Revisiting Social Theory Challenges and Possibilities

Introduction 1. What is social theory? 2. Social theory today: Revisiting hope 3. Empathy between sociology and social neuroscience: New perspectives for an applied sociology 4. Applying Graeber's extension of Mauss' The Gift to the study of international relations 5. Towards a socio-phenomenological approach to empathy 6. 7. New media, popular culture and social theory 8. Social and political theory in the times of neo-liberalism 9. Revisiting Gellnerian theory of nation and Nationalism 10. Neoliberal environmentalism and social theory: Constructing myth over reality 11. Identity, values and consumption practices 12. Legitimizing menstrual leave at workplace: Documenting the sociological theories explanations 13. Theorising Contemporary Vernacular politics in Northeast India and its Sociology 14. Eco-feminism in the context of tribal society 15. Theorizing better: A debate of theory and practice in the context of an Indigenous setting