MODERNITY, GLOBALIZATION, AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

The book provides a crisp conceptual view of modernity, globalization and social stratification in the beginning. Then, in Part I, it deliberates in detail on the idea of modernity and theories of modernism and post-modernism. Against this backdrop, it looks at sociologically in Part II on the substantive issues of environment, climate change, Indian diaspora, Sansis tribal community, Covid-19, science, technology and society. In Part III, it discusses some aspects of caste stratification and social mobility, particularly of SCs, in post-Independence India. The volume shows that India does not conform to the universalist hypothesis of Western modernity. There is seen a hiatus in the external and internal features of modernity/globalization prevailing in the country. Hence, India emerges as one of the versions of multiple modernities in the world. It is felt that given the serious global risks in the age of capitalist globalization confronting the country like the whole world, there is a need of radical shift in the LPG paradigm of development reigning today to avert the risks and attain a just and sustainable future for all. Considering the wide range of important issues deliberated here, the book would be useful to graduate and postgraduate students and research scholars in sociology, social anthropology, development studies and also to policy analysts, policy makers, and activists.