Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
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The Importance of Theory in Sociology
Men are lagging behind women in what should be a gender justice behaviour, so it could be easily reformulated that it is the lagging behind or the inadequacy of men to be gender just which leads to the possibility of greater divorce. Now when I put that forward most people would feel unsure whether they would agree or not agree but a lot of people who would have a less problematic understanding of society would say that is true. So this is something which I will probably come back to Ritupana as we go along in our discussion that I see theory as central to sociology a or a theoretical sociology which has no theory is not sociology at all.
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