{"product_id":"checkpoint-sociology-dipankar-gupta-9781032523392","title":"Checkpoint Sociology: A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelying on many years of fieldwork and on his involvement with several national level policy making bodies, this book presents a cultural interpretation of how public life and state interventions in India should be viewed. While commending statistical interventions in governmental decision making, it detects a marked deficiency in the understanding of how cultural factors impress upon and condition economic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTowards this end, Dipankar Gupta interrogates anti-poverty drives, labour relations, election studies and, in this process, provides a novel and helpful guide towards resolving the vexing relationship between the domains of the public and the private. In all of this, the sociological antenna is constantly at work, beeping helpful signals on how one might untangle knotty issues in public life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than anything else, this book urges policy makers to be self-consciously intersubjective in their approach and this is where sociology can make its mark. The Appendix provides a medley of situations where cultural sensitivity and the discipline of sociology prove their worth in figuring out fresh ways to resolve outstanding problems in our country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dipankar Gupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032523395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032523392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Dipankar Gupta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087514546431,"sku":"9781032523392","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46a781f7-4b00-445d-96f2-20f8827d7e39.jpg?v=1769100498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/checkpoint-sociology-dipankar-gupta-9781032523392","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}