Naren Singh Rao’s Lectures
Notes on Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies
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This is the virtual avenue for the lectures of Visiting Professor Naren Singh Rao, which are curated and edited by the following students of Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication (SACAC), New Delhi:
Bhumi | Himanshi | Kritika | Kriti | Nalin | Nikita | Nishtha | Priyanshi | Pulkit | Swaraj | Vrinda
The lectures aim to illuminate the following:
Sociology: The oft-invisible social structures that surround and define our very existence.
Politics: The functioning of the political economy and the apparatuses of power that govern, constrain and control our lives.
Culture: The ways of seeing, sensing and doing which shape the very fabric of our being.
Media: The sundry texts, visuals and narratives that serve to cultivate, reconfirm and solidify our mores, attitudes, biases, dispositions and desires.
This is indeed a collective intellectual endeavour striving towards a finer understanding of the immediate world in which we are definitively placed and bound to operate within its confines.
Dear readers, do not simply learn or agree, but QUESTION.
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Four Theories of the Press
by Abhai Singh Tanwar This blog explores the four major theories of the press based on the work authored by Fred Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm. Journalism is known… Read more.
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Two Feminist Voices: Woolf and de Beauvoir
This essay explores how Virgina Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir reveal the structural barriers that silence women. Through Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister” and de Beauvoir’s idea of woman as the ‘other,’… Read more.
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Sociological Imagination
This blog explores C. Wright Mills’ concept of sociological imagination, illustrating how personal experiences like unemployment, education stress and mental health are shaped by broader historical and structural forces. Read more.
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Sociology of Democratic Rights
This essay will explore sociology of democratic rights which are safeguarded by the Constitution of India. These rights not only define the relationship between the individual and the state but… Read more.
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Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This essay will explore Walter Benjamin theory of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction, proposing that the advancement in technology has led to the mechanical reproduction of art which… Read more.
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Print Capitalism
How do individuals come to identify with a nation of strangers? Drawing on Benedict Anderson’s theory of print capitalism, this essay examines how the rise of print media fostered shared… Read more.
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