Decades ago being sick was a medical phenomenon and no other discipline had anything to intervene there. Medical Science engrossed this field. But during the 18th and 19th century, various other discipline started to intervene in the medical field. Public Health emerged to ensure peoples health rights and define risk factors, distribution, the pathogenesis of […]
8 BOOKS EVERY SERIOUS UPSC IAS ASPIRANT MUST READ
1.Minimum Age for IAS Officers: WHAT SHOULD BE THE MINIMUM AGE FOR IAS OFFICERS? This book was written by Sunil Patel and He Questions, Is only 10-15 years reading academic books make them eligible for lifting the biggest responsibilities? What contribution they done to their family, society, and country so as they can rule the […]
A Short Note on Opportunity structures with Examples
In every society there are some groups that will be more privileged than the others, this results in the fact that some will automatically have better access to resources than the others. This results in what Richard A Cloward and Llyod B. Ohlin have called the opportunity structure. They gave this theory in their book […]
A Short Note on Idiographic and Nomothetic approach with Examples
Idiographic and Nomothetic approach: A subject like sociology requires intense research to be done in order to fin put trends, to be able to compare societies and form case studies for the same. There are various types of studies such as ethnographies- these are extensive field studies that are conducted by researchers to understand and […]
What is a master status in sociology? What are some examples?
In Sociology, Master status is the social position which is the primary identifying characteristic of an individual. As a part of the society, we have many statuses attached to us, these may be acquired/ achieved- such as education, economic status, one’s occupational status-or it may be ascribed, something given to us by birth- ethnicity, race, […]
A Short Note on Scapegoat Theory/ Scapegoating and Examples
Scapegoating is a social and psychological process by which one shift blame on others, who he may find vulnerable, for his/her problems, failures, misdeeds. The origin of this theory can be found with reference to the bible where the ‘goat’ – an animal- is burdened with all the sins of the human race and is […]
A Short Note on Polytheism and Examples – Explained
Theism refers to a belief in a god or any higher power. Polytheism is a type of theism, it refers to a belief in more than one deity or god. These deities (which are a part of the polytheistic religion) come together to form a Pantheon- which is a group of a particular set of […]
