Download or read book Shifting Circles of Support written by Rajni Palriwala and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1996-05-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors, including historians, lawyers, anthropologists, and sociologists, provide eleven essays addressing change and continuity in intimate life arrangements, with a focus on kinship, family, and gender relations and the degree of support and security they offer, in view of the influence of macroeconomic and political processes. Printed in India. AltaMira Press (a division of Sage Publications) is at 1630 North Main Street, Suite 367, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Shifting Circles of Support written by Rajni Palriwala and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contributors In This Volume---Drawn From The Disciplines Of Law, Anthropology, Sociology, And Economics--Point To The Duality Of Kinship And Family Networks As Networks Of Both Care And Control, And To The Increasing Imbalance Between Support And Power, Between Controlled Care-Givers And Resources Controllers.
Download or read book Living in the Shadow of the Large Dams written by Dzodzi Tsikata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on dam-affected communities of the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the question of long term environmental and socio-economic impacts and responses of two often neglected groups of communities- the downstream and lakeside communities.
Download or read book The Contemporary Indian Family written by B. Devi Prasad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the dynamics of the development of family structure in India over the past few decades. It captures the diversities and challenges of contemporary families and provides a culture and region-specific overview of how families adapt and change generationally. The book explores the paradigms of understanding family life in India through illustrations which trace patterns of family formations in the context of large-scale social, economic and media-driven changes. Besides discussing the ongoing debates on the sociology of family, the chapters in this volume also look at diverse families experiencing poverty, conflict and displacement and demystifies families with members having a disability or non-normative sexual orientation. The book will be useful to students and researchers of various disciplines, such as sociology, social work, family studies, women’s studies and anthropology.
Download or read book Sociology and Social Anthropology in India written by Yogesh Atal and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Council of Social Science Research, the premier organization for social science research in India, conducts periodic surveys in the major disciplines of the social sciences to assess disciplinary developments as well as to identify gaps in research in these disciplines.
Download or read book Equality Inequalities and Diversity written by Geraldine Healy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equality, Inequalities and Diversity offers an authoritative critical analysis of equality, inequality and diversity in organizations. Using international examples it explores contemporary concepts and debates based on original research in a number of fields and sectors, an ideal course companion for anyone studying diversity.
Download or read book Mediating Means and Fate written by Saskia Brand and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do birth rates fail to drop in Sub-Saharan Africa? This question has preoccupied demographers and population planners for decades. The expectation of fertility decline is based on the demographic transition model which still dominates demographic thinking, and which assumes a universal development towards low mortality and fertility levels following modernisation. This book argues that population dynamics can only be understood when viewed in their particular context. It provides both a critique of demographic methods and theorizing, and a detailed analysis of fertility issues in the rapidly changing urban environment of Bamako, capital city of Mali. A new light is shed on the population debate through the conceptualization of the meso-level, illuminating a part of the social world which usually remains obscure.
Download or read book The Women Gender and Development Reader written by Nalini Visvanathan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies. This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.
Download or read book Writing the Women s Movement written by Mala Khullar and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented earlier at several seminars on women's studies and feminism in India.
Download or read book Migrant Remittances in South Asia written by M. Rahman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides theoretical treatments of remittance on how its development potential is translated into reality. The authors meticulously delve into diverse mechanisms through which migrant communities remit, investigating how recipients engage in the development process in South Asia.
Download or read book The Practice of Sociology written by Maitrayee Chaudhuri and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew out of a need to examine the practice the teaching and research of sociology in India. This need was, in turn, prompted by the experience of the contributors as students and teachers, of the problems of understanding/communicating the connections between sociology and the society in which one lives, and between sociological theory and empirical studies.
Download or read book Kinship and Food in South East Asia written by Monica Janowski and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a growing acceptance that food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in South East Asian societies. This study looks at a wide variety of groups in the region and demonstrates that within all of them the feeding relationship is fundamental to the establishment and the nature of relations within generations and between generations. Presenting material from ten societies in the region, the papers included in this volume argue that the feeding of foods, drink and meals based on the focal starch crop grown by these agricultural groups - rice in eight of the groups covered here, sago in one and cassava in one - is used to manipulate 'biological' kinship and to construct a 'kinship' particular to humans; which is nevertheless founded in a 'natural' process, the 'flow of life', blessings and potency between generations.
Download or read book Gender in South Asia And Beyond written by Radhika Govinda and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 40 years, Professor Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, carried out pioneering research, individually and in partnership with her colleagues. The range of subjects she covered includes gender and development, especially childbearing, women’s reproductive rights, social demography in South Asia, Indian society, gender and communal politics, education and the reproduction of inequality; race and ethnicity. Her books, including Frogs in a Well: Indian Women in Purdah (1979) and Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism, Politicized Religion and the State in South Asia (edited with Amrita Basu, 1998) inspired peers and future scholars alike. In this volume, we bring together a range of new research that is inspired by and intersects with Professor Jeffery’s work. The chapters offer new data, refreshing insights and original analysis on subjects of contemporary importance in the fields of gender, health, marginalization and development.
Download or read book Gender in the Making written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village written by Bambi L. Chapin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like toddlers all over the world, Sri Lankan children go through a period that in the U.S. is referred to as the “terrible twos.” Yet once they reach elementary school age, they appear uncannily passive, compliant, and undemanding compared to their Western counterparts. Clearly, these children have undergone some process of socialization, but what? Over ten years ago, anthropologist Bambi Chapin traveled to a rural Sri Lankan village to begin answering this question, getting to know the toddlers in the village, then returning to track their development over the course of the following decade. Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village offers an intimate look at how these children, raised on the tenets of Buddhism, are trained to set aside selfish desires for the good of their families and the community. Chapin reveals how this cultural conditioning is carried out through small everyday practices, including eating and sleeping arrangements, yet she also explores how the village’s attitudes and customs continue to evolve with each new generation. Combining penetrating psychological insights with a rigorous observation of larger social structures, Chapin enables us to see the world through the eyes of Sri Lankan children searching for a place within their families and communities. Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village offers a fresh, global perspective on child development and the transmission of culture.
Download or read book Gender in Modern India written by Lata Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Modern India brings together pioneering research on a range of themes including social reforms, caste, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; masculinity and sexuality; health, medical care, and institution building; culture and identity; and migration and its new dynamics. Commissioned in remembrance of the prolific social historian Biswamoy Pati, this volume examines the gender question through a multilayered and multi-dimensional frame in which interdisciplinarity and intersectionality play an important role. Using case studies on gender from diverse geographies?east, west, north, south, and northeast; community locations?Hindu, Muslim, and Christian; and marginalized socio-economic or ethnic habitations such as those of Dalits and Adivasis, the contributors highlight the complexities and diversities of women's negotiations of patriarchies in varied social, ethnic, and community contexts. Collectively, the chapters in this volume focus on three related and overlapping settings?colonial, colonial and postcolonial continuum, and postcolonial. They delineate the multiple lives of gender by focusing on its intersections with other markers of difference including race, class, caste, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, region, and occupation, thereby questioning stereotypes, challenging dated notions and interpretations of gender, and demonstrating the ubiquity of patriarchy.
Download or read book Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged written by Irudaya Rajan and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged' provides a detailed comparative study of social and economic issues facing the elderly in India, Sri Lanka and the Netherlands. All three countries offer interesting insights, and this book addresses a wide spectrum of issues faced by the elderly, and an understanding of the processes at work in the broader social and economic context.
