 Good afternoon to everyone. I'd like to start off by reading a quote to us which goes, the function of sociology as of every science is to reveal that which is hidden. With this, I welcome everyone to the sociology day program which is organized by the department of sociology, UG Techo College under the banner sociology and its relevance today. To begin, let us have an invocation prayer for the program by Aisungjimla Waling, sixth semester Techo College. Good evening everyone. Let me pray for all of us. Most precious family, Father, as we thank you for thank you for blessing us this wonderful day and good health. Father, as we begin our program, may your spirit be with us, guide us and lead us, help us to express upon your wisdom. Father, we bless our heart and this time in their mighty hand, in Jesus' most precious name we pray. Amen. Thank you. We will now have a presentation on History of Sociology in India by Tia Kampal Lampur, sixth semester Techo College. Hello. Good evening everyone. I welcome everyone on this very good day of sociology day. Before I start off my presentation, I welcome everyone. The topic which I will be presenting now is about the history of sociology in India. On introduction, sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged primarily out of enlightenment thought as a positive sign of society shortly after the French Revolution. It genesis on the various game movement in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge arising in reaction to such issue as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, colonization and imperialism. During its nation stage, within the late 19th century, sociological deliberation took particular interest in the emergence of the modern nation state, including its constituent institution, units of socialization and its means of surveillance. As such an emphasis of the concept of modernity rather than the enlightenment often distinguishes sociological discourse from that of sociological of classical political philosophy. Now on the development of sociology in India, sociology and social anthropology developed in India in the colonial interest and intellectual curiosity of the western scholars on the one hand. The origin of sociology and social anthropology in India can be traced to the days when the British officials realized the need to understand the native society and its culture in the interest of smooth administration. Study conducted by Max Weber in Hinduism also contributed to the growth of studies in Indian society. He got interested in Hinduism and other oriental religion in the context of developing to the theory namely the spirit of capitalism and the principle of rationality. Develop only in the west thus Indian society and culture become the testing ground of various theories and a field to study such problem as growth of towns, poverty, religion, land tenure, village social organization and other native social institutions. This whole period of 19th century gave rise to ethnographic studies that is studies of caste, religion, rituals, customs which provide a foundation to colonial rules for establishing dominance over India. Nicholas Dirks observed that recently final ethnographic contribution to colonial knowledge thus rehabilitated the divineness of caste as well as its fundamental compatibility with politics only in the two registers of ancient India monarchy of modern Britain benevolent despotism. According to Srinivas and Panini 1973-18-1981 the growth of the two discipline in India falls into three phases. The first covering the period between 1773 to 1900 AD when their foundation were led thus again 1901 to 1950 AD when they become provisionalized and finally the post-independent sphere where a complex of forces including the undertaking of plan development by the government the undertaking of plan government by the government the increased exposure of Indian culture to the work of their foreign colleges and the availability of funds resulted in resulted in considerable research activities. The development of sociology sociology can be divided into four sections from pre-independent India to the 90s sociology in the pre-independence period 1917-1946. Now rigid distinction was made between sociology on the one hand and social psychology social philosophy social anthropology social work and other social science such as economic and history of the other. Another university stated that teaching of sociology and social anthropology before 1947 was Pona in the late 1930s with Irrawati Garvey as the head. Another center of influence in sociological theory and research was of Lucknow that is introduced sociology in the department of economics and sociology in 1921 with Radha Kamal Mukherjee as it said Bombay University started teaching of sociology by a grant by a grant of government of India in 1914. In the case of teaching of Indian social institution the orientation shot more ideological emphasis on the one hand and a concern for social heterological problems and ethological description on the other. As is clear by now that sociological debt is formal beginning in 1917 at Calcutta University owning to the active interest an effort of South Indian sociological sociology met its appearance of Mysore University by the effort of B. N. C. N. A. F. Vadya in 1928. Sociology in the post-independence period 1947 to 1966. Many other highly diversified curriculum structures in proper sociology exist including such specialization as rural and urban sociology, sociology of kinship, sociology of religion, sociology of stratification, sociology of education, political sociology, medical sociology, social demography and sociology of economic development. Before independence the teaching of sociology and social anthropology was mainly if not wholly influenced by the then current theoretical concern in Great Britain. After independence however American sociological tradition had a major impact on the teaching of sociology in India. Secondly sociology established its identity as discipline by separating itself from psychology, anthropology, social philosophy and social work. Toward the end of it of this period we also witnessed the interest on the part of the central government to promote social science research through a formal organization established for the purpose. The growing need of planners and administrator on the one hand and the realization of increased importance of sociological teaching and research in the planning process on the other opened up opportunity for research projects. In the most of such diverse intellectual stimuli Indian sociologists began to criticize, modify and develop diverse sociological approaches in the study of Indian society and culture. And these are reflected in the course of Indian society problems of rural development, industrialization and expansion of education, control of population, new political processes and institutions, social and political movements attracted the area of social life. Development in the 70s there have been a few reviews of development in sociology and social anthropology since earlier time till 1970s and onwards 20. While earlier village community studies dominated research by the interest in the area of aberrant relation, land reform, vision, agriculture, labor and schedule, tribe and caste began to attract better attention of sociologists and social anthropologists in the 70s. Row 1982 reviewed the development in the 70s under three heads, one area of the interest and specialization which got crystallized, two area of interest which is developed but not got crystallized, three emergence of new opportunity in the established area. The other area of interest that were crystallized in the 70s were industrial sociology, urban sociology and social stratification. Perspective in the 80s and 90s, there has been thinking that research should be promoted in the 90s in the area of sociology of planning and development, sociology of provision, sociology of organization, social dimension of poverty, law and social change, sociology of national integration extra. Row 1982 anticipated the talks of sociology for the 80s in India which was to analyze the transformation of Indian society, the limits of such transformation and the impact of this limits to such transformation which was affected either in the frustration of effort to surmount the obstacle, the impact of globalization on Indian cultural heritage and general life situation of the people of the country has generated new area that deserve the attention of Indian sociologists who do seem to be and who do seem to be attentive to such relevant areas as civic society Gupta 1977, crisis and resiliency in the process of social change since 1993 and secularism and national integration OC 1991, 1997 but specific social implication, implication of the new economic policy is yet to be analyzed. Now the development of sociology in the northeast region, coming to sociology in northeast India the discipline can be said to be an extended family of the parent university located in the metropolis in the opinion of Nicholas Kumar 1998 and the discipline of sociology in the region started first in Assam at Gibrogar University in the mid of 1960s. This is the first university that taught post-graduate level in sociology in the region. The second department of sociology started at North Eastern Himal North Eastern Hill University in 1976 at Shillong subsequently with creation of university in Nagaland Shilchar Assam and Kishpur Assam. The number of post-graduate department in sociology offering post-graduate courses and research programs has increased to five. Today these universities from the region are producing substantial number of post-graduate in sociology every year. In Nagaland with the start of Nagaland University in Lumamiz, Koyima in 1994 the department of sociology under the school of social science was established on 6 September 1997 at university headquarter Lumamiz with 25 student intake capacity in the initial stage. The intake capacity has over the year increasing from 25 in 1997 to 55 students in 2012 thus making the total strength of post-graduate students to 110. The PhD research program also got started in the department during 2003 since then admission in PhD research. PhD research program have progressively increased this year. Apart from post-graduate and PhD program the department also run two UTC sponsored centers namely travel research center and center for Gandhian studies and research and in conclusion to conclude the history the history of the development of sociology has not been much encouraging at its beginning. Anthropology and Ethnology helped the colonial rule to establish its foundation in other words the discipline of sociology was partly responsible for the survival of colonialism and feudalism in princely states. The feudal mentality of indian people is thus due to sociology anthropology and ethnology it must be said that this discipline has not been word itself in india there are several problems of the country the problems are multi-ethnic multicast multi-cost multi-religion multi-region and multi-linguistic economic problem coupled with unemployment are disasters it is expected of sociology to analyze the social life and bring out some solution. With this I conclude my presentation now I give them to the chairperson thank you. Thank you for the insightful presentation. Moving on I would like to give this time to our guest speaker Dr. Root Laosim Sang Bongpui assistant professor department of tribal studies Manipura University of culture she has completed her PhD in sociology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati she has also she also has multiple publications and also presented papers both on national and international conferences. Very good afternoon everyone I hope I'm audible okay with blank screen been before me I cannot actually know whether you can hear me or not but I take it for granted that you can hear me okay thank you for okay thank you for the generous introduction greetings to everyone in that so-called age it is my privilege to be a part of today's celebration of sociology day and to be given the opportunity to speak on this very auspicious day you know the pandemic has driven has driven us physically apart the technology is bringing us closer together thanks to technology that near or far we can meet in virtual platform. Today as that so-called age celebrates sociology day you know I want us to acknowledge the contribution of scholars who have been the pioneer to the introduction of sociology Augustum, Hypert Spencer, Amal Durkheim, Karl Marx and many more as we have just heard you know have met immense theoretical contribution to sociology. With these few words you know I will in a brief time just give an overview of sociology and I since the link is also provided to other to students from other disciplines I believe that they are students from other disciplines joining us too then I will also in a very brief discussed on the career guidance especially for the graduating students okay so and also I was told that I have 20 minutes time so I hope I can fix my dog within this time limit let me share my screen in case if I am not audible in between okay you just let me know or in case if there is any technical problem you just let me know okay so today I will not go very detailed and I'm not going to go very theoretical in my talk today okay all of you have been especially for the students of sociology from the first semester the third semester you have been studying everything everything I guess will be in your mind now right so today it's just going to be a recap of what we have studied okay the the important points are just highlighted because with this panel of time we cannot go very detailed so I and also I want to let students know that it's always good to go to basic that's very important okay so so if I and in this presentations I will discuss briefly on the subject method sociology I will also discuss on the basic background of sociology its perspective methodology and so here I see it what is sociology right so if I ask this question to the students within a spider finger we'd like a spider finger you know they'll be able to respond some may say sociology is a study of society okay some may say the study of human relationship or it's the study of human life so if we talk in terms of the subject method of sociology it is very diverse from family excuse me kinship culture political system economic religion state ecology the least goes on so sociology you know it's a very interesting field of study it touches every aspect at the family level or let's say at the individual level you know sociology help us understand various matters or this family like we studied that why family exists or let's take the instance of kinship my relationship with my relatives okay or how do we address our relatives or let's say in terms of marriage we get to understand the type of marriage monogamy polygamy polygyny or we understand the the marriage rules who can marry whom right or why people believe in a particular god or why do they believe in many gods and many more aspects we studied in relation right and also sociology examines and help us understand different aspects if we talk in terms of the community level the political system at the community level you know say the political system the voting system we look in terms of culture the process of assimilation the process of diffusionism or let's say in terms of education okay or social movements and coming to the larger context sociology helps us deals it deals with studies on social problems climate change or it can be in terms of population growth welfare measures development issues and so on so we can see how sociology it helps in analyzing and explaining important matters in the society so in this diagram you can see the various that sociology has various branches here i just want to focus very shortly on some of the branches some of the branches of sociology one is historical sociology historical sociology it gives a background you know of social event which is very important in understanding the present context without understanding the past there is no way of understanding the present right or sociology of law it's another branch of sociology and it is considered sociology of law is considered to be a part of society without law there will be travels in society right law is considered as an important means of social control within the family or within society right we have our customer law which is very much important it's it's true this that we deal with our cases right in terms of marriage in terms of inheritance or we have political sociology which is another branch of sociology which studies various for instance in terms of the political system the voting behavior the functioning of the political parties or we talk of sociology of economy which is which deals with the studies of production of goods distribution consumption on the other hand see we also rural sociology is also a part of one of the branches of sociology and rural sociology deals with the study of the life of the rural people look at their behavior they believe their culture and we also have urban sociology which on the other hand studies the way of the life of the urban people their social organization industrialization and we also have medical and sociology very interestingly you know it is a combination of medical science and sociology medical sociology helps in understanding matters relating to health medical care sicknesses disease and so on so upon mentioned branches you know there are a number of other branches of sociology of sociology looking at the branches of sociology it can be said that it is a disciplined that is inherently interdisciplinary as a subject matter of sociology is the right which covers all aspects within the society and sociology has relationship with other sciences same with anthropology history economics management political science and many other uh i also just want to breathe through and talk in terms of the social sociological perspective understanding and acknowledging you know the relationship between one's life and the world around us is what is meant by sociological perspective we have evolutionary perspective which explains how human society's originating group okay we can refer to the work of august com harvard spencer or the functional perspective which looks into how society as an organized network of cooperating groups okay we can refer to the works of red gift brown and then another is config perspective which argued the unstable system of opposing group and classes we have Karl Marx a very renowned scholar and also looking into the interactionist perspective here symbols interactionist perspective looks in terms of symbols okay they consider that it is true symbols that human interact and these symbols can be in the form of gestures signs symbols etc so up to now we have discussed on with how sociology is the study of various aspects of society then how is it possible that such studies are carried out how how do sociologists give it out such studies is one question that anyone can ask because we say to sociologists that these every aspect of society sociology gave importance to gathering in evidences which mean it is based on first hand formation about the social world the method of data collection namely quantitative and qualitative method are used in sociology so quantitative method it involves you know the use of methodological techniques that represent human experiences in numerical categories sometimes it is referred to as statistics and quantitative qualitative methods provides detailed description and analysis of the quality of the human experiences i don't know whether if students have in bn courses do you have fieldwork if you have i guess you will all be able to relate with all these methodological implications so and when we talk of qualitative methods the method of data collection includes interview ethnography survey observation case study okay these are all based on first hand information where the researcher gets himself or herself involved and observed the life of the groups that is being studied so with such detailed study there has been an immense contribution of sociology at the individual level you know it really broadens our understanding and outlook about the society and it also helps individual understand human society and how the whole social system works as we have discussed sociologists are concerned with society they look out for explanation to the phenomenon around them they look out for solution to social problems also say in terms of poverty unemployment which has been a positive contribution to the society studies conducted by sociologists you know to the problems faced by the tribes or other weaker section of society has also helped even the government you know to frame welfare programs um as my area of interest is on gender you know i just wanted to take this opportunity to raise just a few questions to the students you know you all are learned scholars am i audible ma'am the slide the ppt is not moving yeah yeah yeah yeah actually see i yeah i wasn't planning to talk of this but it just came to my mind again gender is a part of my interest so i thought maybe i should just take a little bit because the next slide is on a totally different topic okay so ma'am we are viewing only the title page of the ppt that you have shared the levels of sociology oh it's like that okay okay let me just see that okay let me just see then maybe there is a okay oh let me just try again you should have told me this okay uh is it is it visible now or is it still the same we are at the research methodology page now page now okay and i'm okay this page right but can you hear me whatever that is it's very okay fine yeah see because it's like i'm speaking to an empty to a blank screen so i really don't know whether i'm audible or not you know it's technology has brought us near but then the problem is like it's like i'm speaking to an empty screen you know and i don't know exactly no students can hear me or not in case if there is any discrepancy just let me know okay we'll clarify that okay so we have discussed on the research methodology we said there are two methods quantitative and qualitative and these two are very important methods in sociology okay because it helps us get the information as sociology is based on first and information so these two methods qualitative and quantitative are being met used by the scholars and so i also wanted to talk a little bit on gender okay this is my area of interest i was thinking of not sharing but maybe it's i just feel like i should also just talk a little bit of gender okay and all of you are very learned scholars okay so i just wanted to raise some questions do you think our society is equal you know in our society there is this kind of um tendency to think of we kind of uh get women as inferior and then a superior and whenever there is okay even institutions also when you plan this program i mean i don't know whether when you give in charge i don't know even you give in charge to the female students whether they agree with it yes or whether they point fingers at the boy saying you should do this you should do this okay in most cases in my experience also whenever we tell students to do something assignments then the point the girls the female students will point their fingers at the male students saying not me let him do it okay this is how we it's in our so this that women women are considered to be inferior to men don't you think it's the mentality on how we look at the world around us don't you think that it is because we have been socialized as a female that i that i should not talk publicly okay that has a great effect in my life also i've also experienced that so what i wanted to uh share today is that all of you are very well educated have you ever thought that we need to bring about an equal society or how can we bring about an equal society you know it has to start from us we cannot expect somebody to come and tell us that okay your side is equal it has to start from us so as an educated student i want you all male and female to take this step to bring about equality how can you do the very basic way on how we can do is the whole process of of our socialization the whole process of how we are being trained from the time we are born right so this whole process of gender socialization on how a male should be a male is supposed to be masculine a female is supposed to be feminine okay this whole integral treatment needs to be changed okay let's strive to bring an equal society okay okay so now i move on to my second team i did this on career in sociology see if we look at these images we see that a student of sociology get applied for a number of employment opportunities available right this also applies not just for sociology even from students from other other streams would also have a number of opportunities so as a student you know it is very important to set yeah yeah i'll just intervene here again it's moving in mind so i actually don't know what is the problem that's why okay let me do it again i think there is some technical problem let me try again i'm sorry okay it's moving now or is is it working now can you see my screen no it's not visible okay then let me share it let me try it again um current slide how about now it's still not uh it's not what is visible now in my screen the presenting button is also not shown now so i'm just seeing the list of participants in my screen in your screen okay then let me just check it again let me just present again you in your screen yeah i can see me okay fine um they can set it well let me just i have actually met so much i thought that i would not have any problem i tried my best but seen in this uh technology internet connectivity sometimes you know if we have problem is it visible now yes i'm seeing the slide now but it's in the title again okay so i really don't know what is the problem let's try this again can you see now is this slide moving or not no it's not moving it's still that's not moving okay anyhow my slide doesn't have much i'm seeing branch of sociology now yeah branch of sociology yeah carrier okay let's just go how about now it's visible now yes okay okay so fine so here if we look at this diagram let's just go in this slide only otherwise it's not distracting fine okay so if we look at this um diagram see we see a number of jobs opportunity for a sociology student okay this will also apply even to the other students of other discipline as well so as a student you know it is very important to set your priorities right my dear students graduating and continuing students you know you all have got your admission in this college to pursue a higher education right to get the bachelor degree so your studies should be your priority you know you must you must have face hurdles hardship timely submission of assignments right and even online crunches and all those but but even but all of you have been determined to follow your dreams especially for the graduating students you have done your best and now within a short span of time you'll be graduating likewise in life you know it's very important to set your goal and be determined to reach that goal be clear with your goal this is what i want to focus on you know you need to focus on what you want to succeed say for example you know you wanted to after your BA especially for the graduate students who will be graduating very soon after your BA like you plan to go on for MA then a very close friend of yours on the other side is preparing for a competitive exam as both of you discuss your plan one fine day your friend let's say he's a very he or she is a very influential speaker and keeps talking of all the good points of competitive exam then you get sprayed by what your friend said and then you though you have planned to go on with your masters then you said let me go on with a competitive exam then you change your plan then you start preparing after a year you realize that's not what you want you wanted to do with masters and after losing one year you apply for admission then continue MA so who is at lost you know so one has to have a very clear mind of what you wanted to do don't just get sprayed with what people talk have a fix your you have to know what you want to do and try to reach that goal let me just share my experiences you know after i graduate like you all you know i was also really thinking what i should do whether i should go on with this that there were a lot of people telling me do this do that and so on i was planning to do MSW then i planned and i was supposed to go to Delhi for the entrance exam all plans were met you know how i should go where i should stay and during those time we hardly traveled by air so parents family met arrangement and how i should go all those arrangements were met then those arrangements were met but then though it was me okay i came to the station to pursue with MSW but then within me there was this doubt that keeps telling me am i really satisfied to continue with MSW you know anxiety then i shouldn't get hold of me at that time i could eat i couldn't sleep you know then i keep praying okay i prayed so much because i really don't know whether the decision that i have taken all plans for me whether that is really good for me or not then finally at the last moment you know i decided that i will rather continue with MS sociology than MSW that was a very hard decision to for me to make you know i was stuck in between two of like this diagram let me just uh okay there is a okay like this this way that way the other way i met the decision that i will continue my MA in sociology then go for MSW so i continued MA in sociology those two years of MA you know it just passed by quickly which made me think is it because i studied the subject that interests me that time goes by so quickly you know here from my experiences i want to focus and i want to share that one need to have a strong mind you know at that moment of my life had i not had the courage to stand on what i wanted or have i just said since i already planned to go to delhi let me go we have already made out expenditure then i might not be where i am now today neither i might be talking or speaking with you all today right you should keep god at the first place trust him you will guide your path today you know social media has taken for a good whole of our life during our introductory session when we were admitted in MA one of our faculty was telling us that we have to eat sociology drink sociology and sleep sociology today it's like we drink eat and sleep facebook instagram facebook whatsapp is not there are these are both there are both pros and cons for using social media if you get so occupied you know with using instagram or facebook what good will that bring to you you need to learn time management you can connect with your friends not out through social media but you have to set a limit to that you have to know your priorities set your priorities and we focus on it especially for the graduating students it must be a dilemma you know the thing of what to do after graduation some of you might have already made up your mind some of you might still be in the process of making up your mind what to do remember there is no shorter to success you know you i want to make this point very clear that without hard work perseverance there is no success a lot of experiences i want to share for my own life is that i'll see after i completed my my master i wanted to go on with phd then i applied for phd in the same institution that i got my master's degree my ma marks were fairly good and when we give the entrance i i felt like i did fairly very well so i was hoping for a positive positive result but when the results were declared i wasn't selected and that was a hard thing for me to accept i gave my best but suddenly i i faced failure now i was feeling very low but then i didn't let that failure take all of me i stumbled i fall but then i stood up and i said yes i can do it later on i applied for phd in it go out you know i knew it was a very tough competition out there you know but then i prepared will put entrance and then i got selected out of the many applicants so what i wanted to say is that success sometimes doesn't come very easy you stumble you fall but take it as a part of life okay you have to work hard to on whatever you want to do in life you might face failure in life failure in your exams hurdles or getting marks lesser than your expectations but at that moment you know don't just stumble even in those darkest moments of life don't get discouraged remember when the going gets tough the tough gets going okay so with these few words i once again thank the department for letting me be a part of this celebration and i'm sorry that there were some problems with my ppt that you cannot see some of it but i hope that when i expect you could have heard clearly and once again i congratulate the graduating students and i wish all of you success in your life thank you