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Channel
SOCIOLOGY AKHADA
@sociology_akhada
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,231subscribers
-13 since we began measuring on 7 September 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001957274803 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sociology_akhada |
| Created | Between 1 April 2023 and 31 October 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sociology_akhada |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 06:19 | 2,231 | +2 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 03:39 | 2,229 | -7 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 07:36 | 2,236 | -8 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 19:22 | 2,244 | no change |
| 7 Sept 2026, 18:47 | 2,244 | first reading |
Engagement
17 posts held, back to 7 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 23 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
7 reactions across 6 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 85.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 6 | 85.7% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 14.3% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 6 of the 17 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 7 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 17 most recent posts we hold, published 7 July 2026 to 23 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
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Is caste disappearing in urban India? Illustrate your answer with examples. GS paper 1 question can be asked in SOCIO too.
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Hello everyone, I trust your preparations are proceeding smoothly. 📈 Please feel free to share the topics you would like us to cover on this platform. 🗣️ #UPSCCSE2026 #SociologyOptional
Points for Critical Evaluation :: Homogeneity critique: “Youth” is not a single sociological category. Access to coaching infrastructure, English-medium instruction, and urban location (Kota, Delhi, metros) means the movement’s most visible participants are not necessarily representative of all examination-taking youth, including rural and first-generation aspirants — a point worth raising against any account that t…
Charles Tilly — Resource Mobilization and Repertoires of Contention. Tilly’s insistence that grievance requires organizational resources (leadership, networks, repertoire of tactics) to become sustained contention is evidenced by the CJP’s brand identity, allied student federations, and a moral-entrepreneur figure (hunger-striking activist) supplying the “repertoire” — satire, sit-in, hunger strike, negotiation — thr…
Social Movement Theory Alain Touraine — New Social Movements (NSM). NSM theory distinguishes movements organized around identity, dignity, and post-material demands from classical class-based labour movements organized around redistribution. The CJP’s demands — transparency, accountability, dignity — situate it squarely within NSM rather than classical Marxist class-conflict frameworks, though Section 5 shows why Ind…
Power, Culture, and Symbolic Resistance Antonio Gramsci — Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony. Gramsci’s core insight — that domination operates through manufactured consent (cultural leadership) as much as coercion — explains why the movement’s central act is linguistic: reclaiming a dismissive label as self-identification is a counter-hegemonic move that contests not policy alone but the discursive terms on which legitim…
Social Structure, Strain, and Anomie Robert K. Merton — Strain Theory / Modes of Adaptation. Culturally prescribed goals (mobility, secure employment) are decoupled from institutionalized means (fair examinations) when the means are corrupted. Merton’s typology usually stops at individual adaptations — conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion — but the CJP is a case of rebellion enacted collectively, …
Setting Up the Sociological Problem The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests (2026) began as satire around a leaked NEET examination and grew into a sustained, nationwide youth mobilization involving a prolonged hunger strike, street confrontation, and direct negotiation with the Union government. Sociologically, the “event” is less interesting than the structure it reveals: a breakdown in the socially sanctioned re…
The Burden on Educators" as a primary challenge, and expanding on it, gives us a much more realistic, grounded view of the hurdles ahead. Moving from theory to praxis in a country as complex as India requires navigating significant structural and cultural roadblocks. Here is a dedicated look at the sociological challenges of implementing this system: IV. Sociological Challenges in Implementation The Pedagogical Burde…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @sociology_akhada. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Forward network
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@sociology_sunyaias · 25,562
Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 13 September 2026
@drravipagrahari · 30,127
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 7 September 2026
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“SOCIOLOGY AKHADA” (@sociology_akhada), 2,231 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/sociology_akhada.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.