Understanding social dynamics in South Asia : essays in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee / editors, Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram and Bhola Nath Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherjee, Ramkrishna, honoree, interviewee.

Mukherji, Partha N. (Partha Nath), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mukherjee, Ramkrishna--Interviews.

Mukherjee, Ramkrishna.

Social sciences--India.

Social sciences.

India--Social conditions.

India.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Essays.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Remembering Ramkrishna Mukherjee: a scholar extraordinaire / Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram, Bhola Nath Ghosh

Ramkrishna Mukherjee: an accomplished academic amphibian / T.K. Oommen

Unitary social science: an idea and its prospects / N. Jayaram

Ramkrishna Mukherjee on fact-value relations in social research / Haribabu Ejnavarzala

Ramkrishna Mukherjee on Indian sociology : a review / Biswajit Ghosh

Caste, economy, and power : changing rural Bihar / Gaurang R. Sahay

Dynamics of social mobility in an emerging knowledge society : the case of rural India / Debal K. Singha Roy

Panchayat elections and democratic decentralisation in West Bengal / Partha Nath Mukherji

Family matters in India : a sociological understanding / Ravinder Kaur

Women's autonomy and spousal violence in India : an analysis of NFHS-3 data / Bhola Nath Ghosh, Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti

Social change in India : reconsidering Ramkrishna Mukherjee / Surendra Munshi

Some unity in diversity : analysing inequality, change and mobility in rural South India / Staffan Lindberg

Ecological changes and underdevelopment of North-Eastern Bihar in a historical perspective / Hetukar Jha

Ethno-class formation and contemporary national identity in Bangladesh / A.I. Mahbub Uddin Ahmed

Ramkrishna Mukherjee in conversation with Anjan Ghosh / Anjan Ghosh

On methodology of social research : conversations with Ramkrishna Mukherjee / Partha Nath Mukherji, Chandan Sengupta.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 277-280.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789811303869

981130386X

OCLC:

1109845076