RELEVANCE: sociology: Gender:inequality Women empowerment Now that pregnancy no longer marks the end of an athlete’s career, many elite athletes
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Unpaid care work exposes women to virus-related health risks, violence in Asia and the Pacific: UN
Sociology: Women’s Health Women make up the majority of workers in the health and social welfare sectors globally Unequal distribution
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Relevance: Sociology: Gender: Inequality Context Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) announced the provision of 33% reservation of seats for women
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India has one of the highest unemployment rates in women Relevance : Sociology: paper I: stratification and Mobility: Gender, Inequality
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Being darker makes being a migrant much harder Relevance : Sociology: paper II: population dynamics: components of population growth: birth,
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Ambedkar and Dalit Movements Relevance: Sociology: Social Movements in Modern India: Backward classes & Dalit movement. G.S paper I: Modern
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How India remains poor: ‘It will take 7 generations for India’s poor to reach mean income’ Relevance : G.s paper
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Relevance: sociology; Emerging issues Mental illness is a comparatively new concept although the sorts of behavior to which it is
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COMMUNALISM Relevance: Sociology: Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism. G.S: paper I: Society: Diversity in India About Communalism, in a broad
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RELEVANCE: SOCIOLOGY: Population Dynamics: Population size, growth, composition and distribution. Components of population growth: birth, death, migration. Many factors that
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Relevance: Sociology: Stratification and Mobility: Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation. There are two types of inequality: natural
Continue readingMulticulturalism? Definition, Theories, and Examples
Relevance: Sociology: Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism Multiculturalism describes the manner in which a given society deals with cultural diversity.
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Relevance: Sociology: Stratification and Mobility: Gender The sociology of gender examines how society influences our understandings and perception of differences between masculinity (what society deems appropriate
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Relevance: Sociology: Systems of Kinship in India: Family and marriage in India. Context: The most popular trend in the institution
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TRIBAL HUNTING RIGHTS VS WILDLIFE PROTECTION LAWS Relevance: Sociology: Tribal communities in India: Geographical spread. Colonial policies and tribes. Issues
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