Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social

By Sarukkai Sundar and Gopal Guru

This book is an exploration of the nature of this 'social'; it argues that our definition of sociality is influenced largely by our everyday lives, the institutions we are part of, and the relationships we build-all of these experiences catalyse the way we see the social world and shape how we act in it. We smell, touch, and taste the social; we belong to the social (every social collection is defined by our sense of belongingness to, for instance, the family, the community, or the caste); and from all of this we understand something of the nature of the social. This volume is a theoretical interpretation of the process of the creation of the 'social' through our everyday lives-of how we construct a sense of 'identity', 'authority', and 'ethics' through sensory perceptions that we experience in our daily lives.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199496056
• ISBN13: 9780199496051
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"