Historical Sociology In India

Author : Hetukar Jha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351563673

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Historical Sociology in India by Hetukar Jha Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development, especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume: critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule including those by H. T. Colebrooke, Francis Buchanan, William Adam; engages with the works of sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas, Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Louis Dumont, Nicholas Dirks, Bernard Cohn, Yogendra Singh, D. N. Dhanagare, A. M Shah, T. K. Oommen, among others; and shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society villages, castes, traditions, socio-cultural change, education, peasants and their movements, etc.Presenting an alternative idea of social reality, this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology, social theory, and social history.

Author : Sujata Patel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199089659

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Doing Sociology in India by Sujata Patel Pdf

This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’, which took place as a result of colonialism and dominant nationalism. The book affirms the existence of both strong and weak traditions of scholarship in India and underscores three processes that have aided this development at various points of time: reflexive interrogation of received scholarship; probing ideal types of theories within classrooms; and questioning existing debates on society and its language by the public.

Author : Gerard Delanty,Engin F Isin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761971734

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Handbook of Historical Sociology by Gerard Delanty,Engin F Isin Pdf

This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. Part One is devoted to Foundations, Part Two moves on to consider major approaches and Part Three is devoted to the major themes in historical sociology. Systematic and informative it offers readers the most complete and authoritative guide to historical sociology.

Author : Julian Go,George Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166646

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Global Historical Sociology by Julian Go,George Lawson Pdf

Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and International Relations, this collection lays out the international, transnational, and global dimensions of social change. It reveals the shortcomings of existing scholarship and argues for a deepening of the 'third wave' of historical sociology through a concerted treatment of transnational and global dynamics as they unfold in and through time. The volume combines theoretical interventions with in-depth case studies. Each chapter moves beyond binaries of 'internalism' and 'externalism,' offering a relational approach to a particular thematic: the rise of the West, the colonial construction of sexuality, the imperial origins of state formation, the global origins of modern economic theory, the international features of revolutionary struggles, and more. By bringing this sensibility to bear on a wide range of issue-areas, the volume lays out the promise of a truly global historical sociology.

Author : Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521297249

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Vision and Method in Historical Sociology by Theda Skocpol Pdf

Examines the careers and contributions of nine major scholars who have been influential in the development of historical sociology. Covers the work of Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington Moore, Jr.

Author : Stephen Kalberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226423026

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Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology by Stephen Kalberg Pdf

The revival of historical sociology in recent decades has largely neglected the contributions of Max Weber. Yet Weber's writings offer a fundamental resource for analyzing problems of comparative historical development. Stephen Kalberg rejects the view that Weber's historical writings consist of an ambiguous mixture of fragmented ideal types on the one hand and the charting of vast processes of rationalization and bureaucracy on the other. On the contrary, Weber's substantive work offers a coherent and distinctive model for comparative analysis. A reconstruction of Weber's comparative historical method, Kalberg argues, uncovers a sophisticated outlook that addresses problems of agency and structure, multiple causation, and institutional interpretation. Kalberg shows how such a representation of Weber's work casts a direct light upon issues of pressing importance in comparative historical studies today. Weber addresses in a forceful way the whole range of issues confronted by the comparative historical enterprise. Once the full analytical and empirical power of Weber's historical writings becomes clear, Weber's work can be seen to generate procedures and strategies appropriate to the study of present day as well as past social processes. Written in an accessible and engaging fashion, this book will appeal to students and professionals in the areas of sociology, anthropology, and comparative history.

Author : Richard Lachmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745672045

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What is Historical Sociology? by Richard Lachmann Pdf

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields. This innovative book explores what sociologists gain by treating temporality seriously, what we learn from placing social relations and events in historical context. In a series of chapters, readers will see how historical sociologists have addressed the origins of capitalism, revolutions and social movements, empires and states, inequality, gender and culture. The goal is not to present a comprehensive history of historical sociology; rather, readers will encounter analyses of exemplary works and see how authors engaged past debates and their contemporaries in sociology, history and other disciplines to advance our understanding of how societies are created and remade across time. This illuminating book is designed for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses as an introduction to historical sociology and as a guide to employing historical analysis across the discipline.

Author : Dennis Erasga
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789535104605

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Sociological Landscape by Dennis Erasga Pdf

More than the usual academic textbook, the present volume presents sociology as terrain that one can virtually traverse and experience. Each version of the sociological imagination captured by the chapter essays takes the readers to the realm of the taken-for-granted (such as zoological collections, food, education, entrepreneurship, religious participation, etc.) and the extraordinary (the likes of organizational fraud, climate change, labour relations, multiple modernities, etc.) - altogether presumed to be problematic and yet possible. Using the sociological perspective as the frame of reference, the readers are invited to interrogate the realities and trends which their social worlds relentlessly create for them, allowing them in return, to discover their unique locations in their cultures' social map.

Author : A.R. Desai
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171541542

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Rural Sociology in India by A.R. Desai Pdf

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0315829281

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Science, Technology and Colonial Power in India by Zaheer Baber Pdf

Author : Stephen Kalberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351919098

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Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today by Stephen Kalberg Pdf

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today addresses major themes in Weber's thought, whilst also examining the mode of analysis practised in his comparative-historical writings. By exploring Weber's concepts and procedures, the individual chapters seek to convey the rigor of his research strategies, demonstrating their uniqueness. In this light, this study proceeds to identify as incomplete and then reconstruct the analyses undertaken by Weber of the rise of Confucianism in China, the caste system in India, and monotheism in ancient Israel. The analysis then advances to the modern era, utilising Weber's research procedures to explain the origins of four independent phenomena: the singularity of the American political culture, the cultural foundations of modern citizenship, cultural pessimism (Kulturpessimismus) in nineteenth century Germany, and the 'location' of work in contemporary German society. A dialogue with a variety of recent major schools is pursued throughout this volume. Offering a rich examination of the major themes in Weber's sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis and application of his approach, this book will appeal to scholars around the world with interests in social theory, German and American societies, cultural sociology, political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of civilizations.

Author : Chris Smaje
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631209492

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Natural Hierarchies by Chris Smaje Pdf

This original and provocative text provides an approach to understanding the emergence and development of social rank through race and caste. The struggles we face in race and ethnic relations today are explored through anthropological, historical and sociological lenses to understand the roots of social hierarchy drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America.

Author : Partha Nath Mukherji,N. Jayaram,Bhola Nath Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811303876

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Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia by Partha Nath Mukherji,N. Jayaram,Bhola Nath Ghosh Pdf

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 book of 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.

Author : Alexandre I.R. White,Katrina Quisumbing King
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801172202

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Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism by Alexandre I.R. White,Katrina Quisumbing King Pdf

In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times.

Author : Jiří Šubrt
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787433632

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The Perspective of Historical Sociology by Jiří Šubrt Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the themes that make up the field of Historical Sociology. At its centre is the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question it raises is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or the individual?