Theory and Society in India
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18/06/2009
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244 pages
228x150mm
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ISBN:
9780198062783
Publication date:
18/06/2009
Paperback
244 pages
Susan Visvanathan, Sheena Jain, Shobhita Jain, Cherian Joseph, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Tulsi Patel, Satish Saberwal, Savyasaachi, Shiv Visvanthan, Susan Visvanathan
This book examines the key debates, both theorertical and empirical, in the fields of urbanization, industrilaization and stratification in India. The essays in the volume engage with the problems of typologies - tribal, peasant and industrial - in order to rethink the issues of modernity and tradition.
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Susan Visvanathan, Sheena Jain, Shobhita Jain, Cherian Joseph, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Tulsi Patel, Satish Saberwal, Savyasaachi, Shiv Visvanthan, Susan Visvanathan
Description
This book examines the key debates, both theorertical and empirical, in the fields of urbanization, industrilaization and stratification in India. The essays in the volume engage with the problems of typologies - tribal, peasant and industrial - in order to rethink the issues of modernity and tradition.
The authors problematize a vast array of literature on tribal, peasant and industrial sociology, grappling with conceptual problems caused by the uncritical application of theories germinated in the West to the Indian context. The primary assumption of all the essays is that the conventional binary opposition between primitive and modern, and the evolutionary schema of viewing the world in terms of First, Second and Third Worlds is redundant to our times. keeping this in mind, the book provides an essential framework for understanding globalization.
The contributors to the volume attempt to engage with the discursive and volatile aspects of the discipline of sociology, enlivening and re-invigourating old debates through an understanding of questions teachers and students put to each other in classroom situations, thus enabling students to read sociology in a new and refreshing way. In a new Preface, the editor contextualizes the issues of tribe, caste, gender and work in tribal, peasant and industrial societies in the current scenario.
It is essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and anthropology, bureaucrats, administrators, social workers, journalists and the interested lay reader.
About the Authors
Susan Visvanathan, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiSheena Jain, Jamia Milia Islamia, Shobhita Jain, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Cherian Joseph, ATW Nirman Pvt. Ltd, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, University of Delhi, Tulsi Patel, University of Delhi, Satish Saberwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Savyasaachi, Jamia Milai Islamia, Shiv Visvanthan, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, and Susan Visvanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Susan Visvanathan, Sheena Jain, Shobhita Jain, Cherian Joseph, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Tulsi Patel, Satish Saberwal, Savyasaachi, Shiv Visvanthan, Susan Visvanathan
Table of contents
Introduction
1:Structure and Culture: The Debates
2:Framework in Change: Colonial Indian Society
3:On Understanding Caste and Class
4:Forest Dwellers and Tribals in India
5:Anomie, Alienation, and Involvement
6:Gender and Work in Industrial Society
7:Women and Migration
8:Interpretations of the City
9:PLantation Labour in South and South-East Asia
10:Religion and the Geddesian Theory of the City
Susan Visvanathan, Sheena Jain, Shobhita Jain, Cherian Joseph, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Tulsi Patel, Satish Saberwal, Savyasaachi, Shiv Visvanthan, Susan Visvanathan
Susan Visvanathan, Sheena Jain, Shobhita Jain, Cherian Joseph, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Tulsi Patel, Satish Saberwal, Savyasaachi, Shiv Visvanthan, Susan Visvanathan
Susan Visvanathan, Sheena Jain, Shobhita Jain, Cherian Joseph, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Tulsi Patel, Satish Saberwal, Savyasaachi, Shiv Visvanthan, Susan Visvanathan
Description
This book examines the key debates, both theorertical and empirical, in the fields of urbanization, industrilaization and stratification in India. The essays in the volume engage with the problems of typologies - tribal, peasant and industrial - in order to rethink the issues of modernity and tradition.
The authors problematize a vast array of literature on tribal, peasant and industrial sociology, grappling with conceptual problems caused by the uncritical application of theories germinated in the West to the Indian context. The primary assumption of all the essays is that the conventional binary opposition between primitive and modern, and the evolutionary schema of viewing the world in terms of First, Second and Third Worlds is redundant to our times. keeping this in mind, the book provides an essential framework for understanding globalization.
The contributors to the volume attempt to engage with the discursive and volatile aspects of the discipline of sociology, enlivening and re-invigourating old debates through an understanding of questions teachers and students put to each other in classroom situations, thus enabling students to read sociology in a new and refreshing way. In a new Preface, the editor contextualizes the issues of tribe, caste, gender and work in tribal, peasant and industrial societies in the current scenario.
It is essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and anthropology, bureaucrats, administrators, social workers, journalists and the interested lay reader.
About the Authors
Susan Visvanathan, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiSheena Jain, Jamia Milia Islamia, Shobhita Jain, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Cherian Joseph, ATW Nirman Pvt. Ltd, Kuriakose Mamkoottam, University of Delhi, Tulsi Patel, University of Delhi, Satish Saberwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Savyasaachi, Jamia Milai Islamia, Shiv Visvanthan, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, and Susan Visvanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Table of contents
Introduction
1:Structure and Culture: The Debates
2:Framework in Change: Colonial Indian Society
3:On Understanding Caste and Class
4:Forest Dwellers and Tribals in India
5:Anomie, Alienation, and Involvement
6:Gender and Work in Industrial Society
7:Women and Migration
8:Interpretations of the City
9:PLantation Labour in South and South-East Asia
10:Religion and the Geddesian Theory of the City
André Béteille, University of Delhi, Delhi
André Béteille
An Essay on the Principal of Population
Thomas Malthus, Geoffrey Gilbert
M. Francis Abraham
Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)
Dipankar Gupta
M. Francis Abraham
Modernity in Indian Social Theory
A Raghuramaraju
Kalpana Kannabiran
Andre Beteille
