The Question About Democracy: A Sociological Reflection – Abhijeet M. Vaidye
On the morning of the election, the city was unusually alive. Banners fluttered from electric poles, political slogans echoed from…
How Can Sociology Help the Discipline of Economics? A Critique of Economics’ Social Ontology – Sankalp Jayant
Many academic discourses in social sciences talk about interdisciplinary research. But it becomes very difficult to initiate conversations across established…
Using the Sociological Imagination in Theatre – Vanya Singh
To me, sociology is theatre, and theatre is sociology, and both of them form the basic constituent material of my…
Doing Sociology Logically: A Brief Introduction To The Basics Of Social Inquiry – Anil Kumar
“We do not merely study society; we are also part of what we study.” What does it mean to do…
Doing Sociology: Holding Space for the (In)Visible – Ami Sahgal
“As students of sociology, our focus is on studying actions that are repetitive, recurrent and purposive” -this line was frequently…
Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve by Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa (2024): A Review by Jose Benny
Young scholars in the social sciences are often nudged by their professors to direct their curiosity towards the historical context…
C Parvathamma’s Vision for Indian Sociology: Caste, Gender, and Justice – Prajwal T V and Karamala Areesh Kumar
Western thinkers largely dominate the writings on Sociology across academic institutions in India. On the other hand, those that address…
From Words to Worlds: The Power of Fiction in Sociological Research – Srishti Ganguly
Mapping Sociological Realities Through A Fictional Lens Employing fiction as a sociological source for research may appear unconventional, yet its…
Sociologists’ Futurity Formation Through Hauntology – Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng
At its core, Sociology thrives when it casts its gaze outward, going into the knots of human society: its myriad…
Sociology of South Asia: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries edited by Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan (2022): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In the edited volume Sociology of South Asia Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries (published by Springer in 2022), Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan introduce…