Globalisation, leisure and social change : essays in honour of Professor Ishwar P. Modi /

Globalisation, leisure and social change : essays in honour of Professor Ishwar P. Modi /

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Imprint:Jaipur, India : Rawat Publications, [2017]
©2017
Description:xiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Globalization -- Social aspects -- India.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Social change -- India.
Social change.
Leisure -- India.
Leisure.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Leisure.
Social change.
India.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11353662
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Varying Form of Title:Globalization, leisure and social change
Other authors / contributors:Nagla, B. K., editor.
Srivastava, Vinay Kumar, editor.
Modi, Ishwar P., honoree
ISBN:9788131608180
8131608182
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Short Profile of Professor
  • Contributors
  • 1. Writing About Leisure
  • 2. Leisure and Social Change: Emerging Issues in India
  • 3. Globalisation and its Impact on Indian Society
  • 4. Caste, Class and Globalisation: Continuity and Change
  • 5. Leisure in Indian Tradition: Looking Beyond the West
  • 6. Some Reflections on Technology and Values Nowadays
  • 7. Leisure, Happiness and Development: A Global Perspective
  • 8. Getting the Big Picture of Leisure
  • 9. Leisure, Sports and Social Change
  • 10. Role of Leisure in the Reproduction of Inequalities: Puerto Rico Case Study
  • 11. Leisure and Mental Health: Sociological Study of Women Experiencing Leisure during their Mental Illness
  • 12. Leisure, Tourism Development and Environment Interface: Reflections from Uttarakhand Tourism
  • 13. Impact of Leisure on Quality of Life and Social Development: Reflection on Urban India
  • 14. Family and Value in Contemporary Chinese Culture: From a Globalisation Perspective
  • 15. Leisure Tools, Children and Globalisation
  • 16. Sociological Perspectives of Education for Lifestyle Counselling: Case of Szeged, Hungary
  • 17. Post-Retirement Leisure in Japan
  • 18. Interrogating Transitions in African Leisure and Labour Cultures as Variables for (Un) Development in Africa
  • 19. Social Differentials and Emerging Urban Leisure Trends: A Case Study of City of Dehradun in India
  • 20. Global to Local Modernity in Bangladesh: Changing World Views of Rural Women
  • 21. Leisure, Social Capital and Life Turns in Deviant Youth
  • 22. Leisure and Nishkam Karma
  • 23. Dialectics of Western Categories and Indigenous Understanding: Some Thoughts on Leisure
  • 24. Why Public Sociology?
  • Index

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