August 26, 2025- Present: Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
July 07, 2021 - Present: Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh
May 02, 2019 – July 06, 2021: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh
February 2020- January 2021: Research Associate to Dr. Anisur Rahman Khan, Assistant Professor, East West University, Bangladesh
Research Project: Men, Masculinity, and Suicide in Jhenaidah District (funded by East West University Centre for Research and Training (EWUCRT)
September 2019-October 2019: Research Assistant to Dr. Ali Riaz, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Illinois State University, United States of America
Research Project: Examining the Nature and Scope of Social Cohesion in Bangladesh
January 2018-December 2019: Research Assistant to Dr. Monirul I. Khan, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Project: Study to analyze the role of different authorities in industrial dispute settlement and developing comprehensive recommendations for RMG and the Water Transport Sector
Welcome to SOC 476 Social Statistics. This is an 18-week-long online course, which runs from January 13th to May 16th, 2025. This course provides students with basic knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics describe or summarize the characteristics of the data. Inferential statistics uses sample data to make informed guesses about the unknown characteristics of a wider population. The course will cover techniques of fundamental statistical analysis in social science research: data description, cross-tabulation, t-tests, correlation and regression, linear regression, etc. The course aims to provide students with a foundation in quantitative sociological methods in preparation for advanced quantitative methods courses in sociology and other fields. The SOC476L lab sessions are designed to help you develop skills to analyze survey data using the SPSS software (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).
As all social interactions take place within the confines of social structure, understanding this is indispensable for all sociology graduates. Therefore, this course is designed in a way that it offers students a critical understanding of the social structure, particularly of Bangladesh, both from Theoretical and historical perspectives, with a special focus on the contemporary social dynamics in Bangladesh. For this, the course is divided into three broad domains of topics. The first domain focuses on the basic concepts of social structure. In this section, students will learn different theories and relate them to understand the social structure of Bangladesh. The second domain provides a critical understanding of the social structure of Pre-colonial and Colonial Bengal. In this part of the course, students will apply theories discussed in the first section to understand the origin and evolution of Bengal villages, towns, and cities, the pattern of settlement, major social stratification, social roles, statuses, groups, social networks, institutions, and the critique of them. Finally, in the last domain, students will understand the social dynamics and contemporary changes, neocolonialism, industrialization, power structure, ethnoclass formation, and the emerging social stratification of Bangladesh. After completing the course, students will achieve a comprehensive background and competence in analyzing and explaining the contemporary social structure of Bangladesh.
Social and political theory is an exciting interdisciplinary field that combines classical and contemporary theoretical developments in the social sciences and philosophy. The course examines major texts in the history of social thought, and many of these texts pose difficult questions regarding the socio-political community, social order, and human nature. This course provides a conceptual overview of social thought, which encompasses the intellectual thinking of philosophers and scholars about various social problems, as they attempt to solve these issues while examining their causal relationships within the context of their time. It includes political philosophy and deals with the study of questions concerning power, justice, human rights, law, democracy, and other issues pertaining to human life and societies. This course will also ask how different views of human nature and the uses of history affect the design of government and the concept of the state. It also considers how thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau have responded to the political problems of their times and how they contribute to a broader conversation about human goods and needs, justice, democracy, and the ever-changing relationship between the citizen and the state.
This course primarily aims to provide foundations in understanding community, communication, and culture, as well as various communication theories from the early twentieth century to the present, encompassing symbolic interactionist perspectives, mass media effects, the public sphere, media system dependency on social movements, and network society. Students will gain a grasp of the cultural origins of people's beliefs, behaviors, and ideologies, as well as how these factors influence communication with individuals from other cultures. This course aims to educate students with the information and skills needed for effective cross-cultural engagement and communication, particularly in school and classroom settings. It enables students to gain cultural awareness of the necessity of talking well across cultures in many circumstances by assisting them in understanding the complexities and Problems of interacting with individuals from different backgrounds.
Sociologically, science and technology are part of society and social activities. The course is designed to provide a critical understanding of the sociological contribution to the analysis of science and technology. Along with the discussion on the emergence of the sociology of science and technology, this course examines the complex fusion of science, society, and technology. This course also introduces students to the institutionalization of science and its relationship with language and interaction, capitalism, gender, and policy decisions. This course also highlights the genetic modification, commodification, and politics in science and technology studies.