It is the Author’s contention that both the state of valuelessness in modern times, and the crisis in the social sciences demand a restatement of value theory, based on new theoretical, experiential and empirical developments in the various branches of human knowledge concerned with value. Values are derived from life, from environment, from self, society and culture, and above all from human existence and experience. Cultural, anthropological and sociological studies have now considerably extended our knowledge of value phenomena and value systems, and of the conditions in which these have arisen. But in Dr. Mukherjee’s view there is unfortunately a complete neglect of causal analysis, largely because values are regarded as highly subjective, relative and non-measurable. Dr. Mukherjee aims at a logical, philosophical and unified treatment of man’s complex values and experiences that are distinguished at their successive dimensions, orders or stages of human adjustment. He is concerned with both the roots and the flowering of the value system, with the demands of finite human nature and with those deriving from its profound affinities with the infinite. It is from man’s total context, human and ultra-human, that he selects and orders his hierarchy of goals and values.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G.R. Madan
Dr. G. R. Madan, M.A. (Econ.), M.A. (Socio.), Dip. In Com., LL.B., Ph.D. (born 1923), had a good academic career. He worked in a research project “Socio-economic Survey of Lucknow City†sponsored by the Research Programmes Committee of the Planning Commission, under Dr. Radhakamal Mukerjee, Director, J.L. Institute of Sociology and Human Relation, Lucknow University, between 1954 and 1956. From 1956 onwards he taught in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Lucknow University till his retirement from the university service in 1984. During 1966-67 he was Post doctoral fellow at the Social Science Research Centre, Mississippi State University (U.S.A.) as well as a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer. He worked there with Dr. Harold F. Kaufman in the field of Rural Sociology. During 1970-71 he went to England under the British Council Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme and worked with Professor S.L. Anderski, at the University of Reading. His work Western Sociologists on Indian Society has been published by the International Library of Sociology, London. In 1973, he was invited to deliver some special lectures on “Social Disorganization and Social Reconstruction in India†at the Karnataka University, Dharwar, and 1976 on “Community Development in India (Some Recent Trends)†at the Bangalore University. He has published several book and articles on India’s social and economic problems. He is associated with a number of social welfare voluntary organizations. Currently he is Visiting Professor of Sociology, Maharaja Surajmal Institute, Janakpuri, New Delhi.
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