This book revisits social theory to highlight features of 'good' social theory. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and Indian society, it considers whether new questions need to be asked.
This book revisits social theory to highlight features of 'good' social theory. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and Indian society, it considers whether new questions need to be asked.
D. V. Kumar is Professor of Sociology at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. What is social theory? 2. Social theory today: Revisiting hope 3. Empathy between sociology and social neuroscience: New perspectives for an applied sociology 4. Applying Graeber's extension of Mauss' The Gift to the study of international relations 5. Towards a socio-phenomenological approach to empathy 6. 7. New media, popular culture and social theory 8. Social and political theory in the times of neo-liberalism 9. Revisiting Gellnerian theory of nation and Nationalism 10. Neoliberal environmentalism and social theory: Constructing myth over reality 11. Identity, values and consumption practices 12. Legitimizing menstrual leave at workplace: Documenting the sociological theories explanations 13. Theorising Contemporary Vernacular politics in Northeast India and its Sociology 14. Eco-feminism in the context of tribal society 15. Theorizing better: A debate of theory and practice in the context of an Indigenous setting
Introduction 1. What is social theory? 2. Social theory today: Revisiting hope 3. Empathy between sociology and social neuroscience: New perspectives for an applied sociology 4. Applying Graeber's extension of Mauss' The Gift to the study of international relations 5. Towards a socio-phenomenological approach to empathy 6. 7. New media, popular culture and social theory 8. Social and political theory in the times of neo-liberalism 9. Revisiting Gellnerian theory of nation and Nationalism 10. Neoliberal environmentalism and social theory: Constructing myth over reality 11. Identity, values and consumption practices 12. Legitimizing menstrual leave at workplace: Documenting the sociological theories explanations 13. Theorising Contemporary Vernacular politics in Northeast India and its Sociology 14. Eco-feminism in the context of tribal society 15. Theorizing better: A debate of theory and practice in the context of an Indigenous setting
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