The Poverty of Communication Theory in India

Sunita, Vasudeva. The Poverty of Communication Theory in India. Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994. 177pp. [PhD thesis] 659.3.001.5(540)VAS

This study, with its focus on the sociology of knowledge, questions the continued dominance of behavioural and empiricist philosophy on social science pedagogy and research in India.. It analyses the social, political and economic context in which social science developed in India after independence, its boundaries and its intellectual and methodological orientation. It establishes that communication research is intricately linked with the theoretical developments within the larger field of the social sciences and humanities. The search for an epistemology of Indian communication research must, therefore, locate itself within the context of an alternative Indian social and political theory. Copyright Asian Media Information and Communication Centre Ltd. 2003