Shriyam Gupta
Bio
I am a PhD student of sociology and demography focused on documenting inequalities in the areas of education, family, and development, and geographically in South and Southeast Asia. My work aims to highlight hidden symmetries through which social structures, particularly class and caste, maintain, perpetuate, and legitimize inequalities in the contemporary world. I do so by studying processes within different types of institutions. Previously, I have documented such processes within the classroom and in studying inter- and intra-generational relationships within families. My ongoing work is divided into two strands. (1) I am studying the emerging middle class of the developing world in the context of socio-economic uncertainty through parenting and schooling experiences. (2) I study contemporary policy questions in developing contexts to identify bottlenecks in governance operations and public service delivery. Given my multidisciplinary background, I employ a variety of methods and approaches to address different types of questions while thinking critically about the empirical process of knowledge production.
Areas of Interest
- Family; education; inequality; method