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The Challenges and Predicaments of Doing Embedded Fieldwork in Sociology: Shifting Roles of a Researcher in the Study of Social Compliance Audit Archana Prasad Sociological Bulletin, 2022 This paper seeks to recount the challenges and predicaments of doing fieldwork in the discipline of sociology with the central focus on ethnographic techniques of data collection. The paper is based on the specific challenges encountered by the researcher while doing the study of Social Compliance Audit (SCA). This paper draws from two bouts of fieldwork; each very different from the other. My first encounter is with the practice of SCA as a graduate of sociology, working in the corporate sector as a social compliance auditor. My second as a scholar enrolled for PhD program researching on social compliance audit. The two locations offered very different vantage points of enquiry. As an auditor, my brief was laid out; a given whose protocols I had to follow. SCA was a known and necessary entity for the managerial staff in the garment industry. As a PhD scholar I realized it was virtually unknown in the academic community of sociology, even within studies on labor. There are two clear challenges that I faced while conducting fieldwork for my PhD. One, that SCA was relatively unfamiliar as an object for sociological enquiry. And two, the predicaments of doing qualitative research on sites and people who had their own ideas of how SCA ought to be studies. Here, the field encountered is analysed as a method of knowledge production and the ethnographer is placed at the centre of drama.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Understanding Gender & Sexuality through Hidden Curriculum in Schools GNP Archana Journal of the Kolkata Society for Asian Studies 11 (1) , 2025 2025
Labour Movement in the Automobile Sector in Delhi NCR : Catalyst for Collective Resistance and Social Transformation P Archana Dialogue Quarterly 26 (2), 77-89 , 2024 2024
Contesting Masculinities: An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Experiences in Boxing at Baba Gangnath Academy, New Delhi P Archana Rajasthan Journal of Sociology 16, 129-137 , 2024 2024
The Millennium City & and Migrants: Exploring Workers’ Life Inside Modern Day Sweatshops in Gurgaon, P Archana Inclusive 25 (II), 478-489 , 2024 2024
Urban Informality and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry into the Informal Labor Dynamics of Women in a Delhi Resettlement Colony P Archana Vantage:: Journal of Thematic Analysis 4 (2), 59-71 , 2023 2023 Citations: 4
The Challenges and Predicaments of Doing Embedded Fieldwork in Sociology: Shifting Roles of a Researcher in the Study of Social Compliance Audit P Archana Sociological Bulletin 71 (1), 96-113 , 2022 2022
Migrants Entrepreneurship in Micro and Small Handicraft Business: A Case Study of Delhi DP Prasad A Research Chronicler : International Multidisciplinary Refereed Peer Reviewed … , 2021 2021
Cities as Exclusionary Zones: Labour Migration and Creation of Precarious, Unidentifiable & Isolated Community of Workers in Gurgaon P Archana Social Action 71 (No 02), 111-124 , 2021 2021 Citations: 2
Social Compliance Audits in Garment Factories : The Case of the National Capital Region, A Prasad Economic and Political Weekly 54 (1), 37-43 , 2019 2019
Industry 4.0 and the future of workers’ rights in GSC: Reflections on CR practices in garment Industry A Prasad Industry 4.0 and Future of Work (ed). Sona Vikas & Vidhisha Vyas, 1, 480 , 2019 2019
Assisting youth leaving care: understanding Udayan care's aftercare programme through the prism of ecological systems theory K Modi, A Prasad, J Mishra Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care 17 (1) , 2018 2018 Citations: 6
De-feminization and (Dis)empowerment of Women Workers in Garment Factories A Prasad Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change, 3 (1), 1–12. , 2018 2018 Citations: 11
Book Review of Maitrayee Chaudhuri, Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse. A Prasad Sociological Bulletin 67 (2), 245-246 , 2018 2018
Private Regulation and Workers’ Rights in India A Prasad 2018 Citations: 2
Sociological Reflection of Lesbianism in India A Prasad Akademos-International Peer reviewed research journal Vol. pp1124-47,, 1124-47 , 2017 2017
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
De-feminization and (Dis)empowerment of Women Workers in Garment Factories A Prasad Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change, 3 (1), 1–12. , 2018 2018 Citations: 11
Assisting youth leaving care: understanding Udayan care's aftercare programme through the prism of ecological systems theory K Modi, A Prasad, J Mishra Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care 17 (1) , 2018 2018 Citations: 6
Urban Informality and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry into the Informal Labor Dynamics of Women in a Delhi Resettlement Colony P Archana Vantage:: Journal of Thematic Analysis 4 (2), 59-71 , 2023 2023 Citations: 4
Cities as Exclusionary Zones: Labour Migration and Creation of Precarious, Unidentifiable & Isolated Community of Workers in Gurgaon P Archana Social Action 71 (No 02), 111-124 , 2021 2021 Citations: 2
Private Regulation and Workers’ Rights in India A Prasad 2018 Citations: 2
Understanding Gender & Sexuality through Hidden Curriculum in Schools GNP Archana Journal of the Kolkata Society for Asian Studies 11 (1) , 2025 2025
Labour Movement in the Automobile Sector in Delhi NCR : Catalyst for Collective Resistance and Social Transformation P Archana Dialogue Quarterly 26 (2), 77-89 , 2024 2024
Contesting Masculinities: An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Experiences in Boxing at Baba Gangnath Academy, New Delhi P Archana Rajasthan Journal of Sociology 16, 129-137 , 2024 2024
The Millennium City & and Migrants: Exploring Workers’ Life Inside Modern Day Sweatshops in Gurgaon, P Archana Inclusive 25 (II), 478-489 , 2024 2024
The Challenges and Predicaments of Doing Embedded Fieldwork in Sociology: Shifting Roles of a Researcher in the Study of Social Compliance Audit P Archana Sociological Bulletin 71 (1), 96-113 , 2022 2022
Migrants Entrepreneurship in Micro and Small Handicraft Business: A Case Study of Delhi DP Prasad A Research Chronicler : International Multidisciplinary Refereed Peer Reviewed … , 2021 2021
Social Compliance Audits in Garment Factories : The Case of the National Capital Region, A Prasad Economic and Political Weekly 54 (1), 37-43 , 2019 2019
Industry 4.0 and the future of workers’ rights in GSC: Reflections on CR practices in garment Industry A Prasad Industry 4.0 and Future of Work (ed). Sona Vikas & Vidhisha Vyas, 1, 480 , 2019 2019
Book Review of Maitrayee Chaudhuri, Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse. A Prasad Sociological Bulletin 67 (2), 245-246 , 2018 2018
Sociological Reflection of Lesbianism in India A Prasad Akademos-International Peer reviewed research journal Vol. pp1124-47,, 1124-47 , 2017 2017
