Sociology Second Edition (Oip) - Softcover

Beteille,Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195698843 ISBN 13: 9780195698848

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This collection reflects André Béteille's long career in teaching and research in a single institutional setting as a scholar of sociology. With a new introduction, two new essays and a new appendix, the second edition emphasizes that sociology as an intellectual discipline should be concerned more directly with the present than the past. Both the new essays complement the existing chapters in the book. Writing about sociology and current affairs in Chapter 2, Béteille makes a distinction between 'immediate-return' and 'delayed-return' research. Chapter 5 focuses on the important question of difference between the study of one's own society and the study of other cultures. The new appendix includes a conversation between the author and Surendra Munshi on a variety of themes. Together, the two appendices in the book reiterate the author's conviction that the study of one's own society gains from the insights derived from the study of other societies.

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About the Author

André Béteille is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Delhi, and Chancellor at North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. He was Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in New Delhi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195698843
• ISBN 13: 9780195698848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336