Revisiting Social Theory : Challenges and Possibilities (Paperback)

Introduction??Part I: New Currents in Social Theory??1. What is social theory?? 2. Social theory today: Revisiting hope? 3. Empathy between sociology and social neuroscience: New perspectives for an applied sociology? 4. Applying Graeber’s extension of Mauss’ The Gift to the study of international relations? 5. Towards a socio-phenomenological approach to empathy? 6. Contemporary contributions to critiques of political economy and alternative planetary futures: Political economy, moral economy, moral sociology, spiritual ecology and beyond??Part II: Social Theory and the Context of Neo-liberalism??7. New media, popular culture and social theory? 8. Social and political theory in the times of neo-liberalism? 9. Revisiting Gellnerian theory of nation and Nationalism? 10. Neoliberal environmentalism and social theory: Constructing myth over reality? 11. Identity, values and consumption practices? 12. Legitimizing menstrual leave at workplace: Documenting the sociological theories explanations??Part III: Issues and Challenges for Social Theory from India??13. Theorising Contemporary Vernacular politics in Northeast India and its Sociology? 14. Eco-feminism in the context of tribal society? 15. Theorizing better: A debate of theory and practice in the context of an Indigenous setting