Department of Sociology

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The present Department of Sociology was established as a combined Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology by the University of North Bengal in 1976. Professor Niren Ch. Choudhury, eminent anthropologist, was the first Professor and Head of the Department who provided the leadership in the formative years of the Department.Professor R.K.Bhadra and Dr.Namita Choudhury were associated with him since inception of this department and helped in the process of its development. The bifurcation between sociology and anthropology took place in 2001 and thus the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology was renamed Department of Sociology and a separate Department of Anthropology was established under the Science Faculty. From its beginning the Department of Sociology has been training students for three courses: M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. The Department has produced more than 30 Ph.Ds and more than one thousand Masters. Besides the two main programmes the Department invites visiting faculty, from the reputed national and international universities and the faculty of this department visit the universities abroad on visiting faculty programme and for attending seminars/conferences. The teachers of the Department encourage students to take part in academic discussions outside the class-room interaction and encourage them to present papers in seminars/conferences. In recognition of the good work done by the Department the University Grants’ Commission (UGC) has granted the Special Assistance Programme (DRS – 1) in 2007 which has facilitated undertaking a good number of research projects on issues relating to gender question and the problem of ethnicity in the North Bengal region. The Department has been organizing a national level seminar every year on the gender and ethnicity related issues, which constitute the focal theme of the SAP. As a part of the programme the Department publishes Occasional Papers and edited volumes based on the research articles that are produced under different SAP related programs.

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Author: search.filters.author.Bhattacharyya, BhattacharyyaStart date: 2023

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    Home I Call My Own: My Everyday and Beyond
    (University of North Bengal, 2024-03-31) Bhattacharyya, Bhattacharyya
    There is nothing more real in our lives than the reality of our everyday. The everyday that is created through earthly, disciplined, relatively insignificant actions helps us to look at our past, to pass through our present and to solidify, and secure the path of our future. But the everydays of each of us are differently constructed because it is shaped by the difference in our cultural contexts based on our identities such as caste, class, gender, religion, geographical disparity and ethnicity. I would like to show in this paper that my home, a physical structure is not a configuration in itself but an organized space where there are different objects used giving the space a definite meaning. The way I have redefined the place into space according to the culture I bear in my mind and through my actions and how I reformulate my idea of home: how my everydays are constructed through this arrangement. This paper shall also delve into how in the process of creating all everydays, living in the space has created an identity for me vis-à-vis how I have consciously created that identity for myself by creating a space called my own.