Sociology

Sociology is the study of society, social relationships, institutions, communities, groups, norms, values, and the processes through which collective life is organised and transformed. It seeks to understand how individuals relate to families, communities, institutions, economies, political structures, and cultural traditions, while examining patterns of continuity, change, cohesion, and conflict. An Indic approach to sociology further asks how social life has been understood through Bharatiya categories, institutions, lived traditions, and relationships between the individual, family, community, society, and wider civilizational order.

Interrogating Sociology

1. What exactly are we teaching as “Sociology” today? Syllabus and analysis of school-level social studies, BA/BSW Sociology, MA/MSc Sociology, and major sociological subfields

2. Whose theories are we using to understand society? Indian Sociological Theories and Frameworks, Western Sociological Theories and Frameworks

3. Whose thinkers are we reading? Indic Sociologists and Thinkers, Westernized Sociologists and Thinkers

4. What are the sources of our sociological knowledge? Indian Sources of Sociological Knowledge, Western Sources of Sociological Knowledge

5. Whose societies and social experiences are we studying? Indian Communities, Societies and Civilizational Experiences, Western Communities, Societies and Social Experiences

6. How are we studying society? Indian Approaches to Understanding Society, Western Sociological Methods and Approaches

Decolonizing Sociology

Sociology Thinkers: Western and Indian

Sociology Thinkers: Western and Indian

Sociology asks a deceptively simple question: how does society work? Why do human beings form…
August 20, 2026
Whose Modernity?

Whose Modernity?

Rethinking Social Change in Bharat One of the most influential assumptions embedded within the modern…
August 12, 2026
From Caste to Jati

From Caste to Jati

When a Sociological Category Becomes a Social Reality There is perhaps no concept in the…
August 12, 2026

Sociological Drishti

Grama, Sabha and Samudaya

Grama, Sabha and Samudaya

The Sociology of Distributed Social Institutions   When Sociology introduces society, it often begins with…
August 12, 2026
Dharma and Social Order

Dharma and Social Order

How Does Society Sustain Itself? Every society must answer a question more fundamental than politics:…
August 12, 2026
Samaj: An Indic Sociology of Collective Life

Samaj: An Indic Sociology of Collective Life

Beyond the Individual–Society Binary What if the basic unit of sociology is not the individual?…
August 12, 2026