Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India
This paper examines the problems and prospects of indigenizing sociology in India. It is divided into five parts: Part one introduces the predicament of sociology in the context of countervailing forces of universalization and indigenization; Part two discusses the crisis confronting sociology in In...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Arabic |
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Qatar University Press
2020-06-01
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| Series: | تجسير |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/tajseer/article/view/1623 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the problems and prospects of indigenizing sociology in India. It is divided into five parts: Part one introduces the predicament of sociology in the context of countervailing forces of universalization and indigenization; Part two discusses the crisis confronting sociology in India by delineating its transplantation during the colonial rule and its expansion as a mimic social science in the post-independence era; Part three analyses the issues of ontological and epistemological fit in the teaching and research in the subject; Part four examines the alternatives proposed to address these issues; and Part five concludes by reflecting on the prospects of indigenizing sociology in India. |
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| ISSN: | 2664-7869 2664-7877 |