About the Book

This book is first of the four-volume series of the Festschrift in honour of one of the most eminent stalwarts of sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh. The present volume outlines not only his academic journey and the worldview of his ideas on the relevance of Western scholars but also the major concerns and challenges before the sociologists in India, then as well as now, more so in the context of globalization. Several contributors to this volume have extensively and critically reflected on his academic contributions and his personality and have also examined how sociology is transforming in the wake of globalization.

Taking into cognizance the thrust of this volume entitled Modernization, Globalization and Social Transformation almost all the contributors have focused their papers not only on the conceptual dimensions of the concerned phenomena and their interlinkages but have also discussed in detail the relationship of these phenomena with other contemporary social and sociological concerns such as marginalization, social movements, middle class, culture and consumer culture, technology, ethnicity, and even global society and risk society. Issues of modernity and postmodernity have also been analysed in a wider context.

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About the Author / Editor

Ishwar Modi is Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences. He was also the Founder Director, Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and a Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Health Management Research. A pioneer of leisure studies in India, he is an Honorary Life Member of the World Leisure Organization and also a Senior Fellow and Founder Member of the World Leisure Academy. He is currently an Executive Committee Member of the International Sociological Association and President of its Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure and a Board Member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Health. He is also the President of the Indian Sociological Society, and has also served as Secretary of the Indian Sociological Society (2007-2009) and President, Rajasthan Sociological Association (2005-2009). He is also on the Editorial/Editorial Advisory Boards of quite a few national and international journals.

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