Intersections and Implications: When Anthropology, Art Practice, and Art History Converge

Perera, Sasanka; Pathak, Dev Nath

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05852-4_1

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“…Why to take it so seriously and go to this extent of reading between the lines? After all, sociologists have been averse to anything seemingly ‘less serious’ to them including visuals and humour (see Perera & Pathak, 2019). And anything intellectually challenging has been ‘less serious’ for them.…”

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Idea of Research-Writing in Sociology: Polemics on the Loss of a Transformative Practice

Pathak

2021

Sociological Bulletin

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Following Alwin Gouldner (1971), it is pertinent to perpetually ask a seemingly all-time relevant question. And the question is, what do sociologists do? In the manner of doing sociology of sociology, and by a polemical resurrection of fragments from the dominant practices of sociologists, this essay brings forth general understanding about the idea of research-writing in contemporary India. It underlines the anomalies in the practice of research-writing, connected with the teaching and training programmes, in a self-referential perspective. The essay substantiates the polemics with analytical reasoning, in order to reveal as to what could be reasons behind this state of sociological research-writings.

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