Author: Sociology Group

  • Understanding Max Weber’s “Iron Cage”

    Iron cage is a concept proposed by the Sociologist, Max Weber, and one of its first references is seen in his well-known work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. However, the word was never used by him directly as he always wrote in the German language. It was Talcott Parsons, who coined the…

  • What is an Egalitarian Society

    Egalitarian Society: The term is derived from the French word eแฟฝgal which means equal. Egalitarianism as a political ideology can be defined as the doctrine that sees each and every person as equal in their moral status, thereby granting them equal rights and opportunities. As a social doctrine, it advocates the removal of economic inequalities…

  • Social Medicine: A complementary to Medical scienceย 

    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

    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, ย 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, oneโ€™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.ย  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…