universal social theory, then that would not only contribute lastingly to knowledge, but also close the distance between peoples.
Making a plea for intersubjectivity and comparative sociology, the essays in this volume emphasize the criticality of engaging with Indian data, so that social theories are put to test across cultures. This should demonstrate how important it is to view the other as one would view oneself.
About the Author
Dipankar Gupta has taught sociology for nearly three
decades at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction: Intersubjectivity, Theory, and Philosophy
1. Everyday Resistance or Routine Repression? Exaggeration as a Stratagem in Agrarian Conflict
2. For a Sociology/Anthropology of Illness: Towards a Delineation of Its Disciplinary Specifics
3. To Transform or to Transmorph: From Totemism to Traffic Lights to Caste
4. The Metaphors of Culture: Multiculturalism as a Way of Everyday Life
5. Caste and Politics: Identity over System
6. Cultural Clash: Ethnic Imago s and Correlative Spaces
7. Project Modernity: The Significance of Iso-Ontology
8. Conceptualizing the Public and the Private: Tradition, Modernity, and Ethics
Appendix: Caste and Race
References
Index
About the Author
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