Raj P. Mohan

The Hidden professoriate : credentialism, professionalism, and the tenure crisis

Wilke has called upon sociologists, observers as well as victims of the caste system, to describe by use of case studies and to analyze the plight of non-tenured faculty and their efforts to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. These stories reveal the human factor, too often slighted or forgotten in discussions of the precarious place of the university in todays society.

The Mythmakers : intellectuals and the intelligentsia in perspective

Preface Acknowledgments The Sociology of Intellectual Creativity, by Don Martindale A Structural Definition of the Intellectual Against the Background of Three Historical Periods, by Aleksander Gella Intellectuals and Powers: S.M.Lipset, Julien Benda, and Karl Mannheim, by Gerald Popiel and Raj P. Mohan The Role of the Intellectual in Revolutionary Institutions, by William C. Martin The End of the Old Polish Intelligentsia, by Aleksander Gella The Third World and Developmentalism: Technology, Morality, and the Role of the Intellectual, by Jay Weinstein Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors

Caste, caste association, caste federation and inequality as vocabularies:

Despite the growing interest of the social sciences in social change, particularly modernity, ambiguities in these intellectual endeavours persist. These ambiguities may be most acute for social science efforts undertaken in societies such as India in which the quest for and the challenge of modernity is intense. For it is here that a vehicle of modernity, viz. nationalism, is most prominent. This is particularly troublesome if, as is often the case, social science analyses are anchored in the history and ethnocentrism of what are identified as modern societies; most often these