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Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 [1] – 11 August 1970) was an Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India.She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, the founder of sociology in India.
Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (16 November 1916 – 30 November 1999) [1] was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. [2] He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'.
G S Ghurye was born, in a Saraswat Brahmin community [5] on 12 December 1893, at Malvan, in present-day Maharashtra. [2] His early schooling was at the Aryan Education Society's High School, Girgaum, in Bombay, and then at Bahadur Khanji High School, Junagadh, in the princely state of Junagadh. [2]
French translation of The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex: "L'économie politique du sexe. Transactions sur les femmes et systèmes de sexe/genre"; Cahiers du CEDREF, no. 7. Gayle S. Rubin, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory Of the Politics of Sexuality "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex"
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois.
There are three conditions for a social class to be steady, that of class cohesiveness, the self-consciousness of classes, and the self-awareness of one's own class. [3] It is also important in the modern study of organizations, as an organization's structure may determine its flexibility, capacity to change, and success.
Social Theory and Social Structure (STSS) was a landmark publication in sociology by Robert K. Merton. It has been translated into close to 20 languages and is one of the most frequently cited texts in social sciences. [1] It was first published in 1949, although revised editions of 1957 and 1968 are often cited.
While the structure–agency debate has been a central issue in social theory, and recent theoretical reconciliation attempts have been made, structure–agency theory has tended to develop more in European countries by European theorists, while social theorists from the United States have tended to focus instead on the issue of integration ...