Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Commonsense Theorizing of Sociology
Sociology is necessary for us to operate in society but being necessary is not the same as doing sociological theory. We all have common sense ideas with which we operate since we already have commonsense ideas theory make a theorizing is not a choice, he says. Could you also please comment on the structure of the book and it's organizing yeahYeah i think i've answered it to a certain extent when i mentioned the common sense theorizing that we already already have categories so when we say religious we say gender we say man women family kinshipwe use it in our everyday conversations even if you're not a sociologistWe use these terminology and we also make judgments about what is right what
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