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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-d592370f16964acf830e6fb3aefbbd962022-12-21T19:34:17ZaraQatar University Pressتجسير2664-78692664-78772020-06-0121Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in IndiaNarayana JayaramThis 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.https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/tajseer/article/view/1623IndigenizationSociologyIndiaUncertain TransplantUniversal |
| spellingShingle | Narayana Jayaram Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India تجسير Indigenization Sociology India Uncertain Transplant Universal |
| title | Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India |
| title_full | Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India |
| title_fullStr | Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India |
| title_short | Towards Indigenization of an Uncertain Transplant: Hundred Years of Sociology in India |
| title_sort | towards indigenization of an uncertain transplant hundred years of sociology in india |
| topic | Indigenization Sociology India Uncertain Transplant Universal |
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