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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction/Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur. Part I: Theorising the Indigenous , National , Local and Postcolonial . 2. The quest for indigenous theory: then and now/Manish Thakur. 3. The work of the Local /Upal Chakrabarti. 4. Theorising the nation-state: hegemonic discourses and counter-narratives/Tanweer Fazal. 5. The politics of social theory: a critical analysis of the caste-modernity paradigm/Gayatri Nair. Part II: Disassembling Theory: Understanding Absences, Presences and Schisms. 6. Notes towards a renewal of industrial sociology in India/Aardra Surendran. 7. Media in Indian sociology: contexts, making and theorizing/Jesna Jayachandran. 8. The schism between teaching theory and doing method: the practice of sociology/Amites Mukhopadhyay. 9. Social research in a media organization/Sushree Panigrahi. Part III: Ethnography and Theory. 10. Understanding prison sociality: objects, surveillance and everyday life/Mahuya Bandyopadhyay. 11. For the skin is faster than the word : towards an ethnography of affect/Sukanya Sarbadhikary. 12. Oral history with women naxalites and hindu rioters: questions of epistemology and ethics/Chitralekha Dhamija. Part IV: Theory: Disjunctions, Travels and Effects. 13. Theorising experience: on critical pedagogy and the subject matter of caste/Ratheesh Kumar. 14. Anti-caste awareness: inside and outside the classroom/Pushpesh Kumar. 15. Chasing Pareto/Hia Sen. 16. Reading theory backwards: a worm s eye view/Maitrayee Chaudhuri. Notes on the contributors. Index. We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further complicated in a post-fact world, where our identities and perception have become the final judges of truth. Sociology/social anthropology, in contrast, rests on a fundamental distinction between commonsense and theoretically informed knowledge. It teaches us to get rid of perceptions and alerts us to go beyond taken-for-granted ideas. The paradox is that although theory is taught as a mandatory paper in sociology, it is either reduced to a topic in the syllabi or used as ceremonial citations. Emphasising that theories emerge in specific historical contexts and are embedded in economic, political, social, cultural, institutional and intellectual processes, this volume takes a new approach by highlighting the sociological paths through which theories travel and are adopted by institutions in different parts of the country. The contributors explore: the search for an indigenous theory within sociology in India; critically examine the construction of the local and the postcolonial ; theorise the nation and nationalism , caste and modernity, industrial and media sociology; study the disconnect between theory taught within the classroom and theory practised in the world outside.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents 1 Introduction I Sociology and Society Different Takes 2 Disciplinary Trajectories and Social Trends Sociology and Social Thought in Tamil Nadu VSujatha 3 Sociology Sociologists Seng Samla and Seng kynthei of Meghalaya AK Nongkynrih 4 The Making of a Syllabus An Issue beyond Academics Dalia Chakrabarti II Sociology in Margins The Local and the Benal 5 Practicing Sociology on the Outside Edge Santosh Kr Singh 6 Sociology in the Regional Backwoods A Fictional Rendering Pushpesh Kumar 7 Sociology in Northeast India A Synoptic View Subrat K Nanda III Sociology in Professional Institutions Global Brands and Disciplinary Marginality 8 Of Mainstream and Margins Sociology in Indian Institutes of Management II MsManish Thakur 9 Nurturing Sociology among Nurses The Case of West Bengal Ramanuj Ganguly 10 Integrating Sociology in a Law School Curriculum Discontent Dilemma Direction Rukmini Sen 11 The Challenges in Teaching Sociology at IIT Are Karl and Max Relevant Kushal Deb IV New Sistes and Modes of Doing Sociology 12 New Locations and New Articulations Practice of Sociology in a Metropolitan Autonomous Institution Shaji Varghese and R Santhosh 13 Social Research and the New Centres of Knowledge Production Ravi Kumar 14 Why Choose Sociology Tamil Nadu in Global Times Madhu Sharan 15 Sociology and the Practice of Social compliance Auditing Archana Prasad V Tracking Concepts Of Intellectual Journeys 16 Rethinking Community In the Discipline and within Development Practices Amites Mukhopadhyay 17 Tribes as Indigenous People of India Virginius Xaxa 18 Teaching Caste and the Hindu Social Order Dalits in Indian Sociology Vivek Kumar 19 The Concept of Gender Its Travels and Travails Maitrayee Chaudhuri Index This book seeks to capture illustratively some of the ongoing intellectual and institutional practices in sociological teaching and research in the current context of globalization It attempts to both document and theorize the ongoing changes The central contention here is that an earlier nationalist vision of education that informed much of social science practice in independent India is challenged from two very different sources radical and local social movements on the one hand and the imperatives of global capital on the other hand It further argues that sociology in India needs to engage at once with its routine everyday banal practices and its unique theoretical possibilities which allow for an active involvement in broader questions about the role of social sciences The volume is divided into five parts Sociology and Society Different Takes Sociology in the Margins The Local and the Banal Sociology in Professional Institutions Global Brands and Disciplinary Marginality New Sites and Modes of Doing Sociology Tracking Concepts Of Intellectual Journeys 406 pp.