Author: Sociology Group

  • 8 BOOKS EVERY SERIOUS UPSC IAS ASPIRANT MUST READ

    Read this article to know about 8 important books which are very useful for UPSC Aspirants! 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?…

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

  • what is symbolic interaction theory in sociology? and Examples

    Symbolic interactionism as a theory to understand the micro-level phenomenon of the society was given by George Herbert Mead, though he did not do much work on this. It is a sociological theory, also known as a symbolic interaction perspective. Symbolic interactionism focuses on looking at the actions and interactions among the individuals rather than…

  • Untouchability – Forms and Perspectives

    To completely understand what untouchability is, how and why it is practiced, we must first understand that there ‘four-fold system’ in India which divides the population into four Varnas or groups namely Brahmins, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra. They are placed in a hierarchy and observe rules of purity and pollution (higher castes being the purest…

  • Misdemeanor : Meaning, Classification, and Examples

    There are various crimes that place in the society since crimes are deviant behavior it is often considered appropriate that they entail consequences or punishment, this punishment is decided based on the seriousness of the crime. Thus they differ in their degree or class and their seriousness. Based on these crimes are divided into infractions,…