Revisiting Social Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Possibilities
Redaktion: Kumar, D. V.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits social theory to highlight features of 'good' social theory. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and Indian society, it considers whether new questions need to be asked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040017340
• Artikelnr.: 70184790

Autorenporträt

D. V. Kumar is Professor of Sociology at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. What is social theory? 2. Social theory today: Revisiting
hope 3. Empathy between sociology and social neuroscience: New perspectives
for an applied sociology 4. Applying Graeber's extension of Mauss' The Gift
to the study of international relations 5. Towards a socio-phenomenological
approach to empathy 6. 7. New media, popular culture and social theory 8.
Social and political theory in the times of neo-liberalism 9. Revisiting
Gellnerian theory of nation and Nationalism 10. Neoliberal environmentalism
and social theory: Constructing myth over reality 11. Identity, values and
consumption practices 12. Legitimizing menstrual leave at workplace:
Documenting the sociological theories explanations 13. Theorising
Contemporary Vernacular politics in Northeast India and its Sociology 14.
Eco-feminism in the context of tribal society 15. Theorizing better: A
debate of theory and practice in the context of an Indigenous setting