SSA elects a new board of officers for the year 2014/2015

The Sociology Students’ Association of the University of Colombo elected the new board of office bearers for the year 2014/2015 on the 19^th of March 2014 at the Annual General Assembly. Dr. Chandrasiri Niriella, who was the former Senior Treasurer of the SSA was appointed as the Chief Advisor who will be guiding and overlooking the progression of the Association, while Dr. Dilrukshi Abeysinghe was appointed as the Senior Treasurer. Both expressed a strong desire to work with the new board in expanding the horizons of the association.

Chanuka Viraji Thilakarathna, a third year student majoring in Sociology was appointed as the President, while Wathsala Udeshika Abeykoon also another third year student majoring in Social work was appointed as the Secretary. Coming from two paths of Sociology, the President and the Secretary have high expectations of implementing a variety of projects in the coming year and hope that the combination of their diverse interests in Sociology and Social work will benefit the association in planning new projects.  Addressing the gathering, Chanuka expressed some of her plans stressing the idea that student participation in all SSA activities needs to be increased as it would benefit the association immensely with the addition of different points of view, which would only enhance the quality of projects and add novelty.

The rest of the board of office bearers are as follows. Udari Subashini Samarakoon was appointed as the Vice President , S.A.K.S Samarakoon as the Junior Treasurer and  Dilani Surangika Senevirathne and Nedha de Silva were appointed for the post of Editor.

The SSA brings together a diverse community of students creating an ambiance to not only share their thoughts and views but also to take initiative and to benefit from this rare opportunity.

SSA elects new officers for the term 2012/13

The University of Colombo Sociology Students’ Association (UCSSA) recently elected new office holders for the term 2012/13 at its annual general meeting, held on the 1^st of February 2012.

Professor Premakumara de Silva, head of the department of Sociology, is the advisor and ultimate authority to all future endeavors of the association, while Dr. Chandrasiri Niriella was appointed as its Senior Treasurer.

Chamarie de Thabrew, who began her term on the 1^st of February 2012, is the president of the SSA. A third year undergraduate majoring in sociology, she expressed her views pertaining to the future of the association, stressing the importance of introducing novel characteristics and enhancing collaboration with other universities. 

The new secretary is Aruni Pradeepika Karunarathne, also a third year undergraduate majoring in sociology.

“Both Chamarie and Aruni have long and deep ties to the SSA. We are delighted that the association will now enjoy the benefits of their respective abilities, vision and leadership in a new and more meaningful way,” said Lakruwan Kariyawasam, former president of the SSA.

Of the other third year undergraduates to be appointed to the board of officials; Beneeta Shivanthi will serve as the new junior treasurer of the SSA, with Sithum Gamage and Hansika Lakshi Jayawardhane as the vice president and secretary respectively. Mark Schubert shares the editorship for the association with Kavindra Ravipathi Paranage, a second year undergraduate and a new addition to the ranks of sociology special degree students.   

“This is an exciting time to be associated with the SSA” said Professor De Silva in his address to the assembly. “A strong management is vital to achieve long term success, and the department of sociology has invested itself in new ideas and programmes that will hopefully ensure its recognition.

Field Training for Third Year Sociology Special Degree Students – 2011

Prof. Ramanie Jayathilaka

Head, Department of Sociology

 

 

The field training for third year sociology special degree students was held at Hambanthota from 25^th to 28^th October 2011. The main objective of the field training program was to provide students a practical training on identification of a research problem, field preparation, data collection, data analysis and reporting. The area for investigation was the on-going development activities of Hambanthota and its impact on the surrounding rural areas. Four villages in the Hamabantota Divisional Secretary (DS) Division were selected for the field training. The students were grouped into four and each group was assigned to one village where they collected information on areas such as livelihood, infrastructure facilities, social relationship, social problems and urban impact on rural life with regard to the ongoing development process. The students gained practical experiences in using data collection techniques such as observation, questionnaire, in-depth interview and focus group discussion. Throughout the programme the students were supervised and guided by the staff members.

නව වසරේ නව ඇරඹුමක්

උන්නතී සමරවීර

දිනය 2011.01.01 වෙනිදා,එනම් නව වසරේ ආරම්භයයි.මල් වගේ පුංචි සොයුරු සොයුරියන් සමඟ ඔවුන්ගේ මුහුණුවලට සිනාවක් කැන්දමින් නව වසරේ ඇරඹුම සනි‍ටුහන් කරන්නට අපට හිතුණා. ඒ නිසාවෙන්ම මාළිගාව පාරේ, 45/10 අඩු ආදායාම්ලාභී ප්‍රජාවේ පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනය ලබන සොයුරු සොයුරියන්ට අවශ්‍ය පාසල් උපකරණත් අරගෙන නව වසරේ අපි ඔවුන්ව සොයාගෙන ගියා.

මේ කර්තව්‍ය ය සංවිධානය කළේ සමාජ විද්‍යා විශේෂවේදී උපාධිය සමඟ සමාජ වෘත්තිවේදය පාඨමාලාව හදාරණ සිව්වන වසර ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන්.එහිදී, සමාජවිද්‍යා අධ්‍යයනාංශයේ අංශාධිපති මහාචාර්ය සසංක පෙරේරා ආචාර්යතුමා, සමාජ වෘත්තිවේදය පාඨමාලාවේ සියලු සම්බන්ධීකරණ කටයුතු ඉ‍ටු කරන, ආචාර්ය සුභාංගි හේරත් ඇදුරුතුමිය ප්‍රමුඛ අප අධ්‍යයනාංශයේ සමස්ත ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලයෙන් නොමඳ සහයෝගයක් අපට ලැබුණා.ඒත් සමඟම භූගෝල විද්‍යාව, අන්තර් ජාතික සබඳතා,ඉතිහාසය,සිංහල, ඉස්ලාම් ආදී ශාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේ අනෙකුත් අධ්‍යයනාංශ රාශියක ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ දායකත්වයත් අපට ලැබුණා.

මෙහිදී විශේෂයෙන්ම මරේ ජී. රොස් (1958) ” Community Organization: theory and Principles” හි ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති අදහස වැදගත් වෙනවා.ඔහුට අනුව ප්‍රජා සමාජාර්ථකරණය යනු,

‘’ ප්‍රජාවක් ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතා හෝ පරමාර්ථ හඳුනා ගන්නා වූ, එම අවශ්‍යතා හෝ පරමාර්ථ යම් අනුපිළිවෙළකට සකසා ගන්නා වූ, එම අවශ්‍යතා හෝ පරමාර්ථ සපුරා ගැනීමෙහිලා ක්‍රියා කිරීමේ විශ්වාසය හා අධිෂ්ඨානය වර්ධනය කරන්නා වූ, එම අවශ්‍යතා හෝ පරමාර්ථ සපුරා ගැනීමෙහිලා ක්‍රියා කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය අභ්‍යන්තර හා භාහිර සම්පත් සොයා සපයා ගන්නා වූ, ඒවාට අදාළ ක්‍රියා මාර්ගයන් ගන්නා වූ සහ එසේ කිරීමෙන් ප්‍රජාවේ සහයෝගී හා උපකාරාත්මක ආකල්ප හා ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය වර්ධනය කරන්නා වුත්, පුළුල් කරන්නාත් වූ ක්‍රියාවලියක් වේ’’. මේ අනුව මෙම අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී ප්‍රජාව සමඟ කටයුතු කිරීමේදී, ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාවන් ඔවුන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ පරිදි අනුපිළිවෙලට සැකසීමේදී, අධ්‍යාපනය සඳහා තිබෙන පහසුකම් ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවීමත්, පසුගිය වසරේ අවසාන කාලයේ සිදු වූ හදිසි ගංවතුර තත්ත්වය නිසා තිබුණු පාසල් උපකරණ පවා විනාශ වී යාමත්, ඔවුන් මුහුණ දුන් දෙවෙනි මූලික ගැටලුව ලෙස අපට දැන ගැනීමට ලැබිණ.එසේම, අඩු වයසින් පාසල් හැර යෑමත්, එමනිසා අඩු අධ්‍යාපන තත්ත්වය හේතු කොට ගෙන, බොහෝ අතුරු ප්‍රශ්න පැන නැඟීමත් අපට ඔවුන් වෙතින්ම දැන ගැනීමට ලැබිණ.

මේ නිසාවෙන් අපට හැකි පරිදි ඔවුන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතුවලට උපකාර කිරීමට, විශේෂයෙන්ම නව වසරේ නව ආරම්භයක් ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිතවල සනි‍ටුහන් කරන්නට, ඉතා කුඩා පියවරක් ඉදිරියට තබන්නටයි අප උත්සහ කළේ. සැබැවින්ම ඒ මුහුණුවල පිරුණු සතු‍ටු සිනාව දු‍ටු විට ඔබටත් ඒ බව දැනෙනවා ඇති.

Socioscope blog celebrates its first anniversary!

Tamara Nissanka

It has been a year since the University of Colombo Sociology Students’  Association (UCSSA) launched the socioscope blog. The blog published its first post on 5^th December, 2009. Since then it has carried essays, poems, photographs, polls, translations and many other kinds of posts contributed by university undergraduates as well as academic staff members. The blog was created by UCSSA to familiarize those from non-sociological backgrounds about topics that interest sociologists. And I think it has achieved this and more during the past year. But the blog still has plenty of room to reach greater heights in the future.

On socioscope’s first anniversary, I would like to thank all our readers for being with us, our contributors for sharing your work with us, and everyone else who worked to promote the blog among the university community and worldwide.

And now it is time to give you a hint about socioscope’s latest project – ‘Undergraduate Research’. A whole new page would be dedicated to introduce our readers to the knowledge that is being produced by Sociology undergraduates of the University of Colombo. You could get to know what their research projects are about, because after all, it could be about you!

So stay in touch with socioscope blog for this and more interesting posts ahead.

Felicitation ceremony in honour of Mr. I. V. Edirisinghe

The felicitation ceremony dedicated to Mr. I. V. Edirisinghe, Senior Lecturer in the University of Colombo Department of Sociology, was held in the Faculty of Arts on 8^th October. The event was jointly organized by the Department of Sociology and the Sociology Alumni Association to mark the retirement of Mr. Edirisinghe who rendered his continuous service to the Department of Sociology for over forty years.

As one of the founding members of the University of Colombo Department of Sociology, Mr. Edirisinghe served as a lecturer in Sociology from 1969 to 2010. A past student of Mahinda College, Galle, Mr. Edirisinghe completed his higher education in the University of Peradeniya and in the University of Manchester, and has been awarded a number of scholarships from various academic institutions worldwide. He has lectured in a number of Sri Lankan and international universities, and has also played the role of Head of the Department of Sociology and that of Student Counselor of the University of Colombo during his career.

Speaking at the felicitation ceremony, colleagues, friends and students of Mr. Edirisinghe recalled their memories about his life and career. Gifts and souvenirs were presented to Mr. Edirisinghe, and cultural items were performed to make the event a memorable one.

The University of Colombo Sociology Students’ Association wishes Mr. I. V. Edirisinghe good health, happiness and success in all his future endeavours!

The Colours and Lines Art Festival – 2010: A day for art lovers!

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The Green Tables Study Hall of the Faculty of Arts filled up with artists and art lovers on 2^rd, September as the University of Colombo Sociology Students’ Association (UCSSA) hosted the Colours and Lines Art Festival- 2010 amidst a lot of fun and excitement! The event was open for everyone in the Faculty of Arts to take part in drawing, and an impressive number of students and staff members (academic and non-academic) participated in the activity.

The objectives of the Art Festival was to promote appreciation of good art, to protect and respect university property and environment, and to promote teamwork and goodwill among UCSSA members, students, and staff members of the Faculty of Arts.

Everyone present at the event had the opportunity to express their taste and appreciation of art through a vote in selecting the three most attractive drawings. A large amount of enthusiastic students and staff members voted for their favourite drawings. Thus, Miss. Thilini Withanachchi won the first place with 98 votes. Miss. K. A. S. Hasangani was placed second with 88 votes. Mr. G. Rajapaksha secured the third place with 48 votes. The winners received certificates and exciting prizes, and all participants were awarded valuable certificates.

The event featured two guest lectures by professional artists Mr. Prasanna Ranabahu and Mr. Bandu Manamperi who shared their valuable insights on the theme ‘Appreciation of Art’.

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof. Indralal De Silva appreciated the fact that the Art Festival was a unique and new experience as it highlighted the talent of our very own university students and staff. The Head of the Department of Sociology, Prof. Sasanka Perera noted that the Art Festival contributed to make the day a special one for the Department of Sociology, and praised the event for being held at a time when university students are generally criticized for not engaging in creative work. Achinthya Bandara, a fourth year student of the Faculty of Arts, who took part in drawing, mentioned that the team work and passion of the UCSSA was appreciated by a lot of people, and that they wished there had been more time to spend with the guest lecturers, Mr. Ranabahu and Mr. Manamperi.

Everyone present at the Art Festival was treated to an abundance of ice cream. The crowd was entertained by a dance performed by UCSSA members Mathishani Dissanayake, Nilukshi Samdin, Chamalie Gunawardana, and Kaushalya Chandrasekaram.

The Colours and Lines Art Festival – 2010 was not only about people who were good at drawing or for those who knew everything about art. It was an event for people who simply love art!

Acknowledgements

-  Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Indralal De Silva

– Mr. Thisath Thoradeniya, Mr. Prasanna Ranabahu and Mr. Bandu Manamperi -Theertha International Artists’ Collective

– Academic and non-academic staff of the University of Colombo Department of Sociology

– Students and staff members of the Faculty of Arts who took part in drawing

– Harshana Printers, Rajagiriya – Sponsors of certificates

– Everyone who came to watch the Art Festival

– All UCSSA members and friends who helped to make the event a success

Click on the album below to view all the drawings of participants.

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වර්ණ රේඛා සිත්තම් උළෙල – 2010

කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය සමාජවිද්‍යා ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය විසින් සංවිධානය  කරනු ලබන ‘වර්ණ රේඛා සිත්තම් උළෙල – 2010’ සැප්තැම්බර් 2 වන දින පෙ.ව. 9.00 සිට ප.ව. 2.00 දක්වා ශාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේ ග්‍රීන් ටේබල්ස් ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වේ. මෙම උළෙල සියල්ලන්ටම තම සිතුවිලි කැමති මාතෘකාවක් යටතේ නිදහසේ චිත්‍රණය කිරීමට වර්ණවත් අවස්ථාවක් වනු ඇත.

සහභාගීවන්නන්ට A3 ප්‍රමාණයේ චිත්‍ර කොළයක් සැපයෙනු ඇත. චිත්‍ර ඇඳීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පාට සහ පින්සල් රැගෙන ආ යුතු බව කරුණාවෙන් සලකන්න. ඡන්ද විමසීමකින් තෝරාගැනෙන පළමු, දෙවන, සහ තෙවන ස්ථාන ජයග්‍රාහකයින්ට වටිනා තෑගි පිරිනමනු ලබන අතර සහභාගීවන සියල්ලන්ටම සහතිකපත් ප්‍රදානය කෙරේ.

වර්ණ රේඛා සිත්තම් උළෙල සඳහා සහභාගීවීමට බලපොරොත්තුවන සියල්ලන්ම අගෝස්තු 30, හෝ ඊට පෙර සමාජවිද්‍යා අධ්‍යනාංශයේ ඇති ලේඛනයේ නම සඳහන් කර ස්ථානයක් වෙන් කර ගන්න.

ශාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේ සියලුම සිසුන්ට සහ කාර්යමණ්ඩල සාමාජිකයින්ට (අධ්‍යයන/අනධ්‍යයන) උණුසුම් ආරාධනා!

වැඩිදුර විස්තර සඳහා පහත නම් සඳහන් සමාජවිද්‍යා ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයේ සාමාජිකයින් අමතන්න.

ප්‍රකාශ් (සභාපති ) – 0777348822

ක්‍රිශාන් (උප සභාපති ) – 0775134076

නිරෝෂා (කනිෂ්ඨ භාණ්ඩාගාරික ) – 0711798897

අපගේ ඊමේල් ලිපිනය – socioscopeblog@gmail.com

Colours and Lines Art Festival – 2010

The ‘Colours and Lines Art Festival – 2010’ organized by the University  of Colombo Sociology Students’ Association will be held on the 2^nd of September at the Green Tables Study Hall (Faculty of Arts), from 9.00 am to 2.00 pm. The Association has planned this event to create a colourful opportunity for everyone to have fun expressing themselves on paper.

Participants will be provided with an A3 size paper for drawing. They should bring their colours and brushes. First, second and third place winners chosen by votes will receive exciting prizes. All participants will be awarded valuable certificates.

Those who wish to participate in the Art Festival please register at the Department of Sociology on or before the 30^th of August.

All Faculty of Arts students and staff (academic and non-academic) are welcome!

For further details please contact;

Prakash (President) – 0777348822

Krishan (Vice-President) – 0775134076

Nirosha (Junior Treasurer) – 0711798897

Or, e-mail us at socioscopeblog@gmail.com

Public Shows of ‘A Doll’s House’

 

The Sociology Alumni Association University of Colombo (SAAUC) production of Henrik Ibsen’s drama A Doll’s House directed by SAAUC member Jagath Bandara will be staged on 2nd and 3rd September at 6.30 PM at Lumbini Theatre, Colombo.

Tickets are priced Rs. 100.00 and Rs. 250.00, and are available at the theatre from 2nd September 2010 onward or from SAAUC. SAAUC members interested in attending the Opening Show on 2nd of September 2010, please contact the Secretary, SAAUC.

For further information please follow these links;

http://saauc.blogspot.com/
http://dollshousecolombosociology.blogspot.com/

 

කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය සමාජවිද්‍යා ආදිවිද්‍යාර්ථීන්ගේ සංගමය  (SAAUC) මඟින් නිශ්පාදනය කරන ලද හෙන්රික් ඉබ්සන්ගේ ‘A Doll’s House’ වේදිකා නාට්‍යය SAAUC සාමාජික ජගත් බණ්ඩාරගේ අධ්‍යක්ෂණයෙන් ‘බෝනිකි ගෙදර‘ නමින් සැප්තැම්බර් 2 සහ 3 දිනවලදී ප.ව. 6.30ට කොළඹ ලුම්බිණි රඟහලේදී වේදිකාගත වේ.

මිල රු. 100.00 සහ රු. 250.00 ප්‍රවේශපත් 2010 සප්තම්බර් 2වන දින සිට රඟහලේදී හෝ SAAUC වෙතින් මිල දී ගත හැක. සැප්තැම්බ්ර් 2වන දින පැවැත්වෙන සමාරම්භක දර්ශනය සඳහා සහභාගී වීමට උනන්දුවක් දක්වන SAAUC සාමාජිකයින් කරුණාකර SAAUC ලේකම් අමතන්න.

වැඩිදුර විස්තර සඳහා පහත වෙබ් අඩවි වෙත පිවිසිය හැක.

http://saauc.blogspot.com/
http://dollshousecolombosociology.blogspot.com/