Web Talk : Department of Sociology

Positioning Sociology in Relation to Other Disciplines

Report:

On February 11, 2021 (Thursday) between 3-4pm, the second Sociology Web-talk, organized by the Department of Sociology, and approved by IQAC, Loreto College was held. On this occasion our invited speaker was Ms. Lakshmi Krishnakumar, who is an Assistant Professor at School of Law, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. She teaches Sociology, Legal History and Human Resource Management. She has completed her Bachelors and Masters in Sociology, and holds an M.Phil. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi with specialization in Medical Anthropology. Her interests span Sociology of Health and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Literature, and Art History.

The title of her presentation was ‘Positioning Sociology in Relation to Other Disciplines’. This Web-talk was designed to enable students discover a sociological perspective in their own respective disciplines and to encourage an inter-disciplinary understanding. Through her presentation, the speaker addressed and encouraged the students to understand the overlapping boundaries of diverse disciplinary perspectives by infusing her deliberations with multiple examples from Psychology, History, Literature, Education, Geography, Economics, Medicine and Law. She pointed out the interconnectedness of the social world and left the students with a thought to ponder over: how insulated can any social science be? This Web-talk addressed the Loreto College students who are attending as well as have attended Sociology Elective courses in the last two years.