Articles by Satish K Arora

Satish K Arora Can we possibly predict anything about the opinions, attitudes and, ultimately, behaviour of political elites from an understanding however comprehensive, of their social background?

The Structuring of National Preferences Satish K Arora We are now at a point where important lacunae in our policy-making process require renewed and urgent attention. Policy must be enunciated with increasing precision so that it may be understood at every level There is a pressing need for an effective, essentially non-partisan (although not aimless) monitoring of evidence and values. In other words we need to evolve more effective means for measuring and judging movement toward the socio-economic goals we set for ourselves.

ECONOMIC growth and social justice cannot be spoken of in universal, lime- less terms. In fact, we cannot legitimately confound the relationship as it existed between these two variables, for example in England at the period pf her greatest growth, with that which prevails in India today. In England, industrialisation took place initially in a context where 'pauperism' was sought to be dealt with in its own terms

Report on the Bombay Seminar Satish K Arora Attempting to evaluate the proceedings of the seminar on 'Modernisation of Underdeveloped Socie- es' organised by the Department of Sociology, Bombay University, to mark the Department's fiftieth year, te is struck by the dependence of our sociologists on theoretical formulations from the West.