ISBN:
9789811931284
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 491 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mapping identity-induced marginalisation in India
DDC:
305.5680954
Keywords:
Social structure-India
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indien
;
Dalit
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Diskriminierung
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- In Reverence -- Remembrance -- Prolegomenon-Preliminary Remarks -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction-Marginalization in India-Matters of Inclusion and Access -- Theorizing Exclusion in India-Thoughts and Perspectives on Social Identity -- Social Justice and Affirmative Action Policy-Reality Check -- Unequal Opportunities -- Health Inequalities-Marginalization of Care Providers and Users -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Theorizing Exclusion in India-Thoughts and Perspectives on Social Identity -- 2 Indian Thought and Social Science on the Travails of Self-Identity -- Introduction -- Introduction. Indian Religious Thought -- Identity as Interdependent Construct -- Interdependence, Identity and Understanding -- References -- 3 The Sociological Traditions and Their Margins-The Bombay School of Sociology and Dalits -- Introduction -- Bombay as a Context of Dalit Struggle -- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: The First Indigenous Attempt at Theorizing Caste, Untouchability and Brahmanical Social Order -- Ambedkar's Sociology of Caste -- Who Were Untouchables? -- Ambedkar's Critique of the Hindu Social Order -- The Bombay School and Dalits: Exploring a Cognitive Blackout -- The Object and Subject of Knowledge: Invoking Foucault -- Sociology at the Bombay School: 'Colonial Modernity' or 'Reverse Colonized Sociology? -- Post-Colonial 'Colonization' of Sociology -- Dalits as Objects of Knowledge and as Knowledge Subject-Actors -- Dalit Scholarship: Making Dalits as 'Objects' of Knowledge -- Dalit Scholarship: Dalits as Subjects and Knowledge Actors -- References -- 4 How Egalitarian is Indian Sociology? -- Introduction -- Two Caveats -- Levels of Domination -- Domination of Upper-Caste Professionals: Institutions and Production of Knowledge -- Domination in the Production of Knowledge from Professional Organization.
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