Download or read book Caste Status Group Aggregate and Class written by Syamalkanti Sengupta and published by Calcutta : Firma KLM. This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Identity of Rural India written by Elisabetta Basile and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The essays overcome the limits of disciplinary approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the processes of change and growth at work in the Indian countryside and to review the social and cultural dynamics that have led to the contemporary situation. Providing an analysis of the economic, political and social changes experienced in rural India, they examine the interactions between actors and institutions at different levels. Some contributions focus on the impact of state policies on rural development and on the rationale of capitalistic expansion in the Indian countryside, while others analyse how the changes are promoted, adopted and resisted at the local level. The general issue raised in the book refers to the assessment of the nature and working of contemporary Indian rural economy. In order to analyse the complexity of the rural economy and the forms it takes in different Indian contexts, this issue has been deconstructed considering, in turn, the process of rural change, the impact of rural growth on working and living conditions, and finally the categories of the inhabitants of rural areas and the construction of their identities in colonial and post-colonial rural India.
Download or read book Socio cultural History of an Indian Caste written by C. Dwarakanath Gupta and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Vaisyas caste of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Download or read book Social Inequality and Health Care written by S.N.M. Kopparty and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has committed itself to the pursuit of achieving the goal of Health For All by AD 2000 in accordance with the Alma-Ata declaration, 1978. There has been ample evidence to demonstrate that for the success of any health programme medical intervention alone will not bring about the desired results. Its success or failure depends, to a large extent, upon the interplay of several non-medical factors such as social, cultural, political, economic, and psychological. The role of these key factors in the domain of health care activities has been recently recognised by social scientists all over the world. It present a pioneering attempt in India to understand the relationship of social stratification and health care in a rural community from a sociological perspective.
Download or read book Poetics of Village Politics written by Arild Engelsen Ruud and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2003, this volume studies village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments. It focuses on the social, political and cultural circumstances of communist mobilization in rural West Bengal. It analyses the emergence of rural communism in the local context of changes in the position of women, in caste practices, in economic conditions and in new efforts to create ‘development’. It investigates how this cultural change interacts with the mechanisms and tools of village politics, and using anthropological methods and oral history as tools, allows for a detailed and intimate ethnographic description of village politics and its changes.
Download or read book Transactions in Taste written by Manpreet Janeja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radical departure from previous ethnographies of food, this book asks how and why food is pivotal to social relations and forms of identity that emerge as normal and not-normal. It does so by describing the production, consumption, distribution, and disposal of ‘normal Bengali food’ in middle-class households that employ cooks from poor classes, and in Bengali restaurants, in contemporary Calcutta (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). In a rare comparative foray into Bengali Hindu and Muslim food-ways on both sides of the border, the book includes addas (‘idle-talk’) and interviews with both men and women. It initiates a dialogue that links issues of agency, place, hospitality, and ownership with a new field that places food as an ‘artefact’ at the centre of its inquiry. It invites the reader throughout to approach food afresh, as the key that unlocks the complexities of what is mundane yet profound — the everyday. The book thus analyses the constant and fraught negotiations that feed into definitions of normality, class and identity in the deeply intimate yet intensely public domain of food. Food transactions here provide a window into shifting configurations of trust, power, and conflict integral to social relationships, shaped by events such as the 1943–44 Bengal famine, the 1947 partition of India, and the 1971 Bangladesh War.
Download or read book The Naxalites and Their Ideology written by Rabindra Ray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naxalites take their name from an uprising of workers in the north Bengal countryside in early 1967. Since then `Naxalite' and `Naxalism' have become synonymous in India with communist revolutionary terrorism. The Naxalite movement itself, and most specifically its ideology, has neverbefore been as closely and comprehensively studied as in the present volume.
Download or read book Caste class and democracy written by Vijai P. Singh and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social System written by Talcott Parsons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together, in systematic and generalized form, the main outlines of a conceptual scheme for the analysis of the structure and processes of social systems. It carries out Pareto's intention by using the "structural-functional" level of analysis.
Download or read book Sociology of Indian Society written by CN Shankar Rao and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revision comes 10 years after the first edition and completely overhauls the text not only in terms of look and feel but also content which is now contemporary while also being timeless. A large number of words are explained with the help of examples and their lineage which helps the reader understand their individual usage and the ways to use them on the correct occasion.
Download or read book Caste Class and Politics written by Anil H. Bhatt and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph presenting a profile of social stratification in modern India - analyses the relationships between political participation, social class and caste status, and attributes manifest social changes to the processes and structures of democracy. Bibliography pp. 210 to 215 and statistical tables.
Download or read book Socio Economic Conditions of the Socio Religious Groups in India An Assessment written by Dr. Major. Zahid Husain and published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sociology written by CN Shankar Rao and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook has been comprehensively written to acquaint the students with the fundamental concepts of sociology as well as provide an introduction to the diverse field of sociology. Students will be introduced to the origins of sociology as a discipline and would get acquainted with relevant topics such as inequality, institutions, control, change, disorganisation & problems in the society. Topics such as applied sociology and social thought have also been provided to give a complete overview of the subject. This textbook not only caters as a primary text to the undergraduate students of Sociology but is also a useful reference for postgraduate students and aspirants appearing for various competitive examinations.
Download or read book Bibliographie Internationale de Sociologie 1980 written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each "Bibliography" lists and annotates the most important works published during the year. They are arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject, and geographic location.
Download or read book Indian Social Problems written by CN Shankar Rao and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book entitled 'Indian Social Problems: A Sociological Perspective' provides a glimpse of many social problems that have been haunting the Indian society since years, decades, and even centuries. Though India is fast developing, it has lots of regional, cultural, linguistic and religious diversities. These diversities are also reflected in its social problems. This book covers social problems which are general in nature and common to the whole nation such as population problem, poverty, unemployment, child labour, urbanization, youth unrest, problems of the aged, family disorganization, corruption, crime and delinquency, etc. This book is prepared mainly to cater to the needs of the undergraduate and postgraduate students. Most of the universities in India have prescribed one paper on ';Indian Social Problems' either at the undergraduate or postgraduate level. The book also covers topics that are included in the syllabi of IAS, NET, SLET, KAS and other national- and state-level competitive examinations. It also contains lessons that form part of MBA, nursing and fiveyear law courses. Such students and examinees will definitely find the book highly helpful.
Download or read book Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society written by Indian Anthropological Society and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rank and Rivalry written by Marvin G. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-03-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological enquiry is best done by attending equally to both social and cultural material. This is the view propounded here by Marvin Davis, who uses such an holistic approach to develop an original perspective on hierarchy and politics in rural Bengal. In the first part of the book, Professor Davis describes the indigenous theory of rank held by Hindus in rural West Bengal and shows that the premise of inequality is a central organising principle of their entire society and cosmos. In the second part, he shows that the Bengali preoccupation with rank generates frequent political rivalries at each level of rural social organisation. His book will interest all anthropologists and other social scientists concerned with the social and political organization of rural India. In addition, his explication of the links between ideology and social structure, often viewed in isolation from each other, makes the book an important contribution to anthropological theory and method.
