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Checkpoint Sociology - A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics (Hardcover)
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Checkpoint Sociology - A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics (Hardcover)
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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)
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