Dr. T. K. Oommen
Emeritus Professor
Centre for the Study of Social Systems
Foreign Service Institute
India
Biography
T. K. Oommen was born on 16 October 1937 as the second male child to K. M. Koshy and Saramma Koshy in the Keerikattu family at Tharailath, Venmony, Alleppey, Travancore. After early schooling in Alappuzha, Oommen obtained his BA in Economics from Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram in 1957 and MA in Sociology from Pune University in 1960. He continued at Pune University for his doctoral research and obtained PhD in 1965 on Charisma, stability and change: an analysis of Bhoodan-Gramdan movement in India under the supervision of Prof. Y. B. Damle. He currently resides at National Media Campus, Gurgaon in Haryana.
Research Interest
Social Science
Publications
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Oommen, T. K. (2007). Knowledge and Society: Situating Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford U Press. ISBN 9780198090465.
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Oommen, T. K. (2008). Reconciliation in Post-Godhra Gujarat. Pearson Education India. ASIN B008X5P1J4
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Oommen, T. K. (2013). Knowledge and Society: Situating Sociology and Social Anthropology (Collected Essays). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198090465.
