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- Indian sociology had to address the colonial experience intertwined with modernity, explore social anthropology in a civilization with ‘primitive’ societies, and find its place in post-colonial India geared towards planned development and democracy.
This course aims to provide a broad overview of the multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted by sociologists to understand Indian society. It provides a historical overview of the discipline, major perspectives such as Indological, Structural-functionalist, Marxian, Structuralist and Subaltern perspectives.
In this unit, you will learn about the: importance of understanding various approaches to studying Indian society and culture; and . evolutionary, historical, and civilisational approaches to study Indian society. . 1.0 INTRODUCTION .
Govind Sadashiv Ghurye is acclaimed as the ‘father of Indian sociology’, ‘the doyen of Indian sociologists’ or ‘the symbol of sociological creativeness’. His general view of society is that Indian society is unique and it should be understood in terms of concept
Sep 14, 2023 · This blog examines Louis Dumont's emphasis on ideology in his seminal work, HOMO HIERARCHICUS, to understand Indian society. It explores the justifications and critiques of his approach for a nuanced view of social structures.
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- UPSC Sociology Previous Year Questions from This Topic
- Indology
- G.S. Ghurye
- Structural Functionalism
- Marxist Sociology
Indology (G S Ghurye)Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas)Marxist sociologyElaborate A. R. Desai's perspective to the study of Indian society. (UPSC 2020, 10 marks)Elaborate Srinivas's views on religion and society among the Coorgs. (UPSC 2019, 10 marks)Give an account of Ranajit Guha's approach in studying 'subaltern class'. (UPSC 2019, 10 marks)Write a note on G.S. Ghurye's Indological perspective of understanding Indian society . (UPSC 2018, 10 marks)Indology is a perspective of studying Indian society which holds that the nature of Indian thought and psychological make-up (characterised by holism, and collectivism) is essentially different from that of the west (primacy of individual, freedom, liberty), so in order to better understand it, it must be understood in terms of Indian thinking, tra...
Focus points: caste, tribes, culture, and national unity. Govind Sadashiv Ghurye stressed that Indian tradition is Hindu tradition and felt that to understand Indian society one must understand Hindu traditions. BK Nagla says he created a kind of Hindu sociology.
Structural functionalism originated as a tradition in British Anthropology. It came to the fore with Radcliffe-Brown’s critique of Malinowski’s functionalism. It assumes that society is made up of interconnected and interdependent parts, which make up a unified whole (structure). These parts serve the needs of the society, and are thereby functiona...
There is not one rather many Marxist approaches to study Indian society. While Marxists and Indologists share the dialectical approach, the Marxists criticise the Indologists’ sociological position while explaining Indian society. EMS Namboodirapad: 1. Building of India on modern democratic and secular lines requires a struggle against the caste-ba...
Introduction. This module discusses Dr. B. R Ambedkar’s analysis of the study of Indian society, referred to as ‘non-Brahmin’ approach. This approach is based on the idea that linkages between ‘knowledge’ and power are real and its impacts are what get presented as ‘reality/truth’ with regard to society.
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Mar 26, 2022 · In this article, we will discuss a selected chapter (Notes on the History of the study of Indian Society and Culture) which primarily focuses on the three approaches to studying Indian society in colonial India, namely (a) The Orientalist, (b) The Missionary, and (c) The Administrative.
