Social Trends

Permanent URI for this communityhttps://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3479

Social Trends is an interdisciplinary refereed journal, published annually by the Department of Sociology, North Bengal University. All rights reserved. No part of the articles, excepting brief quotations in scholarly works, can be published/reproduced, without the written permission of the editor.

Browse

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3

Open Access
Everyday social relation : feminist reading
(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2017) Chakraborty, Jhuma; Basu, Sritama
The relations, even in a middleclass urban educated nuclear family, can be complex when all the members of a three-member family have strong and unique agencies, andhave different perceptions of life. All three, absolutely reasonable caring human beings, live with a sense of alienation, with a perpetual grudge that the other two do not understand him/her. None of them are happy. The three-dimensional relationship, apparently simple, yet, deep down, is very complex. The complexity of relations disturbs the three members because they truly love one another. This paper endeavours to provide a possible solution to this problem from a feminist perspective.
Open Access
Life in an Alien Culture: A Note in Self-Reflection
(University of North Bengal, 2025) Sharma, Niyati Rekha
The present paper draws its inspiration from Aristotle’s declaration that man is a social animal who is incapable of living in isolation. It begins with my encounter with a place called Mahishadal, and digs into my personal journey, which led to the process of shaping and developing a sense of a ‘self ’. The paper is presented as a narrative of self-reflective and autobiographical writing, which gives an account of my new journey and shared experiences in a chronological order. It attempts to comprehend and explore everyday life practices through the description of a few incidents, focusing on the challenges and hardships I had to go through to be socially accepted in a different cultural setting. The paper narrates the dialectical phase of my journey, the experience of isolation, alienation, frustration and the moments of conforming partially to fit into the framework of ‘generalised others’. I am to unfold the process of mundane experience of interaction with both the ‘self ’ and socio-cultural environment, which has led to the development of my present identity. The paper explores the constant negotiation of ‘self ’ and social belonging, which offers an insight into the continuous interaction that showcases the individual’s survival in a new cultural milieu.
Open Access
Rabindranath’s idea of alienation : interpretation of raktakarabi
(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2017) Ghosh, Sayantan
Pen of the social thinker Rabindranath Tagore reflects the pain of human beings in any social order that is exploitative and alienating, be it industrial capitalism or traditional religious order. He was in favour of cooperation - cooperation in production, cooperation in consumption and cooperation in celebration. He advocated reaching the state of “Ananda”/happiness – creative happiness and collective happiness. He criticised any social order that alienates man from the product he produces, from other human beings and from his own creative self. He emphasised on the role of senses in alienation. This paper would try to outline Tagore’s idea of alienation and the process of liberation of an alienated self to humane self. This concept is reflected in many of his writings but this paper would particularly focus on Raktakarabi. Regarding the idea of alienation, there are certain similarities between Tagore and Marx but there also exists significant uniqueness in Rabindrik philosophy.