Sociology of Rationality

Soumyajit Patra is Professor of Sociology, SKB University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He is the former Coordinator of the Center for South Asian Studies, SKB University. Tattwamasi Paltasingh is Professor of Sociology and Head of the P.G. Department of Sociology at Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.

1. Sociology of Rationality: An Introduction SECTION I: REFLECTING RATIONALITY: OVERVIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES 2.Enlightenment and Rationality 3. Reason in the Modern Age 4. Max Weber: Rational Action, Rationalism and Rationalisation: The Anatomy of Extinction 5.Weber’s Theory of Rationality: A Critical Reading 6. Postcolonial Rationality SECTION II: RATIONALITY OF THE MARGINALIZED 7. Feminisms and the Questions Concerning Rationality 8. Dependency and Protest: Choice and Rationality of the Marginalised 9. Modern Secular Rationality and ‘Christianisation-in-Depth’: Between Marx and Foucault SECTION III: RATIONALITY: CONTEXTUAL RAMIFICATIONS 10. Rationality and Economic Behaviour 11. Rationality, Consumerism and Lifestyle Choices: Narratives of Urban Youth 12. ‘McDonaldisation’ of Education: Context and Critiques SECTION IV: RATIONALITY: CRITIQUES AND CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS 13. Sociology in Irrationalities: Contexts of the Commons 14. Towards Deconstructive Rationality: Pathologies of Reason and Immanentist Counter-discourses 15. The Trajectory of Politics-Rationality Interface: A Conceptual Framework 16. Rationality and Beyond: Towards Planetary Conversations