Hindu Social Organization
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-93-86042-23-1 (ISBN)
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This comprehensive, systematic and integrated exposition of Hindu social psychology and institutions provides a vivid understanding of the difficult subject. The author has shown with remarkable clarity and lucidity how Hindu civilization has influenced society to form a distinct cultural pattern of its own. Hindu Social Organization has been received with acclaim by a number of very important social scientists in India as well as in Europe and America. It is not only a pioneering attempt but has remained unsurpassed till date. This edition bears proof of its eminence in retaining the foreword to the first edition of this book written by Dr S. Radhakrishnan.
Key Features:
· The present study talks about constructing a picture of the Hindu social organization and institutions from the point of view of their socio-psychological foundations and implications.
· It deals with the many topics of education, marriage, family, place of women in Hindu society, the system of caste, with accurate learning and great discrimination.
· The present essay, we shall endeavour to visualize in details the basic conditioning factors that ruled not only the earlier phases of Indian culture and civilization, but have gone so deep into the social psychology of the Hindus that they continue to dominate his life and conduct, in a large measure, even to this day.
· This book gives us definite glimpses of what may be called the ideological and valuation foundations of those social institutions.
· It describe ideas, ideals and aspirations so as to re-set and reconstruct the several strata of the social structure that have been evolving in Hindu life and conduct.
Note: Now this ISBN-9788171542062 has a new identity.
Pandharinath H. Prabhu studied at the University of Bombay and later in the Universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Columbia in U.S.A.; in Cambridge University in England; and in the Centre d’Etudes et Recherches Psychotechniques in Paris, France. He taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay; at Gujarat University where he was the first Director of its School of Psychology, Education and Philosophy from 1958–67; as Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Pennsylvania State University in 1961–62; and in the State University of New York at Oswego, N.Y. in 1969–71; as Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Psychology at the Australian National University in 1970; and as Senior Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1972–75). He was Visiting Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla (1975–77). In 1956–57 he was Senior Research Officer at the UNESCO Research Centre for South and Southeast Asia. In 1963 he was elected President of the Section of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Indian Sciences Congress, Golden Jubilee Session.
Foreword by Dr S Radhakrishna
Extracts from Preface to the First Edition
Extracts from Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
A Word on the Fourth Edition
Prologue
The Bases of Human Relations—The Problem of Existence and Its Implications
The Social Psychology of the System of the Four Asramas
The Social Psychology of Education
Marriage
The Family
Attitude towards the Woman—And Her Place in the Society
The Four Varnas
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.09.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 360 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 93-86042-23-1 / 9386042231 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-93-86042-23-1 / 9789386042231 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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