Introduction -- First impressions -- Trading robots and social cues -- Animating the market -- Models and reflexivity -- Managers -- Performative spirals -- Norms -- Resonance -- The global financial crisis -- Scandal -- When all is said and done -- Conclusion.

This three-volume collection of studies carried out by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) contains relevant and dominant streams of researches conducted in sociology and social anthropology during the last decade. It looks at the history of Indian sociology presenting its...