All India Sociological Conference from December 20 at USTM

KHANAPARA: The 47th All India Sociological Conference is being organized by the Indian Sociological Society from December 20 to December 22 at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM).

The national conference will be participated in by over 1,000 sociologists from various colleges and universities of all the States in India, stated a press release.

Assam's Governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi will inaugurate the conference on December 20. The theme of the conference is 'Hundred Years of Sociology in India: Exploring Trajectories for the Future'.

Prof TK Oommen, Padma Bhushan awardee Professor Emeritus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, will deliver the keynote address on the theme 'On the Foibles of Indian Sociology: Suggestions Towards their Rectification'.

In this context, Prof BI Laskar, organizing secretary of the 47th All India Sociological Conference, said that this three-day-long mega Sociological event would have three memorial lectures, three plenary sessions, and 29 technical sessions apart from the inaugural and valedictory sessions. The conference schedule also includes presentation of lifetime achievement awards, memorial prizes, book launches etc. Some titles of the various sessions of the Conference are: 'A Century of Sociology in India'; 'Teaching and Research, North East India in Sociological and Social Anthropological Studies'; Emerging Issues and Concerns, Sociology and Social Policy Interface'; The Roadmap for the Post-Covid World, Paradoxes and Trajectories of Development'; State and Tribes in India, The New in the Old'; and Celebrating Fifty Years of Modernization of Indian Tradition'.

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