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https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/5025| Title: | Sociology as a Quest for a Good Society |
| Authors: | Giri, Ananta Kumar |
| Keywords: | Good society social creativity Dynamic harmony Dynamic sunyata Quest for wholeness |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2011 |
| Publisher: | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata |
| Series/Report no.: | Vol. 17;No. 1 |
| Abstract: | Quest for a good society has a long pedigree in sociological thought and critical reflections. It vibrates with many themes of liberation, morality and justice in classical sociology as pioneered by thinkers such as Marx and Durkheim and themes of decent society and creative society in recent theoretical discourses. The present essay discusses this quest for a good society in contemporary social sciences with a detailed discussion of the work of Robert N. Bellah, the pre-eminent sociologist of our times. It discusses Bellah’s quest for a good society in Japan and the US and in the process it discusses related themes such as dynamic harmony and dynamic sunyata. |
| Description: | Ananta Kumar Giri, PhD, is at Madras Institute of Development Studies,
79, Second Main Road, Gandhi Nagar,Adyar, Chennai 600020, India.
E-mail: aumkrishna@yahoo.com; aumkrishna@gmail.com. p. 1–22 |
| URI: | https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/5025 https://doi.org/10.1177/097168581001700101 |
| ISSN: | 0971-6858(print version) |
| Appears in Collections: | Issue 1, April 2011 |
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