Sociological traditions : methods and perspectives in the sociology of India

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Title:

Sociological traditions : methods and perspectives in the sociology of India

Author:

Madan, T. N.

ISBN:

9788132105756

Personal Author:

Madan, T. N.

Publication Information:

New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2011.

Physical Description:

xxi, 306 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Cultural traditions, sociological perspectives -- Indian secularism in a post-secular age -- Hinduism : the book view and the field view -- Islam : the universal and the particular -- Sikhism : the sacred and the secular -- Gandhi and Weber : the work ethic, capitalism, and conscience -- Sociological traditions : exemplars, interpreters -- Radhakamal Mukerjee and his contemporaries -- D.P. Mukerji : towards a historical sociology -- M.N. Srinivas : empiricism and imagination -- Louis Dumont : India and the West -- Contributions to Indian sociology : towards methodological pluralism.

Subject Term:

Sociology -- India.

Religion and sociology -- India.

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Summary

Sociological Traditions book looks at the sociology of India from two perspectives: first, understanding the cultural traditions of India with special reference to religious and ethical values; and second, exploring the growth of the sociological traditions of India.

Divided in two parts, the book goes beyond mere description of the main religious traditions and looks at the ethical values that are embedded in the religio-secular traditions of India. It also projects the sociological traditions of India as a historical process, a process of growth of sociological knowledge. The basic premise of the discussion is not one dominant cultural tradition but the plurality that characterizes the cultural, religious and value traditions of India, and pluralism that characterizes the sociology of India.