Year of Establishment : 1975, fucntional-1976
History of the department :
The Department of Sociology at University of Calcutta was set-up in 1975 and functional in 1976 and currently running M.A., M.Phil. &
Ph.D coursework. It will complete forty two years in 2018. With semester system of teaching and examination the department offers a 900
marks Master degree having compulsory components of Fieldwork and Term paper writing and a choice from six optional papers of 200 marks.
Incidentally, Sociology was being taught as a subsidiary in M.A. Economics since 1909 and also as a special paper in Political Science.
It was in 1975 that the University Grants Commission approved the Department of Sociology at the University of Calcutta with BelaDuttGupta,
then Reader in the Department of Political Science, as Head of Sociology. Subsequently, Prof. BelaDuttGupta, a nationally acclaimed Sociologist
became Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Chair Professor at Calcutta and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement by Indian Sociological Society in October 2009.
Other faculties were Professor Debkumar Banerjee, Prof. Swapan Kr. Bhattacharyya, Prof. Swapan Kr. Pramanik, Prof. Bholanath Banerjee, Dr. Krishna
Chakraborty, Prof. Bula Bhadra, Prof. Basabi Sur and Prof. Gayatri Bhattacharyya all of whom have retired.
Departmental faculties are in regular interface with larger society in new sub areas like Sociology of Health and Illness, Sociology of Ageing,
Sociology of Culture and Gender in Literature, Cinema, and Theater etc. The faculties of this Department regularly contribute in generating
academic knowledge and its application through interventions with other organizations in the new areas as mentioned in their capacity as experts
and advisors to different local and national bodies.
The Department started publishing its own journal from 1980 that was re-launched as a refereed journal from 2007; the last issue of 2016 is on
racks and issue of 2017 is forthcoming.
At present, the Department has eleven posts with four full time teachers and fifteen guest teachers.
There were four UPE-UGC major collaborative projects with Applied Psychology, Linguistics, History and Library & Information
Science departments under UPE-1. Currently there is an interdisciplinary ICSSR Major with the departments of Economics and Business Management.
Most faculty members of the Department contribute to different non-governmental organizations and to both print and electronic media as experts
very often. Most faculty members are involved in outreach activities
The Department has already produced a handsome number of students who are employed in different national and international Institutes of repute. 15 Alumni are named here.
Sl. | Name | Designation | Institution |
1. | Prof. Sujata Sen | Professor | Kalayani University |
2. | Prof. Biswajit Ghosh | Professor | Burdwan University |
3. | Prof. S.A.H. Moinuddin | Professor | Vidyasagar University |
4. | Prof. Shuita Chopra Chatterjee | Professor | IIT Kharagpur |
5 | Prof. Anirban Banerjee | Professor | Burdwan University |
6. | Prof. RamanujGanguly | Professor | West Bengal State University |
7. | Dr. RituSenChaudhuri | Associate Professor | West Bengal State University |
8. | Dr. Piyali Sur | Associate Professor | Jadavpur University |
9 | Dr. Nabamita Das | Associate Professor | Presidency University |
10 | Dr. ArpitaMitra | Associate Professor | KISS Law- Bhubaneswar |
11 | Mr. Subhasis Banerjee | Associate Professor | BE College-IIEST Sibpur |
12 | Dr. AnandaMohonKar | Associate Professor | Burdwan University |
13 | Ms. Pujasri Chatterjee | Associate Professor | Vidyasagar University |
14 | Dr. SrabantiChaudhuri | Associate Professor | Netaji Open University |
15 | Ms. Sreyosi Ray | Associate Professor | Heritage Institute of Management Studies |
Faculty members:
Name | Designation | Area of specialization | Phone number | |
Dr. Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee [Profile] |
Professor | Research Methodology, Social Gerontology, Sociology of Organization, Sociology of Medicine and Illness |
sudeshnabasumukerjee@gmail.com | 9830021103 |
Dr. Mallarika Sarkar (Das) [Profile] |
Assistant professors | Social Gerontology | mallarika_s@yahoo.com | 9007828531 |
Ms. Clare Lizamit Samling [Profile] |
Assistant professors | Soc. of Religion; Gender; Information Society | liza.samling@gmail.com | 9163112925 |
Dr. Susmita Bhattacharyy [Profile] |
Assistant professors | Sociology of Culture | mithu_susmita@yahoo.com | 9830108659 |
Visiting faculty members :
Name | Institutions attached with | Period of appointment |
Prof. Bula Bhadra | INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, JOKA, | 2006 (August-October) |
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAZIL, RIO-DE-JANEIRO | AUGUST 2012 | |
Dr. Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee | Department of Sociology Vidyasagar University Visiting Fellow |
March 2012- 2013 |
Programme | Level of study | Eligibility | Intake capacity |
P.G. in Sociology | B.A. in Sociology | 65 | |
M.Phil | M.A. - Sociology | 15 | |
Ph.D Course work |
Research scholars :
Name | Research topic | Name of the supervisor | Date of registration |
Abir Chatterjee | Impact of Globalized Postindustrial Media on Indian society: How reality shows influence the active syndrome of media audience. ( A Study of Deconstructing the Political Economy of Mediation in India) | SwapanKr. Pramanik | 22/04/2016 |
Ananya Chatterjee | Friendship Relationships among Adolescents in Kolkata: A Sociological Investigation | Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee | 25/04/2012 Submitted |
Anisha Sen | Women Medical Professionals in Kolkata: A Sociological Investigation | Bula Bhadra | 29/01/2014 |
Anuja Gupta | A Sociological Study of BratasAmong Women in the Howrah District of West Bengal | BholanathBandhopahyay | 11/03/2016 |
Arundhati Ghosh Dastidar | School as a Social System | Gayatri Bhattacharyya | 12/08/2012 |
Chanderyee Chaudhuri | Raising Hopes of Self-Reliance: The Scope of Biodiversity Management in Bankura- A District in West Bengal | Gayatri Bhattacharyya | 22/04/2016 |
Deepika Singh | Networked Individual and Networked Family in India:A Sociological Exploration of Youth of Kolkata | Bula Bhadra | 22/09/2015 |
Dr. DiptaKantiMukhopadyay MBBS &MD | Illness Behavior: A Sociological Study in Rural Areas of Birbhum District of West Bengal | Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee | 31/05/2017 |
Jayeeta Basu | Professional Women and Glass ceiling: A Sociological Study of Women Lawyers of Kolkata | Bula Bhadra | 25/04/2012 |
Joyita Das | Educational Status Among Shia and Sunni Muslim Women in Kolkata: An Intergenerational study | Bholanath Bandhopahyay | 06/06/2018 |
Kousambi Chakraborty | Rural Development in India: A Contributions of Rabindranath Tagore | Bholanath Bandhopahyay | 08/03/2013 |
Ishani Deb | Linguistic Hegemony and Schooling In the 21st Century: A Sociological Inquiry of English and Bengali Medium Schools in Kolkata | Bula Bhadra | 22/ 12/2016 |
Meghna Bose | Iravati Karve’s Contributions To Sociology of India | Gayatri Bhattacharyya | 31/03/2015 |
Pujasree Chatterjee | Changing Nature of Work Life: An Investigation among the University Faculty of West Bengal | Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee | 11/03/2016 |
PunyrupaBhaduri | Nature and Extent of Domestic Elderly Abuse in Kolkata and its Adjacent Areas: A Sociological Study | Bholanath Bandhopahyay | 06/06/2018 |
RinkiKamat | The pattern and characteristics of migration among the slum dwellers of Kolkata: A Sociological Study of the slums in the Kolkata Municipal corporation area | Basabi Sur | 23.6.2017 |
SaheliChowdhury | Women Athletes of West Bengal : A Sociological Investigation of Gendering, Exclusion and Marginalization | Bula Bhadra | 17/12/2012 Submitted |
Sanchari De | Career Choice: A Sociological Exploration Among Secondary and Higher Secondary Students in Kolkata | Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee | 02/03/2016 |
Shinjini Ray | M.N. Srinivas’s contributions To Indian Sociology: The Early Writings | Gayatri Bhattacharyya | 09/06/ 2017 |
SohiniKundu | Women tea plantation workers in a tea garden in north Bengal: an sociological study | Gayatri Bhattacharyya | 20/06/2016 |
Soumen Das | Redefining Intimacy: A Sociological Study on Changing Perception of Romantic Love among YoungAdults in Kolkata | Bula Bhadra | 31/05/ 2017 |
Suvankar Dasgupta | Feminist Cinema and Indian Society: A Sociological Gaze and Assay of Selective Indian Cinema | Bula Bhadra | 10.11.10 Cntd. 11/11/2015 |
Tannistha Sarkar | Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Sociological Investigation in Government Hospitals of West Bengal | Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee | 31/05/ 2017 |
Tapobrata Ray | An analysis of the impact of the socio – cultural environment on business decisions and strategy from the point of view of corporate members. | Basabi Sur | 05/06/2015 |
Project
Project title | Funding agency | Principal investigator | Duration | Budget |
Social, Economic and Political Empowerment of Women: The Role of Microfinance Interventions in Diverse Cultures | ICSSR Major Project; | Co-Director- Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee |
2017-2019 | |
Contemporary linkages of Tagore’s Chitrangada, Binodini and Srimati- Saga of Different Women | UGC-minor | Susmita Bhattacharyya-PI | 2017 |
Thrust areas in teaching and research of the academic department/ centre :
TEACHING :
Currently Interdisciplinary researches are undertaken :
Teaching support :
Research support:
Name of the equipment | Brief description | Funding agency |
LCD Projectors& Internet | Class room teaching | UNIVERSITY |
Internet | For research scholars and students | UNIVERSITY |
Major activities :
International and National Lectures
Additional information :