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Informationen zum Autor Sujata Patel is a sociologist at the University of Hyderabad. An historical sensibility and a combination of four perspectives – Marxism, feminism, spatial studies and post structuralism – post colonialism influences her work which covers diverse areas such as modernity and social theory, history of sociology/social sciences, city formation, social movements, gender construction, reservation, quota politics and caste and class formations in India. She is also an active interlocutor of teaching and learning practices, and has written on the challenges that organise its reconstitution within classrooms, university structures. She is the author of more than 60 papers and is the series editor of Sage Studies in International Sociology (including Current Sociology Monographs (2010–2014), Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society (Oxford, India) and Cities and the Urban Imperative (Routledge, India). She is also the author of The Making of Industrial Relations (Oxford University Press, 1997), editor of The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions , Sage London (2010) and Doing Sociology in India, Genealogies, Locations and Practices (Oxford, 2011) as also a co-editor of five books, Bombay: Metaphor of Modern India (Oxford University Press, 1995); Bombay: Mosaic of Modern Culture (Oxford University Press, 1995); Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition (Oxford University Press, 2003); Thinking Social Science in India (Sage, 2002); and Urban Studies (Oxford University Press, 2006). She has been associated in various capacities with the International Sociological Association and has been its first Vice President for National Associations (2002–2006). Klappentext The latest title in the ISA handbook series (the previous one being The ISA Handbook in Contemporary Sociology, edited by Ann Denis and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman) Zusammenfassung The latest title in the ISA handbook series (the previous one being The ISA Handbook in Contemporary Sociology! edited by Ann Denis and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman) Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Diversities of Sociological Traditions - Sujata Patel PART I: THE DEBATE - ONE SOCIOLOGY OR MANY SOCIOLOGIES Chapter 1: One Sociology or Many? - Piotr Sztompka Chapter 2: Religion and Reform - Farid Syed Alatas Chapter 3: Learning From Each Other - Sociology on a World Scale - Raewyn Connell Chapter 4: Forging Global Sociology from Below - Michael Burawoy PART II: BEYOND THE CLASSICAL THEORISTS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY TODAY Chapter 5: Sociology in the Spiral of Holism and Individualism - Louis Chauval Chapter 6: Various Traditions and Approaches of German Sociology - Karl-Siebert Rehberg Chapter 7: Diversity, Dominance and Plurality in British Sociology - John Scott Chapter 8: Sociology, Science and Profession - Analia Torres Chapter 9: Visions and Divisions of American Sociology - Craig Calhoun, Troy Duster & Jonathan Van Antwerpen PART III: LOCAL TRADITIONS AND UNIVERSAL SOCIOLOGIES Chapter 10: Post-Communist Democratization and the Practice of Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe - Janusz Mucha & Mike F. Keen Chapter 11: What is Russian Sociological Tradition? - Elena Zdravomyslova Chapter 12: Traditions and ruptures in Hungarian sociology - Dénes Némedi Chapter 13: Rediscovering Sociology in Bulgaria - Pepka Boyadjieva PART IV: AUTHORITARIANISM AND CHALLENGES TO SOCIOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA Chapter 14: Five Dilemmas of Latin America sociology - Roberto Briceño-León Chapter 15: The Creation of New Social Theory in Latin America - Fernanda Beigel Chapter 16: Trajectories of Brazilian Sociology - Maria Stella, Grossi Porto & Tom Dwyer Chapter 17: Dilemmas, Challenges and Uncertain Boundaries of Argentinean Sociology - Diego Pereyra PART V: THE COLONIAL HERITAG...
