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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Salient features of A.R. Desai’s Marxist Sociology.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

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What makes A. R. Desai's work Marxist is not only its conclusions about India but its position on sociology itself. Writing when American structural-functionalism and British functionalism dominated the discipline, he observed that the approaches ruling Indian sociology were non-Marxist and that Marxism had been dismissed in advance as dogmatic, value-loaded and deterministic. His reply…

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  • Marxism claimed as the relevant approach for the discipline
  • Rejection of value-neutrality
  • Critique of structural-functionalism
  • Critique of Indology
  • Historical specificity and empirical application
  • Limitations
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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