Sujata Patel

Alice Thorner

Chiefly on the economic and social changes in Bombay and its influence on the political character of the city, includes the present and colonial past; papers presented at a workshop held in Bombay, 16-19 Dec. 1992 under the auspices of the SNDT Women's University and Maison des Sciences de'Homme, Paris.

Metaphor for Modern India

Bombay

Jim Masselos

This Vivid But Realistic Volume On Mumbai Will Serve As An Essential And Contemporary Urban Social History Of Mumbai And Will Be Useful To Sociologists, Historians, Urban Theorists, Political Scientists And Culturalists.

The City in Transition

Bombay and Mumbai

Krishna Raj

Jasodhara Bagchi

This festschrift to Alice Horner is primarily concerned with the thematic concerns that motivated Horner and her late husband in their scholarly work: work and labor, industrialization and capitalism, family and household, demography and culture, and politics. Thirty- one essays, presented by Patel (sociology, U. of Pune, India), Bagchi (women's studies, Jadavpur U., India) and Raj (editor, The Economic and Political Weekly), are divided into four sections that explore themes and methodologies used by Horner in analyzing agrarian Indian and gender, elaborate aspects of economic change since Indian independence, explore cultural assessment of contemporary India, and relate the colonial heritage to the contemporary political process. Also includes an appreciation of Horner and a bibliography of her writings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner

Thinking Social Science in India

Rowena Robinson

This volume explores the issue of minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity and also how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time. When more than one category applies to a group, and such categorizations become the basis for the struggle for rights, the politics of identity become even more complex. The volume specifically focuses on 'religious' minorities, questioning the religious identification of groups and showing that the construction of minority groups in religious terms is difficult to achieve given the existence of several, and sometimes contradictory, loyalties and identities. The essays address the minority issue by engaging with different minority communities in India. These also question the relationship of minority identities to caste, gender, and tribal identity. This is the new paperback edition.

Minority Studies (OIP)

This latest edition to the ISA handbook series actively engages with the many traditions of sociology in the world. Twenty-nine chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge and re-conceptualize the global discipline of sociology; evaluating the diversities within and between sociological traditions of many regions and nation-states. They assess all aspects of the discipline: ideas and theories; scholars and scholarship; practices and traditions; ruptures and continuities through an international perspective. Its goal is to become a text for debating the contours of international sociology.

The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions

"A brilliant treasury of wisdom and insight drawn from leading sociologists throughout the world...It is a striking achievement, of which the International Sociological Association can be very proud, to have brought so many independent-minded scholars into so productive a dialogue." - Dennis Smith, Professor of Sociology, Loughborough University Twenty-nine chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge and re-conceptualise the global discipline of sociology, evaluating the diversities within and between sociological traditions of many regions and nation-states. They assess all aspects of the discipline: ideas and theories; scholars and scholarship; practices and traditions; and ruptures and continuities through an international perspective. The Handbook argues that diversities in sociological traditions can be studied at three levels. First, they need to be studied from multiple spatial locations: within localities, within nation-states, within regions and the globe. Second, they need to be discussed in terms of their sociological moorings in distinct philosophies, epistemologies and theoretical frames, cultures of science and languages of reflection. Third, the intellectual moorings of sociological practices are extensive. The papers discuss the diverse and comparative sites of knowledge production and its transmission.

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