Category: Academic Writing

  • An Interview with Dr. Noel Packard – Karl Marx and Max Weber on Machines Dominating Labour

    In this interview, we speak with Dr. Noel Packard, independent researcher and session organizer of “Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour,” a call for papers featured on the Sociology Group website. Dr. Packard discusses how Karl Marx’s idea of the self-reproducing machine and Max Weber’s notion of the “Machine…

  • NEGOTIATIONS WITH PATRIARCHY IN CHANGING SPACES

    I was born in Sidhpura, Kasganj, a small town in Uttar Pradesh. Every community lives in harmony in this town, but most of the population is inhabited by the Baniya community. According to the Varna System, Hindu society is divided into four varnas that are, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Shudra, and those who do not come…

  • Call for Papers: Survey of Selected Cold War Networks

    The American Behavioral Scientist (ABS), a leading peer-reviewed journal in the social and behavioral sciences, has announced a call for papers for a special issue titled “Survey of Selected Cold War Networks” Sociology Group is pleased to share this significant scholarly opportunity with our community of researchers, writers, and readers. This guest-edited issue of the…

  • CHALLENGING THE DICHOTOMY: A CRITICAL INSPECTION OF DURKHEIM’S SACRED-PROFANE BINARY

    Abstract Emile Durkheim remains one of the greatest towering figures in the study of Sociology till date. Not only sociology of religion, his concept of the sacred-profane binary as the fundamental element of religion remains part of the curriculum of sociological theory itself in many places. His conception of sacred things as those set apart…

  • Why Are People Not Reading Books Anymore?

    Exploring the Decline in Book Reading in the Digital Age Reading habits have changed since knowledge has become more and more accessible. The increase of digital technology in our lives is one of the major reasons as to why people nowadays don’t read. Fewer people pick up a book to read day by day in…

  • Sociological Analysis of Competitive Exams in India

    “If meritocracy is an aspiration, those who fall short can always blame the system;but if meritocracy is a fact, those who fall short are invited to blame themselves” – Michael Sandel, Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University(famous for his work and course on Justice) From UPSC to NEET to JEE, the competitive exams are…

  • How to Write a Book Summary: Explained With Examples

    Writing a summary is not only a way of synthesizing in a few pages the main content of a book, but also a very useful exercise to capture the most essential theoretical and/or methodological aspects of an author’s work. Doing good social science involves, among many other things, having the ability to clearly and faithfully…