In simple words, popular culture can be understood as a set of cultural products, practices, beliefs, and objects dominating society. It affects and influences the people it comes across towards these sets of objects or beliefs. From music to dance, movies, literature, fashion, it encompasses everything that is believed and consumed by the majority of […]
Sociology of Religion: Short Notes on Witchcraft
The history of the existence of witchcraft is far extending. It was there in different cultures, present, past, and in ancient as well as modern and advanced cultures. Due to its variation across different cultures and societies, it is hard to define it precisely. It is often thought of as the practice of using spiritual […]
Upward Mobility
Our society is often divided into various social strata. Upward mobility refers to the movement of individuals, families, or any other categories of people from one social level or stratum to a higher one. Due to this movement, the social status of people involved in the movement, improve along with the change in their social […]
What is positivism in sociology?
Positivism is a philosophical theory of studying the society developed by French Philosopher Auguste Comte in the 19th century. The term positivism is derived from the French word Positivisme that is again derived from the term positif that means ‘imposed on the mind by experience’. Influenced by early enlightenment and rationalism, positivism can be understood […]
Diagnostic framing and Prognostic framing
Framing has come up to be an important notion in the area of social movements and how they garnish support for their cause. It is the summation of the creation and arrangement of grievances by the social movement adherents for which the social movement is working. This framing can be divided into diagnostic framing and […]
Short notes on Pastoral Society
Pastoral society is a kind of society comprising of pastoralists where their main source of livelihood comes from herding and domesticating animals into herds. The flocks of domestic animals not only provide them with subsistence. The term ‘pastoral’ is derived from the Latin word ‘pastor’ which means shepherd. With herding being the major occupation, they […]
Marx’s concept of “Fetishism of commodities”
“One morning, I shot a capitalist in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I will never know.”-Marx The fetishism of commodities was a concept given by Karl Marx in his critique of the political economy. In colonial times, fetishism was a term used to describe inanimate objects that possessed fantastical powers in indigenous […]
