Care Sociology: Its Origin and Scope
Author : Dr. Kaushik Chattopadhyay and Biswajit Ghosh
Abstract :
Sociology as an academic discipline studies scientifically the social events, social structures, relationships, institutions, etc. Within this disciplinary aspect, care sociology deals with the science of social actions as well as the socio-psychological matters within the existing economic institutional marketized forms with certain historical-cultural roots. Sociologists may train the carers who do caring work. A carer can make the distinction between moral and ethical choices where the care sociology places itself with an identity of a branch of knowledge for the practising sociologist.
This paper takes the trouble to search the contributors of care sociology first, and then wants to understand the empirical dimensions of it in contemporary research fields. The analytical portion adds a new path of realization on the social implications of caregiving habitus construction in everyday life. The concluding part contemplates an applied voice of care sociology.
Keywords :
Care studies, practising sociology, domestication of carer, unseen work, ethic of care, caring profession, welfare policy, etc.
