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T. K. Oommen was born on 16 October 1937 as the second male child to Saramma and Koshy of the Keerikattu family at Tharailath, Venmony, Alleppey, Travancore. [2] After early schooling in Alappuzha, Oommen obtained his BA in economics from Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram in 1957 and MA in sociology from Pune University in 1960.
Dipankar Gupta (born 11 October 1949) is an Indian sociologist and public intellectual. He was formerly Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, [1] Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective, [1]: 14 drawing connections between individual concepts in order to organize and substantiate sociological knowledge.
Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (16 November 1916 – 30 November 1999) [1] was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. [2] 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'.
Their meeting motivated Goffman to leave the University of Manitoba and enroll at the University of Toronto, where he studied under C. W. M. Hart and Ray Birdwhistell, graduating in 1945 with a BA in sociology and anthropology. [3] Later he moved to the University of Chicago, where he received an MA (1949) and PhD (1953) in sociology.
Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge.
Akshay Ramanlal Desai (26 April 1915 – 12 November 1994) was an Indian sociologist, Marxist [1] and a social activist. [2] He was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology in University of Bombay in 1967. [3]
Dube was known for his research of Indian villages and tribal societies. [3] Specifically, he made use of the structural functionalist approach to study these villages. [2] [better source needed] He studied the Kamar tribe, an aboriginal group in Madhya Pradesh.