Clothing in India: A Nationalist Discourse

The concept of Nation as an imagined community was developed by Benedict Anderson in his remarkable work ‘Imagined Communities’ published in 1983. Anderson rejects the assumptions that nation is a natural or inevitable entity. He asserts that nation is a cultural construct and they have aroused a deep sentiment among the citizen of any nation. … Read more

Migration for Education and Employment: Exploring the impact of Social and Cultural Capital among Indian students

“The point of my work is to show that culture and education are not simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of difference between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of these differences.’’ – Pierre Bourdieu Abstract: This paper is an analysis of migration of Indian students from … Read more

THE ISLAMIC VEIL: PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION, RELIGIOUS IDENTITY, OR EMPOWERMENT?

ABSTRACT: Contemporary discourses have come to associate the hijab and the veiled woman with gender-oppressive customs in Islam. This meaning was created and perpetuated by the Western hegemonic discourses, which have homogenized, reified, de-contextualized, and ‘otherized’ it. The Muslim veil has also been politicized, making it a heavily contested symbol that needs to be understood … Read more

Towards Understanding Disability – Sociology and Models of Impairment

Understanding and conceptualizing disability and impairment is crucial to the modern pursuit of social justice and therefore, is essential to academic study and sociology in general. The social sciences hold tremendous potential for bringing about true inclusion and total diversity to the world at large; however, this potential has not historically been fully realized, particularly … Read more

Do we truly live in a “paranoid parenting” era? An Exploration into Furedi’s (2002, 2008) claim that parenting culture is marked by a sense of paranoia around risk and child safety.

Abstract: A discussion into how parenting is fixated in a new era of Paranoia and why this may be the case. I will not only use Furedi’s work into paranoid parenting, but it will also explore other key scholars in this area such as Anneke Meyer 2007, Helene Guldberg 2009 and Jones Phil 2009. By … Read more

Media: Ownership and control of media – AS and A Level Notes

Media is a universal channel of sending and receiving information since time immemorial. There are a lot of aspects related to media that has kept it relevant so far by exposing it to the fruit  of technology. This paper will deal with media to understand its journey from traditional media to new media, theories of … Read more