The different traditional focuses of sociology include social stratification, social class, social mobility, religion, secularization, law, sexuality, gender, and deviance. As all spheres of human activity are affected by the interplay between social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to other subjects, such as health, medical, economy, military and penal institutions, the Internet, education, social capital, and the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge. The range of social scientific methods has also expanded. Social researchers draw upon a variety of qualitative and quantitativetechniques. The linguistic and cultural turns of the mid-20th century led to increasingly interpretative, hermeneutic, and philosophicapproaches towards the analysis of society. Conversely, the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s have seen the rise of new analytically, mathematically, and computationally rigorous techniques, such as agent-based modelling and social network analysis.

Bhupen Goswami born on 26th March, 1970 in Jorhat, Assam. He is a renowned Sociologist and Feminist Scholar. He has been Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. He completed his bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam. He is an Independent Researcher. He is Member of Editorial Board, Associate Editor & Chief Editor for many National and International Journals. His areas of interest revolve around Urban Sociology, Social Psychology, Qualitative Research and Development Studies.