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Akshay Ramanlal Desai (26 April 1915 – 12 November 1994) was an Indian sociologist, Marxist and a social activist. He wa...
22/03/2023

Akshay Ramanlal Desai (26 April 1915 – 12 November 1994) was an Indian sociologist, Marxist and a social activist. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology in University of Bombay in 1967. He is particularly known for his work Social Background of Indian Nationalism in which he offered a Marxist analysis of the genesis of Indian nationalism making use of history, which set a path to build socialism in India.

Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916–1999) was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. He is mostly known for hi...
20/03/2023

Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916–1999) was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'. He is considered to be one of the pioneering personalities in the field of sociology and social anthropology in India as his work in Rampura (later published as The Remembered Village) remains one of the early examples of ethnography in India. That was in contrast to most of his contemporaries of the Bombay School, who focused primarily on a historical methodology to conduct research, mainly in Indology.

Sharmila Rege (7 October 1964 – 13 July 2013) was an Indian sociologist, feminist scholar and author of Writing Caste, W...
18/03/2023

Sharmila Rege (7 October 1964 – 13 July 2013) was an Indian sociologist, feminist scholar and author of Writing Caste, Writing Gender. She led the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, (the department of Gender Studies) at University of Pune which position she occupied since 1991. She received the Malcolm Adiseshiah award for distinguished contribution to development studies from the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) in 2006.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political ...
16/03/2023

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.His idea on caste underwent changes with his writings. He focused on the endogamous nature of caste but later added other features like division of labor, absence of inter relations and principle of birth.

Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (12 December 1893 – 28 December 1983) was a pioneering Indian academic who was a professor of soc...
14/03/2023

Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (12 December 1893 – 28 December 1983) was a pioneering Indian academic who was a professor of sociology. In 1924, he became the second person to head the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay.[4] And, is widely regarded as the founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India.
His Book is caste & race in india.

Herbert Spencer, (born April 27, 1820, Derby, Derbyshire, England—died December 8, 1903, Brighton, Sussex), English soci...
28/02/2023

Herbert Spencer, (born April 27, 1820, Derby, Derbyshire, England—died December 8, 1903, Brighton, Sussex), English sociologist and philosopher, an early advocate of the theory of evolution, who achieved an influential synthesis of knowledge, advocating the preeminence of the individual over society and of science over religion.

Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx, (born May 5, 1818, Germany—died March 14, 1883, London, England), revolutionary, ...
14/02/2023

Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx, (born May 5, 1818, Germany—died March 14, 1883, London, England), revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist. He published The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. He also was the author of the movement’s most important book, Das Kapital. by Marx and Engels form the basis of the body of thought and belief known as Marxism. 



Émile Durkheim, (born April 15, 1858 France—died November 15, 1917, Paris), French social scientist who developed a vigo...
13/02/2023

Émile Durkheim, (born April 15, 1858 France—died November 15, 1917, Paris), French social scientist who developed a vigorous methodology combining empirical research with sociological theory. He is widely regarded as the founder of the French school of sociology.

Subjects Of Study: anomie division of labour higher education mechanical and organic solidarity sociology

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber ( 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political eco...
12/02/2023

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber ( 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas profoundly influence social theory and research.

Auguste Comte, in full Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte, (born January 19, 1798, Montpellier, France—died Sep...
10/02/2023

Auguste Comte, in full Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte,
(born January 19, 1798, Montpellier, France—died September 5, 1857, Paris),
French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism.



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