Society, Culture, Development
Ramkrishna Mukherjee(Author)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 1991
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-0-8039-9102-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents an original approach towards understanding and appraising social reality by drawing a sequential relation between the concepts of society, culture and development. The author's central objective is to harness social science thinking in order to study developmental processes in the context of the emerging relationship between nation-states and the world system.
Mukherjee achieves a remarkable synthesis among the diverse strands of thought and research in the social sciences that have developed over the last two centuries. Mukherjee achieves a methodological breakthrough by treating economy, polity and culture as symbiotic variables instead of any one of them as an independent, dependent or intervening variable. The volume as a whole makes a distinctive contribution to social theory and social science methodology.
Mukherjee achieves a remarkable synthesis among the diverse strands of thought and research in the social sciences that have developed over the last two centuries. Mukherjee achieves a methodological breakthrough by treating economy, polity and culture as symbiotic variables instead of any one of them as an independent, dependent or intervening variable. The volume as a whole makes a distinctive contribution to social theory and social science methodology.
Reviews / Votes
`a serious technical treatise containing an important methodological message which is effectively delivered through an empirical medium....relentless, imposing, and impressive in pursuit of its objective. The bibliography is grand in the sense that it is not bound by ideology.' - Journal of Consumer AffairsMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9102-6 (9780803991026)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
PART ONE: SOCIETY
Individual-Collectivity-Structure
Structure-Process or Process-Structure?
Society and Culture
PART TWO: CULTURE
Social Reality and Culture
Comprehension of Culture
Appraising Culture
PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT
Growth and Development
Fall-Out of Economic Growth
Culture and Development
Society, Culture and Development
Individual-Collectivity-Structure
Structure-Process or Process-Structure?
Society and Culture
PART TWO: CULTURE
Social Reality and Culture
Comprehension of Culture
Appraising Culture
PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT
Growth and Development
Fall-Out of Economic Growth
Culture and Development
Society, Culture and Development