WRITING SOCIAL SCIENCE: A Personal Narrative

The present work is an outcome of the efforts to make writing social science research easy for the young researchers. Based on the personal experience of the author with regard to the challenges faced while writing thesis, research paper or monograph by the young researchers, the book is written with the idea of making a journey into the world of ideas and their presentation in the written form. The work is also an attempt to make sense of how the researchers, the Indian state through the University Grants Commission and world of publishing interact in making of the Indian social sciences. Issues of references and ethics have also been extensively dealt with to enlighten the researchers about the way the politics of academics works as well as how to overcome various challenges with regard to language issue, approaching journals and avoiding getting trapped into the unknown world of publishing.

Paramjit S. Judge is professor of sociology at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has been actively engaged in social research for more than three decades. He has worked and published in the areas of social movements, Dalits studies, diaspora and social theory. He was Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Fellow of Indian Council of Social Research, New Delhi. At present he is Managing Editor of Sociological Bulletin, the journal of Indian Sociological Society. He is also an eminent Punjabi novelist.