Overview
Is the first book of essays in memory of Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee, a doyen of sociology in India
Brings together a group of leading sociologists writing on social dynamics
Is a valuable contribution to the history of sociology in India as well as a guide to issues in methods and methodology of social research
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Remembering the Scholar and His Scholarship
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Philosophy and Methodology
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Family and Gender Relations
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Social Change and Social Mobility
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Partha Nath Mukherji was Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; a Senior Fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; and S.K. Dey Chair Professor at Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. He was the President of the Indian Sociological Society. His areas of research interest include social movements; democratic decentralisation; social change, development and mobility; and research methodology. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Sociological Society.
N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He has taught at Bangalore University, Goa University, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was Visiting Professor at The University of the West Indies (St Augustine), Trinidad and Tobago; and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His research areas include sociology of education, political sociology, sociology of diaspora, and theory and method. He is a recipient of the Dr Paduru Gururaja Bhat Annual Award and ET Now Education Leadership Award.
Bhola Nath Ghosh is Professor and Head of the Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has earlier taught sociology at the West Bengal State University, Rabindra Bharati University, Jadavpur University, University of Kalyani and Indira Gandhi National Open University. His research areas include gender studies, decentralisation, rural development, and social problems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Editors: Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram, Bhola Nath Ghosh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0387-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0386-9Published: 08 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0387-6Published: 26 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 280
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociological Theory, Regional Development, History of South Asia