The practice of sociology / edited by Maitrayee Chaudhuri - x, 435 pages : 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- Teaching as a subversive activity : pedagogies for change / Rudolf C. Heredia -- Teaching sociology : reflections on method, truth, and knowledge / Avijit Pathak -- What skills can students acquire from social sciences? / Mohammad Talib and Savyasaachi -- "Make it soft and easy" : the undergraduate syllabi in sociology / George Jose -- Development sociology and the "poverty" question / Ravinder Kaur -- Environment and society : towards a sociological perspective / Indra Munshi -- Caste inequality and Indian sociology : question of disciplinary location / Satish Deshpande -- "Dalit" struggle for recognition within Indian sociology / Edward A. Rodrigues -- The encounter of sociology and women's studies : questions from the borders / Mary E. John -- Sociology and gender studies : the story of the crocodile and the monkey / Sharmila Rege -- "Matrilineal puzzle" re-examined : dialectics of kinship and gender among the tribes of North East India. / Tiplut Nongbri -- Between sociology and cultural studies : engagements / Seemanthini Niranjana and Sasheej Hegde -- Culture and globalisation : in my classroom and outside / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- Newness in sociological enquiry / Andre Beteille.

With reference to India; contributed papers presented at a conference.

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Sociology--Study and teaching--India--Congresses

Conference proceedings, published

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