Confronting Reflexivity: Sociological Trajectories of Teaching Sociology in Liberal Arts Spaces

This article invites the reader to reflect on the practice and teaching of sociology through reflexivity in India in a new emerging space of liberal arts in private universities. These spaces can be considered as the fringe of sociology teaching. I argue that students in private universities grapple...

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Published in:Sociological bulletin 2023-04, Vol.72 (2), p.192-208
Main Author: Tripathi, Brijesh Chandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
College students
Colleges & universities
Debates
Private schools
Reflexivity
Sociology
Sociology education
Teaching
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Summary:This article invites the reader to reflect on the practice and teaching of sociology through reflexivity in India in a new emerging space of liberal arts in private universities. These spaces can be considered as the fringe of sociology teaching. I argue that students in private universities grapple with a ‘crisis of relatedness’ regarding sociological discourse, and the debates they study leave them with different questions. I suggest that the understanding of social facts and issues is different and distant from those studying in public universities. The different lived experiences produce different sociological imaginations with the engagement of the same sociological texts. Teaching sociology in liberal arts spaces could mark the emergence of a generation of sociologists in India who have their training rooted in private universities. This new location of sociology students asks us to revisit the ongoing debate of skill-based sociology versus critical sociology that generates new questions for reflexivity and social location of both practitioner and student of sociology.
ISSN:0038-0229
2457-0257
DOI:10.1177/00380229221151082