Relying on many years of fieldwork and on his involvement with several national level policy making bodies, this book presents a cultural interpretation of how public life and state interventions in India should be viewed.
Relying on many years of fieldwork and on his involvement with several national level policy making bodies, this book presents a cultural interpretation of how public life and state interventions in India should be viewed.
Dipankar Gupta taught in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for three decades. He has authored numerous books on caste, modernity, rural India and ethnicity. His current interest lies primarily in understanding how sociology can help understand and assist social policy.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Smell Check Your Numbers: Public Policy andSociological Sensitivity 2. Numerical Thresholds as Industrial Inhibitors: Raising Capacity and Formalizing the Economy 3. The Changing Villager: What the Numbers Do Not Tell 4. Normalising Caste: Same Numbers, Differing Relations 5. Beyond Numbers to Citizenship: Overcomingthe Majority-Minority Divide 6. Urban Planning for "Citizens": Emphasising Space Over Non-Space 7. Individuals Possess Rights, Governments Perform Duties: Citizenship and Social Policy 8. Confidence Crisis: Liberalism as a State of Exception 9. Source Credibility and Campaign Redundancy:The Merits of Slow Thinking 10. The Public and Private in Policy Making: Lessons for Media and Covid Control 11. Culture War Won: Defying Arithmetic in 2019 Elections 12. Why Other People Matter: Empathy and its Policy Implications 13. Checkpoint Sociology: Three Theses on Method Appendix Vignettes: Policy against Prejudice References Index
Preface 1. Smell Check Your Numbers: Public Policy andSociological Sensitivity 2. Numerical Thresholds as Industrial Inhibitors: Raising Capacity and Formalizing the Economy 3. The Changing Villager: What the Numbers Do Not Tell 4. Normalising Caste: Same Numbers, Differing Relations 5. Beyond Numbers to Citizenship: Overcomingthe Majority-Minority Divide 6. Urban Planning for "Citizens": Emphasising Space Over Non-Space 7. Individuals Possess Rights, Governments Perform Duties: Citizenship and Social Policy 8. Confidence Crisis: Liberalism as a State of Exception 9. Source Credibility and Campaign Redundancy:The Merits of Slow Thinking 10. The Public and Private in Policy Making: Lessons for Media and Covid Control 11. Culture War Won: Defying Arithmetic in 2019 Elections 12. Why Other People Matter: Empathy and its Policy Implications 13. Checkpoint Sociology: Three Theses on Method Appendix Vignettes: Policy against Prejudice References Index
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