Towards a Knowledge Society - New Identities in Emerging India

This book studies how the knowledge society has created new conditions of marginalities while empowering people through new age connectivity.

List of contents

List of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: conceptualising knowledge society: critical dimensions and ideal image; 2. Critiquing and contextualising knowledge society; 3. Strategising for knowledge society in India: the shifting backdrops and emerging contexts; 4. Education for a knowledge society in India; 5. Information and communication technologies for a knowledge society; 6. Indian growth story: the service and knowledge dynamics; 7. Education, ICTs and work: the divergent empirical reality in India; 8. The knowledge society: work, workers and relations; 9. Knowledge society: culture, continuity and contradictions; 10. Conclusion: marginality, identity, fluidity and beyond; Bibliography.

About the author

Debal K. SinghaRoy is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He has researched extensively in the areas of social movements, agrarian studies, social development, marginalisation, social exclusion, women's studies, sociology of distance education and knowledge society.

Summary

India is at the threshold of an emerging knowledge society. This book studies the knowledge society as one that brings in new social arrangements, new forms of mobility, new identities, new social conflicts and networks of power, along with varieties of disorientations and discontinuities in society.

Product details

• Authors: Debal K. Singharoy, Debal K. Singharoy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107065451
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06545-1
• No. of pages: 397
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, India, Business innovation, International business, economic growth, International Economics, Business studies: general, Economics of industrial organisation, Development economics & emerging economies