Towards total revolution: search for an ideology

By:

Narayan,Jayaprakash

Contributor(s):

Brahmanand (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bombay; Popular; 1978Description: 268pSubject(s):

Socialism

DDC classification:

BR 320.5 JAY 1998

Summary: A tall, young student from India was set to write a dissertation on "Cultural Variation" for his Master's degree at the Ohio University. There is a difference between a 'social quack' and a 'social scientist,' he asserted. "The aim of science," he wrote, "is often said to be the discovery of Truth."1 "But," he added, "to a more mundane nature, the chief purpose of science appears to be to make human life fuller and richer, to rid it of its inner and outer limitations, to endow it with comfort, health, beauty, to render it more creative, more rational."2 A 'social scientist' is not a 'social quack,' and the primary function of a sociologist is the "study of social or cultural change." To understand this one has to study the factors of cultural variations.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	BR 320.5 JAY 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		14030

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A tall, young student from India was set to write a dissertation on "Cultural Variation" for his Master's degree at the Ohio University. There is a difference between a 'social quack' and a 'social scientist,' he asserted. "The aim of science," he wrote, "is often said to be the discovery of Truth."1 "But," he added, "to a more mundane nature, the chief purpose of science appears to be to make human life fuller and richer, to rid it of its inner and outer limitations, to endow it with comfort, health, beauty, to render it more creative, more rational."2
A 'social scientist' is not a 'social quack,' and the primary function of a sociologist is the "study of social or cultural change." To understand this one has to study the factors of cultural variations.

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