Debal K Singharoy

Towards a Knowledge Society

New Identities in Emerging India

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 397
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781107065451
• ISBN-10: 1107065453
• Artikelnr.: 41120381

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.