Sourabh Singh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3600516 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sourabh Singh |
| NOMBRES | Sourabh |
| APELLIDO | Singh |
| FIRMA | SINGH S |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9636-994X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Pandemic, Precarity and Reverse Migration
The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown in India triggered an unprecedented reverse migration of informal workers from urban centers to rural regions, exposing long-standing structural vulnerabilities within the country’s labor regime. This paper examines the lived experiences of semi-skilled and unskilled informal workers who returned to rural Eastern Uttar Pradesh during the later phase of the pandemic. Using a qualitative research de…
Re-Thinking Demographic Engineering Practices
Changing Political Elite Network Dynamics and the Fate of Democracy
In this article, I adopt insights from social network analysis to document and explain changes in India’s ruling political elite’s network that led to the end of a brief period of authoritarianism, known as the Emergency period, in postcolonial India. Using data on the political elite’s interactions and point of view, and utilizing network analysis methods, I show that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s political trajectory made her expect loyalty, n…
Can Habitus Explain Individual Particularities? Critically Appreciating the Operationalization of Relational Logic in Field Theory
Bourdieu's concept of habitus claims to solve the problem of the individual/society duality. However, the concept of habitus appears to be inadequate to explain the idiosyncratic features of individual field actors' practices. In this article, I argue that to explain the particularity of individual habitus, we must appreciate the operationalization of relational logic in field theory. I further argue that individuals learn to prediscursively iden…
To rely or not to rely on common sense? Introducing critical Realism's insights to social network analysis
In this article, I aim to critically evaluate the epistemological position of social network analysis. My main point is that while the two main schools of social network analysis – formalism and relationalism – claim to be different because of their respective comprehensions of the ontology of social networks, epistemologically they both rely on network actors' commonsensical comprehension of social ties to conduct social network analysis. Follow…
Rethinking Political Elites' Mass-Linkage Strategies
In this article, I critique available elite-mass linkage theories that depict elites either as structurally determined or rational actors. Taking cues from Bourdieu's political field theory, I argue that elites' mass-linkage strategies are a product of their point of view on politics structured by their trajectory in historically specific structures of politics. I demonstrate my argument by documenting shifts in the mass-linkage strategies of Ind…
Science, Common Sense and Sociological Analysis
Field theory is often criticized because sociologists applying it fail to follow two seminal rules: the three key concepts of field theory—capital, habitus, and field structure—must be (1) implemented in relation to each other and (2) reconstructed for the historically specific moment of their application. I claim that Bourdieu developed his conceptual tools in response to Bachelard’s insight that scientific progress requires a break from common …
How Should We Study Relational Structure? Critically Comparing the Epistemological Positions of Social Network Analysis and Field Theory
I argue that the main difference between two schools of relational sociology - field theory and social network analysis - lies in the difference between their respective epistemological stances rather than between their ontological assumptions. While social network analysts have developed sophisticated quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, they epistemologically rely on their commonsensical understanding of relational structure. In contras…
Anchoring depth ontology to epistemological strategies of field theory
Critical realism's insight into depth ontology creates the possibility for re-imagining sociology as a science of the social world. However, critical realism has yet to gain a strong foothold in sociological analysis. Challenging the available criticism of critical realism, I argue that its main flaw is its inability to draw an appropriate epistemological strategy from its insights into depth ontology. I propose that this limitation can be overco…
Epistemological lacunae in conceptualising political structure
Three schools of thought – focusing on the party system, political elite networks, and political institutions, respectively – have dominated previous discussions of political structure. In this article, I show that these perspectives share the common weakness of failing to take into account political actors’ points of view on the meaning of politics, making them incapable of explaining the reproduction or the transformation of political structure…
What Is Relational Structure? Introducing History to the Debates on the Relation between Fields and Social Networks
In this article, I argue that the current views on the relation between fields and social networks are based on two false premises: first, that fields and social networks are mutually exclusive forms of relational structure, and second, that the objective form of relational structure is an a priori fact. The main point of this article is that fields-defined as sites of contest among their inhabitants known for using their symbolically charged cap…
Appreciating field theory's insights into politics
Role of Political Habitus in Shaping Dynamics of Democracy
I have developed a theory regarding the relations among political structure, elite agency and democratization processes that overcomes the political structure/elite agency duality currently plaguing democracy consolidation studies. Using Bourdieu’s insights on the structure/agency relation to empirically examine the Nehruvian (1947–71) and Gandhian (1971–77) periods of Indian democracy, I show that the elite’s role in democratization processes is…
Political Field Dynamics and the Elite’s Interest in Democracy
Unraveling the enigma of Indira Gandhi's rise in Indian politics
The meaning of pain during the process of embodiment
A large number of sociologists have adopted the notion of the embodied subject to escape the trappings of the rational choice theory in sociological analysis. From a phenomenological perspective, the notion of an embodied subject refers to a subject who is in unity with the world. In this paper, I will present my ethnographic study of a group of trainee dancers preparing to embody the world of modern dance. I will present my study of their traini…
What Is Relational Structure? Introducing History to the Debates on the Relation between Fields and Social Networks
In this article, I argue that the current views on the relation between fields and social networks are based on two false premises: first, that fields and social networks are mutually exclusive forms of relational structure, and second, that the objective form of relational structure is an a priori fact. The main point of this article is that fields-defined as sites of contest among their inhabitants known for using their symbolically charged cap…
Appreciating field theory's insights into politics
Can Habitus Explain Individual Particularities? Critically Appreciating the Operationalization of Relational Logic in Field Theory
Bourdieu's concept of habitus claims to solve the problem of the individual/society duality. However, the concept of habitus appears to be inadequate to explain the idiosyncratic features of individual field actors' practices. In this article, I argue that to explain the particularity of individual habitus, we must appreciate the operationalization of relational logic in field theory. I further argue that individuals learn to prediscursively iden…
Unraveling the enigma of Indira Gandhi's rise in Indian politics
How Should We Study Relational Structure? Critically Comparing the Epistemological Positions of Social Network Analysis and Field Theory
I argue that the main difference between two schools of relational sociology - field theory and social network analysis - lies in the difference between their respective epistemological stances rather than between their ontological assumptions. While social network analysts have developed sophisticated quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, they epistemologically rely on their commonsensical understanding of relational structure. In contras…
Role of Political Habitus in Shaping Dynamics of Democracy
I have developed a theory regarding the relations among political structure, elite agency and democratization processes that overcomes the political structure/elite agency duality currently plaguing democracy consolidation studies. Using Bourdieu’s insights on the structure/agency relation to empirically examine the Nehruvian (1947–71) and Gandhian (1971–77) periods of Indian democracy, I show that the elite’s role in democratization processes is…
Political Field Dynamics and the Elite’s Interest in Democracy
Rethinking Political Elites' Mass-Linkage Strategies
In this article, I critique available elite-mass linkage theories that depict elites either as structurally determined or rational actors. Taking cues from Bourdieu's political field theory, I argue that elites' mass-linkage strategies are a product of their point of view on politics structured by their trajectory in historically specific structures of politics. I demonstrate my argument by documenting shifts in the mass-linkage strategies of Ind…
Science, Common Sense and Sociological Analysis
Field theory is often criticized because sociologists applying it fail to follow two seminal rules: the three key concepts of field theory—capital, habitus, and field structure—must be (1) implemented in relation to each other and (2) reconstructed for the historically specific moment of their application. I claim that Bourdieu developed his conceptual tools in response to Bachelard’s insight that scientific progress requires a break from common …
Epistemological lacunae in conceptualising political structure
Three schools of thought – focusing on the party system, political elite networks, and political institutions, respectively – have dominated previous discussions of political structure. In this article, I show that these perspectives share the common weakness of failing to take into account political actors’ points of view on the meaning of politics, making them incapable of explaining the reproduction or the transformation of political structure…
The meaning of pain during the process of embodiment
A large number of sociologists have adopted the notion of the embodied subject to escape the trappings of the rational choice theory in sociological analysis. From a phenomenological perspective, the notion of an embodied subject refers to a subject who is in unity with the world. In this paper, I will present my ethnographic study of a group of trainee dancers preparing to embody the world of modern dance. I will present my study of their traini…
The meaning of pain during the process of embodiment
A large number of sociologists have adopted the notion of the embodied subject to escape the trappings of the rational choice theory in sociological analysis. From a phenomenological perspective, the notion of an embodied subject refers to a subject who is in unity with the world. In this paper, I will present my ethnographic study of a group of trainee dancers preparing to embody the world of modern dance. I will present my study of their traini…
Unraveling the enigma of Indira Gandhi's rise in Indian politics
Role of Political Habitus in Shaping Dynamics of Democracy
I have developed a theory regarding the relations among political structure, elite agency and democratization processes that overcomes the political structure/elite agency duality currently plaguing democracy consolidation studies. Using Bourdieu’s insights on the structure/agency relation to empirically examine the Nehruvian (1947–71) and Gandhian (1971–77) periods of Indian democracy, I show that the elite’s role in democratization processes is…
Political Field Dynamics and the Elite’s Interest in Democracy
Epistemological lacunae in conceptualising political structure
Three schools of thought – focusing on the party system, political elite networks, and political institutions, respectively – have dominated previous discussions of political structure. In this article, I show that these perspectives share the common weakness of failing to take into account political actors’ points of view on the meaning of politics, making them incapable of explaining the reproduction or the transformation of political structure…
What Is Relational Structure? Introducing History to the Debates on the Relation between Fields and Social Networks
In this article, I argue that the current views on the relation between fields and social networks are based on two false premises: first, that fields and social networks are mutually exclusive forms of relational structure, and second, that the objective form of relational structure is an a priori fact. The main point of this article is that fields-defined as sites of contest among their inhabitants known for using their symbolically charged cap…
Appreciating field theory's insights into politics
Anchoring depth ontology to epistemological strategies of field theory
Critical realism's insight into depth ontology creates the possibility for re-imagining sociology as a science of the social world. However, critical realism has yet to gain a strong foothold in sociological analysis. Challenging the available criticism of critical realism, I argue that its main flaw is its inability to draw an appropriate epistemological strategy from its insights into depth ontology. I propose that this limitation can be overco…
Science, Common Sense and Sociological Analysis
Field theory is often criticized because sociologists applying it fail to follow two seminal rules: the three key concepts of field theory—capital, habitus, and field structure—must be (1) implemented in relation to each other and (2) reconstructed for the historically specific moment of their application. I claim that Bourdieu developed his conceptual tools in response to Bachelard’s insight that scientific progress requires a break from common …
How Should We Study Relational Structure? Critically Comparing the Epistemological Positions of Social Network Analysis and Field Theory
I argue that the main difference between two schools of relational sociology - field theory and social network analysis - lies in the difference between their respective epistemological stances rather than between their ontological assumptions. While social network analysts have developed sophisticated quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, they epistemologically rely on their commonsensical understanding of relational structure. In contras…
To rely or not to rely on common sense? Introducing critical Realism's insights to social network analysis
In this article, I aim to critically evaluate the epistemological position of social network analysis. My main point is that while the two main schools of social network analysis – formalism and relationalism – claim to be different because of their respective comprehensions of the ontology of social networks, epistemologically they both rely on network actors' commonsensical comprehension of social ties to conduct social network analysis. Follow…
Rethinking Political Elites' Mass-Linkage Strategies
In this article, I critique available elite-mass linkage theories that depict elites either as structurally determined or rational actors. Taking cues from Bourdieu's political field theory, I argue that elites' mass-linkage strategies are a product of their point of view on politics structured by their trajectory in historically specific structures of politics. I demonstrate my argument by documenting shifts in the mass-linkage strategies of Ind…
Changing Political Elite Network Dynamics and the Fate of Democracy
In this article, I adopt insights from social network analysis to document and explain changes in India’s ruling political elite’s network that led to the end of a brief period of authoritarianism, known as the Emergency period, in postcolonial India. Using data on the political elite’s interactions and point of view, and utilizing network analysis methods, I show that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s political trajectory made her expect loyalty, n…
Can Habitus Explain Individual Particularities? Critically Appreciating the Operationalization of Relational Logic in Field Theory
Bourdieu's concept of habitus claims to solve the problem of the individual/society duality. However, the concept of habitus appears to be inadequate to explain the idiosyncratic features of individual field actors' practices. In this article, I argue that to explain the particularity of individual habitus, we must appreciate the operationalization of relational logic in field theory. I further argue that individuals learn to prediscursively iden…
Re-Thinking Demographic Engineering Practices
Pandemic, Precarity and Reverse Migration
The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown in India triggered an unprecedented reverse migration of informal workers from urban centers to rural regions, exposing long-standing structural vulnerabilities within the country’s labor regime. This paper examines the lived experiences of semi-skilled and unskilled informal workers who returned to rural Eastern Uttar Pradesh during the later phase of the pandemic. Using a qualitative research de…
Sociology (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Elite (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Habitus (5 obras)