Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume IX: Culture and Society

Culture and Society , shows us that the questions of the nation state must have precise emblems, or facts, by which it is studied. These motifs may be leisure, propaganda, film, theatre, cartoons, ideologies of race and caste, as well as the continuing production of a variety of materials, which inform lay readers as well as trained professionals, how eclectic the subject matter of Sociology is. Well-known sociologists, who will be remembered for their astute sense of the here and now, bring to the volume its intense intellectual space of negotiating the cultural dynamics of India as it unfolds in the last decades of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century. Cover Contents Series Note Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 - G. S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building 2 - Cultural Pluralism and National Cohesion: Issues and Prospects 3 - Outsiders as Insiders: The Phenomenon of Sandwich Culture 4 - Interrogating Tibetan Exilic Culture: Issues and Concerns 5 - The Significance of Culture in the Understanding of Social Change in Contemporary India 6 - Cultural Integration and Changing Values: A Study of Value System of Educated Youth 7 - Towards a More Meaningful Study of Ecology, Society and Culture 8 - Vosaad: The Socio-Cultural Force of Water: A Study from Goa 9 - Traditional Institutions and Cultural Practices vis-à-vis Agrarian Mobilisation: The Case of Bhartiya Kisan Union 10 - A Sociology for Happiness: Beyond Western versu sNon-Western Perspectives 11 - Leisure and Social Transformation 12 - Cultural Nationalism in a Multi-National Context: The Case of India 13 - Education, Social Structure and Culture 14 - Towards a Cultural Policyin India: A Socio-Cultural Perspective 15 - Understanding Popular Culture: The Satyashodhak and Ganesh Mela in Maharashtra 16 - Sociological Researchon Films 17 - The Return Migrant in Cinema: The Idealist and the Sceptic 18 - Cultural Invasion from the Sky: Hinduisation of Indian Television? 19 - The Cartoon of a Bengali Lady Clerk: A Repertoire of Sociological Data 20 - Race Relations, Ethnicity, Class and Culture: A Comparison of Indians in Trinidad and Malaysia Index About the Editor and Contributors Appendix of Sources