01916nam a22001937a 4500999001700000020001800017041001300035082001900048100003000067245008900097260003400186300001600220504005100236520124600287546001201533650003601545942001201581952012901593  c37574d37574  a9781032169422  aEnglish.  a330.954bSIN-S  aSinha, Dipankar eAuthor.  aThe social sciences in a global age : bdecoding knowledge politics/cDipankar Sinha  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2021.  axxiv, 173p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThe book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium. Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science stream and focuses on its ir/relevance in our times in the background of changing state-market dialectics. It specifically scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times to reveal how the neoliberal project aligns and fuses steep economic ‘conditionalities’ with professional cultural parameters of higher academia to constrain autonomy and weaken radical expressions in social science pedagogy and research. Asserting that the humanistic core of social sciences has the potential to resist acts of reducing knowledge to a monochromatic form, the book argues that the social science stream can challenge and resist such hegemonic ambitions. It also identifies and analyses the contradictions, dilemmas, predicaments and false steps of social scientists, and avoids a reductive approach based on the ‘west versus non-west’ binary.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of the social sciences in general, and of sociology/politics of knowledge, political theory, political sociology and education in particular.  aEnlish.  aIndiaxPolitics and government.  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2023-03-16eOverseasg0.00l0o330.954 SIN-Sp53271r2023-05-09 00:00:00v0.00w2023-05-09yBK