Sage: 7203 books
by Sudha Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book examines the economic, cultural, political and social positions of Muslim women in medieval India. It explores the changes that took place with the advent of Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Tartars, Afghans and Persians whose customs and traditions influenced the existing Islamic society.
Though...
Defragmenting India
Riding a Bullet through the Gathering Storm
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Defragmenting India is an account of the various fault lines of Indian society quivering in the temblors that the 2002 Hindu-Muslim communal riots of Gujarat sent across the nation. The riots form the dramatic backdrop to the travelogue narrative of a motorbike trip of the author and his friend.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners...
Medical Sociology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
What are the limits of medical power? How has sociology helped to make sense of illness, disease, choice and risk? What are the challenges to medical practice?
This timely and assured text provides lecturers and students with a well informed, penetrating analysis of the key questions in medicine...
by Toby Miller, George Yudice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Hitherto, cultural theory and empirical work on culture have outstripped cultural policy. This book rectifies the peculiar imbalance in the field of Cultural Studies by offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy. Fully alive to the challenges posed by globalization...
Dalits and the Democratic Revolution
Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1994
This important book traces the history of the Dalit movement from its beginning in the 19th century to the death of its most famous leader, B.R. Ambedkar, in 1956. Focusing on three states—Andhra,Maharashtra and Karnataka—Dr Omvedt analyses the ideology and organization of the movement and its...
Transitional Puzzles
Reflections on Social, Economic and Political Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Transitional Puzzles: Reflections on Social, Economic and Political Issues is a collection of essays on India. Remarkable for its jargon-free clarity, the book is intended for the common man who seeks to understand the India he lives in. The articles offer simple analysis of complex policies, dealing...
Recasting Caste
From the Sacred to the Profane
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont’s Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber’s distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneity and...
by Daniel Chirot
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
This book, the only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates, describes how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, despite their great success, have created a new set of recurring and unsolved...
Winning on HR Analytics
Leveraging Data for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
3rd prize in the DMA-NTPC Management Book Awards, 2018.
In a dynamic world, the role of HR is central in tapping the vast potential of human capital, and interestingly, blending it with automation and digitization in unique ways. HR analytics is pivotal in identifying, measuring and articulating...
Public Relations
Concepts, Practice and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
"An excellent text for encouraging students to think critically about key public relations issues. Not only does it help students to develop a deeper appreciation of public relations, it also helps them to develop valuable learning skills."
- Amanda Coady, The Hague University
"A...
Digital Ethnography
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
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This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological,...
by Eugenia Siapera
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
"An admirably clear-sighted and engaging analysis of contemporary forms of mediation, illuminating the dynamics of new media across social, political and cultural spheres... Eugenia Siapera provokes her reader to think afresh about familiar phenomena, to synthesise diverse theoretical positions,...
Organizational Ethnography
Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
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Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people's daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However,...