About Us
From the perspective of students of Sociology based in India, the crisis raised by the novel coronavirus has been consequential for knowledge and how we understand it. This blog hopes to be a site to further the sociological consciousness, to explore the idea that things may not be quite what they seem to be. We are an independent, non-funded, primarily women-led digital resource.
We plan to use this space to ‘cultivate’ the sociological imagination. We live in strange times – at once connected and at once lonely. Social and geographical mobility exposes us to new aspirations, desires, and anxieties. Sociology which was born in crisis offers us the tools to untangle the hidden knots that tie our personal angsts to public crises. It also has an unerring ability to reflect, relativize, and make us understand social realities other than our own. It allows us to navigate through the many facets of the social and throws open before us the many possibilities of Doing Sociology.
After all, anything and everything can be understood through a ‘sociological imagination’. We are a team of researchers trying to make Sociology accessible to its early students. Preliminary research shows that Indian educational institutes do not have dedicated writing spaces for students that can enable them to express their thoughts. We want to break that practice. After all, what is Doing Sociology without writing and talking about it?
