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Category: Research papers

  • ANALYSIS OF 5 FILMS USING SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS

    Synopsis: This article tries to provide a sociological analysis and understanding of five movies which deal with themes essential in sociology. Movies are a great way of representing our society–its functioning, institutions, and social changes. Sociology even has a particular sub-discipline focusing on film analysis. While some movies concentrate only on providing entertainment, others use…

  • Sociomusicology or Sociology of music: Overview

    S0ciology of Music: Music is the art of arranging sounds and includes components such as melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Music at its core has a social nature. Various theorists have used sociology to interpret the meaning of music. Symbolic interactionism looks at how shared meaning is constructed through music whereas the Gestalt perspective understands…

  • A Case Study on the pedagogy employed by Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences

    About the organization: As per the Census of India 2011, India is home to roughly 104,281,034 tribal individuals, i.e. 8.6 percent of our population (census, 2011). The tribal population in our country has historically been neglected and are oftentimes left out of development processes. A National Family Health Survey conducted between 2015-16 showed that 45.6…

  • Analyzing the Marina in Chennai- A city of Sand

    Introduction: Post the 1990’s, after the launch of economic neo-liberalization in India, a new elite middle class was formed; which guided state-led policies of spatial re-organization and purification. For a country like India that aspires to join the global network and attain a world-class status, the image of the city becomes crucial to attract capital…

  • Representation of Disability in Bollywood Films (Indian cinema)

    Abstract: Films are an integral part of our lives today. Filmmaking is guided by the happenings in society and society is also heavily influenced by films. Cinema can be seen as a mirror of society and by analyzing it; we can understand issues in society better. Disability is a social issue not addressed enough in…

  • Analyzing Migration and Diaspora through Film and Literature

    Introduction: Migration and Diaspora studies are more relevant than ever today, with approximately 4 percent of the world’s population or 272 million international migrants globally; according to the United Nations (2020). Roughly 17 million Indians live abroad, making India the world’s‘ largest source country for international migrants globally’; an increase by 143 percent from 1990,…

  • Thinking like a psychologist: Importance of the scientific method

    Thinking in psychology can be defined as “the cognitive behavior in which ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated.” Thinking includes imagining, remembering, problem solving, concept formation, and many other processes. Thinking may be said to have two defining characteristics: It is covert and not directly observable but…