The last three years have revealed a strange, fundamental truth about American society: we do not exist in a world where we all perceive the same reality. Rather, we exist in a universe of competing ...

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The aim of this course is to explore some general trends in modern sociological theory by focusing on the way in which agency-structure linkages are conceptualized in three major traditions: the ...

For Prof. T.K. Oommen, sociology was never a mere assemblage of abstract theories. He regarded it as a scientific instrument to grasp the pulse of a society in constant transition ...