Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article addresses Oliver Cromwell Cox’s criticisms of the application of the concept of caste to understand race relations in the southern states of the Unite States. It proposes that there are deep similarities …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This commentary responds to the essay by Suraj Yengde titled ‘Race and Caste in the Making of US Sociology’, picks up a few threads in Yengde’s argument and attempts to unravel them in the interests of deepening this …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this article, we take a look at the influence of 20th-century provenance of caste as a category of academic importance meriting a debate in American sociology and beyond. Two actors participated in the animating di…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This brief response raises a few key questions emerging from Suraj Yengde’s lecture and suggests a critical direction they can be steered towards. It considers in what sense caste may deserve an epistemology of its ow…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Emerging out of religious conflict in early modern Europe, the terms race and caste as we understand them today went on to define hierarchical relations in different parts of the globe. Yet, they have never completely…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The concern to think about the place of caste as a conceptual category – within, and in relation to, broader sociological understandings of inequality – was the primary motivation of the British Sociological Associati…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. I introduce the concept of transactional pathways, coined by anthropologist Jane Guyer, to trace the institutional processes that contribute to uneven and unjust patterns of wealth and status distribution under system…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. What analytical framework can we employ to conduct ethnographic investigation into family businesses? As sociological and anthropological perspectives increasingly extend their gaze beyond the legal confines of firms …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The concepts of precariousness that emerged in Western countries from the 1980s onwards highlight uncertainty regarding the form, scope and nature of labour in the near future. In this article, we use the concept of a…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines the relationship between intermarriage and integration in a novel context, centering on Israeli adolescents with ethnic origins from both Europe and Middle Eastern and North African countries. Cu…