Checkpoint Sociology A Cultural Reading Of Policies And Politics | Sociology

Relying on many years of fieldwork and on his involvement with several national level policy making bodies this book presents a cultural interpretation of how public life and state interventions in India should be viewed. While commending statistical interventions in governmental decision making it detects a marked deficiency in the understanding of how cultural factors impress upon and condition economic life. Towards this end Dipankar Gupta interrogates anti-poverty drives labour relations election studies and in this process provides a novel and helpful guide towards resolving the vexing relationship between the domains of the public and the private. In all of this the sociological antenna is constantly at work beeping helpful signals on how one might untangle knotty issues in public life. More than anything else this book urges policy makers to be self-consciously intersubjective in their approach and this is where sociology can make its mark. The Appendix provides a medley of situations where cultural sensitivity and the discipline of sociology prove their worth in figuring out fresh ways to resolve outstanding problems in our country. This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) |Checkpoint Sociology A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics | Sociology