Creative social research : rethinking theories and methods /
edited by Ananta Kumar Giri.
- xxxii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : some observations on new directions in creative social research / Introduction : the calling of creative social research : rethinking theories and methods / Articulating the world : social movements, the self-transcendence of society and the question of culture / Towards liberative social sciences : dialogues with liberation theology / Caring for economics / Rethinking modernist historiography / Rethinking comparative politics : towards a critique of neo-statism in third world studies / Studying 'rural development' politically / The irrelevance of methodology and the art of the possible : reading Sen and Hirschman / Gandhian economic method and the challenge of expediency / Experiments in creative research : efforts a combine participatory with conventional methodology / On 'studying up' : thoughts on method / Moral premises and theoretical musings : ontology of a journey / Humanities and social sciences in the new millennium : theorization in/for society as play / Trans-disciplinary methods and tools of experiment : insights from the philosophical traditions of Buddhism and Vedanta / Second-order creativity in research : exploring an action-oriented perspective / Interdisciplinarity : building bridges and nurturing a complex ecology of ideas / The calling of a creative transdisciplinarity / S. N. Eisenstadt -- Ananta Kumar Giri -- Martin Fuchs -- Felix Wilfred -- Irene van Staveren -- Ananta Kumar Giri -- Supriya RoyChowdhury -- John Harriss -- Achin Chakraborty -- Narendar Pani -- Walter Fernandes -- Gideon M. Kressel -- Chitra Sivakumar -- Binod Kumar Agarwala -- Godabarisha Mishra -- D. P. Dash -- Des Gasper -- Ananta Kumar Giri. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
"Creative Social Research calls for a fundamental reconceptualization and transformation of contemporary research methods in the social sciences. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines and geographies establish the ways in which the traditions of non-Western societies and contemporary global developments can be incorporated into current social science discourse, greatly enriching it beyond most of the existing paradigms and approaches. Creative Social Research sheds new light on social theory and calls for a new articulation of the practice and ideal of understanding at the levels of self, culture, and society."--BOOK JACKET.