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Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Sociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943-2007) -- 2 - Food: The Immanent Cause from Outside-Medical Lore on Food and Health in Village Tamil Nadu -- 3 - State Sponsored Health Care in Rural Uttar Pradesh: Grassroots Encounters of a Survey Researcher -- 4 - Gram Panchayat and Health Care Delivery in Himachal Pradesh -- 5 - Occupational Attitudes of Physicians -- 6 - The System of Hope: The Constitution of Identity in Medical Institutions -- 7 - Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction -- 8 - Narratives of Sickness and Suffering: A Study of Malaria in South Gujarat -- 9 - Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women: A Study of Three Eastern States -- 10 - Informal Social Networks, Sonography and Female Foeticide in India -- 11 - Perception and Work Ethos of Medical Experts Dealing with Infertile Couples: A Study in Medical Sociology -- 12 - 'Correcting' the Reproductive 'Impairment': Infertility Treatment Seeking Experiences of Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums -- 13 - Risk Culture, Propertied Classes, and Dynamics of aRegion: A Study of HIV/AIDSin East Godavari District(Andhra Pradesh) -- 14 - Prison Inmate Awarenessof HIV and AIDS in Durban, South Africa -- 15 - Medicalisation of Mental Disorder: Shifting Epistemologies and Beyond -- 16 - 'Indigenisation' Not'Indianisation' of Psychiatry:An Anthropological Perspective -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

Readings in the Sociology of Religion is a collection of articles that examines the sociological aspects of religion. The title discusses the contemporary theories, concept, and studies about the sociology of religion. The text first details the concept of sociology of religion, along with the relationship between religion and sociological theory. Next, the selection covers the theoretical development of the sociology of religion and Weber's sociological theory, as well as the modern dilemma of value and belief in the social sciences. The last part tackles the types of research in sociology of

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION I - Conceptual Issues -- 1 - A Demographic Approach tothe Study of Urban Ecology -- 2 - Bombay: A Study in Urban -- 3 - Ecology and Development in India: A Field and Its Future -- 4 - Towards a More MeaningfulStudy of Ecology, Society and Culture -- 5- 'Environment' in Sociological Theory -- SECTION II - Environment and Displacement -- 6 - Parks, People and Protest: The Mediating Role of Environmental Action Groups -- 7 - Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement: The Case of Maldhari Families of Gir Forest -- 8 - Coping with Development Pathologies: Resistance to Displacement -- 9 - 'They are All Set to Dam(n)Our Future': Contested Development through Hydel Power in Democratic Sikkim -- 10 - Revisiting the Baliraja Dam Struggle: A Study of an Environmental Movement in Maharashtra -- SECTION III - Forest and Water Issues -- 11 - Social and Ecological Drift of a Planned Urban Centre: A Study of Rourkela, Orissa -- 12 - How Effective are 'PaniPanchayats'?: A Fieldviewfrom Maharashtra -- 13 - Vosaad : 1 The Socio-CulturalForce of Water (A Studyfrom Goa) -- 14 - Forest Legislations and Livelihood Strategies: Khasi Women in Rural Meghalaya -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions

Readings in the Sociology of Migration deals with migration as a sociological problem, with greater emphasis on internal migrations than on international migrations. Some of the problems covered by sociological inquiry in the study of migration are discussed, along with theories of migration such as the push-pull theory, differential migration, and motivation for migration. This book is comprised of 16 chapters and opens by outlining types of migration according to the professional and social composition of migrants: mass migration, economic migration from an underdeveloped country, economic e

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I - State of Dalit Studies in Sociology -- 1 - Situating Dalits in Indian Sociology -- 2 - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Nation: Situating G. S. Ghurye -- PART II - Caste, Untouchability and Exclusion -- 3 - Untouchability as a Social Problem: Theory and Research -- 4 - Untouchability-A Myth or a Reality: A Study of Interaction between Scheduled Castes and Brahmins in a Western U.P. Village -- 5 - Scheduled Castes and Urbanization in Punjab: An Explanation -- 6 - The Khatiks of Kanpur and the Bristle Trade: Towards an Anthropology of Man and Beast -- PART III - Mapping Conflict -- 7 - Dalit Struggle, Nude Worship,and the 'Chandragutti Incident' -- 8 - Psychological Conflict Between Harijans and UpperClass/Middle Class Caste Hindus: A Study in Andhra Pradesh (India) -- PART IV - Interrogating Change: Theory and Practice -- 9 - Reservations and the Sanskritization of Scheduled Castes: Some Theoretical Aspects -- 10 - Purity, Impurity, Untouchability: Then and Now -- 11 - Stigma Goes Backstage: Reservation in Jobs and Education -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.