Sociological Traditions : Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India

by T N Madan

• ISBN13: 9788132105756
• ISBN10: 8132105753
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-09
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Cultural Traditions, Sociological Perspectives
Indian Secularism in a Post-secular Age	p. 3
Hinduism: The Book View and the Field View	p. 23
Islam: The Universal and the Particular	p. 45
Sikhism: The Sacred and the Secular	p. 75
Gandhi and Weber: The Work Ethic, Capitalism, and Conscience	p. 101
Sociological Traditions: Exemplars, Interpreters
His Contemporaries	p. 119
Towards a Historical Sociology	p. 146
Empiricism and Imagination	p. 174
The Man and His Work	p. 195
Contributions to Indian Sociology: Towards Methodological Pluralism	p. 217
Epilogue: Engagements and Passages-An Exercise in Reflexivity	p. 240
References	p. 266
Index	p. 290
About the Author	p. 307
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