Sociological Perspectives on Modernity

3,000.00

Prof. Sambit Mallick

IIT Guwahati

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Description

The objective of the course is to enable students to understand modernity as a socio-cultural product in specific socio-historical contexts. The course exposes students to theoretical perspectives to look at modernity and its constituents as a practice deeply embedded in culture and society. It familiarises students with encountering problems in their everyday life from more rationalist perspectives. It attempts to critically engage with and interrogate the multiple views on modernity.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

BE/ME/MA/MS/BSc/MSc/PhD

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR


Sambit Mallick is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He specializes in the sociology of science and technology, and also includes historical sociology and philosophy of the social sciences among his research interests. His research and teaching are at the intersection of philosophy, social theory, and science and technology studies. His courses under NPTEL have attracted a large number of students even from the remote areas in India and abroad.

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Course Details

Week – 1: Introduction: Modernity as a project of Enlightenment
Week – 2: Modernist paradigm in sociology: modern science, industrialisation and development
Week – 3-5: Sociological modernism: Marx, Weber and Simmel
Week – 6-7: Structuralist interpretation: Levi-Strauss and Althusser
Week – 8-9: Western Marxism: Lukacs, Gramsci and Touraine
Week – 10: Synthesising modernity: Wallerstein, Giddens and Habermas
Week – 11: Deconstructing modernity, modernity in non-modern contexts, the idea of alternative or multiple modernities
Week – 12: Reflexivity: dialectic of engaging with and interrogating modernity

BOOKS AND REFERENCES:

A. Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, Polity, 1989
J.P.S. Uberoi, The European Modernity: Science, Truth and Method, Oxford University Press, 2002
J. Alam, India: Living with Modernity, Oxford University Press, 1999
S. Hall, D. Held and A. McGrew (Eds.), Modernity and its Futures, Polity/Open University Press, 1992
S. Hegde, ‘Modernity’s Edges: A Review Discussion’, Social Scientist, 28 (9-10): 33-86, 1999
K. Kumar, Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-industrial Society, Penguin, 1986
J. Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Polity, 1987
M. Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, Pantheon, 1980
J.F. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press, 1984
E. Said, Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient, Penguin, 1985
Z. Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity. Routledge, 1992
P. Abbott and C. Wallace, An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives, Routledge, 1990
F. Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Verso, 1991

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