Background
Mohan, Brij was born on August 9, 1939 in Mursan, India. Came to the United States, 1975. Son of Ram Pershad and Ram Shree (Devi) Sharma.
( Mohan argues that science and values need not serve at ...)
Mohan argues that science and values need not serve at cross purposes. In the case of social work, a self-serving professional enterprise breeds a dysfunctional culture that must be challenged on ethical grounds. In addition to a critique of the contemporary social work culture, Mohan offers a paradigmatic view of discursive practice in light of the legitimacy crisis. The author pleads for a new paradigm of social work education, practice, and research. Social work's crisis, Mohan contends, emanates from an ideological hiatus and unprincipled pragmatism that promotes de-developmental policies and programs. A highly critical analysis of social work, its present state, weaknesses, and problems, this book will be of great use to scholars, researchers, and professionals dealing with issues of social welfare theory and policy.
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( The United States and India—the most powerful and the m...)
The United States and India—the most powerful and the most populous constitutional democracies, respectively—have more in common than is apparent from a casual comparison of life in, say, Agra and Omaha. While the material circumstances of an average family in the one city may be dramatically different from the circumstances of its counterpart in the other, the political cultures that protect and sometimes encroach upon the freedoms of each family are in many ways remarkably similar. The arrogant ambitions of one of Agra's representatives in New Delhi can likely find a match in the designs of one of Omaha's legislators in Washington, D.C. So, too, could we expect to find sincere concern for their constituents in the hearts of other political figures on Capitol Hill and in the Subcontinent. In this probing critical comparison of political culture in the United States and India, Professor Brij Mohan argues that much can be learned about the parochial roots and global expansion of representative government by studying both the successes and the failures—both the promise and disappointment—of these two great experiments in constitutional democracy.
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( Eclipse of Freedom unravels the dynamics of oppression ...)
Eclipse of Freedom unravels the dynamics of oppression that frustrates human aspiration, highlights policy linkages that explain unwarranted misery, assesses the human damage caused by dysfunctional social policies and fragmented services, and identifies a progressive mechanism of social transformation. Brij Mohan posits social theory and the human condition in a post-material context that emphasizes peace, justice, and equality as biodiverse needs of the human family. The focus of the study is the structure of oppression: racism, sexism, ageism, classism, as well as poverty, AIDS, homelessness, and other scourges that affect the alienated underclass. Mohan rejects the New World Order as a perversion of Nietzschean logic and challenges scientists, philosophers, and policymakers to think critically and to act responsibly in search of universal freedom.
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Mohan, Brij was born on August 9, 1939 in Mursan, India. Came to the United States, 1975. Son of Ram Pershad and Ram Shree (Devi) Sharma.
Bachelor, Agra University, India, 1958. Master of Social Work, Agra University, India, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Luchnow University, India, 1964.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), M.K. Gandhi Kastic University, India, 2004.
Research scholar, Lucknow U., 1960-1963; research supervisor, U. Lucknow, 1963-1964; lecturer, U. Lucknow, 1964-1975; academic specialist, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, 1975-1976; associate professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1976-1981; dean School Social Work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1981-1986; professor social work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, since 1981; director doctoral program, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, since 1997.
( Eclipse of Freedom unravels the dynamics of oppression ...)
( The United States and India—the most powerful and the m...)
( Mohan argues that science and values need not serve at ...)
Married Prem Sharma, February 24, 1967. Children: Anupama Sharma, Sanjay M. Sharma.