To Be or Not to Be Sociological

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Dev Nath Pathak teaches Sociology at South Asian University and is a founding faculty member of the university's Department of Sociology.

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What does it mean to be sociological? This is not a rhetorical question since it leads to unearthing the prevalent ways of seeing in the discipline of sociology, taking notes of the content and discontent, disputes and debates. Intellectual theatrics embedded in sociology, philosophy, and history of sciences, helmed with insights and enchantment, compel us to treat methodology as a dramatically invigorating field of perceptions and practices. This book marshals such varied materials to wishfully unsettle the gingerly settled debates to curate ruptures for further explorations. Experience thus becomes an intriguing episteme and knowledge, a reflexive endeavour. The message writ large is that methodology is not, and shall not be, a finished product unless parochialism and progress have become synonymous in sociology in India and South Asia.

Contenu

Prologue
A Provocation for Pluralism in the Way of Seeing in Sociology

Part one
Dawn

Chapter One:
The Ordinary and Extra-Ordinary in the Scheme of Sociological

Chapter Two
Persistent Precursors: Philosophical-Scientific Backdrop

Part Two
Forenoon & Afternoon

Chapter Three
Predecessors and Precursors: A Case of Sociology Before Sociology

Chapter Four
Re-turn to The Trinity: Sociological in Marx, Weber and Durkheim

Chapter Five
The Dispute(s): Science Revisited, Sociology Rethought

Chapter Six
Post-Positivist ways of Seeing: Resurgence of Experience

Part Three
Dusk

Chapter Seven
Intrigues of Experience(s): Re-turn to Reflexivity!

Chapter Eight
Diehard Devils: Myopias and Utopias in Sociology in India

Epilogue or a Wishful Monologue in the Epicentre

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