Relevance: Sociology: Women empowerment: Women Hygiene; & G.S paper I: Society and social issues Why in news? Union Minister of
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Sociology Optional
Making Connection: Subculture and Counterculture
Making Connection: Subculture and Counterculture (Relevant for Sociology Optional UPSC) Subculture It is just as it sounds—a smaller cultural group within
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What Is HIERARCHY ?
Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Stratification What is Hierarchy? The literal meaning of term “hierarchy” is gradation or a ranking
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Safety for women at Workplace
Safety for women at Workplace Relevance: Sociology: Women Issues: Violence against Women: Patriarchy and division of labour; & G.S paper
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SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Stratification Social inequality is a universal phenomenon in all societies. It can exist either in
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Making Connections: Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Making Connections: Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Relevance: Sociology: Ethnocentrism Despite how much humans have in common, cultural differences are far
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Bias against women: widespread among women too
Relevance: Sociology: Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour; Social changes in India Why in news? 86% and 90% of women
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Impact of climate change on societal roles of women
Relevance: Sociology: Visions of Social change In India: Environment & Women & G.S paper I: Society and social Issues Context:
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DUAL CAREER HOUSEHOLDS: NATURE OF PROBLEMS AND CONSEQUENCES
DUAL CAREER HOUSEHOLDS: NATURE OF PROBLEMS AND CONSEQUENCES Relevance: Sociology: Systems of Kinship in India; Family and marriage in India;Patriarchy, entitlements and
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Role of women and women’s organization
Role of women and women’s organization Relevance: Sociology: Systems of Kinship; Social Change in Modern Society; Industrialization and Urbanization in India; Challenges of Social
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Sociological Perspective: To control COVID-19: China opts for Mao style of Social Control
Relevance: Sociology: Social Control; & G.S paper I: Society and social issues Context China has flooded cities and villages with
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Introduction to Culture
Relevance: Sociology Are there rules for eating at McDonald’s? Generally, we do not think about rules in a fast food
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Making Connections: Music seen as a Cultural Universal?
Relevance: Sociology Imagine that you are sitting in a theater, watching a film. The movie opens with the heroine sitting
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Student suicides
Relevance: Sociology Why in news? Between 2016 and 2018, nearly 10,000 students committed suicide every year in India, data tabled
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FUNCTIONALISM AND RELIGIOUS RITUAL
Relevance: Sociology In contrast to Marx, Emile Durkheim spent a good part of his intellectual career studying religion. Concentrating particularly
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