Edited byDipankar GuptaCONTRIBUTIONS TO INDIAN SOCIOLOGYOCCASIONAL STUDIES 12SAGE PublicationsNew Delhi Any student of Indian sociology would be interested to know how casteis faring in contemporary India. The fact that India…[...]
EDITED BYDavid Shaffer, F.R.C.P.(Lond),F.R.C.Psych.(Lond)Bruce D. Waslick, M.D. As has been the case with many psychiatric disorders, researchin pediatric mood disorders required a definition of generally acceptedoperationalized criteria to make major…[...]
David Armstrong This book has a number of aims. First, it is an attempt to write asociology of medical knowledge. This project emerges from a longstandinginterest in the field that…[...]
Communication is the sine qua non of religion; it is theessence of prayer, sermons, ritual, and congregationalfellowship. Unfortunately, the academic study of religionand communication has occurred in disparatefields, with few…[...]
Methodology in Comparative Studies: the relationship between metatheory, methodology, and method was examined. Following Dervin (2003:136-137) and Pickard (2007:xv-xvii), I proposed to consider methodology as the bridge between metatheory, the…[...]
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Citizenship, Secularisation and the State Religion and Modern SocietyBryan S. Turner Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing theworld’s attention on Islam in particular. This…[...]
Bryan S. TurnerLondon and The problem of social and cultural diversity has been a classic issue in thehumanities and the social sciences throughout the period we refer to as themodern…[...]
The very existence of the sociology of the body raises an important andperennial problem about the relationship between nature and culture.Although modern sociology has been prone to dismiss ‘nature’ as…[...]