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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Meenakshi Bharat’s Hindi Cinema and Pakistan: Screening the Idea and the Reality (published by Routledge in 2025) explores how Hindi cinema has represented, altered, and occasionally strengthened the ...