Development and Its Implications for the Indian Social System: A WV3 Case Study of Jotirao Phule
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Recognizing that many social maladies stem from religious origins, a proposal is made to see societies as "culture trees" in order to intellectually frame and to practically approach development for mobilizing change.A vocabulary is introduced to visualize a culture as a distinctive lifezone which occupies geographical space."WV 3 " designates a cultural matrix composed of a worldvoice (luminary mentor of adoration), worldview (lens mindset of analysis), and worldvenue (lifestyle mazeway of attitudes-actions).Conceptually, a culture tree is an interrelated social system of worldvoice roots, worldview shoots, and worldvenue fruits.Proposals by Ambedkar, Marx, and Gandhi are noted; a case study of India's father of social revolution, Jotirao Phule, is delineated.Phule's activist voice is used to describe India's WV 3 Culture Tree, its spiritual mentor roots, systemic mindset shoots, and social mazeway fruits.
Author: Thom Wolf
Institution: Andrews University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2471583585