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Andre Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. He is particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South India.
He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology since 2003.Béteille has written insightfully about all the major questions of the day: India's encounters with the West, the contest between religion and secularism, the relationship between caste and class, the links between poverty and inequality, the nurturing of public institutions, the role and responsibilities of the intellectual.
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Entropy and the idea of god(s): a philosophical approach to religion as a complex adaptive system, 1. introduction: religion as a complex adaptive system.
Remove one of the building blocks, and the adaptive functionality of the religious system will be compromised. A religious system that lacks organization (authority), fails to impart significance (meaning), forsakes ceremonial activity (ritual), maintains no limits on activity (taboo), is unable to sanctify anything (sacred), offers no beings capable of transcending the natural world (supernatural agents), does not establish social commitments (moral obligation), or provides no narrative that can link all of these elements together into an explanatory framework (myth) will ultimately falter or transform into some other kind of social institution. Notably, religious systems are impressively resistant to the elimination of one of their core building blocks… ( Purzycki and Sosis 2022, pp. 146–7 )
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3. entropy and religious systems, 4. a philosophical turn in the systems theory of religion: entropy and the idea of god(s), 5. conclusions: why religions persist, institutional review board statement, informed consent statement, data availability statement, conflicts of interest.
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This collection of essays on sociology is the first by Beteille who has taught the subject his entire working career. The collection covers numerous essays on the definitions and scope of the subject, on its value in studying politics, economics and religion, on the comparative method, and on the relationship between sociology and science.
Essays on Approach and Method. : André Béteille. OUP India, Mar 5, 2009 - Social Science - 323 pages. This collection reflects André Béteille's long career in teaching and research in a single institutional setting as a scholar of sociology. With a new introduction, two new essays and a new appendix, the second edition emphasizes that ...
Books. Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method. André Béteille. Oxford University Press, 2002 - Social Science - 286 pages. Covering numerous issues on the definitions and scope of sociology, this volume addresses its value in politics, economics, and religion; in the true comparative method; and in the relationship between sociology and ...
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Covering numerous issues on the definitions and scope of sociology, this volume addresses its value in politics, economics, and religion; in the true comparative method; and in the relationship between sociology and science. It is an invaluable resource for all sociologists, as well as for all teachers and students of sociology.
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These essays reflect Andr© B©teille's central concerns as a teacher and scholar of sociology. They examine the nature and scope of the discipline including its distinctive conception as an intellectual pursuit and its relation to associated fields of anthropology, economics and political science.
Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method. This collection of essays on sociology is the first by Beteille who has taught the subject his entire working career. The collection covers numerous essays on the definitions and scope of the subject, on its value in studying politics, economics and religion, on the comparative method, and on the ...
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Despite important differences in aims and method, which are perhaps more clear now. they were 50 years ago, economics and sociology have a great deal to contribute to. other. Rather than on what sociology has contributed or can contribute to economics, paper dwells on the contribution of economics to the development of sociology. ANDRE BETEILLE.
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In 2006, following a proposal for increasing caste-based reservations, Andre Beteille quit the Commission in protest. In 2006, he was made National Professor.His famous books are : Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, 2002. Antinomies of Society: Essays on Ideologies and Institutions, 2000. Chronicles of Our Time, Penguin Books, 2000.
Covering numerous issues on the definitions and scope of sociology, this volume addresses its value in politics, economics, and religion; in the true comparative method; and in the relationship between sociology and science. It is an invaluable resource for all sociologists, as well as for all teachers and students of sociology.
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While a universal definition of religion eludes the field of religious studies, it certainty seems that people are becoming differently religious rather than a-religious, especially since the latter half of the twentieth century. To explain the enduring relevance of religion in human experience, this article expands on recent evolutionary and sociological research in the systems theory of ...