TY - BOOK AU - Gupta, Dipankar, ed. TI - Anti-Utopia: essential writings of Andre Beteille SN - 9780195672299 U1 - 301 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social conditions KW - Sociology N1 - 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 ER -