Sridhar Vembu recently critiqued the societal impact of relentless economic rivalry, highlighting its role in diminishing ...

A recent British survey reveals alarming rates of healthcare-related harm, highlighting the disparities in patient responses.

The world will never be completely equal. And maybe it shouldn’t be — let me explain. Egalitarianism, the idea of equality ...

India is set to conduct its first caste-based census in years, and for the first time, Muslim communities will also be asked ...

Latin American and Caribbean sociological research on stratification has developed with the unavoidable reference to a background of deeply rooted ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades ...

Caste, a social structure in India, is now central to politics. Parties analyze caste composition before candidate selection.

The sociological theories on cultural taste popularized by French thinker Pierre Bourdieu over 45 years ago have reached a ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information ...

The caste details of citizens will be included in India's population census, the country's information minister has announced ...

The United National Congress’ (UNC) overwhel­ming victory last Monday was nothing short of spectacular. One of my colleagues ...