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" Understanding social dynamics in South Asia : "
editors, Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram and Bhola Nath Ghosh.
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889601
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Mukherjee, Ramkrishna
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Understanding social dynamics in South Asia : : Essays in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee /\ editors, Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram and Bhola Nath Ghosh.
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Singapore :: Springer,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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1 online resource
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9789811303876
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: 9811303878
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9789811303869
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981130386X
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Intro; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Photographs; Remembering the Scholar and His Scholarship; 1 Remembering Ramkrishna Mukherjee: A Scholar Extraordinaire; 1 Ramkrishna Mukherjee: A Biographical Sketch; 2 Ramkrishna Mukherjee: Life Sketch of a Scholar Extraordinaire-Partha Nath Mukherjee; 2.1 The Personal Touch; 3 This Volume: A Tribute; References; 2 Ramkrishna Mukherjee: An Accomplished Academic Amphibian; 1; 2; 3; 4; References; Philosophy and Methodology; 3 Unitary Social Science: An Idea and Its Prospects
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1 Karl Marx: The Inspiration for the Idea2 The Idea in India; 3 The Development of Discrete Human (Social) Sciences; 4 The Emanation and Debacle of Unified Social Sciences; 5 Towards Unitary Social Science; 6 The Reality in India; 7 Conclusion; References; 4 Ramkrishna Mukherjee on Fact-Value Relations in Social Research; 1 The Debate on Fact-Value Relations; 1.1 Fact and Value; 1.2 Positivist Theory of Knowledge and Fact-Value Dichotomy; 1.3 Fact-Value Interface; 1.4 Insights from Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; 1.5 Post-normal Science; 1.6 The Debate in Sociology
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2 RM: Fact and Value Are Confounded Variables2.1 Description: 'What Is It?' and 'How Is It?'; 2.2 Explanation: Why Is It?; 2.3 Prediction: What Will It Be?; 2.4 The Normative Question: What Should It Be?; 2.5 Fact-Value Relations; 2.6 Value Accommodation; References; 5 Ramkrishna Mukherjee on Indian Sociology: A Review; 1 A Personal Note; 2 My Agenda; 3 A New Analysis of Trends; 4 Pre-sociological Reference Groups; 5 Four Groups of Indian Sociologists; 6 Prospects of Indian Sociology; 7 Development of Inductive Methodology; 8 Evaluation; 9 Conclusion; References
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2 Shifting Perspective, Emerging Conditions and New Initiatives for Knowledge Society in India2.1 Shift Toward Economic Liberalisation; 2.2 Population Explosion and Demographic Dividend; 2.3 Expansion of Education; 2.4 Phenomenal Expansion of ICT; 2.5 Increasing Significance of Service Sector; 2.6 Increasing Migration and Mobility of People; 3 Penetration of Knowledge Society in Rural India; 3.1 Access to ICT; 3.2 Emerging Occupational Patterns; 3.3 New Hierarchy in Knowledge Jobs; 3.4 New Socio-cultural Milieu in the Making; 4 Knowledge Society, Marginality and Newer Forms of Segregation
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Rural Society and Panchayat Raj6 Caste, Economy and Power: Changing Rural Bihar; 1 Village Studies in India: An Overview; 2 The Field; 3 Agrarian Economy: Land, Labour and Sharecropping; 4 Rural Non-farm Sector; 5 The Caste System: Discrete Castes and Their Distinct Ideologies; 6 Multiple Caste Hierarchies, Caste Conflict and Power Struggle; 7 Conclusion; References; 7 Dynamics of Social Mobility in an Emerging Knowledge Society: The Case of Rural India; 1 Knowledge and the Knowledge Society; 1.1 Key Dimensions of Knowledge Society
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| Abstract
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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.
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Mukherjee, Ramkrishna
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Social sciences.
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Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Reference.
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Social sciences.
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India, Social conditions.
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India.
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300.92
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H59.M75
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Mukherji, Partha N., (Partha Nath)
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