The objective of the Department of Sociology with regard to its MPhil/PhD programme is to rethink, revise and rejuvenate the discipline of Sociology by effectively centering South Asia and engage in a purposive dialogue with dominant centers of knowledge, typically associated with the West, and new emergent perspectives from other parts of the world

We invite students whose commitment as research scholars in Sociology and Anthropology reflect these concerns and interests. We are especially interested in teaching students who will help push the bounds of Sociological and Anthropological knowledge that will enable the development of a ‘South Asian Sociology’; aware of its diverse histories, concerns and approaches, initiate a rethinking of the category of South Asia without falling prey to nationalist and statist paradigms and contribute to the further development of Sociology and Anthropology as disciplines on the whole.

We are a young department and we offer students a vital space for intellectual and methodological innovation which is often not available at established departments elsewhere. Thus our research students will play a critical role in developing new approaches as we grow as a department.

Based on the current composition of our faculty we invite students working on diverse topics including:

Sociological and Anthropological studies of Economic life, Sociology of Education, Anthropology of Contemporary Art, Political Sociology, Urban Anthropology and Sociology, Industrialization and the World of Work , Anthopology of Folklore, Popular Culture, Media, Film and Music and Visual Culture, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Migration Studies and Diaspora, Forced Migration, Borders, new innovations in Sociological and Anthropological Theory and Method, Historical Sociology, Gender and Sexuality, Social Stratification, Social Movements, Political Economy of Identity Politics, Politics of Knowledge Production, Violence and Conflict, Material Culture, Regionalism, South Asian Studies, and Development Studies.

Interested applicants with further queries may contact us sociology@sau.ac.in