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Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia: Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee

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This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It is also two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover numerous themes and topics on the subject of the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the speculation of unitary social science, methodology of social research, the question of facts and values, rural society and social change, social mobility, circle of relatives and gender, and nationalism. Within the two interviews included here Mukherjee clarifies his intellectual trajectory in addition to issues of methodology and methods in social research. Overall, this volume endorses his emphasis at the need for social researchers to transcend the ‘what’ and ‘how’ to ‘why’ Within the pursuit of sociological knowledge. The quantity is a valuable addition to the history of sociology in India. Students of sociology and other social sciences will find it useful as a book of substantive readings on social dynamics; the ones researching the social world will find in it a useful guide to issues in designing and execution of social research projects.

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