Sociology in the Context of Globalisation: Issues and Challenges in India

Any exercise in mapping the current status of any social science discipline is a mammoth task, as it involves the normative concerns as well as the personal perceptions of the sociologist who treads this path. The focus of this paper is on certain challenges that have been posed by the present circumstances that includes globalisation as well as changes that have come about in the Indian polity and society due to other factors. explore and examine the state of sociology and its future in the country.[ Address at the Social Scientists’ Meet on Emerging Problems of Social Sciences in the Context of Globalisation. ICSSR (NW Regional Centre), Chandigarh, July 26, 2005.]