ISSUES AND THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: Essays in Honour of Professor Ishwar Modi - Hardcover

Issues and Themes in Contemporary Society : Essays in Honour of Professor Ishwar Modi

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Social Justice, Development and Youth: Professor Modi and an Encounter between Indian and Brazilian Sociology/Celi Scalon and Pedro Paulo de Oliveira. 2. Transforming the Ominous into Happiness: How Antinuclear Drive Was Tamed in the Post-War Japan?/Daishiro Nomiya. 3. Sociology and the International Sociological Association in the Global Context/Alberto Martinelli. 4. The Marxist Theory of the State: Some Aspects of Recent Contributions/Bipul Kumar Bhadra. 5. Perception, Dialogue and Action: Indian and Brazilian Sociology's Travelling in the Times of Globalization 2010-16/Tom Dwyer. 6. Who Becomes a Liberal?: An Empirical Study of the Choice between Liberalism and Libertarianism/Yoshimichi Sato. 7. Spontaneous Settlers in Metro Urban Areas/Manjeet Chaturvedi. II. Elements of Social Organization: 8. State Initiatives, Developmentality and Lower Castes in Rural India: Analysing Mobility of Scheduled Castes in Rural Jammu Region/Ashish Saxena and Vijay Laxmi Saxena. 9. Reconstructing the Postcolonial Village: Narrative of a Punjabi Novel/Gurpreet Bal. 10. Arundhati Roy and the Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate on Caste and Race/Hira Singh. 11. Reconstructing Identity through Invention of Cultural Heritage: The Dalits of Punjab/ Paramjit S. Judge. 12. Leisure Pattern among Male Community of Rebari Nomadic Tribe of Rajasthan/Pragya Sharma. 13. Explaining Mizo Ethnicity: The Relevance of Oppositional Approach/D.V. Kumar. 14. Tribalism to Ethnicity: A Journey for Rebuilding Identity of Tribes in North-East India/R.K. Bhadra. 15. Trends of Leadership in Tribal Movements: A Case Study on Anti-Vedanta Movement in Kalahandi District of Odisha/Sipra Sagarika. 16. Visit to the Village of Binjli: Preliminary Notes on the Efforts to Build Up the Verrier Elwin Memorial/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. 17. Improving National Efforts for the Central Inclusion and Safety of Women and Girls/Jan Marie Fritz. III. Change and Transformation: 18. Media and Politics: The Emerging Role of Social Media in Politics/B.K. Nagla. 19. Challenges Facing the Family in India/J.P. Singh. 20. New Generation Migrant Workers in China: Social Attitudes and Behaviour Choice/Li Peilin and Tian Feng. 21. Justice through the Prism of Global and Local/Mikhail F. Chernysh. 22. Youth Transitions to Adulthood in Late Modernity: Opportunities and Uncertainties/Pelin Önder Erol. 23. Assessing Social Vulnerability to Flooding in Metro Manila Using Principal Component Analysis/Justin Charles G. See and Emma E. Porio. 24. Marriage, Family and Sex: Sociological Perspective/Richard Pais. 25. Social Implications of Privatization of Higher Education in India/Suresh Babu G.S. 26. Lived Religion of Youth/Vivek Kumar and Anita Matoo. 27. Naxalism/Maoism and the Provision of Health Services: Facts from 'Flaming Fields' of Rural India/Gaurang R. Sahay. 28. Understanding Rural Change through Cinematic Lens (19502010): A Sociological Study/Shivam Singh. 29. Encounters with Voluntarism in Sports at Universities in South Africa/Kiran Odhav. India is passing through a period where the forces of unification and segregation are acting strongly on the systems of living and thinking of all communities. On one hand, India is becoming more and more unified, on the other, the ethno-political movements are gaining strength across states. It was thought in the past that with the coming of modernization and technological development, primordial ties will occupy a back seat, and a kind of individualism, akin to its western counterpart, will emerge, where the individual will be known in terms of his or her qualifications, or achieved status, rather than the community to which he or she belongs by the fact of birth. It has been noted time and again that the traditional institutions have been able to adapt to the kind of changes brought about by the process of globalization, with the result that caste, kinship, religion, sect, creed and linguistic and regional ties continue to flo. Artikel-Nr. 127660

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