tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76657786859493194062024-02-08T07:04:03.051-08:00Social Sciences Knowledge CenterNarayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-63848684547240583802022-02-04T08:08:00.002-08:002022-02-04T08:11:28.135-08:00Ecclesiastes - Book Information<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.biblestudytools.com/ecclesiastes/</p><p><br /></p><p>https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/ECC+1.html</p><p>https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/ECC+10.html</p><p>http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/ECC+12.html</p><p><br /></p><p>https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ecclesiastes/0</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>http://preachedsermons.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-limitations-of-human-effort.html</p>Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-65272004058405525112021-09-18T21:15:00.000-07:002021-09-19T02:08:23.626-07:00Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">DISMANTLING GLOBAL HINDUTVA CONFERENCE</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">10-12 September 2021</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://dismantlinghindutva.com/" target="_blank">https://dismantlinghindutva.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dghconference" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hashtag/dghconference</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dismantlinghindutva" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hashtag/dismantlinghindutva</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=Hindutva" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/search?q=Hindutva</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Friday, September 10</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">9:30 – 11:10 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">What Is Global Hindutva</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Opening Remarks: Gyan Prakash</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Christophe Jaffrelot | Meena Kandasamy | Anand Patwardhan | Moderator: Thomas Blom Hansen</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">11:30 – 1:00 PM EDT / 9:00 – 10:30 pm IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The Political Economy of Hindutva</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Jens Lerche | Pritam Singh | Vamsi Vakulabharanam | Moderator: Smriti Rao</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 – 12:30 am IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Caste and Hindutva</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Gajendran Ayyathurai | Meena Dhanda | Bhanwar Meghwanshi | Moderator: Rupa Viswanath</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Saturday, September 11</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">9:30 – 11:00 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Gender and Sexual Politics of Hindutva</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Leena Manimekalai | Akanksha Mehta | P. Sivakami | Moderator: Paola Bacchetta</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">11:30 – 1:00 PM EDT / 9:00 – 10:30 pm IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Contours of the Nation</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Mohamad Junaid | Arkotong Longkumer | Yasmin Saikia | Nandini Sundar | Moderator: Suchitra Vijayan</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 – 12:30 am IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Hindutva, Science, and Healthcare</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Meera Nanda | Kavita Sivaramakrishnan | Banu Subramaniam | Moderator: Joseph Alter</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Sunday, September 12</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">9:30 – 11:00 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Hindutva Propaganda and the Digital Ecosystem</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Cyril Sam | FCHS* Member | Salil Tripathi | Moderator: Rohit Chopra</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">11:30 – 1:10 PM EDT / 9:00 – 10:40 pm IST</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Hinduism and Hindutva</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Opening Remarks: T. M. Krishna</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Raja Bhattar | FCHS* Members | Brij Maharaj | Sunita Viswanath | Moderator: Balmurli Natrajan</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 – 12:30 am IST: Islamophobia, White Supremacy, and Hindutva</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Anjali Arondekar | Demetrius Eudell | Deepa Kumar | Moderator: Manan Ahmed</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">*FCHS = Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><h3 style="text-align: left;">Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee</h3><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Ben C. Baer, Princeton University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Sruti Bala, University of Amsterdam</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Laura Brueck, Northwestern University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Rohit Chopra, Santa Clara University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Ashley Cohen, University of Southern California</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">John Esposito, Georgetown University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Shubhra Gururani, York University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Jyotsna Kapur, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">David Ludden, New York University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Radhika Mongia, York University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Meera Nanda, IISER Pune (former Visiting Faculty)</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Gyan Prakash, Princeton University</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Sharmila Rudrappa, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Lotika Singha, University of Wolverhampton</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Suchitra Vijayan, Author and Barrister-at-Law</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Tweet on 12 September 2021</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Narayana Rao</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">@knoltweet·</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">If we are in discussion and if the issues are relevant we need to bring them into discussion. Hindutva is about the unity and integrity of Hindustan. How you can promote it, is its thesis. It is based on region and not religion. There can be other theses. </div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">@vishwa_samvad #dgh</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">GERARD S. SLOYAN</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF RELIGION</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">TEMPLE UNIVERSITY</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initiatives/ethics-religion-holocaust/articles-and-resources/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries" target="_blank">https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initiatives/ethics-religion-holocaust/articles-and-resources/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries</a></div><div><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Management Association, Information Resources</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">IGI Global, 21-Jul-2020 - Social Science - 825 pages</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Religion is considered by many to be something of the past, but it has a lasting hold in society and influences people across many cultures. This integration of spirituality causes numerous impacts across various aspects of modern life. The variety of religious institutions in modern society necessitates a focus on diversity and inclusiveness in the interactions between organizations of different religions, cultures, and viewpoints.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society examines the cultural, sociological, economic, and philosophical effects of religion on modern society and human behavior. Highlighting a range of topics such as religious values, social reforms, and spirituality, this publication is an ideal reference source for religious officials, church leaders, psychologists, sociologists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.</div><div><a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=krgIEAAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=krgIEAAAQBAJ</a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Volume 16 - Ralph L. Piedmont - 2005 - Book Information<br />
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Google Book Link<br />
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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
The articles included in this volume report studies on the role of religion and spirituality in relationship to many topics of current popular interest, among them well-being, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, substance abuse, social mobility, positive psychology, coping with medical decision making, and images of God.<br />
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Ralph L. Piedmont is Psychologist at the Department of Pastoral Counseling, Loyola College in Maryland, Columbia, USA. One of his publications is The Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Clinical and Research Applications (Plenum Press, 1998).<br />
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Christian Belief About the Bible and the Holy Spirit in Relation to Psychological Type.<br />
Andrew Village<br />
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Monastic Spirituality Beyond the Cloister: A Preliminary Look at Lay Cistercians.<br />
William L. Smith<br />
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Relationships Between Spiritual Transcendence and Emotional Intelligence Among Older Catholic Nuns.<br />
Ann Billard, Joanne M. Greer, Mary Ellen Merrick, William Sneck, S.J., and N. J. Scheers<br />
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A Comparison of Religiosity Between European-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans.<br />
George Yancey<br />
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God Images and Self-Esteem: A Study Among 11-18 Year-olds.<br />
Leslie J. Francis<br />
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Charismatic Experience and Emotional Stability: A Study Among Adult Christians.<br />
Leslie J. Francis and Susan H. Jones<br />
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Social Mobility and Religion: Evidence From Lebanon.<br />
Marianne El Khoury and Ugo Panizza<br />
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Hope, Optimism, Pessimism, and Spirituality as Predictors of Well-Being Controlling for Personality<br />
Joseph W. Ciarrocchi and Erin Deneke<br />
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Parental Rejection and Religiosity: Differential Predictors of Mood and Substance Use.<br />
John J. Cecero and Adam L. Fried<br />
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Is a Consensus Definition of Spirituality Possible? Theory Construction in Spiritually-Oriented Psychotherapy.<br />
Len Sperry<br />
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Religious Coping and Mental Health Outcomes in Family Members Making DNR Decisions.<br />
Johanna R. Sood, Celia B. Fisher, and Daniel P. Sulmasy<br />
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Spirituality, Religious Commitment, and Psychological Well-being<br />
Stephen A. Price and Lawrence G. Herringer<br />
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Spiritual Transcendence as an Unmediated Causal Predictor of Psychological Growth and Worldview Among Filipinos<br />
Gabriel S. Dy-Liacco, M. Christine Kennedy, Donna J. Parker, and Ralph L. Piedmont<br />
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Spirituality as “Feeling Connected with the Transcendent:” Outline of a Transpersonal Psychology of Adult Development of Self.<br />
Jan Sinnott<br />
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-36126263916253583662021-09-12T09:37:00.040-07:002021-09-17T07:21:32.551-07:00Hindutva - An Exploration<p>Earlier Collection</p><p>Hindutva - A Collection of Articles and Ideas</p><p><a href="http://guide-india.blogspot.com/2013/09/hindutva.html" target="_blank">http://guide-india.blogspot.com/2013/09/hindutva.html</a></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Swami Dayananda Saraswati</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">"He was the first to give the call for Swarajya as "<b>India for Indians</b>" – in 1876. It was later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even Congress party acknowledges it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">FaceBook Post by Indian National Congress</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>February 12, 2020 · </div><div><br /></div><div>"Dayananda Saraswati was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic Dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876. We honour his contributions to our Nation today."</div><div>https://www.facebook.com/IndianNationalCongress/photos/dayananda-saraswati-was-an-indian-philosopher-social-leader-and-founder-of-the-a/2783080651804589/</div></div><p><b style="text-align: justify;">"India for Indians" - "Hindustan for Hindus" - Is there any difference?</b></p><p><b style="text-align: justify;">Indostan and Hindustan both are same. Indian and Hindu both are same.</b></p><p>1908</p><p>Hind Swaraj - Independence for India - M.K. Gandhi</p><p>Mahatma Gandhi on Independence for India - 1908 Publication</p><p><a href="https://guide-india.blogspot.com/2012/03/hind-swaraj-independence-for-india-mk.html" target="_blank">https://guide-india.blogspot.com/2012/03/hind-swaraj-independence-for-india-mk.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Ram Prasad Bismil - Hindustan Republican Association</p><p>Desh par marr jayenge</p><p>Marte marte desh ko</p><p>zinda magar kar jayenge”</p><p><br /></p><p>Ram Prasad Bismil was one of the most notable Indian revolutionaries who fought British colonialism with a desire for freedom and revolutionary spirit reverberating in every inch of his body and poetry. Bismil, who was born in 1897, was a respected member of the Hindustan Republican Association alongside Sukhdev. He was also a participant in the infamous Kakori train heist, for which the British government condemned him to death.</p><p>Born: 11 June 1897, Shahjahanpur</p><p>Died: 19 December 1927, Gorakhpur Jail, Gorakhpur</p><p>Cause of death: Execution by hanging</p><p>Organization: Hindustan Republican Association</p><p><br /></p><p>https://leverageedu.com/blog/indian-freedom-fighters/</p><p>Chandra Shekhar Azad</p><p>Chandra Shekhar Azad, born in 1906, was a close companion of Bhagat Singh in the independence movement. He was also a member of the Hindustan Republican Association. He was the bravest and daring Indian freedom fighters against the British authorities. After murdering several opponents during a battle with British forces, he shot himself with his Colt pistol. He promised he’d never be caught alive by the British. He reorganized the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association</p><p><br /></p><p>Born: 23 July 1906, Bhavra</p><p>Died: 27 February 1931, Chandrashekhar Azad Park</p><p>Full name: Chandrashekhar Tiwari</p><p>Education: Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith</p><div>https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1640655</div><p><br /></p><p>1921-1922</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Hindutva by V.D. Savarkar</h3><p><a href="http://library.bjp.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/284/3/essentials_of_hindutva.v001.pdf" target="_blank">http://library.bjp.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/284/3/essentials_of_hindutva.v001.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Why Savarkar wrote this essay? To clarify the position of Hindu Mahasabha on whom it is representing?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095937609" target="_blank">https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095937609</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Hindutva 101 by Sadhana.Org</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Difficult, but important.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Talking about complex political, historical, and religious issues may seem intimidating, especially for those of us who have grown up outside India. Nevertheless, it is our responsibility to speak up. This guide is intended for Hindu-Americans who may want to talk to their parents, relatives, friends, or colleagues about Hindu nationalism but don’t know where to start. It will give an overview of Hindutva from a Hindu perspective and then provide some links we have collected that address the issue thoughtfully.</p><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.sadhana.org/hindutva-101" target="_blank">https://www.sadhana.org/hindutva-101</a></div><p><br /></p><p>July 17th, 2018</p><p>“I don’t believe that Hindutva is Hinduism” – Dr Shashi Tharoor.</p><p>Dr Shashi Tharoor was recently in the UK to promote his new book Why I am a Hindu.</p><p>Anishka Gheewala Lohiya had the opportunity to talk to Dr Tharoor at LSE about the relationship between politics and religion in India.</p><p><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2018/07/17/i-dont-believe-that-hindutva-is-hinduism-dr-shashi-tharoor/" target="_blank">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2018/07/17/i-dont-believe-that-hindutva-is-hinduism-dr-shashi-tharoor/</a></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Hindutva</h3><p>M. G. Chitkara</p><p>APH Publishing, 1997 - Hinduism - 303 pages</p><p><a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zqkBNr4U7cwC" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zqkBNr4U7cwC</a></p><p>The book is interesting to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Page 4: By middle of the 14th century, the work Hindu acquired prestige in the writings of various poets. Padmanabha uses the word Hindu to glorify Chauhans of Jalore in his epic poem (1455 AD), Kanhadade Prabhandha.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Hindutva, Ideology, and Politics</h3><p>A. A. Parvathy</p><p>Deep and Deep Publications, 2003</p><p><a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=RpaEt8npT0sC" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=RpaEt8npT0sC</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Uproot Hindutva: The Fiery Voice of the Liberation Panthers</p><p>Thirumaavalavan</p><p>Popular Prakashan, 2004 - Dalits - 248 pages</p><p>Thirumaavalavan analyses the various roles of Hindutva (ideology of the Hindu right] in sustaining the hegemony of the caste system. He speaks provocatively of the need to counter Hindutva with a Tamil identity that can reach beyond its region to other oppressed peoples. He speaks of Eelam -- the cause of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka -- of the refusal to be Hindu and of the right to conversion, of women's rights, of the heritage of the dalits, of the need to follow the guidelines of the dalit reformer, Dr B R Ambedkar, among other issues. Always unflinchingly honest and hard-hitting, the collection reveals new currents in Dalit politics.</p><p>https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HfNRO-LtsN4C</p><p><br /></p><p>The Era of Hindutva, Right’s might and increasing fascism</p><p>Arshdeep</p><p>Jan 1, 2020</p><div><br /></div><p>Year 2011</p><p>UPA is in power and India is fed up of the immensely corrupt people in power. And people who resonated with Anna Hazare decided to launch Anti-Corruption Movement.</p><p>This movement was one of the main reasons why UPA goverment and the mainstream LEFT-WING will fall on its knees by securing only 59 seats out of total 543 seats in next elections and it will indicate how desperate were the people for a change.</p><p> BJS subsequently reorganised itself as the BJP under the leadership of Vajpayee, Lal Krishan Advani, and Murali Manohar Joshi. BJP advocated hindutva (“Hindu-ness”), an ideology that sought to define Indian culture in terms of Hindu values, and it was highly critical of the policies and practices that should be of a secular nation.</p><p>The term “Hindutva” was promoted by Indian freedom movement activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (also called Vir Savarkar). He wrote Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (1923), coining the term Hindutva. Savarkar wasn’t really setting out to create a Hindu nation. India was, he asserted, a nation, based on hindu-ness in an organic sense.</p><div><div><br /></div><div>“BJP governments at the state and federal level are altering Indian history textbooks to conform with Hindu nationalist doctrine.” (What is Hindu nationalist doctrine?)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>For some time it has been made pretty clear by different BJP party members, Hindu Rashtra is what they demand and will go to any extent to achieve this dream of theirs.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/@arshdeep773/hindutva-rightwing-fascism-273e820b36e6" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@arshdeep773/hindutva-rightwing-fascism-273e820b36e6</a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis</h3><p>Anand Teltumbde</p><p>SAGE Publishing India, 31-Jan-2020 - Social Science - 384 pages</p><p>Despite the teachings of Babasaheb Ambedkar against Hinduism and its pernicious caste system, which he forsook to become a Buddhist, many Dalits have turned to Hindutva. The RSS under Balasaheb Deoras began to appropriate Ambedkar, engaging with Dalits and Adivasis, Hinduizing their beliefs, providing social welfare and binding them in a political alliance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis takes a comprehensive view of the birth and growth of the Hindutva movement and its specific impact on Dalits. Part I, Theoretical Perspectives, explores the attitude of Hindutva vis-à-vis Dalits in its various manifestations. Part II, Hindutva in Operation, covers empirical evidence of its impact on Dalits. The contributors, distinguished scholar-activists, offer a provocative analysis on why both Dalits and Adivasis are drawn to Hindutva.</p><p><br /></p><p>As analysed by Tanika Sarkar in her incisive Foreword, Hindutva’s hegemonic agenda lets ‘subalterns develop a stake in their own subordination, ... not in resignation or despair but in eager self-identification with it’. The great strength of this collection is that it asks difficult questions that need to be asked and yet have no easy answers. The book, thus, makes an invaluable contribution to the debate and takes it forward.</p><p><a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HhvHDwAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HhvHDwAAQBAJ</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hindutva as a variant of right-wing extremism</p><p>Eviane Leidig</p><p>Patterns of Prejudice </p><p>Volume 54, 2020 - Issue 3, Pages 215-237 </p><p><br /></p><p>Our one supreme goal is to bring to life the all-round glory and greatness of our Hindu Rashtra. [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ‘Mission’]</p><p>Quoted in Thomas A. Howard, ‘Hindu nationalism against religious pluralism—or, the sacralization of religious identity and its discontents in present-day India’, in Kaye V. Cook (ed.), Faith in a Pluralist Age (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books 2018), 62–78 (67).</p><p><br /></p><p>The only positive thing about the Hindu right wing is that they dominate the streets. They do not tolerate the current injustice and often riot and attack Muslims when things get out of control, usually after the Muslims disrespect and degrade Hinduism too much … India will continue to wither and die unless the Indian nationalists consolidate properly and strike to win. It is essential that the European and Indian resistance movements learn from each other and cooperate as much as possible. Our goals are more or less identical. [Anders Behring Breivik, ‘2083: A European Declaration of Independence’]</p><p>Andrew Berwick [pseud., i.e. Anders Behring Breivik], ‘2083: A European declaration of independence’, 1475, available on the Public Intelligence website at https://info.publicintelligence.net/AndersBehringBreivikManifesto.pdf (viewed 28 May 2020).</p><p>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2020.1759861</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Neo-Hindutva: Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism</h3><p>Edward Anderson, Arkotong Longkumer</p><p>Routledge, 21-May-2020 - Social Science - 156 pages</p><p>Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism – the assertive majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India.</p><p><br /></p><p>This volume develops and expands on the idea of ‘neo-Hindutva’ –– Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of prevailing understandings. The contributors identify and explain the ways in which Hindu nationalism increasingly permeates into new spaces: organisational, territorial, conceptual, rhetorical. The scope of the chapters reflect the diversity of contemporary Hindutva – both in India and beyond – which appears simultaneously brazen but concealed, nebulous and mainstreamed, militant yet normalised. They cover a wide range of topics and places in which one can locate new forms of Hindu nationalism: courts of law, the Northeast, the diaspora, Adivasi (tribal) communities, a powerful yoga guru, and the Internet. The volume also includes an in-depth interview with Christophe Jaffrelot and a postscript by Deepa Reddy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Helping readers to make sense of contemporary Hindutva, Neo-Hindutva is ideal for scholars of India, Hinduism, Nationalism, and Asian Studies more generally. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.</p><p><a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=I2nnDwAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=I2nnDwAAQBAJ</a></p><p><br /></p><p>PUBLICATION -The politics of Hindutva in India - Routledge</p><p>November 2020</p><p><a href="https://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/2020/hindutva-politics-india" target="_blank">https://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/2020/hindutva-politics-india</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva: Local Mediations and Forms of Convergence</p><p>Daniela Berti, Nicolas Jaoul, Pralay Kanungo</p><p>Taylor & Francis, 29-Nov-2020 - History - 358 pages</p><p><br /></p><p>The book reflects on the discreet influence of Hindutva in situations/places outside or at the margins of its organisational and mobilisational arena, where people denying any commitment to the Sangh Parivar, incidentally, show affinities and parallelisms with its discourse and practice. This study looks at Hindutva’s entrenchment not so much as an orchestration from above but more as an outcome of a process that evolves in relation to specific social and cultural milieus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The contributors analyse Hindutva’s entrenchment, emphasising on the ethnography of the forms of mediation and/or convergence produced in certain contexts. The 11 case studies highlight three different dynamics of Hindutva’s cultural entrenchment. The first section gathers cases where RSS-affiliated organisations have set up specific cultural or artistic programmes at the regional level, involving the meditation of local people whose interest in these programmes does not necessarily mean that they endorse the Hindutva agenda completely. The next deals with convergence and refers to cases where the followers gather around a charismatic personality, whose precepts and practice may bring them towards a closer affinity with the Hindutva programme. The last section deals with the contexts of resistance, where social milieus engaged in opposing Hindutva may, in fact, paradoxically, and even inadvertently, imbibe some of its ideas and practices in order to contest its claims.</p><div><a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=52oHEAAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=52oHEAAAQBAJ</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Eternal Hindu Rashtra</h3><div>Dr Manmohan Vaidya</div><div>DR MANMOHAN VAIDYA</div><div>Sep 07, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div>As per Hindu thought, ‘Rashtra’ means people. It also includes their mindset, attitude towards life, relationship with nature and the universe, approach towards history and tradition etc. In short, all things that form and impact the entire society. </div><div><br /></div><div>Is India a Nation? </div><div>(Has any body questioned it earlier?)</div><div>[Winston Churchill once very famously remarked, “India is as much a nation as the equator is a place”. </div><div>Is India one Nation? <a href="https://www.ashoka.edu.in/stories/is-india-one-nation-152" target="_blank">https://www.ashoka.edu.in/stories/is-india-one-nation-152</a>]</div><div>[IN A speech to London’s Constitutional Club in 1931, Winston Churchill poured scorn on the idea of India. “India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator,” he spat, a slur that invites such uniform disagreement from Indians as to disprove itself. Less well known, but more worthy of debate, is the previous line of Churchill’s speech: “India is no more a political personality than Europe,” he contended. Banyan</div><div>Is India a country or a continent? The Economist, Feb 11th 2017 Asia edition, <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/02/09/is-india-a-country-or-a-continent" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/02/09/is-india-a-country-or-a-continent</a>]</div><div><div>[ The boundaries of ‘here’, the nation, are continually constructed and contested but they are somewhat stable at any given time. India is anomalous in this regard because our nation contains multitudes. Built on imperial foundations, our nationalist conceit was to break the European mould and forge a nation out of an empire unified not by blood and soil but by ideas of freedom, self-reliance, social justice, and mutual respect for different faiths and cultures.</div><div><br /></div><div>The vastness and diversity of the British Indian Empire meant that any nation emerging from it could not possibly claim any cultural unity; facts dictated that if the entity called India were to be a nation, it had to be a civic one rather than an ethnic one. Notwithstanding the horrors of Partition, turning a multitudinous empire into India was a singular achievement. Anush Kapadia in EMPIRE NATION PART 1: HOW INDIA’S INTERNAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IS COLONIAL AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT</div><div>APRIL 23, 2020TALKING POLICYEMPIRE, IMPERIALISM, ISI, <a href="https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/empire-nation-part-1/" target="_blank">https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/empire-nation-part-1/</a> ]</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>All the people living on this great land of Bharat, from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, despite having diverse languages, castes, deities, ways of worship, food habits, costumes, etc, have the same approach towards life, ideals, nature, society and entire humanity. For thousands of years this approach has been cultivated and practiced as a culture that binds the society together. <b>This bonding makes it a ‘Rashtra’.</b> The main reason for inherent unity expressed in diversity forms the spirituality-based integral and holistic worldview that is the hallmark of Bharat and Bharatiyta. </div><div><br /></div><div>Bharatiyas believe in "Ishavasyam Idam Sarvam", which means everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is the manifestation of the same Spirit (Chaitanya). </div><div><br /></div><div>Thus, the fundamental disconnect between the Western and Bharatiya thought is that while the former strives for ‘all are one’, the later organically believes in ‘all is one’.</div><div><a href="https://www.organiser.org/india-news/universal-hindutva-the-eternal-hindu-rashtra-5195.html" target="_blank">https://www.organiser.org/india-news/universal-hindutva-the-eternal-hindu-rashtra-5195.html</a></div></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">'RSS Used Digital Tech to Adapt': Jaffrelot at Dismantling Global Hindutva Event</h3><p>According to French Political Scientist Christophe Jaffrelot, the RSS used digital techniques to their advantage.</p><p><br /></p><p>THE QUINT</p><p>Published: 11 Sep 2021, 9:05 AM IST</p><p><a href="https://www.thequint.com/news/dismantling-global-hindutva-multidisciplinary-perspectives-dgh-a-three-day-global-scholarly-conference-begins#read-more" target="_blank">https://www.thequint.com/news/dismantling-global-hindutva-multidisciplinary-perspectives-dgh-a-three-day-global-scholarly-conference-begins#read-more</a></p><p>Anand Patwardhan: If Hindutva is Hinduism then the Ku Klux Klan is Christianity</p><p>The filmmaker’s speech at the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference being held from September 10-September 12.</p><p>12 Sep 2021</p><p><a href="https://scroll.in/article/1005159/anand-patwardhan-if-hindutva-is-hinduism-then-the-ku-klux-klan-is-christianity" target="_blank">https://scroll.in/article/1005159/anand-patwardhan-if-hindutva-is-hinduism-then-the-ku-klux-klan-is-christianity</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-34481371705913093202021-01-27T05:30:00.011-08:002021-01-27T19:30:43.160-08:00Democracy - Evolution and Challenges<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">2021</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">A comment by me on an Harvard Business School article.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">I hope every body with the role of representative of the people in the political system think they are the representatives and make arrangements to collect public opinion on various issues and present them in various legislative bodies. Each representative has to present the current opinion of the people genuinely. He may be a party member and can communicate his wishes to the electorate on a continuous basis. But once he collects their opinion on any issue, he has to present it in the legislature as the opinion and wish of the people. If such a spirit is truly followed, democracies are likely to represent the majority opinion and hard positions can be easily reversed.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Prof. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">NITIE, Mumbai, India</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">21 January 2021</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/leadership-advice-for-biden-restore-a-sense-of-calm" target="_blank">https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/leadership-advice-for-biden-restore-a-sense-of-calm</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">2020</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">25/DEC/2020</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Abraham Lincoln defined democratic government as a government of, for and by the people. This definition was true to the spirit of the origin of democracy in the ancient Greek city states, where all males above 18 years were participating in the day to day affairs of the government.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The essence of democracy is the participation of the people in the day to day affairs of the state. </div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Elections and Parliaments are not democracy if participation of the people in the day to day affairs of the state is not allowed and not encouraged.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://thewire.in/rights/how-much-of-a-democracy-is-india-really" target="_blank">https://thewire.in/rights/how-much-of-a-democracy-is-india-really</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Democracy and pluralism are under assault.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">WRITTEN BY</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Sarah Repucci</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world. At the same time, many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest. In fact, such leaders—including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies—are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">As a result of these and other trends, Freedom House found that 2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2020/leaderless-struggle-democracy" target="_blank">https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2020/leaderless-struggle-democracy</a></div></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.<br />
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I recently read a book on Sociology Thinkers. I read one long back.<br />
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In Britain, philosophy was dominated by an alternative and more scientific view that knowledge is gained primarily or mainly through the five senses. Direct experience is foundational for obtaining knowledge, and this position is known as empiricism.<br />
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During the first half of the 18th century, three great philosophers—Locke, Berkeley and Hume—argued for this approach, thus forming a philosophical movement known as British empiricism.<br />
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<a href="https://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/110/8-empiricism.htm" target="_blank">https://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/110/8-empiricism.htm</a><br />
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Hindi lecture - Anubhavvaad<br />
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Buddhivaad - anubhavvaad</div>
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UPSC Civil Services<br />
Paper I - Topics 2 & 3<br />
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2. Sociology as Science:<br />
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Science, scientific method and critique.<br />
Major theoretical strands of research methodology.<br />
Positivism and its critique.<br />
Fact value and objectivity.<br />
Non- positivist methodologies.<br />
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3. Research Methods and Analysis:<br />
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Research Methods and Analysis:<br />
Qualitative and quantitative methods.<br />
Techniques of data collection.<br />
Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.<br />
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Notes<br />
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2. Sociology as Science:<br />
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Science, scientific method and critique.<br />
Major theoretical strands of research methodology.<br />
Positivism and its critique.<br />
Fact value and objectivity.<br />
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Non- positivist methodologies.<br />
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<a href="https://phd-research-methodology.blogspot.com/2019/09/phenomenology-explanation-by-karin.html" target="_blank">Phenomenology - Explanation by Karin Klenke</a><br />
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3. Research Methods and Analysis:<br />
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Research Methods and Analysis:<br />
Qualitative and quantitative methods.<br />
Techniques of data collection.<br />
Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.<br />
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Sociology Research Methodology and Methods<br />
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Channel cec <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA7OQkX9AEIVQ6j9i0OSQhA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA7OQkX9AEIVQ6j9i0OSQhA</a></div>
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Anu Kumari - 2017 All India Rank 2 explains how to prepare for Sociology<br />
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Mainly in Hindi<br />
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She did a lot of reading. She is from science background. But did well in Sociology.<br />
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Sociology – Main Syllabus<br />
Paper – I<br />
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY<br />
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1. Sociology - The Discipline<br />
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Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology.<br />
Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.<br />
Sociology and common sense.<br />
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2. Sociology as Science:<br />
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Science, scientific method and critique.<br />
Major theoretical strands of research methodology.<br />
Positivism and its critique.<br />
Fact value and objectivity.<br />
Non- positivist methodologies.<br />
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Research Methods and Analysis:<br />
Qualitative and quantitative methods.<br />
Techniques of data collection.<br />
Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.<br />
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4. Sociological Thinkers:<br />
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Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.<br />
Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.<br />
Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.<br />
Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.<br />
Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.<br />
Mead - Self and identity.<br />
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5. Stratification and Mobility:<br />
Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.<br />
Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.<br />
Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.<br />
Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.<br />
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6. Works and Economic Life:<br />
Social organization of work in different types of society- slave society, feudal society, industrial /capitalist society.<br />
Formal and informal organization of work.<br />
Labour and society.<br />
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7. Politics and Society:<br />
Sociological theories of power.<br />
Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.<br />
Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.<br />
Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.<br />
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8. Religion and Society:<br />
Sociological theories of religion.<br />
Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.<br />
Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.<br />
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9. Systems of Kinship:<br />
Family, household, marriage.<br />
Types and forms of family.<br />
Lineage and descent.<br />
Patriarchy and sexual division oflabour.<br />
Contemporary trends.<br />
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10. Social Change in Modern Society:<br />
Sociological theories of social change.<br />
Development and dependency.<br />
Agents of social change.<br />
Education and social change.<br />
Science, technology and social change.<br />
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Paper - II: Sociology Syllabus<br />
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1 INDIAN SOCIETY: STRUCTURE AND CHANGE A. Introducing Indian Society:<br />
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(i) Perspectives on the study of Indian society:<br />
Indology (GS. Ghurye).<br />
Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas).<br />
Marxist sociology (A R Desai).<br />
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(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society :<br />
Social background of Indian nationalism.<br />
Modernization of Indian tradition.<br />
Protests and movements during the colonial period.<br />
Social reforms.<br />
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B. Social Structure:<br />
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(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:<br />
The idea of Indian village and village studies.<br />
Agrarian social structure - evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.<br />
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(ii) Caste System:<br />
Perspectives on the study of caste systems: GS Ghurye, M N Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.<br />
Features of caste system.<br />
Untouchability - forms and perspectives.<br />
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(iii) Tribal communities in India:<br />
Definitional problems.<br />
Geographical spread.<br />
Colonial policies and tribes.<br />
Issues of integration and autonomy.<br />
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(iv) Social Classes in India:<br />
Agrarian class structure.<br />
Industrial class structure.<br />
Middle classes in India.<br />
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(v) Systems of Kinship in India:<br />
Lineage and descent in India.<br />
Types of kinship systems.<br />
Family and marriage in India.<br />
Household dimensions of the family.<br />
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(vi) Religion and Society:<br />
Religious communities in India.<br />
Problems of religious minorities.<br />
Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour<br />
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<a href="https://www.civilserviceindia.com/subject/Sociology/notes/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.civilserviceindia.com/subject/Sociology/notes/index.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.examrace.com/IAS/IAS-Free-Study-Material/Sociology/" target="_blank">https://www.examrace.com/IAS/IAS-Free-Study-Material/Sociology/</a><br />
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Akshat Kaushal - Paper 1<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nnnrQNaMFyIeXnhUW7M8nX9rvtNR3UoA/view" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nnnrQNaMFyIeXnhUW7M8nX9rvtNR3UoA/view</a><br />
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Links to Sociology Notes for IAS<br />
<a href="https://reliableandvalid.com/2018/09/08/handmade-notes-of-upsc-sociology-toppers/" target="_blank">https://reliableandvalid.com/2018/09/08/handmade-notes-of-upsc-sociology-toppers/</a><br />
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PHILOSOPHY<br />
PAPER-I<br />
History and Problems of Philosophy<br />
1. Plato and Aristotle : Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and<br />
Potentiality.<br />
2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz); Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge;<br />
Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom.<br />
3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) : Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self<br />
and God; Scepticism.<br />
4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time; Categories; Ideas of<br />
Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God.<br />
5. Hegel : Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism.<br />
6. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein : Defence of Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism;<br />
Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning;<br />
Sying and Showing.<br />
7. Logical Positivism : Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic<br />
Theory of Necessary Propositions.<br />
8. Later Wittgenstein : Meaning and Use; Language-games; Critique of Private Language.<br />
9. Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism.<br />
10. Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sarte, Heidegger): Existence and Essence; Choice,<br />
Responsibility and Authentic Existence; Being-in-the-world and Temporality.<br />
11. Quine and Strawson : Critique of Empiricism; Theory of Basic Particulars and Persons.<br />
12. Carvaka : Theory of Knowlegde; Rejection of Transcendent Entities.<br />
13. Jainism : Theory of Reality; Saptabhanginaya; Bondage and Liberation.<br />
14. Schools of Buddhism : Prat Ityasamutpada; Ksanikavada, Nairatmyavada.<br />
15. Nyaya—Vaiesesika : Theory of Categories; Theory of Appearance; Theory of Pramana; Self,<br />
Liberation; God; Proofs for the Existence of God; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of<br />
Creation.<br />
16. Samkhya; Prakrit; Purusa; Causation; Liberation.<br />
17. Yoga; Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi; Kaivalya.<br />
18. Mimamsa: Theory of Knowlegde.<br />
19. Schools of Vedanta : Brahman; Isvara; Atman; Jiva; Jagat; Maya; Avida; Adhyasa; Moksa;<br />
Aprthaksiddhi; Pancavidhabheda.<br />
20. Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga.<br />
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PAPER-II<br />
Socio-Political Philosophy<br />
1. Social and Political ldeals : Equality, Justice, Liberty.<br />
2. Sovereignty : Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.<br />
3. Individual and State : Rights; Duties and Accountability.<br />
4. Forms of Government : Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy.<br />
5. Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism.<br />
6. Humanism; Secularism; Multi-culturalism.<br />
7. Crime and Punishment : Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital Punishment.<br />
8. Development and Social Progress.<br />
9. Gender Discrimination : Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights; Empowerment.<br />
10. Caste Discrimination : Gandhi and Ambedkar.<br />
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Philosophy of Religion<br />
1. Notions of God : Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. (Indian and Western).<br />
2. Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).<br />
3. Problem of Evil.<br />
4. Soul : Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.<br />
5. Reason, Revelation and Faith.<br />
6. Religious Experience : Nature and Object (Indian and Western).<br />
7. Religion without God.<br />
8. Religion and Morality.<br />
9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.<br />
10. Nature of Religious Language : Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non-cognitive.<br />
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YouTube Videos on Philosophy - Hindi Videos - Playlist</h2>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKdjPO0pBHg&list=PLNsppmbLKJ8JO7xdg4XGfxAu93OLAiQXq" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKdjPO0pBHg&list=PLNsppmbLKJ8JO7xdg4XGfxAu93OLAiQXq</a></div>
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The Method of Loci<br />
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The oldest known mnemonic strategy is called the method of loci<br />
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<a href="https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm" target="_blank">https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056179/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056179/</a><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddeley%27s_model_of_working_memory" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddeley%27s_model_of_working_memory</a><br />
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Baddeley's Model of Working Memory is a model of human memory proposed by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch in 1974, in an attempt to present a more accurate model of primary memory (often referred to as short-term memory). Working memory splits primary memory into multiple components, rather than considering it to be a single, unified construct.<br />
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Baddeley & Hitch proposed their three-part working memory model as an alternative to the short-term store in Atkinson & Shiffrin's 'multi-store' memory model (1968). This model is later expanded upon by Baddeley and other co-workers to add a fourth component, and has become the dominant view in the field of working memory. However, alternative models are developing (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory" target="_blank">working memory</a>), providing a different perspective on the working memory system.<br />
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More recent work on working memory<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory</a></div>
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Dancing in the Dark, Revised Edition: The Privilege of Participating in God’s Ministry in the World<br />
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Graham Buxton<br />
Wipf and Stock Publishers, 08-Nov-2016 - Religion - 334 pages<br />
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Christians are often tempted to encapsulate God in their own little boxes, as if God could be tied down to our finite way of thinking. But we can neither domesticate nor fully understand God, for theology has a lot to do with coming to terms with the mystery of God. This revised edition of Dancing in the Dark--shaped, as in the first edition, by the two overarching themes of God as Trinity and a theology of participation--embraces the notion of mystery in presenting a compelling vision of seeing all things finally united within the inner life of God. As we engage in Christian ministry, we are summoned to participate as grace-filled faith communities in the triune God's immeasurably loving and healing work in the world, leading those who are in darkness into an awareness of the God who imparts life in all its glorious abundance, that which is so . . . and a journey into the mystery of that which is to come. The liberating ministry of the gospel is both a declaration and an invitation--an invitation to the dance!<br />
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<a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=uUOcDQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=uUOcDQAAQBAJ</a></div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-14478798123335299762019-10-28T06:23:00.003-07:002019-10-29T01:09:08.861-07:00Experimental Approach to Alleviating Global Poverty - Economic Sciences Nobel Prize 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Research of Nobel Prize Winners<br />
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In one widely noted experiment, Duflo and Banerjee found that immunization rates for children in rural India jump dramatically (from 5 percent to 39 percent) when their families are offered modest incentives for immunization, such as lentils.<br />
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They have also studied educational issues extensively uncovering new results about improvements in student achievement (when classes are divided into small groups) and ways to improve teacher attendance.<br />
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The topics of research include fertilizer use by Kenyan farmers, physician training in India, HIV prevention in Africa, the effects of small-scale lending programs, and the impact of aid programs in Indonesia.<br />
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In one study conducted on three continents, Duflo and Banerjee also reported significant welfare gains from an intervention that helps the poor simultaneously in multiple ways, including job training, productive assets, and health information.<br />
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Duflo and Banerjee have published dozens of research papers, together and with other co-authors. They have also co-written two books together, “Poor Economics” (2011) and the forthcoming “Good Economics for Hard Times” (2019).<br />
<a href="http://news.mit.edu/2019/esther-duflo-abhijit-banerjee-win-2019-nobel-prize-economics-1014" target="_blank">http://news.mit.edu/2019/esther-duflo-abhijit-banerjee-win-2019-nobel-prize-economics-1014</a><br />
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Abhijit Banerjee Papers - MIT Website<br />
<a href="https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee/papers" target="_blank">https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee/papers</a><br />
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Abhijit Banerjee Papers - -NBER Website<br />
<a href="https://www.nber.org/people/abhijit_banerjee" target="_blank">https://www.nber.org/people/abhijit_banerjee</a><br />
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PUTTING A BAND-AID ON A CORPSE: INCENTIVES FOR NURSES IN THE INDIAN PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM<br />
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster, and Esther Duflo<br />
J Eur Econ Assoc. 2008; 6(2-3): 487–500.<br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826809/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826809/</a><br />
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019</h2>
Abhijit Banerjee<br />
Esther Duflo<br />
Michael Kremer<br />
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Press release: The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019<br />
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14 October 2019<br />
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 to<br />
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Abhijit Banerjee<br />
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA<br />
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Esther Duflo<br />
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA<br />
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Michael Kremer<br />
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA<br />
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<b>“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”</b><br />
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Their research is helping us fight poverty<br />
The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research.<br />
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Despite recent dramatic improvements, one of humanity’s most urgent issues is the reduction of global poverty, in all its forms. More than 700 million people still subsist on extremely low incomes. Every year, around five million children under the age of five still die of diseases that could often have been prevented or cured with inexpensive treatments. Half of the world’s children still leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills.<br />
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This year’s Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. In brief, it involves dividing this issue into smaller, more manageable, questions – for example, the most effective interventions for improving educational outcomes or child health. They have shown that these smaller, more precise, questions are often best answered via carefully designed experiments among the people who are most affected.<br />
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In the mid-1990s, Michael Kremer and his colleagues demonstrated how powerful this approach can be, using field experiments to test a range of interventions that could improve school results in western Kenya.<br />
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, often with Michael Kremer, soon performed similar studies of other issues and in other countries. Their experimental research methods now entirely dominate development economics.<br />
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The Laureates’ research findings – and those of the researchers following in their footsteps – have dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice. As a direct result of one of their studies, more than five million Indian children have benefitted from effective programmes of remedial tutoring in schools. Another example is the heavy subsidies for preventive healthcare that have been introduced in many countries.<br />
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These are just two examples of how this new research has already helped to alleviate global poverty. It also has great potential to further improve the lives of the worst-off people around the world.<br />
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Illustrations<br />
The illustrations are free to use for non-commercial purposes. Attribute ”© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences”<br />
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Illustration: Difference productivity (pdf)<br />
Illustration: Improved educational outcomes (pdf)<br />
Illustration: Vaccination rates (pdf)<br />
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Read more about this year’s prize<br />
Popular science background: Research to help the world’s poor<br />
Scientific Background: Understanding development and poverty alleviation<br />
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Abhijit Banerjee, born 1961 in Mumbai, India. Ph.D. 1988 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.<br />
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Esther Duflo, born 1972 in Paris, France. Ph.D. 1999 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.<br />
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Michael Kremer, born 1964 in New York, USA. Ph.D. 1992 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.<br />
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The Prize amount: 9 million Swedish krona, to be shared equally between the Laureates<br />
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1739, is an independent organisation whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Academy takes special responsibility for the natural sciences and mathematics, but endeavours to promote the exchange of ideas between various disciplines.<br />
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Nobel Prize® is a registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation.<br />
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Press release: The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Mon. 28 Oct 2019.<br />
<a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2019/press-release/" target="_blank">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2019/press-release/</a><br />
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MIT Function to felicitate professors Abhijit and Duflo<br />
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<a href="http://news.mit.edu/2019/esther-duflo-abhijit-banerjee-win-2019-nobel-prize-economics-1014" target="_blank">http://news.mit.edu/2019/esther-duflo-abhijit-banerjee-win-2019-nobel-prize-economics-1014</a><br />
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<a href="https://qz.com/1727604/banerjee-duflo-and-kremer-win-2019-nobel-prize-in-economics-for-poverty-research/" target="_blank">https://qz.com/1727604/banerjee-duflo-and-kremer-win-2019-nobel-prize-in-economics-for-poverty-research/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/economy-finance/abhijit-banerjee-nobel-laureate-economic-writer-directorand-cook" target="_blank">https://www.bloombergquint.com/economy-finance/abhijit-banerjee-nobel-laureate-economic-writer-directorand-cook</a></div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-45747847707241387882019-10-08T21:22:00.002-07:002019-10-08T21:22:17.140-07:00Sociology - Bulletin - Information Board<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2019<br />
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Scientists Create Global Map of Labor Flow<br />
Aug 5, 2019 by News Staff <br />
A team of scientists from Indiana University and the professional network LinkedIn has created the first global map of labor flow.<br />
<a href="http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/sociology/global-labor-flow-map-07460.html" target="_blank">http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/sociology/global-labor-flow-map-07460.html</a><br />
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Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology<br />
We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the 2019 Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting<br />
The Profession of Sociological Practice<br />
October 17-19 in Portland, Oregon<br />
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Book: Sociology (Boundless) - <b>Free Online</b><br />
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Back to the Shop Floor: Behavioural Insights from Workplace Sociology<br />
Andrew Pendleton, Ben Lupton, Andrew Rowe,<br />
First Published May 29, 2019 Research Article<br />
Full article view<br />
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017019847940" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017019847940</a><br />
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY<br />
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Narendar SINGH<br />
2012<br />
Tata McGraw-Hill Education<br />
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This book attempts to show the theories illuminate present Industrial Sociological problems by introducing contemporary thinkers and their research. This book is strictly as per the recommended by UGC Committee of curriculum development as most universities are adopting the same. Industrial Sociology is a sub field of Sociology as per UGC. It is part of the curriculum of sociology. The Syllabus as recommended for Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses.<br />
<a href="https://books.google.co.in/books/about/INDUSTRIAL_SOCIOLOGY.html?id=NeD2W2zuTXoC" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books/about/INDUSTRIAL_SOCIOLOGY.html?id=NeD2W2zuTXoC</a><br />
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-87988390686885855462019-10-06T00:43:00.002-07:002019-10-06T00:43:24.905-07:00Psychology Google Books - Bibliography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Introduction to Psychology<br />
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Lionel Nicholas<br />
Juta and Company Ltd, 2008 - Psychology - 414 pages, 2nd ed.<br />
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Completely revised and updated, this newly illustrated guide helps both licensed and student nurses apply the latest in psychological research and theory to their everyday lives. Sensation, perception, cognitive processes, and developmental psychology are among the topics discussed. A brief history of the field and new information on HIV and AIDS are also included. <br />
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-68091065642902581552019-10-06T00:32:00.000-07:002019-10-06T00:32:53.271-07:00Karl Mannheim - Contribution to Sociology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim<br />
Volker Meja, David Kettler<br />
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Anthem Press, 15-Dec-2017 - Social Science - 234 pages<br />
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“The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” helps us to accompany him in his open, experimental thinking, the generation of new questions, the recognition of thought experiments as well as the care for controlling evidence, and his negotiations with colleagues he encounters in his own searches.<br />
He is justly honored as a sociologist of repute. Sociology of knowledge is a project, not a creed; and “Ideology and Utopia” is a documentation, not a scripture.<br />
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“The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” offers fresh commentaries and explorations by an international and presently active group of scholars. As the institutionalized understanding of Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge project was so long shaped by the synthetic reading by the American sociologist Robert K. Merton—a reputed sociologist in his own right––the companion opens with a careful exposition and critique of that authoritative interpretation. It is followed by a close reading of the considerations that led Mannheim to move beyond the neo-Kantian epistemology of his earlier training to the project of a sociological understanding of critical knowledge. Next to come is a series of studies that marked by perspectives derived from intellectual strategies developed since the breakdown of consensus on the approaches examined in the previous section. In their variety, the studies capture a number of perspectives opened up or expanded by an understanding of Mannheim’s undertaking. The key terms are familiar: self-reflexivity, praxeological sociology, neo-realism, and dramatistic readings of world-views. The angles of vision differ, but they agree in projecting new and important light on Mannheim’s efforts. At the end, attention is focused on some unfamiliar links between Mannheim’s work and current interests: a study of Mannheim’s influence on Hannah Arendt, who knew him as teacher in Heidelberg and Frankfurt; an inquiry into Mannheim’s political thought from the standpoint of contemporary democratic political theory; and an examination of Mannheim’s attention to the status of women and of the work done on these matters under his tutelage by a group of talented women students.<br />
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The aim of “The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” is to learn from Karl Mannheim.<br />
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<a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZvtIDwAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZvtIDwAAQBAJ</a><br />
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Karl Mannheim is included in Sociological Thought Book, ny Francis Abraham and JOhn Henry Morgan, 1985.</div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-79971690189443505972019-09-26T20:00:00.000-07:002019-09-26T20:00:11.437-07:00Auguste Comte - Sociology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the religion of humanity, "Live for Others" will be the supreme commandment, Love its major principle, Order its basis and Progress its aim. - Auguste Comte. Mentioned in Page 18 of Sociological Thought: From Comte to Sorokin, by Francis Abraham and John Henry Morgan, Macmillan India, New Delhi, 1985.</div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-56658416174703498712019-05-23T04:47:00.004-07:002019-05-23T04:47:42.431-07:00Free Will - Is it there for Animals and Humans?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There’s No Such Thing as Free Will<br />
But we’re better off believing in it anyway.<br />
STEPHEN CAVE JUNE 2016 ISSUE<br />
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/</a></div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-8164599231561808562019-02-06T14:25:00.005-08:002019-02-06T14:25:48.625-08:00Psychology - Class XI - CBSE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Psychology Class 11 Syllabus<br />
Exam Structure<br />
Unit<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Topic <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marks<br />
I<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What is Psychology?<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7<br />
II<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Methods of Enquiry in Psychology<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10<br />
III<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Bases of Human Behaviour<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8<br />
IV<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Human Development<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6<br />
V<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sensory, Attentional and Perceptual Processes<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8<br />
VI<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Learning<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9<br />
VII<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Human Memory<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8<br />
VIII<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thinking<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7<br />
IX<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Motivation and Emotion<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Total<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>70<br />
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Unit I: What is psychology?<br />
Introduction<br />
What is Psychology?<br />
Psychology as a Discipline<br />
Psychology as a Natural Science<br />
Psychology as a Social Science<br />
Understanding Mind and Behaviour<br />
Popular Notions about the Discipline of Psychology<br />
Evolution of Psychology<br />
Development of Psychology in India<br />
Branches of Psychology<br />
Themes of Research and Applications<br />
Psychology and Other Disciplines<br />
Psychologists at Work<br />
Psychology in Everyday Life<br />
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Unit II: Methods of Enquiry in Psychology<br />
Introduction<br />
Goals of Psychological Enquiry<br />
Steps in Conducting Scientific Research<br />
Alternative Paradigms of Research<br />
Nature of Psychological Data<br />
Some Important Methods in Psychology<br />
Observational Method<br />
Experimental Method<br />
Correlational Research<br />
Survey Research<br />
Psychological Testing<br />
Case Study<br />
Analysis of Data<br />
Quantitative Method<br />
Qualitative Method<br />
Limitations of Psychological Enquiry<br />
Ethical Issues<br />
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Unit III: The Bases of Human Behaviour<br />
Introduction<br />
Evolutionary Perspective<br />
Biological and Cultural Roots<br />
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Biological Basis of Behaviour<br />
Neurons<br />
Structure and Functions of Nervous System and<br />
Endocrine System and their Relationship with<br />
Behaviour and Experience<br />
The Nervous System<br />
The Endocrine System<br />
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Heredity: Genes and Behaviour<br />
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Cultural Basis : Socio-Cultural Shaping of Behaviour<br />
Concept of Culture<br />
Enculturation<br />
Socialisation<br />
Acculturation<br />
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Unit IV: Human Development<br />
Introduction<br />
Meaning of Development<br />
Life-Span Perspective on Development<br />
Factors Influencing Development<br />
Context of Development<br />
Overview of Developmental Stages<br />
Prenatal Stage<br />
Infancy<br />
Childhood<br />
Challenges of Adolescence<br />
Adulthood and Old Age<br />
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Unit V: Sensory, Attentional, and Perceptual Processes<br />
Introduction<br />
Knowing the world<br />
Nature and varieties of Stimulus<br />
Sense Modalities<br />
Visual Sensation<br />
Auditory Sensation<br />
Attentional Processes<br />
Selective Attention<br />
Sustained Attention<br />
Perceptual Processes<br />
Processing Approaches in Perception<br />
The Perceiver<br />
Principles of Perceptual Organisation<br />
Perception of Space, Depth, and Distance<br />
Monocular Cues and Binocular Cues<br />
Perceptual Constancies<br />
Illusions<br />
Socio-Cultural Influences on Perception<br />
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Unit VI: Learning<br />
Introduction<br />
Nature of Learning<br />
Paradigms of Learning<br />
Classical Conditioning<br />
Determinants of Classical Conditioning<br />
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning<br />
Determinants of Operant Conditioning<br />
Key Learning Processes<br />
Observational Learning<br />
Cognitive Learning<br />
Verbal Learning<br />
Concept Learning<br />
Skill Learning<br />
Transfer of Learning<br />
Factors Facilitating Learning<br />
The Learner: Learning Styles<br />
Learning Disabilities<br />
Applications of Learning Principles<br />
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Unit VII: Human Memory<br />
Introduction<br />
Nature of memory<br />
Information processing Approach: The Stage Model<br />
Memory Systems : Sensory, Short-term and Long-term Memories<br />
Levels of Processing<br />
Types of Long-term Memory<br />
Declarative and Procedural; Episodic and Semantic<br />
Knowledge Representation and Organisation in Memory<br />
Memory as a Constructive Process<br />
Nature and Causes of Forgetting<br />
Forgetting due to Trace Decay, Interference and Retrieval Failure<br />
Enhancing Memory<br />
Mnemonics using Images and Organisation<br />
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Unit VIII: Thinking<br />
Introduction<br />
Nature of Thinking<br />
Building Blocks of Thought<br />
The Processes of Thinking<br />
Problem Solving<br />
Reasoning<br />
Decision-making<br />
Nature and Process of Creative Thinking<br />
Nature of Creative Thinking<br />
Process of Creative Thinking<br />
Developing Creative Thinking<br />
Barriers to Creative Thinking<br />
Strategies for Creative Thinking<br />
Thought and Language<br />
Development of Language and Language Use<br />
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Unit IX: Motivation and Emotion<br />
Introduction<br />
Nature of Motivation<br />
Types of Motives<br />
Biological Motives<br />
Psychosocial Motives<br />
Maslow‟s Hierarchy of Needs<br />
Nature of Emotions<br />
Physiological Bases of Emotions<br />
Cognitive Bases of Emotions<br />
Cultural Bases of Emotions<br />
Expression of Emotions<br />
Culture and Emotional Expression<br />
Culture and Emotional Labelling<br />
Managing Negative Emotions<br />
Enhancing Positive Emotions<br />
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<a href="https://www.cbsesyllabus.in/class-11/psychology-class-11-syllabus" target="_blank">https://www.cbsesyllabus.in/class-11/psychology-class-11-syllabus</a></div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-69173936363533361362019-02-03T08:21:00.000-08:002019-02-03T08:21:23.553-08:00Logotherapy - Viktor Frankl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The therapy, named "logotherapy," was recognized as the third school of Viennese therapy after Freud's psychoanalysis and Alfred Adler's individual psychology.<br />
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https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-victor-frankl-s-logotherapy-4159308</div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-57142095586106055802018-12-15T05:42:00.000-08:002018-12-15T05:42:18.464-08:00Theory of the rise and decline of the Great Powers in the 20th century - Doctoral Dissertation - Information<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dissertation title: The Power to Create Wealth: A systems-based theory of the rise and decline of the Great Powers in the 20th century<br />
Political Science, The City University of New York, 2001<br />
Dissertation chapters [All PDF]<br />
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What is a Great Power? (Ch 1)<br />
Theories of Rise and Fall (Ch 2)<br />
A critique of neoclassical growth theory (Ch 3)<br />
A theory of systems (Ch 4)<br />
A theory of political systems (Ch 5)<br />
A theory of economic systems: Categories and stages of production (Ch 6)<br />
A theory of economic systems: The production system as a whole (Ch 7)<br />
A theory of economic systems: capital and distribution (Ch 8)<br />
A theory of political economic systems: Defining systems and capabilities (Ch 9)<br />
A theory of political economic systems: Rise and decline (Ch 10)<br />
Conclusion and summary<br />
Global Machinery Production in the 20th Century (Appendix)<br />
Bibliography<br />
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<a href="http://economicreconstruction.org/JonRynn" target="_blank">http://economicreconstruction.org/JonRynn</a> Visit<br />
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A theory of political economic systems: Rise and decline (Ch 10)<br />
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As postulated previously, state and financial elites have tended to hold onto resources that should have gone back into the production system because they seek short-term fulfillment of desires for wealth and power over longer-term rewards.</div>
Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-29582869819688828552018-08-12T09:07:00.000-07:002018-08-12T16:21:14.799-07:00Public Choice Theory - Public Administration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Public choice or public choice theory uses economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science .Its content includes the study of political behavior. In political science, it is the subset of positive political theory that studies voters, politicians, and bureaucrats and their interactions. These interactions can be studied using standard constrained utility maximization, game theory, or decision theory.<br />
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Background and development<br />
A precursor of modern public choice theory was the work of Knut Wicksell (1896), in which he treated government's role as that of balancing exchange, in formulating a benefit principle linking taxes and expenditures.<br />
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Some subsequent economic analysis has been described as treating government as though it attempted "to maximize some kind sort of welfare function for society"<br />
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Modern public-choice theory starts from the work of Duncan Black, sometimes called "the founding father of public choice". In a series of papers from 1948, which culminated in The Theory of Committees and Elections (1958),, Black outlined a program of unification toward a more general "Theory of Economic and Political Choices" based on common formal methods<br />
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James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock coauthored The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1962). The preface describes the book as about the political organization" of a free society based on methodology, conceptual apparatus, and analytics that are derived, essentially, from the discipline that has as its subject the economic organization of such a society. The consent discussed in the book takes the form of a compensation principle like Pareto efficiency for making a policy change and unanimity or at least no opposition as a point of departure for social choice.<br />
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Decision-making processes and the state<br />
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One way to organize the subject matter studied by public choice theorists is to begin with the foundations of the state itself. According to this procedure, the most fundamental subject is the origin of government and the fundamental problem of collectively choosing constitutional rules. This work assumes a group of individuals who aim to form a government, then it focuses on the problem of hiring the agents required to carry out government functions agreed upon by the members.<br />
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Some public choice scholars claim that politics is plagued by irrationality. In articles published in the Econ Journal Watch, economist Bryan Caplan contended that voter choices and government economic decisions are inherently irrational. Caplan's ideas are more fully developed in his book The Myth of the Rational Voter (Princeton University Press 2007). Countering Donald Wittman's arguments in The Myth of Democratic Failure, Caplan claims that politics is biased in favor of irrational beliefs.<br />
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According to Caplan, democracy effectively subsidizes irrational beliefs. Some people derive utility from potentially irrational policies like protectionism receiveing private benefits while imposing the costs of such beliefs on the general public. Were people to bear the full costs of their "irrational beliefs", they would lobby for them optimally, taking into account both their instrumental consequences and their expressive appeal. Instead, democracy oversupplies policies based on irrational beliefs. Caplan defines rationality mainly in terms of mainstream price theory, pointing out that mainstream economists tend to oppose protectionism and government regulation more than the general population, and that more educated people are closer to economists on this score, even after controlling for confounding factors such as income, wealth or political affiliation. Many economists do not share Caplan's views on the nature of public choice. However, Caplan does have data to support his position. Economists have, in fact, often been frustrated by public opposition to economic reasoning.<br />
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As Sam Peltzman puts it: Economists know what steps would improve the efficiency of HSE [health, safety, and environmental] regulation. These steps include substituting markets in property rights, such as emission rights, for command and control...The real problem lies deeper than any lack of reform proposals or failure to press them. It is our inability to understand their lack of political appeal.<br />
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Public choice's application to government regulation was developed by George Stigler (1971) and Sam Peltzman (1976).<br />
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Public choice theory is often used to explain how political decision-making results in outcomes that conflict with the preferences of the general public. For example, many advocacy group and pork barrel projects are not the desire of the overall democracy. However, it makes sense for politicians to support these projects. It may make them feel powerful and important. It can also benefit them financially by opening the door to future wealth as lobbyists. The project may be of interest to the politician's local constituency, increasing district votes or campaign contributions. The politician pays little or no cost to gain these benefits, as he is spending public money. Special-interest lobbyists are also behaving rationally. They can gain government favors worth millions or billions for relatively small investments. They face a risk of losing out to their competitors if they don't seek these favors. The taxpayer is also behaving rationally. The cost of defeating any one government give-away is very high, while the benefits to the individual taxpayer are very small. Each citizen pays only a few pennies or a few dollars for any given government favor, while the costs of ending that favor would be many times higher. Everyone involved has rational incentives to do exactly what they are doing, even though the desire of the general constituency is opposite. Costs are diffused, while benefits are concentrated. The voices of vocal minorities with much to gain are heard over those of indifferent majorities with little to individually lose. However the notion that groups with concentrated interests will dominate politics is incomplete because it is only one half of political equilibrium. Something must incite those preyed upon to resist even the best organized concentrated interests.<br />
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In his article on interest groups Gary Becker identified this countervailing force as being the deadweight loss from predation. His views capped what has come to be known as the Chicago school of political economy and it has come in sharp conflict with the so-called Virginia faction of public choice due to its assertion that politics will tend towards efficiency due to nonlinear deadweight losses and due to its claim that political efficiency renders policy advice irrelevant.<br />
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While good government tends to be a pure public good for the mass of voters, there may be many advocacy groups that have strong incentives for lobbying the government to implement specific policies that would benefit them, potentially at the expense of the general public. For example, lobbying by the sugar manufacturers might result in an inefficient subsidy for the production of sugar, either direct or by protectionist measures. The costs of such inefficient policies are dispersed over all citizens, and therefore unnoticeable to each individual. On the other hand, the benefits are shared by a small special-interest group with a strong incentive to perpetuate the policy by further lobbying.<br />
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Due to rational ignorance, the vast majority of voters will be unaware of the effort; in fact, although voters may be aware of special-interest lobbying efforts, this may merely select for policies which are even harder to evaluate by the general public, rather than improving their overall efficiency. Even if the public were able to evaluate policy proposals effectively, they would find it infeasible to engage in collective action in order to defend their diffuse interest. Therefore, theorists expect that numerous special interests will be able to successfully lobby for various inefficient policies. In public choice theory, such scenarios of inefficient government policies are referred to as government failure – a term akin to market failure from earlier theoretical welfare economics.<br />
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Rent-seeking<br />
A field that is closely related to public choice is the study of rent-seeking. This field combines the study of a market economy with that of government. Its basic thesis is that when both a market economy and government are present, government agents provide numerous special market privileges. Both the government agents and self-interested market participants seek these privileges in order to partake in the resulting monopoly rent. Rentiers gain benefits above what the market would have offered, but in the process allocate resources in sub-optimal fashion from a societal point of view.<br />
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Rent-seeking applies to autocracies as well as democracies and, therefore, is not directly concerned with collective decision making. However, the obvious pressures it exerts on legislators, executives, bureaucrats, and even judges are factors that public choice theory must account for in its analysis of collective decision-making rules and institutions. Moreover, the members of a collective who are planning a government would be wise to take prospective rent-seeking into account.<br />
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Another major claim is that much of political activity is a form of rent-seeking which wastes resources. Gordon Tullock, Jagdish Bhagwati, and Anne Osborn Krueger have argued that rent-seeking has caused considerable waste. In a parallel line of research Fred McChesney claims that rent extraction causes considerable waste, especially in the developing world. As the term implies, rent extraction happens when officials use threats to extort payments from private parties.<br />
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Another major sub-field is the study of bureaucracy. The usual model depicts the top bureaucrats as being chosen by the chief executive and legislature, depending on whether the democratic system is presidential or parliamentary. The typical image of a bureau chief is a person on a fixed salary who is concerned with pleasing those who appointed him or her. The latter have the power to hire and fire him or her more or less at will. The bulk of the bureaucrats, however, are civil servants whose jobs and pay are protected by a civil service system against major changes by their appointed bureau chiefs. This image is often compared with that of a business owner whose profit varies with the success of production and sales, who aims to maximize profit, and who can in an ideal system hire and fire employees at will.<br />
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William Niskanen is generally considered the founder of public choice literature on the bureaucracy.<br />
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There is ideological diversity among public choice theorists regarding state. Mancur Olson for example was an advocate of a strong state and instead opposed political interest group lobbying. More generally, James Buchanan has suggested that public choice theory be interpreted as "politics without romance", a critical approach to a pervasive earlier notion of idealized politics set against market failure.<br />
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The British journalist, Alistair Cooke, commenting on the Nobel Prize awarded to James M. Buchanan in 1986, reportedly summarized the public choice view of politicians by saying, "Public choice embodies the homely but important truth that politicians are, after all, no less selfish than the rest of us."<br />
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Recognition<br />
Several notable public choice scholars have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, including James M. Buchanan (1986), George Stigler (1982), Gary Becker (1992), Vernon Smith (2002) and Elinor Ostrom (2009). In addition, James Buchanan, Vernon Smith, and Elinor Ostrom were former presidents of the Public Choice Society.<br />
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-73620864115446788272017-10-20T09:47:00.000-07:002017-10-21T03:19:47.392-07:00Goleman's New Book on Emotional Intelligence - Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence - Book Information - 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Daniel Goleman: "Focus: the Hidden Driver of Excellence" | Talks at Google<br />
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The Focused Leader<br />
Daniel Goleman<br />
HBR, THE DECEMBER 2013<br />
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7665778685949319406.post-51547497057320630432017-08-29T15:55:00.000-07:002017-08-30T06:31:59.421-07:00The American Democracy - Evolution and Issues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Robert Dahl - The dean of American political scientists (1915 - 2014)<br />
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The Future of American Democratic Politics: Principles and Practices<br />
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Nancy J. Hirschmann, Wilson McWilliams, Gordon Schochet, Jane Junn, Nelson Polsby, Jennifer Hochschild, John Hansen, Daniel Tichenor, Milton Heumann, Elizabeth Garrett, William Crotty, Alan Rosenthal, Gerald Pomper<br />
Rutgers University Press, Jul 21, 2003 - 296 pages<br />
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Even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, political scientists were assessing changes and continuities in the principles and practices of American democracy. Recent events, including the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act and the current debates about civil liberties versus homeland security, intensify the need to examine the long-term viability of democracy.<br />
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In this book, fifteen major scholars assess the current state of American democracy, offering a spirited dialogue on the future of democratic politics. Contributors focus on three principles fundamental to democracy—equality, liberty, and participation. They examine these principles within the context of the basic institutions of American democracy: Congress and the state legislatures, the president, political parties, interest groups, and the Supreme Court. They raise questions regarding the checks and balances among formal governmental institutions (with the contributors sharing concern over the fading power of the legislature and the increased power of the executive and judiciary) as well as the role of political parties and interest groups.<br />
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Topics discussed include: the incomplete mobilization of the electorate, the debates over campaign finance reform and term limits, the Supreme Court’s activist role in the Florida recount, the dangers of teledemocracy and state initiatives, the separation of political participation from residential location, “identity politics,” the clash of "negative" and "positive" liberty, and the prospects for personal freedom in an era of terrorist threats.<br />
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This timely collection covers the issues relevant to the future of American democracy today not only for lawmakers, students, and historians, but for any concerned citizen.<br />
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<a href="https://books.google.co.in/books?id=P0J6Gz5jagEC" target="_blank">https://books.google.co.in/books?id=P0J6Gz5jagEC</a><br />
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