Abstract
Higher education institutions require and demand an altogether different habit of mind than the school education systems. Teaching social sciences specially sociology a discipline steeped in social theories to understand social problems in depth also requires an alteration in pedagogy of the teachers to orient students theoretically. This paper explores this required alteration, how can it be achieved by the way of making students participant-actors so as to enliven social theory. Challenges like kindling students imagination in sociological lines by the way of inculcating mode of reflection upon one’s own experience and student diversity’s relation with understanding social theory will be discussed elaborately. Paper is based on a reflexive approach to study my own teaching experience of social theory to under graduation students in India and my own experience of learning theory as Sociology doctoral student.