Gebundenes Buch

Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia

Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee

Herausgegeben: Mukherji, Partha Nath; Jayaram, N; Ghosh, Bhola Nath

Beschreibung

This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919-2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the idea of unitary social science, methodology of social research, the question of facts and values, rural society and social change, social mobility, family and gender, and nationalism. In the two interviews included here Mukherjee clarifies his intellectual trajectory as well as issues of methodology and methods in social research. Overall, this volume endorses his emphasis on the need for social researchers to transcend the 'what' and 'how' to 'why' in the pursuit of sociological knowledge. The volume is a valuable addition to the history of sociology in India. Students of sociology and other social sciences will find it useful as a bookof substantive readings on social dynamics; those researching the social world will find in it a useful guide to issues in designing and execution of social research projects.

Autor

Partha Nath Mukherji was Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; a Senior Fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; and S.K. Dey Chair Professor at Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. He was the President of the Indian Sociological Society. His areas of research interest include social movements; democratic decentralisation; social change, development and mobility; and research methodology. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Sociological Society. N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He has taught at Bangalore University, Goa University, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was Visiting Professor at The University of the West Indies (St Augustine), Trinidad and Tobago; and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His research areas include sociology of education, political sociology, sociology of diaspora, and theory and method. He is a recipient of the Dr Paduru Gururaja Bhat Annual Award and ET Now Education Leadership Award. Bhola Nath Ghosh is Professor and Head of the Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has earlier taught sociology at the West Bengal State University, Rabindra Bharati University, Jadavpur University, University of Kalyani and Indira Gandhi National Open University.  His research areas include gender studies, decentralisation, rural development, and social problems.      

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-13-0386-9
• 1st edition 2019
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9789811303869
• ISBN-10: 981130386X
• Artikelnr.: 52311365