The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India (published by Penguin, 2024) has considerable sociological ...

Historical Evaluation India has a long tradition of studying health care. Early modern efforts began with the setting up of ...

The contemporary sixth mass extinction has necessitated an increasingly urgent question for critical theory: how might the ...

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park.

“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: ...

Introduction There’s a line in Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 anthem “Under Pressure” that sociologists of intimacy would do ...

What is research? Why do people research? Who benefits from it? And how does it reshape society? These are seemingly mundane questions, but they remain unanswered in the research methods discourse.

When a city prepares to receive the world, what happens to those who do not fit the image it wants to present? The people who build, clean, feed and sustain that city are often the same people who are ...

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 ...