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Globalisation widened Indian sociology toward migration, cities, and world-system links. Village, caste, and kinship were not deleted. Burawoy and Wallerstein supply the translocal frame. Census and NFHS still anchor large-scale structure. Comment: changed scale and topics; same object of patterned relations.
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Introduction
Globalisation densified cross-border flows of capital, media, and labour. Indian sociology’s scope has widened from village and caste monographs toward migration, cities, and world-system links. The classic object—structured relations among groups—has not been replaced.
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What changed in scope
- Village studies after M. N. Srinivas remain, but call centres, campuses, and diasporas entered the field.
- Immanuel Wallerstein and later global ethnography, after Michael Burawoy, made the local a node, not an isolate.
- Gender, informal labour, and media, which Ann Oakley-style questions demand, are now ordinary Indian topics.
- Comparative work uses Census and NFHS beside transnational care chains.
What did not dissolve
- Caste, kinship, and the state are still core. Globalisation reorganises them; it does not delete the syllabus object.
- Auguste Comte’s named science still studies order and change, now at several scales.
Comment
- Scope has changed in scale and in topics.
- It has not changed into a residual cultural studies of malls.
- The risk is chasing funder themes and losing the village file that still holds most lives.
Flow diagram
flowchart TD GLOB[Globalisation] --> SCALE[Translocal cities media] IND[Indian sociology] --> CAST[Caste village state] SCALE --> IND CAST --> IND
Conclusion
In globalisation, Indian sociology’s scope has changed toward translocal work, cities, and inequality in a world market. Caste and agrarian structure remain inside that scope. Comment: expansion of field, not a new discipline. Keep the joint map Durkheim and Weber taught, now with a world-system edge.
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