Category: Reading List

Sex-selective abortions in India

October 25, 2015 / Nilesh

Bhalotra, S., and Cochrane, T. (2011). ‘Where have all the Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex Selection in India’, CMPO Working Paper No. 10/254. [online]. Accessed from: http://www.bris.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/wp254.pdf Accessed on October 15 2015.
Chaudhury, S. (2013). Indian family planning posters from the 1950s. Accessed from:http://www.cuttingthechai.com/2013/03/6167/indian-family-planning-posters-from-the-1950s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CuttingTheChai+%28Cutting+the+Chai%29#
Center for Industrial & Economic Research (CIER) and Industrial Techno-Economic Services P. Ltd (INTECOS) (2006). Demand of ultrasound scanners in India. [online]. Accessed from: https://sites.google.com/site/saheliorgsite/health/sex-selective-abortion/the-business-of-sex-selection-1 Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Chandran, D. (2006). The richer the district, the poorer the sex ratio. Infochange – Population. [online]. Accessed from: http://infochangeindia.org/population/books-a-reports/the-richer-the-district-the-poorer-the-sex-ratio.html
Dhawan, H. (2015). PM Modi launches ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign, says female foeticide is a sign of ‘mental illness’. The Times of India, January 23 2015. [online]. Accessed from: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Modi-launches-Beti-Bachao-Beti-Padhao-campaign-says-female-foeticide-is-a-sign-of-mental-illness/articleshow/45985741.cms Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Department of Electronics (2003). Guide to electronics industry in India. Government of India. [online]. Accessed from: https://sites.google.com/site/saheliorgsite/health/sex-selective-abortion/the-business-of-sex-selection-1 Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Desai, S. (1994). Gender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior: India. New York: Population Council.
Eberstadt, N. (2011). The Global War Against Baby Girls. The New Atlantis; Number 33, pp. 3-18, Accessed from: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-global-war-against-baby-girls Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Hvistendahl, M. (2011). Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. New York: Public Affairs.
Internet and Mobile Association of India (Iamai) and IMRB International (2014). ‘Internet in India 2014’. Accessed from: http://www.imrbint.com/old/media/45..pdf Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. (2008). National
Family Health Survey (NFHS 3), 2005-06: India. Mumbai: IIPS.
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. (2001). National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2), 1998-99: India. Mumbai: IIPS.
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. (1995). National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2), 1992-93: India. Mumbai: IIPS.
Jha, P., Kesler, M., Kumar, R., et al. (2011). Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011. The Lancet; DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60649-1.
Katz, N. (2006). Abortion in India: Selecting by Gender. The Washington Post. May 20 2006. Accessed from:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901219.htmlAccessed on Oct 2 2015
McKinsey Global Institute (2015). How equality for women can drive global growth. [online]. Accessed from:https://public.tableau.com/profile/mckinsey.analytics#!/vizhome/MGIGenderParityandtheEconomyDashboards/MGIGenderParityandtheEconomyAccessed on Oct 15 2015.
Mascarenhas, A. (2015). PCPNDT Act: Beed doctor couple get four years’ RI. The Indian Express. June 17 2015. Accessed from:http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/pcpndt-act-beed-doctor-couple-get-four-years-ri/ Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Women and Child Development (2015). Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme. [online]. Accessed from: http://wcd.nic.in/BBBPScheme/main.htm Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2015) PCPNDT Act. [online]. Accessed from:http://www.pndt.gov.in/ Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2014) National Commission on Population. [online]. Accessed from:http://populationcommission.nic.in/content/933_1_LiteracyRate.aspx Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. (2011). Family Welfare Statistics in India, 2011. New Delhi: Government of India.
Mulay, S., and Nagarajan, R. (2004) A Study of Ultrasound Sonography Centres in Maharashtra. Population Research Centre. Accessed from: http://prcs-mohfw.nic.in/showprcdetail.asp?id=242 Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Medical Materials Clearinghouse at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs (1992). Big Family: Problems all the way, Small family: Happiness all the way, 1992, from the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/population-campaign.html on 19th October, 2015.
National Health Mission (2015). Posters on Family Planning Communication. Accessed from: http://nrhm.gov.in/images/pdf/programmes/family-planing/IEC/print/1.jpgAccessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2014). SRS Bulletin. [online]. Accessed from:http://censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/SRS_Bulletins/SRS%20Bulletin%20-Sepetember%202014.pdf Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2012). Estimates of Mortality Indicators. [online]. Accessed from:http://www.censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/SRS_Report_2012/11_Chap_4_2012.pdfAccessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2011). Census of India. [online]. Accessed from: http://censusindia.gov.in/ Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2011). Maternal & Child Mortality and Total Fertility Rates: Sample Registration System (SRS). [online]. Accessed from:http://censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/SRS_Bulletins/MMR_release_070711.pdf Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2011). Provisional Population Totals. [online]. Accessed from:http://censusindia.gov.in/Data_Products/Library/Provisional_Population_Total_link/PDF_Links/chapter6.pdf Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Express News Service (2014) PM Modi takes leaf from Batra book: Mahabharat genetics, Lord Ganesha surgery, The Indian Express, retrieved on 9th November, 2015 from http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/pm-takes-leaf-from-batra-book-mahabharat-genetics-lord-ganesha-surgery/
Planning Commission (2014). Report of the expert group on review of the methodology used for th measurement of poverty. New Delhi: Government of India.
Puri, S. (2005). ‘What were our parents thinking?’ South Asian students ponder the mysteries and inequities of sex selection. UC Berkeley News Center. [online]. Accessed from: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/students/2005/gender/gender5.shtmlAccessed on Oct 2 2015.
Reddy, S (2015). India’s Aspirations for Universal Health Coverage. N Engl J Med; 373:1-5.
Rahman, M. (2014). Indian prime minister claims genetic science existed in ancient times. The Guardian. Oct 28 2014. Accessed from:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/indian-prime-minister-genetic-science-existed-ancient-times Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Siddhanta, P. (2009). Poverty line fluctuates with conflicting data. The Indian Express. August 20 2009. [online]. Accessed from:http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/poverty-line-fluctuates-with-conflicting-data/504141/ Accessed on Oct 25 2015.
Sen, A. (2003). Missing women—revisited: Reduction in female mortality has been counterbalanced by sex selective abortions. BMJ; 327(7427): 1297–1298.
UNFPA (2012). Sex imbalances at birth: Current trends, consequences and policy implications. Thailand: UNFPA – Asia and Pacific Regional Office.
WHO (2013). Out-of-pocket expenditure on health as a percentage of private expenditure on health (US$) – Situation and trends. [online]. Accessed from:http://www.who.int/gho/health_financing/out_pocket_expenditure/en/ Accessed on: Oct 1 2015.
World Bank (2012). World development report 2012 – Gender Equality and Development. Washington DC: The World Bank.
Wonacott, P. ( 2007) India’s Skewed Sex Ratio Puts GE Sales in Spotlight. The Wall Street Journal. Accessed from: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117683530238872926Accessed on Oct 2 2015.

Sex-selective abortions in India

October 19, 2015 / Dharmendra Singh

Bhalotra, S., and Cochrane, T. (2011). ‘Where have all the Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex Selection in India’, CMPO Working Paper No. 10/254. [online]. Accessed from: http://www.bris.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/wp254.pdf Accessed on October 15 2015.
Chaudhury, S. (2013). Indian family planning posters from the 1950s. Accessed from:http://www.cuttingthechai.com/2013/03/6167/indian-family-planning-posters-from-the-1950s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CuttingTheChai+%28Cutting+the+Chai%29#
Center for Industrial & Economic Research (CIER) and Industrial Techno-Economic Services P. Ltd (INTECOS) (2006). Demand of ultrasound scanners in India. [online]. Accessed from: https://sites.google.com/site/saheliorgsite/health/sex-selective-abortion/the-business-of-sex-selection-1 Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Chandran, D. (2006). The richer the district, the poorer the sex ratio. Infochange – Population. [online]. Accessed from: http://infochangeindia.org/population/books-a-reports/the-richer-the-district-the-poorer-the-sex-ratio.html
Dhawan, H. (2015). PM Modi launches ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign, says female foeticide is a sign of ‘mental illness’. The Times of India, January 23 2015. [online]. Accessed from: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Modi-launches-Beti-Bachao-Beti-Padhao-campaign-says-female-foeticide-is-a-sign-of-mental-illness/articleshow/45985741.cms Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Department of Electronics (2003). Guide to electronics industry in India. Government of India. [online]. Accessed from: https://sites.google.com/site/saheliorgsite/health/sex-selective-abortion/the-business-of-sex-selection-1 Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Desai, S. (1994). Gender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior: India. New York: Population Council.
Eberstadt, N. (2011). The Global War Against Baby Girls. The New Atlantis; Number 33, pp. 3-18, Accessed from: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-global-war-against-baby-girls Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Hvistendahl, M. (2011). Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. New York: Public Affairs.
Internet and Mobile Association of India (Iamai) and IMRB International (2014). ‘Internet in India 2014’. Accessed from: http://www.imrbint.com/old/media/45..pdf Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. (2008). National
Family Health Survey (NFHS 3), 2005-06: India. Mumbai: IIPS.
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. (2001). National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2), 1998-99: India. Mumbai: IIPS.
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. (1995). National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2), 1992-93: India. Mumbai: IIPS.
Jha, P., Kesler, M., Kumar, R., et al. (2011). Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011. The Lancet; DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60649-1.
Katz, N. (2006). Abortion in India: Selecting by Gender. The Washington Post. May 20 2006. Accessed from:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901219.htmlAccessed on Oct 2 2015
McKinsey Global Institute (2015). How equality for women can drive global growth. [online]. Accessed from:https://public.tableau.com/profile/mckinsey.analytics#!/vizhome/MGIGenderParityandtheEconomyDashboards/MGIGenderParityandtheEconomyAccessed on Oct 15 2015.
Mascarenhas, A. (2015). PCPNDT Act: Beed doctor couple get four years’ RI. The Indian Express. June 17 2015. Accessed from:http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/pcpndt-act-beed-doctor-couple-get-four-years-ri/ Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Women and Child Development (2015). Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme. [online]. Accessed from: http://wcd.nic.in/BBBPScheme/main.htm Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2015) PCPNDT Act. [online]. Accessed from:http://www.pndt.gov.in/ Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2014) National Commission on Population. [online]. Accessed from:http://populationcommission.nic.in/content/933_1_LiteracyRate.aspx Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. (2011). Family Welfare Statistics in India, 2011. New Delhi: Government of India.
Mulay, S., and Nagarajan, R. (2004) A Study of Ultrasound Sonography Centres in Maharashtra. Population Research Centre. Accessed from: http://prcs-mohfw.nic.in/showprcdetail.asp?id=242 Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Medical Materials Clearinghouse at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs (1992). Big Family: Problems all the way, Small family: Happiness all the way, 1992, from the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/population-campaign.html on 19th October, 2015.
National Health Mission (2015). Posters on Family Planning Communication. Accessed from: http://nrhm.gov.in/images/pdf/programmes/family-planing/IEC/print/1.jpgAccessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2014). SRS Bulletin. [online]. Accessed from:http://censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/SRS_Bulletins/SRS%20Bulletin%20-Sepetember%202014.pdf Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2012). Estimates of Mortality Indicators. [online]. Accessed from:http://www.censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/SRS_Report_2012/11_Chap_4_2012.pdfAccessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2011). Census of India. [online]. Accessed from: http://censusindia.gov.in/ Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2011). Maternal & Child Mortality and Total Fertility Rates: Sample Registration System (SRS). [online]. Accessed from:http://censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/SRS_Bulletins/MMR_release_070711.pdf Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (2011). Provisional Population Totals. [online]. Accessed from:http://censusindia.gov.in/Data_Products/Library/Provisional_Population_Total_link/PDF_Links/chapter6.pdf Accessed on Oct 2 2015.
Express News Service (2014) PM Modi takes leaf from Batra book: Mahabharat genetics, Lord Ganesha surgery, The Indian Express, retrieved on 9th November, 2015 from http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/pm-takes-leaf-from-batra-book-mahabharat-genetics-lord-ganesha-surgery/
Planning Commission (2014). Report of the expert group on review of the methodology used for th measurement of poverty. New Delhi: Government of India.
Puri, S. (2005). ‘What were our parents thinking?’ South Asian students ponder the mysteries and inequities of sex selection. UC Berkeley News Center. [online]. Accessed from: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/students/2005/gender/gender5.shtmlAccessed on Oct 2 2015.
Reddy, S (2015). India’s Aspirations for Universal Health Coverage. N Engl J Med; 373:1-5.
Rahman, M. (2014). Indian prime minister claims genetic science existed in ancient times. The Guardian. Oct 28 2014. Accessed from:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/indian-prime-minister-genetic-science-existed-ancient-times Accessed on: Oct 2 2015.
Siddhanta, P. (2009). Poverty line fluctuates with conflicting data. The Indian Express. August 20 2009. [online]. Accessed from:http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/poverty-line-fluctuates-with-conflicting-data/504141/ Accessed on Oct 25 2015.
Sen, A. (2003). Missing women—revisited: Reduction in female mortality has been counterbalanced by sex selective abortions. BMJ; 327(7427): 1297–1298.
UNFPA (2012). Sex imbalances at birth: Current trends, consequences and policy implications. Thailand: UNFPA – Asia and Pacific Regional Office.
WHO (2013). Out-of-pocket expenditure on health as a percentage of private expenditure on health (US$) – Situation and trends. [online]. Accessed from:http://www.who.int/gho/health_financing/out_pocket_expenditure/en/ Accessed on: Oct 1 2015.
World Bank (2012). World development report 2012 – Gender Equality and Development. Washington DC: The World Bank.
Wonacott, P. ( 2007) India’s Skewed Sex Ratio Puts GE Sales in Spotlight. The Wall Street Journal. Accessed from: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117683530238872926Accessed on Oct 2 2015.

Zygmunt Bauman

January 27, 2015 / The Essayist

Bauman, Zygmunt (1972): “Culture, Values and Science of Society”. University of Leeds Review, 15 (2):185-203.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1976a): Socialism: The Active Utopia. London: Hutchinson.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1976b): Towards a Critical Sociology – An Essay on Common Sense and Emancipation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1987): Legislators and Interpreters – On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1991a): Modernity and Ambivalence. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1991b): “Critical Theory”, in Henry Etzkowitz & Ronald Glassman (eds.): The Renascence of Critical Theory. Ithaca: F. E. Peacock Publishers, pp. 277-303.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1992): Intimations of Postmodernity. London: Routledge.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1993): Postmodern Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1998a): Work, Consumerism and the New Poor. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1998b): Globalization – The Human Consequences. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1998c): “Sociological Enlightenment – For Whom, About What?”. Dansk Sociologi (Special Issue), 9:43-54.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1999a): In Search of Politics. Cambridge: Polity.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1999b): “Critique – Privatized and Disarmed”. Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie, 9:121-131.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2000): Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2001a): Community – Seeking Safety in an Insecure World. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2001b): The Individualized Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2002a): Society Under Siege. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2002b): “Pierre Bourdieu; Or the Dialectics of Vita Contemplativa and Vita Activa”. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 2 (220):179-193.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2003): Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2006): Liquid Fear. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2007a): Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2007b): Consuming Life. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2011): Collateral Damage – Social Inequalities in a Global Age. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt & Tim May (2001): Thinking Sociologically, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bauman, Zygmunt & Keith Tester (2001): Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt & David Lyon (2012): Liquid Surveillance – A Conversation. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bauman, Zygmunt, Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Keith Tester (2013): What Use Is Sociology? Cambridge: Polity Press.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2001): The Tyranny of the Moment. London: Pluto Press.

Giddens, Anthony (1991): Modernity and Self-Identity – Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Habermas, Jürgen (1989): The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (2004): “From Solid Modern Utopia to Liquid Modern Anti-Utopia: Tracing the Utopian Strand in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman”. Utopian Studies, 15 (1):63-87.

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (2014): “All that is Solid Melts into Liquid – Zygmunt Bauman on the Liquid-Modern Challenges to Critique”, in Anders Blok & Peter Gundelach (eds.): The Elementary Forms of Sociological Knowledge: Essays in Honor of Margareta Bertilsson. Copenhagen: Sociologisk Institut, pp. 175-195.

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (2015): “Flydende kritik – Zygmunt Bauman om kritikkens forfald i den flydende moderne konsumverden”, in Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Anders Petersen (eds.): Kritik – klassiske og kontemporære sociologiske perspektiver. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag (in press).

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid & Keith Tester (2013): “Talking Sociology: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman on Sociology, Celebrity and Critique”. Thesis Eleven, 114 (1):103-113.

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, Sophia Marshman & Keith Tester (2007): Bauman Beyond Postmodernity – Critical Appraisals, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1989-2005. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.

Jacoby, Russell (1999): The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy. New York: Basic Books.

Kim, Kwang-Ki (2003): Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel. New York: State University of New York Press.

Korpi, Walter (1990): “Om undran inför sociologerna”. Sociologisk Forskning, 3:2-10.

Mazlish, Bruce (2003): “A Tale of Two Enclosures: Self and Society as Settings for Utopia”. Theory, Culture & Society, 20 (1):43-60.

Merton, Robert K. (1976): Sociological Ambivalence and Other Essays. New York: Free Press.

Mills, Charles Wright (1959): The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.

Musil, Robert (1953/1996): The Man Without Qualities, Volume I: 1930-1942. London: Minerva.

Nijhoff, Pieter (1998): “The Right to Inconsistency”. Theory, Culture & Society, 15 (1):87-112.

Polanyi, Karl (1944): The Great Transformation. New York: Rinehart.

Přibáñ, Jiřì (2007): “Introduction: Theorizing Liquid Modernity and Its Legal Context”, in Jiřì Přibáñ (ed.): Liquid Society and Its Law. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1-14.

Rosa, Hartmut & William E. Scheuerman (eds.) (2008): High-Speed Society – Social Acceleration, Power and Modernity. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press.

Willig, Rasmus (2013): Kritikkens u-vending – en diagnose af forvandlingen fra samfundskritik til selvkritik. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag.

Žižek, Slavoj (2011): Living in the End Times. London: Verso.

Patrick Geddes

April 14, 2014 / The Essayist

Reading List for Patrick Geddes

MacDiarmid, H (1966). The company I’ve kept. London: Hutchinson.
Munshi, I (2000). Patrick Geddes: Sociologist, Environmentalist and Town Planner. Economic and Political Weekly, 35, p. 485—91.
Pullman, J (2011). A Man of Our Times: The Living Legacy of Patrick Geddes. Documentary Film commissioned by the Scottish education Department. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiz5xYN39Cw
National Library of Scotland (2014). Patrick Geddes. Available at: http://www.nls.uk/learning-zone/politics-and-society/patrick-geddes
Ballater Geddes Project (2004). SIR PATRICK GEDDES: 1854 – 1932. Available at: http://metagraphies.org/Sir-Patrick-Geddes/university-militant/geddesexhib04web.pdf
Mairet, P (1957). Pioneer of Sociology: The Life and Letters of Patrick Geddes. London: Lund Humphries.
Abrams, P (1968). The Origins of British Sociology: 1834-1914. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Urquhart, G (2003). Patrick Geddes and the Edinburgh Social Union: Planning, poverty, philanthropy. Available at: http://hodgers.com/mike/patrickgeddes/feature_six.html
Tyrwhitt, J (1947). Patrick Geddes in India. London: Lund Humphries, London.
Patrick Geddes Trust (2000). Patrick Geddes Heritage Trail, Edinburgh. Available at: http://www.patrickgeddestrust.co.uk/pghtedinburgh.htm
Camera Obscura (2014). History of the Outlook Tower. Available at: http://camera-obscura.co.uk/camera_obscura/camera_history_attraction.asp
MacDonald, M (2009). Sir Patrick Geddes and the Scottish Generalist Tradition. Sir Patrick Geddes Commemorative Lecture, Royal Town Planning Institute and Saltire Society, Scotland. Available at: http://www.kosmoid.net/planning/geddeslectures.
Branford, V and Geddes, P (1919). Our Social Inheritance: The Making of the Future Series. London: Williams and Norgate.
Leonard, S (2007). Patrick Geddes’ and the network of gardens in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Available at: http://www.patrickgeddestrust.co.uk/articlespapers.htm.
Khan, N (2011). Geddes in India: town planning, plant sentience, and cooperative evolution. Environmental and Planning: Society and Space, 29, p. 840—56.
Momin, A (1996). Sociology at the University of Bombay. International Institute for Asian Studies, 60. Available at: http://iias.asia/iiasn/10/Regional/10CBCC06.html
Ferreira, J.V. and Jha, S (1976). The Outlook Tower Essays on Urbanisation in Memory of Patrick Geddes. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan.
Geddes, P (1906). ‘Civics: as Concrete and Applied Sociology’, Sociological Papers, 2: 58-119. Reprinted in H. E. Meller, ed., The Ideal City. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 123-183.
Meller, Helen (1990). Patrick Geddes Social Evolutionist and City Planner. London: Routledge.
Banerjee, B (2010). The Scientist and the Poet: Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2, p. 471—480.
Fraser, B (2005). A meeting of two minds: Geddes-Tagore Letters. Edinburgh: Word Power Books.
Visvanathan, S (2013). The Dreams of Reason: Rabindranath Tagore and the Invention of Science in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 47, p. 43—49.
Welter VM, (2009). The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes. Israel Studies, 14, p. 94—119.
Clout, H and Stephenson, I (2005). The Collège des Ecossais in Montpellier: A postscript. Scottish Geographical Journal, 121, p. 119—20.
Geddes, P and Thompson, J (1889). The Evolution of Sex. London: Walter Scott.
National Library of Scotland (2009). A Man of All Reason. Available at: http://www.nls.uk/about-us/publications/discover-nls/2009/patrick-geddes
The Scotsman (2005). Sir Patrick Geddes. Available at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/sir-patrick-geddes-1-465991
United Nations (2011). World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Available at: http://esa.un.org/unup/CD-ROM/Urban-Rural-Population.htm

C. Wright Mills

January 14, 2014 / The Essayist

Provided by Michael Jacobsen from his monograph: The Prodigious Provocateur! An Inevitable Invitation to the Sociology of C. Wright Mills. SociologiskArbejdspapir, No.7, 2000. Sociologisk Laboratorium, Aalborg University.

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Readings for Erving Goffman

October 28, 2013 / The Essayist

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Sociology of the Absurd

July 23, 2013 / Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Michael Hviid Jacobsen suggests a list of readings to gain a better understanding of “Absurdity” –and “Sociology of the Absurd.” The Essayist welcomes you to add to this list and make it more comprehensive. To add more readings, please submit at the bottom of this page or email to essayistcomments@gmail.com

Readings:

Bauman, Zygmunt (1972): “Culture, Values and Science of Society”. University of Leeds Review, 15 (2):185-203.
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Boudon, Raymond (1977): Effets pervers et ordre social. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Broadbent, Robert S. (1974): “Notes on the Sociology of the Absurd: ‘An Undersocialized Conception of Man’”. Pacific Sociological Review, 17 (1):35-45.
Brown, Richard H. & Stanford M. Lyman (eds.)(1977): Structure, Consciousness and History: New Writings in the Sociology of the Absurd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Burke, Kenneth (1952): A Grammar of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall.
Camus, Albert (1955/2000): The Myth of Sisyphus. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Carney, Larry S. (1998): “On Being Anchored in an Absurd World”. International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, 11 (3):517-523.
Esslin, Martin (1991): The Theatre of the Absurd. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Garfinkel, Harold & Harvey Sacks (1970): “The Formal Properties of Practical Actions”, in John C. McKinney & Edward A. Tiryakian (eds.): Theoretical Sociology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
Giddens, Anthony (1979): Central Problems in Social Theory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Goffman, Erving (1959): The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Goffman, Erving (1967): Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York: Pantheon.
Goodwin, Glenn A. (1971): “On Transcending the Absurd: An Inquiry in the Sociology of Meaning”. American Journal of Sociology, 76 (5):831-846.
Hall, Edward T. (1969): The Hidden Dimension. London: Bodley Head.
Hollis, Martin (1977): Models of Man. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lally, Jim & David L. Preston (1973): “Anti-Positivist Movements in Contemporary Sociology”. Journal of Sociology, 9 (2):3-9.
Lyman, Stanford M. (1972): The Black American in Social Thought – New Perspectives on Black America. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Lyman, Stanford M. (1974): Chinese Americans. New York: Random House.
Lyman, Stanford M. (1990): “The Drama in the Routine: A Prolegomenon to a Praxiological Sociology”. Sociological Theory, 8 (2):217-223.
Lyman, Stanford M. (1995): NATO and Germany: A Study in the Sociology of Supranational Relations. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
Lyman, Stanford M. (1997): Postmodernism and a Sociology of the Absurd and Other Essays on the ‘Nouvelle Vague’ in American Social Science. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
Lyman, Stanford M. (2001): Roads to Dystopia: Sociological Essays on the Postmodern Condition. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
Lyman, Stanford M. & Marvin B. Scott (1970): A Sociology of the Absurd, First Edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
Lyman, Stanford M. & Marvin B. Scott (1975): The Drama of Social Reality. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lyman, Stanford M. & Marvin B. Scott (1989): A Sociology of the Absurd, Second Edition. New York: General Hall Inc.
McCall, George J. & Jerry L. Simmons (1966): Identities and Interactions. New York: Free Press.
McDavitt, Joanne M. (1999): Fragments: The Social Construction of the Absurd and the American War in Vietnam. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Boston College.
McHugh, Peter (1968): Defining the Situation: The Organization of Meaning in Social Interaction. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
McNall, Scott G. & James C. M. Johnson (1975): “The New Conservatives: Ethnomethodologists, Phenomenologists and Symbolic Interactionists”. Insurgent Sociologist, 4:49-65.
Mills, C. Wright (1940): “Situated Actions and the Vocabularies of Motive”. American Sociological Review, 9:904-913.
Milovanovic, Dragan & Jim Thomas (1989): “Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion”. Social Problems, 36 (1):48-60.
Morris, Monica B. (1977): An Excursion into Creative Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Parsons, Talcott (1949): The Structure of Social Action. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press.
Renfrow, Daniel G. (2004): “A Cartography of Passing in Everyday Life”. Symbolic Interaction, 27 (4):485-506.
Rose, William (2003): “Postmodern Subjects: On Lyman’s Sociology of the Absurd”. International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, 16 (4):569-586.
Sagi, Avi (1999): Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Schwartz, Barry (1971): “Critique of the Sociology of the Absurd”. American Journal of Sociology, 77:153-156.
Scott, Marvin B. (1968): The Racing Game. Chicago: Aldine.
Scott, Marvin B. & Stanford M. Lyman (1970): The Revolt of the Students. Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Publishing.
Shoham, Shlomo G. (1974/2006): Society and the Absurd: A Sociology of Conflictual Encounters. London: Sussex Academic Press.
Simmel, Georg (1907/1978): The Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Simmel, Georg (1908/1955): Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations. New York: Free Press.
Stearns, Peter N. (1994): American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style. New York: New York University Press.
Stryker, Sheldon & Kevin D. Vryan (2006): “The Symbolic Interactionist Frame”, in Handbook of Social Psychology. New York: Springer.
Tiryakian, Edward A. (1973): “Review of Stanford M. Lyman & Marvin B. Scott: A Sociology of the Absurd”. Contemporary Sociology, 1 (3):220-221.
Wrong, Dennis H. (1961): “The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology”. American Sociological Review, 26:183-193.
Wrong, Dennis H. (1994): The Problem of Order: What Unites and Divides Society. New York: Free Press.

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Michael Hviid Jacobsen, 2013

Edited by The Essayist Editorial Team

Parts of this article are excerpts from Chapter 11: The Sociology of the Absurd: An Absurd Man in an Absurd World from the book edited by Michael Jacobsen titled: Encountering the everyday: an introduction to the sociologies of the unnoticed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009