This book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of 'good' social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical data and its aim of projecting some degree of generality and abstraction. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and North-East Indian society, it considers whether new and more relevant theoretical questions need to be asked.
It will therefore appeal to scholars of social theory and political sociology with interests in new approaches to social theory and the development of local or 'indigenous' social thought.
| ISBN: | 9781032609461 |
| Publication date: | 29th August 2025 |
| Author: | D V Kumar |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
| Genres: |
Social theory |
This book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of 'good' social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical data and its aim of projecting some degree of generality and abstraction. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and North-East Indian society, it considers whether new and more relevant theoretical questions need to be asked.
It will therefore appeal to scholars of social theory and political sociology with interests in new approaches to social theory and the development of local or 'indigenous' social thought.
Revisiting Social Theory features in the following genres: Social theory
Revisiting Social Theory is available in Paperback, Hardback
Revisiting Social Theory was written by D V Kumar and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Revisiting Social Theory has 212 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought series
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