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centre has the distinction of being founded and led for nearly a decade by
the doyen of Indian sociology, Professor M N Srinivas. It has distinguished
scholars and the strong tradition of research has continued since. The Unit
has completed a large number of analytical and insightful sociological
studies with interdisciplinary approach on wide-ranging issues. These
included rural livelihood systems and sustainable natural resources
management, rural poverty, caste in contemporary society, untouchability and
social development of backward classes, privatisation of common property
resources, entrepreneurship and social mobility, survival strategies in
drought-prone areas and political decentralisation. The thrust areas of
recent research of the centre are mainly around the nature, processes and
trajectories of social change and the questions of meaningful citizenship
and development. The research work of the present faculty members at the
centre cover a wide range of issues including marginalities and development
with special emphasis on caste, religion, ethnicity and its interlocking
categories of labour and gender, education and employability, migration,
social gradients of health, sociology of illness and bio-political economy
of medical industry. Many of these initiatives have been taken up with the
partnership of funding agencies like Swiss Agency for Development and
Co-operation (SDC); the Ford Foundation the World Bank, Indian Council of
Social Science Research,; Indian Council of Medical Research; Ministry of
Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of Karnataka; Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka; Tribal Research Institute,
Mysore; Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala, to list a
major few.
Contact:
Centre for Study of Social Change and Development
Institute for Social
and Economic Change
Nagarabhavi, Bangalore - 560
072, India.
Tel. : 080-23215468
Fax : 080-23217008
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