Understanding social dynamics in South Asia : Essays in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee /: Essays in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram and Bhola Nath Ghosh.
• Authors: Mukherjee, Ramkrishna
• Editors: Mukherji, Partha N (Partha Nath)
• Other Names: Mukherjee, Ramkrishna interviewee.
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Photographs; Remembering the Scholar and His Scholarship; 1 Remembering Ramkrishna Mukherjee: A Scholar Extraordinaire; 1 Ramkrishna Mukherjee: A Biographical Sketch; 2 Ramkrishna Mukherjee: Life Sketch of a Scholar Extraordinaire-Partha Nath Mukherjee; 2.1 The Personal Touch; 3 This Volume: A Tribute; References; 2 Ramkrishna Mukherjee: An Accomplished Academic Amphibian; 1; 2; 3; 4; References; Philosophy and Methodology; 3 Unitary Social Science: An Idea and Its Prospects 1 Karl Marx: The Inspiration for the Idea2 The Idea in India; 3 The Development of Discrete Human (Social) Sciences; 4 The Emanation and Debacle of Unified Social Sciences; 5 Towards Unitary Social Science; 6 The Reality in India; 7 Conclusion; References; 4 Ramkrishna Mukherjee on Fact-Value Relations in Social Research; 1 The Debate on Fact-Value Relations; 1.1 Fact and Value; 1.2 Positivist Theory of Knowledge and Fact-Value Dichotomy; 1.3 Fact-Value Interface; 1.4 Insights from Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; 1.5 Post-normal Science; 1.6 The Debate in Sociology 2 RM: Fact and Value Are Confounded Variables2.1 Description: 'What Is It?' and 'How Is It?'; 2.2 Explanation: Why Is It?; 2.3 Prediction: What Will It Be?; 2.4 The Normative Question: What Should It Be?; 2.5 Fact-Value Relations; 2.6 Value Accommodation; References; 5 Ramkrishna Mukherjee on Indian Sociology: A Review; 1 A Personal Note; 2 My Agenda; 3 A New Analysis of Trends; 4 Pre-sociological Reference Groups; 5 Four Groups of Indian Sociologists; 6 Prospects of Indian Sociology; 7 Development of Inductive Methodology; 8 Evaluation; 9 Conclusion; References Rural Society and Panchayat Raj6 Caste, Economy and Power: Changing Rural Bihar; 1 Village Studies in India: An Overview; 2 The Field; 3 Agrarian Economy: Land, Labour and Sharecropping; 4 Rural Non-farm Sector; 5 The Caste System: Discrete Castes and Their Distinct Ideologies; 6 Multiple Caste Hierarchies, Caste Conflict and Power Struggle; 7 Conclusion; References; 7 Dynamics of Social Mobility in an Emerging Knowledge Society: The Case of Rural India; 1 Knowledge and the Knowledge Society; 1.1 Key Dimensions of Knowledge Society 2 Shifting Perspective, Emerging Conditions and New Initiatives for Knowledge Society in India2.1 Shift Toward Economic Liberalisation; 2.2 Population Explosion and Demographic Dividend; 2.3 Expansion of Education; 2.4 Phenomenal Expansion of ICT; 2.5 Increasing Significance of Service Sector; 2.6 Increasing Migration and Mobility of People; 3 Penetration of Knowledge Society in Rural India; 3.1 Access to ICT; 3.2 Emerging Occupational Patterns; 3.3 New Hierarchy in Knowledge Jobs; 3.4 New Socio-cultural Milieu in the Making; 4 Knowledge Society, Marginality and Newer Forms of Segregation
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 300.92; Social sciences; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference; India -- Social conditions; Electronic books; Electronic books; Interviews
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811303876; 9811303878
• Related ISBNs: 9789811303869; 981130386X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 5, 2019).
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