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 ...

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: ...

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

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.

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 ...

The Doing Sociology team spoke to Professor Sari Hanafi. He is currently a Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut. He is also the President of the International Sociological ...

Women are a quintessential part of the horror movie trope. From being the infamous ‘damsel in distress’ to ‘scream queens’ to rising into the ‘final girls’. Female characters have gone through ...