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Anti-Utopia: essential writings of Andre Beteille/ edited by Dipankar Gupta

Contributor(s): Gupta, Dipankar, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005Description: viii, 494 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195672299Subject(s): Social conditions | SociologyDDC classification: 301

Contents:

STUDYING SOCIETY: Academic judgement and common sense -- Sociology and anthropology: Their relationship in one person<U+2019>s 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	301 GUP/A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03186

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STUDYING SOCIETY: Academic judgement and common sense --
Sociology and anthropology: Their relationship in one person<U+2019>s 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.

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