It was during the usual evening bike rides along the road adjacent to the Arabian Sea, shortly after I had relocated to the ...
The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India (published by Penguin, 2024) has considerable sociological ...
In most South Asian households, the person who knows the most about food has never written any of it down. She knows that the mustard oil must smoke before the fish goes in. She knows, without ...
“What do we mean by participation in research? Who is expected to participate, and in whose projects?” This line mirrors the essence of the book. Foodways as Sites of Knowledge and Transformation: ...
While we often discuss how architecture shapes our environment, this article explores the reciprocal relationship: how do the environment and local context shape architecture and its aesthetics?
Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was a major Canadian-American sociologist who played a significant role in the development of modern American sociology. When the structural-functionalist theory was ...
Tannistha Samanta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research focuses on the nexus of health and ageing in India, examining questions ...
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an internationally recognized social theorist whose scholarship ...
The ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate, the question of whether human behaviour is determined by inherent biological predispositions (nature) or shaped through learning and environmental influences (nurture) ...
The 2027 decennial census will include caste-based enumeration beyond Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the first time since 1931. Activist groups have long called for this exercise to expose ...