• ISBN13: 9788132116271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: October 31, 2013
• Pages: 360
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 507 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

This volume is included as a part of the Studies in Indian Sociology series, yet it stands apart from the other volumes in terms of its approach and import. A committee constituted as part of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations recommended that a volume comprising of presidential addresses delivered at the All India Sociological Conferences held till date be brought out. The committee recommended that the criteria for the presidential addresses selected should also consider their relevance in the contemporary social scenario.

In response to that the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) has come out with this academically fruitful endeavor—a separate volume on selected presidential addresses from 1967 to 2010—to celebrate the successful completion of 60 years as a professional body. It is the sole comprehensive reader on the changing themes in Indian Sociology.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Sociology and Sociologists in India Today
• Modernization and Development: Trends in India
• The Sociologist and the Social Reality
• Indian Sociology at the Turning Point
• The Concept of Desired Type of Society and the Problems of Social Change
• Relevance of the Marxist Approach to the Study of Indian Society
• Social Policy and the Sociologist
• Problems and Perspectives in the Study of Sociology
• Sociology and Social Transformation in India: The Neglect of the Idea of Fraternity
• Rural Probing's: The Launching Base and the Rockets
• Some Reflections on Sociological Research and Teaching in India
• Sociology and the Emerging Challenge of Change
• The Future of Independent India: What Can Sociologists Do?
• Conceptualizing Nation and Nationality in South Asia
• NGOs and Civil Society in India
• Social Policy Concerns in Indian Sociology
• Sociology for What? Rethinking Sociology in an Era of Transformatory Changes
• Sociology’s Quest for ‘Society’: An Enquiry into the Current Pursuits and Needed Concerns in the Discipline
• Higher Education in India: A System on the Verge of Chaos
• Development, Polity and Social Tensions
• Index

Jacob John Kattakayam (2009–2011): Professor Kattakayam is currently the UGC Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Kerala and President of the Indian Sociological Society. He is also the Honorary Director at the Centre for Gerentological Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. He was the Director and Professor of the UGC Academic Staff College, University of Kerala, for more than 12 years and Dean Faculty of Social Sciences. He has been member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR, 2005–2008), Secretary of the Indian Sociological Society for two terms (2001–2005) and Visitor’s Nominee to the Faculty of Education, University of Delhi (2007–2010). He has served as Visiting Professor in many universities in the USA and Canada and has visited and delivered lectures in several universities in Europe, South America, Australia, Africa and Asia. He has presented papers and chaired sessions at various international conferences in different parts of the world. He has authored four books and edited four. He is member of several professional organizations in India and abroad and has published several research papers in journals of national and international repute. He was member of the Senate and Academic Council of the University of Kerala. Recently he has been elected to be a member of the executive committee of the International Sociological Association RC11 (2011–2014) and to the Board of Directors of International Rural Network (IRN), Canada.