Category: Economic Sociology

  • An Interview with Misty Heggeness, Author of Swiftynomics

    About: Misty L. Heggeness is co-director of the Kansas Population Center, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Kansas, and former Principal Economist and Senior Advisor at the US Census Bureau. She is also creator of The Care Board, a dashboard of economic statistics built by and for caregivers that brings…

  • Care Work and Emotional Labour in Urban India

    Historically, the beginning of nannies, governesses, and wet nurses as an occupation is largely traced to Western Europe, where women from marginalised communities, such as African Americans, used to work as nannies for upper-middle-class white families. Post-liberalisation, India also saw a boom in the economy, whose impacts were multidimensional, ranging from expanding income to dual-income…

  • What do you understand by Sustainable development?

    What do you understand by Sustainable development? Discuss the premises and problematic of sustainable development in the context of contemporary world. Today most of the government of the worlds are in the race of development. Economic prosperity and Global GDP growth is the proof these developments. However, to ensure that this growth is maintained, development…

  • Kirana stores and its integration in the global cities in India

    Question: How is the experience of living in a global city intermeshed with the local? Abstract The main objective of this study is to analyse the impact of organised retailers (supermarket/hypermarket) on the unorganised retailers (Kirana store) that deal with the segment of food and grocery in the emerging global cities of India. The contemporary…

  • Sociology of Modern Risks – Risk Society!

    Ulrick Beck (1944-2015) was an eminent German Sociologist of contemporary times. He is better known for his influential work entitled, ‘The Risk Society’ wherein he talked about the insecurities and risks produced by the late industrial society. Originally, this top-notch work was published in 1986 in German language and later on it got translated into…

  • Sociology of Money: Explained in Simple Words

    Synopsis: This article discusses the traditional economic understanding of money and then expands to the lesser-understood social-cultural dimensions. The article describes market-based economies and some of the societal challenges associated. Through this article, readers are invited to re-think Capitalism as we know it and to challenge the notion that what we have now is our…

  • Difference between Formal and Informal Sectors in India

    The economy of a country is one of the main elements of development. The economy consists of processes like the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. These processes are operated differently in different sectors of the economy, which can be named the “formal and informal sectors” The functioning and operations of both the…