DOING SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA
Genealogies, Locations, and Practices
ISBN13: 9780198070115ISBN10: 019807011X
Hardback,
352 pages
Feb 2011,
In Stock
Price:
$49.95 (06)Description
This volume debates the different ways in which ideas, practices, and traditions of sociology grew, were organized, and institutionalized in India from the mid-nineteenth century till present times. It facilitates, in a small way, an understanding of the histories of the discipline, while critically examining their origin and growth, their impact, and their limitations. The interplay of three themes- time, space, and power-structures the arguments in this book. The essays in this collection highlight two separate but connected dominant positions that have structured the formation of sociological traditions in India-colonialism and its practices, and ideologies of nationalism and notions of nation and nationhood.Features
- Historic overview of sociology as a discipline in India
- Focuses on both teaching and research
- Contributors are eminent teachers from across India
About the Author(s)
Sujata Patel is Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad.
