Title: Alien concepts and South Asian reality : responses and reformulations /
Authors: Oommen, T. K., 1937-
Publisher: Sage Pubications,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Sociology India; Sociology Methodology; Sociology Philosophy
Abstract: The endeavour to internationalise the social sciences has a long history. Some have advanced this cause as a genuine effort to foster a dispassionate understanding of human society without 'national' frontiers; others have perceived it as a way of establishing the ideological hegemony of either capitalism or socialism. In the latter confrontational framework, social scientists of the so-called 'Third World' are dismissed as mere pawns who are incapable of shaking off the vice-like grip of intellectual colonialism.
Contents: 1. The Rural-Urban Continuum Re-examined in the Indian Context -- 2. Charisma, Social Structure and Social Change -- 3. Community Power Structure in Rural India -- 4. The Theory of Voluntary Associations in a Cross-Cultural Perspective -- 5. Student Power in India: A Sociological Analysis -- 6. Agrarian Classes and Political Mobilization -- 7. Political Alienation and Internal Threats to the Indian Polity -- 8. Movements and Institutions: Structural Opposition or Processual Linkages? -- 9. Erving Goffman and the Study of Everyday Protest -- 10. Religion and Development in Hindu Society -- 11. Western Vision and Eastern Survival: Towards a Futuristic Agenda -- 12. State, Nation and Ethnie: The Processual Linkages.