Sociology in India : Intellectual and Institutional Practices

Contents: 1. Introduction. I: Sociology and Society: Different Takes. 2. Disciplinary Trajectories and Social Trends: Sociology and Social Thought in Tamil Nadu/V.Sujatha . 3. Sociology, Sociologists, Seng Samla and Seng kynthei of Meghalaya/A.K. Nongkynrih. 4. The Making of a Syllabus: An Issue beyond Academics/Dalia Chakrabarti. II: Sociology in Margins: The Local and the Benal. 5. Practicing Sociology on the Outside Edge/Santosh Kr. Singh. 6. Sociology in the ‘Regional’ Backwoods: A Fictional Rendering/Pushpesh Kumar. 7. Sociology in Northeast India: A Synoptic View/Subrat K. Nanda. III: Sociology in Professional Institutions: Global Brands and Disciplinary Marginality. 8. Of Mainstream and Margins: Sociology in Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)/Manish Thakur. 9. Nurturing Sociology among Nurses: The Case of West Bengal/Ramanuj Ganguly. 10. Integrating Sociology in a Law School Curriculum: Discontent, Dilemma, Direction/Rukmini Sen. 11. The Challenges in Teaching Sociology at IIT: Are “Karl” and “Max”  Relevant?/Kushal Deb. IV: New Sistes and Modes of Doing Sociology. 12. New Locations and New Articulations: Practice of Sociology in a Metropolitan Autonomous Institution/Shaji Varghese and R. Santhosh. 13. Social Research and the New Centres of Knowledge Production/Ravi Kumar. 14. Why Choose Sociology? : Tamil Nadu in Global Times/Madhu Sharan. 15. Sociology and the Practice of Social compliance Auditing/Archana Prasad. V: Tracking Concepts: Of Intellectual Journeys. 16. Rethinking Community: In the Discipline and within Development Practices/Amites Mukhopadhyay. 17. Tribes as Indigenous People of India/Virginius Xaxa. 18. Teaching Caste and the Hindu Social Order: Dalits in Indian Sociology/Vivek Kumar. 19. The Concept of Gender: Its Travels and Travails/Maitrayee Chaudhuri. Index. 

"This book seeks to capture illustratively some of the ongoing intellectual and institutional practices in sociological teaching and research in the current context of globalization. It attempts to both document and theorize the ongoing changes. The central contention here is that an earlier nationalist vision of education that informed much of social science practice in independent India is challenged from two very different sources: radical and local social movements on the one hand; and the imperatives of global capital on the other hand. It further argues that sociology in India needs to engage at once with its routine, everyday banal practices and its unique theoretical possibilities which allow for an active involvement in broader questions about the role of social sciences. The volume is divided into five parts:Sociology and Society: Different Takes. Sociology in the Margins: The Local and the Banal. Sociology in Professional Institutions: Global Brands and Disciplinary Marginality. New Sites and Modes of Doing Sociology. Tracking Concepts: Of Intellectual Journeys."(jacket)