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Suguna Pathy
Department of Sociology, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat-395007, India.
E-mail:sugunapathy@gmail.com.
Anthropology in general has colonial roots and these influences are still in existence. British colonial policy in Africa and Asia began to change in the 1930s thus, it was suddenly decided to “develop” the colonies. This paper is aimed at objectively studying the process of change without committing itself to any particular policy. The skepticism of colonialism and its arrogant assumption of omniscience and opposition to the existing social order were analyzed. The colonial regime was engaged in the expansion of cash economy and missionary approach. Accordingly anthropologists were cast into the mould of the colonial stereotypes and monolithic notions with functionalist overtones which were the keynote of the colonial anthropology of that time. The functionalist studies dealt with family life, customs, folklore, economic activities and religion. Subsequently, several monographs emerged on the gamut of culture and integration emphasizing diffusionism. The studies were largely based on relations between the individuals occupying specific roles in social structure. By and large, anthropological studies have completely ignored the genesis and basis of social relations, class formation, conflict, contradictions and the question of gender in particular. Precisely this is the crucial point which economic anthropology-formalism, substantivism, structuralism and materialism approach, respectively. In the present exercise an attempt is made to briefly appraise these schools of thought. Continue reading Diverse approaches in economic anthropology: Some reflections
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)
Occasional Paper Number 23, February 2005; Center for the Advanced Study of India
(…)Strobe Talbott was President Clinton’s “point man” in the intensive talks between India and Pakistan in the two and a half years that followed the nuclear tests you will all recall, in May 1998. The immediate results of those tests, coming on top of decades of estrangement, was what has been charitably described as an acrimonious standoff between India and the United States. Efforts to dig out from that deep and dangerous hole led to the most intensive diplomatic engagement ever between the U.S. and India. Deputy Secretary Talbott and Minister of External Affairs, Jaswant Singh, met no less than 14 times, in seven countries and on three continents. Their efforts, and the mutual trust they were able to develop, were major contributors to the reduction of tensions between India and Pakistan, tensions which many feared at the time could lead to nuclear holocaust (…) Continue reading From Estrangement to Engagement: U.S. – India Relations since May 1998
The High Growth Economy and Why it is Sustainable.
Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal
Founder, Chairman, and Group Managing, Director, Bharti Enterprises /// Center for the Advanced Study of India- Occasional Paper No. 25, February 2006.
Introduction by Dr. Francine R. Frankel
(Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India)
I am Francine Frankel, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, and it is my great pleasure this evening to introduce our speaker for CASI’s Annual Lecture, Sunil Bharti Mittal, the founder, chairman, and group managing director, Bharti Enterprises. I hardly need tell this audience that Bharti Tele-Ventures is India’s leading telecom conglomerate and its largest mobile service operator. Continue reading India’s New Entrepreneurial Classes:
Summer 2010  The EU’s enthusiasm for reshaping global governance has dwindled, and now looks more like indifference. Pedro Solbes and Richard Youngs warn that the EU not only risks the debate being shaped elsewhere but may even find itself left out of the discussion altogether.
The reform of global economic governance is still firmly on policymakers’ radar screens, but there is little evidence that since London’s G20 Summit in April last year the EU has developed a forward-looking or coherent approach to the new forms of global governance that G20 leaders had committed to. Continue reading Europe is failing to shape the global governance debate
By Richard Youngs*
FRIDE
Democracy assistance needs to be re-energised. The author lays out the main concerns of civil society organisations in states on the receiving end of democracy support and offers recommendations on how to improve donor strategies and design more demand-led policies. Continue reading How to revitalise democracy assistance: Recipients’views
Some New Cross-National Evidence
Arno Tausch*
Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2010
Abstract
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of dependency theory and world systems theory for eight dimensions of development. The main emphasis is on indicators of sustainable development, and our essay comprises in all 36 main dependent variables. They are part of the dimensions of democracy, gender justice, high quality tertiary education, economic growth during the outgone economic cycle until 2008 and projected economic growth after 2009, the environment, human development, employment, and social cohesion on a global scale by a new. Our 175 nation analysis, using 20 main predictors of development tries to confront the very basic pro-globalist assumptions of the “Lisbon process”, the policy target of the European leaders since the EU’s Lisbon Council meeting in March 2000 to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a “globalization critical perspective”. A realistic and politically useful analysis of the “Lisbon process” has to be a “Schumpeterian” approach. We analyze the “Lisbon performance” of the world economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists between the dependent insertion into the global economy and other goals of the “Lisbon process”. Continue reading Passive Globalization and the Failure of the European Union’s Lisbon Strategy, 2000-2010:
A Treatise ON THE ORIGIN AND SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY
Lester F. Ward
From the PREFACE
I make no claim to priority in the use of the term pure sociology. It is but natural that those who regard sociology as a science should divide the science, as other sciences are divided, into the two natural departments, pure and applied. But as the term „pure sociology“ has been freely used for several years by certain European sociologists, it seems proper to explain that the matter for this work has been accumulating in my hands for many years. I should perhaps rather say that sociological material has been long pouring in upon me, and that the first classification that was made of it was into such as related to the origin, nature, and genetic or spontaneous development of society, and such as related to means and methods for the artificial improvement of social conditions on the part of man and society as conscious and intelligent agents. The first of these classes I naturally called pure sociology, the second, applied sociology. Continue reading PURE SOCIOLOGY
An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society
by Abner Cohen
Proposes guidelines for the analysis of the causal interconnections between the cultural diversity of American cities and the struggle for economic and political power among the various groups in the cities…
Abner Cohen (1921-2001) was, before his retirement, Professor of African Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University. His books include The Politics Of Elite Culture (1981) and Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure Of Urban Cultural Movements (1993).
- Pub. Date: March 1977
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 168pp
Continue reading Two-Dimensional Man
By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Social science research should lead to a better understanding of current societal developments and enable policy makers to propose solutions to problems and design policies that can serve the public more effectively. Governments are increasingly aware of the need and opportunities to improve the contribution of social science knowledge to policy making and are keen to realise this potential. Can the social sciences act as an agent of societal change? How can they contribute to social practice? How can their policy relevance be increased? Can best practice in other research fields and economic sectors be a source of inspiration on new approaches to sharing knowledge? And how can the divide between the two communities – social scientists and decision makers – be narrowed? These are some of the enduring questions tackled by academics and policy makers at the Workshop on the Contribution of Social Sciences to Knowledge and Decision Making, Bruges, 26-28 June 2000. Continue reading Social sciences for knowledge and decision making
By Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais
What is social sciences research? 3
Towards problem formulation 29
Conceptualization and operationa…57
America’s dangerous devotion to executive power 
Gene Healy.
From the introduction:
On the morning of January 28, 2007, Mike Huckabee went on NBC’s Meet the Press to announce that he was running for president of the United States. It was a bold move for an undistinguished former governor of Arkansas, best known for losing 110 pounds in office and writing about it in a book called Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork. Bolder still was Huckabee’s rationale for seeking the nation’s highest office. He had decided to run, he told host Tim Russert, because ‘‘America needs positive, optimistic leadership to kind of turn this country around, to see a revival of our national soul.’’ Russert didn’t make the most of his opportunity for follow-up questions, but the candidate’s remark might have suggested several. First, was the ‘‘national soul’’ really in such a desperate state that its last, best hope was . . . Mike Huckabee? Second, and more importantly, what sort of office did Huckabee imagine he was running for? Is reviving the national soul in the job description? And if reviving the national soul is part of the president’s job, what isn’t?
The Bipartisan Romance with the Imperial Presidency Huckabee wasn’t the only candidate to wax messianic about the president’s role. His fellow contestants in campaign 2008 also seemed to think they were applying for the job of national savior. Senator John McCain invoked Teddy Roosevelt as a role model, noting that TR ‘‘liberally interpreted the constitutional authority of the office,’’ and ‘‘nourished the soul of a great nation.’’ Senator Barack Obama ran on ‘‘the audacity of hope,’’ a phrase connoting the eternal promise of redemption through presidential politics (is ‘‘audacity’’ the right word for that kind of hope?). For her part, Hillary Clinton seemed to see the president as the lone figure who could restore a sense of purpose to American life: as she put it in May 2007, ‘‘When I ask people, ‘What do you think the goals of America are today?’ people don’t have any idea. We don’t know what we’re trying to achieve. And I think that in a life or in a country you’ve got to have some goals.’’ (…) Continue reading The Cult of The Presidency
BY: JAMES QUAYLE DEALEY,
AND LESTER FRANK WARD,
THIS work is the outcome of a demand for a short text-book that would contain in essence a clear and concise statement of the field of sociology, its scientific basis, its principles as far as these are at present known, and its purposes. In the preparation of this book emphasis has been placed on three points: first, on the social forces as the dynamic agent working unconsciously toward natural individual ends and consciously toward collective achievement under the direction of the intellect; second, on the importance of material achievement as the basis of psychical development, and on the necessity of systematic general instruction in the fundamental principles of knowledge as a basis for right social life; and third, on the arrangement of the material so as to facilitate its use for purposes of reading clubs and classes. Continue reading A TEXT-BOOK OF SOCIOLOGY
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