Though a young discipline, Indian sociology has had a chequered trajectory in the short span of its growth and development from its textually blended, Western, colonial and indological origins to the empirical and field based growth through nationalistic struggle and nation building projects to the age of globalization and after. Marked and punctured by more or less distinct transitional phases, the discipline has grown encountering corresponding changes in theorizing and operationalizing researches by way of shifting paradigms, premises, themes and trends. Resultantly, there occurred greater diversification and differentiation in the choices and concerns in its research, praxis and engagements. The theme of the 45th Conference of the Kerala Sociological Society, titled Sociology, Society and Social Engagements is indeed a retrospection and introspection so as to review the prospects of the discipline in the present day changing world. The topic Sociology Society and Social Engagements, assumes greater scope and significance in the neo-liberal context wherein education and academia driven by market forces are largely privatized and commoditized and therefore guided by utility syndrome. At this juncture, the seminar calls for a revisit at the societal engagements and interventions of the discipline of Sociology at the intellectual, academic, professional and social fronts.