Social Trends
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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.
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Item Open Access Living Everyday and Studying Everyday(Univrsity of North Bengal, 2024-03-31) Sen, SudarshanaWhen we look around us, we find visual images, vibrant and vivid. The experiences we have form the basis of our subjective understanding of these visual images and ways of studying our every day. But when we study these vivacious but mundane, routine everydays that we live it becomes an object and subject of study. In anthropology engaging in experimental forms of writing there ushered in new ways to represent sensory embodied and visual aspects of culture, knowledge and experience. This encouraged the use of other modes and media of representation, including ethnographic film and photography, performance anthropology, and exhibition. Significantly it was during the 1980s and especially the 1990s that, as academics gradually converted their office practices to the use of computers; digital media became an increasingly normal part of everyday anthropological practices of writing and communicating. Within this context, the development of a theory and practice of hypermedia anthropology began to emerge in the 1990s. Since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook, in 2000, methods that go by the generic name of everyday experience methods have matured from the status of promising innovations to standard tools in social-personality psychology. By everyday experience methods, we prefer not to a specific instrument or procedure but rather to a paradigm for studying socialpsychological phenomena as they occur in the ebb and flow of everyday life – to “capture life as it is lived” (Bolger, Davis & Rafaeli 2003: 580). Everyday experience methods offer more than just another methodological alternative; their focus on ordinary, spontaneous activity allows researchers to evaluate theoretical models and hypotheses from a perspective that differs fundamentally from traditional methods. The payoff is a detailed, accurate, and multifaceted portrait of social behaviour embedded in its natural context. This paper shall discuss possible ways on how this can be done.Item Open Access Decoding the Anglo-Indian Woman: Discourses on Rape and Victimhood(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2021) Sen, SudarshanaThe Anglo-Indian community is recognized as a racial and linguistic minority in India. It also is recognized as a marginal community. This community has a history of over five hundred years and is a part of Indian polity with nominated representatives in the state legislatures and Parliament. An incident of rape popularly known as ‘Park Street Rape Case’ occurred on February 6, 2012 in Kolkata. The survivor an Anglo-Indian woman, Suzette Jordan, later died on 13 March 2015 due to meningitis. The incident created an uproar in the media because the state government had pointed towards the incident as a ‘minor case’ where the victim was labelled as a prostitute. This paper will highlight how the woman of a marginal community was socially harassed by the state, common people and on the social media from the time of incident and even after her death. It will especially highlight on the after currents on social media after Suzette died a natural death. The paper will use opinions posted on the social media on the issue as the bulk of the data with media reports on print and internet versions. The paper will argue how a woman of a marginal community was a victim to multilayered marginalization in the process.Item Open Access Redefining the contours : survey on the new methods used in social sciences(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2020) Sen, SudarshanaThe two intellectual and scholarly alignments, one with constructivism, logical induction and theory-building and the other related to positivism was reflected and manifest in two differing cerebral discourses. These intellectual alignments were rooted in different domains of philosophy of science reflected through different research paradigms. The result was a deepening divide between scholars who applied either quantitative or qualitative methods in their studies. In the late 1970s an initiative led to the publication of a Handbook of Mixed Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences further enriching the long struggle and intellectual reticence to mix differing and opposing philosophical flagships. This paper will take this struggle as a context and explore and analyze the emerging methods and the new philosophical breakthrough in social science researching particularly in the context of the study in everyday life.