Aditya Raj
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aditya Raj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aditya |
| FAMILY NAME | Raj |
| SIGNATURE | RAJ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Patna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5093-1853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inclusion discourse and inequality in NEP 2020
This paper critically analyses the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, a Government of India (GOI) initiative aimed at creating an equitable and inclusive educational ecosystem in the country through the theoretical lens of Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital. Our study explores how NEP 2020, through its curriculum reform, deals with different forms of cultural capital which often facilitate students’ academic growth. Latent Dirichlet Alloca…
Trends and Patterns of Migration from Jharkhand, India
Purpose of the study: The central aim of this study is to comprehend and delineate trends and patterns of migration in Jharkhand. The basic purpose behind taking up migration for the study is to understand the problem and its impact on social status, which is directly related to the development and empowerment of all sections of society. This paper brings different bodies of literature together to provide an organized and structured framework. Me…
Navigating the Digital Divide in India
Purpose of the study: This paper attempts to gain insights into the manner in which the first-level digital divide contributes to the more pervasive second-level divide associated with the manner of and motivation for digital usage across social groups. Methodology: The study used data from the Government of India’s NSS 75TH round survey (2017-18) on social consumption and education. Binary logistic regression is used as a statistical method that…
A bibliometric review study of Michael Burawoy
This review article utilizes the technique of citation-based bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of the scholarly contributions made by sociologist Michael Burawoy. The most influential academic articles published by Burawoy were retrieved for analyses. Following this, scholars, journals and institutions that he most frequently collaborated with were traced. Further, country-wise analysis of his scholarship was carried …
The promise of public sociology in India
The trajectory of the academic discipline of sociology is an attestation to the quest for civility and sociability. We believe that the promise of public sociology will rejuvenate scholars to commit to better engagement with one another and with the public. We situate and draw from the scholarly contributions of Michael Burawoy to reflect on sociology's longstanding critical imagination, hoping that the world could be different. We place ourselve…
Space Civilization
Science fiction often renders plausible directions in developing the society and making it more rigid towards any outer species that is a threat to human civilization as seen in sci-fi web series Halo, however, establishing space civilization requires the process of terraforming that consists of several behaviors like the culture, social, science and their ethical implications. This research paper intends to analyze the multiple aspects of terraf…
Mapping the Impact of Globalization on the Lives of Rural Women in India
Globalization is often contemplated as a tool for social and economic transformation, creating opportunities for growth and development while also enforcing social inequalities and cultural homogenization. However, its impact on those positioned at the intersection of caste, class, gender and geography at local levels, particularly among rural women, remains collectively underexplored. This review study aims to expound the domains onto which glob…
Health Condition of Internal Migrants in India
The surge in the number of internal migrants in India from 315 million in 2001 to 454 million in 2011 indicates that an average of about 14 million people migrate every year. With this ever-increasing rate of migration within the country, the act of providing effective healthcare services to all remains a challenge. Based on a systematic review of literature, the present study assesses the health condition of internal migrants in India, with emph…
The Indian Diaspora in North America
The Indian Diaspora in North America
The geo-political world of today has moved beyond the classificatory nation-state, and academic vocabulary has reinvented ‘diaspora’ to encompass social formations and cultural patterns, marked as
Stefen Elbe, Security and Global Health
Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women
Kibria, Nazli, Becoming Asian American; Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities
"KIBRIA, Nazli, BECOMING ASIAN AMERICAN; Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 35(3), pp. 510–511
Gender and U.S. Immigration
Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including e…
Gender and U.S. Immigration
Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including e…
Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women
Gender and U.S. Immigration
Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including e…
Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women
Kibria, Nazli, Becoming Asian American; Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities
"KIBRIA, Nazli, BECOMING ASIAN AMERICAN; Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 35(3), pp. 510–511
The Indian Diaspora in North America
The Indian Diaspora in North America
The geo-political world of today has moved beyond the classificatory nation-state, and academic vocabulary has reinvented ‘diaspora’ to encompass social formations and cultural patterns, marked as
Stefen Elbe, Security and Global Health
Health Condition of Internal Migrants in India
The surge in the number of internal migrants in India from 315 million in 2001 to 454 million in 2011 indicates that an average of about 14 million people migrate every year. With this ever-increasing rate of migration within the country, the act of providing effective healthcare services to all remains a challenge. Based on a systematic review of literature, the present study assesses the health condition of internal migrants in India, with emph…
Space Civilization
Science fiction often renders plausible directions in developing the society and making it more rigid towards any outer species that is a threat to human civilization as seen in sci-fi web series Halo, however, establishing space civilization requires the process of terraforming that consists of several behaviors like the culture, social, science and their ethical implications. This research paper intends to analyze the multiple aspects of terraf…
Mapping the Impact of Globalization on the Lives of Rural Women in India
Globalization is often contemplated as a tool for social and economic transformation, creating opportunities for growth and development while also enforcing social inequalities and cultural homogenization. However, its impact on those positioned at the intersection of caste, class, gender and geography at local levels, particularly among rural women, remains collectively underexplored. This review study aims to expound the domains onto which glob…
Trends and Patterns of Migration from Jharkhand, India
Purpose of the study: The central aim of this study is to comprehend and delineate trends and patterns of migration in Jharkhand. The basic purpose behind taking up migration for the study is to understand the problem and its impact on social status, which is directly related to the development and empowerment of all sections of society. This paper brings different bodies of literature together to provide an organized and structured framework. Me…
Navigating the Digital Divide in India
Purpose of the study: This paper attempts to gain insights into the manner in which the first-level digital divide contributes to the more pervasive second-level divide associated with the manner of and motivation for digital usage across social groups. Methodology: The study used data from the Government of India’s NSS 75TH round survey (2017-18) on social consumption and education. Binary logistic regression is used as a statistical method that…
A bibliometric review study of Michael Burawoy
This review article utilizes the technique of citation-based bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of the scholarly contributions made by sociologist Michael Burawoy. The most influential academic articles published by Burawoy were retrieved for analyses. Following this, scholars, journals and institutions that he most frequently collaborated with were traced. Further, country-wise analysis of his scholarship was carried …
The promise of public sociology in India
The trajectory of the academic discipline of sociology is an attestation to the quest for civility and sociability. We believe that the promise of public sociology will rejuvenate scholars to commit to better engagement with one another and with the public. We situate and draw from the scholarly contributions of Michael Burawoy to reflect on sociology's longstanding critical imagination, hoping that the world could be different. We place ourselve…
Inclusion discourse and inequality in NEP 2020
This paper critically analyses the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, a Government of India (GOI) initiative aimed at creating an equitable and inclusive educational ecosystem in the country through the theoretical lens of Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital. Our study explores how NEP 2020, through its curriculum reform, deals with different forms of cultural capital which often facilitate students’ academic growth. Latent Dirichlet Alloca…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works)