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Towards a Knowledge Society: New Identities in Emerging India
Debal K. Singharoy
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Description for Towards a Knowledge Society: New Identities in Emerging India
hardcover. This book studies how the knowledge society has created new conditions of marginalities while empowering people through new age connectivity. Num Pages: 397 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KJMV3. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 782.
This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the processes of construction of new social identities therein are studied. This book delineates both the hope and despair, as produced with the arrival of the knowledge society, and identifies the scope and conditions of alternative choice and liberation for the people within the emerging socio-economic ... Read more
This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the processes of construction of new social identities therein are studied. This book delineates both the hope and despair, as produced with the arrival of the knowledge society, and identifies the scope and conditions of alternative choice and liberation for the people within the emerging socio-economic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
397
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107065451
SKU
V9781107065451
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About Debal K. Singharoy
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.
Reviews for Towards a Knowledge Society: New Identities in Emerging India
'Professor Debal K. SinghaRoy writes in a way that is both lucid and analytically profound … This work will leave a lasting impact on the sociology of knowledge and in the study of the history of ideas.' Dipankar Gupta, former Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 'This is a detailed, subtle and fascinating ... Read more