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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Sociology Optional Paper – I
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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Making Connections: Society and Social Networking
Relevance: Sociology The phenomenon known as Facebook was designed specifically for students. Whereas earlier generations wrote notes in each other’s
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What is the Cult?
What is the Cult? (Relevant for Sociology Optional UPSC) The cult The concept of “cult” was introduced into sociology in
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Relevance: Sociology: Making Connections: Sociology in the Real World Farming and Locavores The consumption of food is a commonplace, daily
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Relevance: Sociology How different individual responds to various social forces? When sociologist Nathan Kierns spoke to his friend Ashley (a
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How Do Working Moms Impact Society? Relevance: Sociology: Social Stratification & Mobility, Work & Economic Life, Kinship System,Social Change What
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Relevance: Sociology What is functionalism? Functionalism, also called structural functional theory, sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed
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Sociological Theories of Social change
Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Change Classical- Evolutionary Theory of Change Evolutionary theories are based on the assumption that societies
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Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Change Social change is a change in the social structures and functions of those Structures.
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Compare and contrast Karl Marxs and Max webers analysis of the modern phenomena of capitalism | Sociology Optional for UPSC Civil Services Examination | Triumph IAS
Compare and contrast Karl Marxs and Max webers analysis of the modern phenomena of capitalism Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Sociological
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Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Religion and society Monism is a religious-philosophical worldview in which all of reality can be reduced
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Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Thinkers: Religion and society Animism refers to the belief/FAITH that not ONLY HUMANS, BUT non-human entities
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According to Robert K. Merton, deviance results not from pathological personalities but from the ‘culture and structure of society itself’. Evaluate Robert K. Merton’s ‘middle range theory of deviance’.
Relevance: Sociology Paper I: Thinkers: Robert Merton: Deviance Approach: Description of ‘middle range theory’, in theory formulation in sociology Sociological
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Theory of Power Elite (Relevant for Sociology paper I Thinkers) Wright Mills explains elite rule (Theory of Power Elite) in
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