Anti-Utopia: essential writings of Andre Beteille/
Anti-Utopia: essential writings of Andre Beteille/
edited by Dipankar Gupta
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- viii, 494 p. ; 22 cm.
STUDYING SOCIETY: Academic judgement and common sense --
Sociology and anthropology: Their relationship in one persons career --
Sociology and common sense --
Religion as a subject for sociology METHODS AND CONCEPTS: Operationalizing the field --
Some observations on the comparative method --
Ideas and interests --
Tribe and peasantry --
Race, caste, and gender SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN INDIA: The dynamics of class, status, and political mobilization --
Caste in contemporary India --
Caste, class, and power --
The future of the backward classes: The competing demands of status and power --
Class and status EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUALISM: The tension between fact and value --
The idea of natural inequality --
The two sources of inequality --
The reproduction of inequality --
Individualism and equality CIVIL SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONAL WELL-BEING: The conflict of norms and values --
Equality as a right and a policy --
Distributive justice and institutional well-being --
Civil society and the good society APPENDICES --
My two grandmothers --
Interview with Andre Beteille.
9780195672299
Social conditions
Sociology
301 / GUP/A
STUDYING SOCIETY: Academic judgement and common sense --
Sociology and anthropology: Their relationship in one person
Sociology and common sense --
Religion as a subject for sociology METHODS AND CONCEPTS: Operationalizing the field --
Some observations on the comparative method --
Ideas and interests --
Tribe and peasantry --
Race, caste, and gender SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN INDIA: The dynamics of class, status, and political mobilization --
Caste in contemporary India --
Caste, class, and power --
The future of the backward classes: The competing demands of status and power --
Class and status EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUALISM: The tension between fact and value --
The idea of natural inequality --
The two sources of inequality --
The reproduction of inequality --
Individualism and equality CIVIL SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONAL WELL-BEING: The conflict of norms and values --
Equality as a right and a policy --
Distributive justice and institutional well-being --
Civil society and the good society APPENDICES --
My two grandmothers --
Interview with Andre Beteille.
9780195672299
Social conditions
Sociology
301 / GUP/A