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This paper presents findings from an extensive review of literature on organizational cultural (OC) and highlights the …
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Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
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This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...
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The impressive growth of the Indian media is largely taking place outside of the voting classes, ensuring that the media are not playing a significant public service role. Ultimately, the author suggests that a new media model is needed, one which balances its profit motive with coverage of...
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The sociology of sport has a history of academic marginalisation: for being a sociological study of an activity … prioritised for its physical, rather than socio-cultural attributes; and for being a study of an area of life associated with â … sociology of sport slowly emerged as an area deemed worthy of serious scholarly attention. …
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This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that a) the caste system and …
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If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The...
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The 2nd and 3rd NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW -- INDIA has just been submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee and is coming up for review in January 2007 in New York. Each of the chapters in the Reports point to the widespread practices of discrimination and social exclusion of women and provide...
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This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social†(or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it. The argument in this paper proceeds as follows. In recognizing that poverty is...
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In 2001, it is estimated that 270 million Indians belonged in the 12-24 years age group. While attention is being focused on these young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on...
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