خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب Checkpoint Sociology: A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics

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.