Table of Contents

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY: PERSISTING TENSIONS; PART I; 1. SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA: A PLEA FOR CONTEXTUALIZATION; 2. DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES: THE STERILE CONTROVERSY; 3. THEORY, CONCEPTS, AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS IN RECIPROCITY; 4. ON THE CRAFT OF STUDYING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; 5. APPREHENDING SOCIAL REALITY IN A HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY: THE RATIONALE FOR A PERSPECTIVE FROM BELOW; PART II; 6. INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SOCIOLOGY: A SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVE; 7. SOCIOLOGY FOR ONE WORLD: TOWARDS AN AUTHENTIC SOCIOLOGY; 8. THE TRAJECTORY OF GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH; 9. THE PASTS AND FUTURES OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS OF SHIFTING LOCATIONS; PART III; 10. Y.B. DAMLE: THE TEACHER, THE RESEARCHER, AND THE SCHOLAR; 11. DISJUNCTIONS BETWEEN FIELD, METHOD, AND CONCEPT: AN APPRAISAL OF M.N. SRINIVAS; 12. SCHEDULED CASTES, SCHEDULED TRIBES, AND THE NATION: SITUATING G.S. GHURYE; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

About the Author

T.K. Oommen is Emeritus Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.