Chahat Walia

I am a researcher and a teacher. I have a deep love for the subject of sociology. I have taught sociology at the Mussoorie International Boarding School to the Cambridge Board ( both A and AS levels) and the ISC Board for 11th and 12th. It is one of those subjects which breaks many of our biases, commonsensical assumptions and gives us a deep insight into our own social world. Its a subject that instills empathy in us for the marginalized sections of the society. It explores the classic methodological debate between the phenomenologists and the positivists that is of the relation between man and society. Sociology deconstructs several social institutions like marriage, kinship, family etc and delineates the economic and the political from the social.It tells us that we operate under several societal forces which many times constrains our behaviour in particular ways. Weber, Marx and Durkheim are some of my favourite sociologists. My goal is to instill the same love for sociology in my students which I have for this subject.