Author: Sociology Group

  • Demography: Introduction, Meaning, Basics and Importance

    Demography refers to the systematic, statistical study and analysis of the population. It tries to understand the dynamics, trends, and processes of the population by focusing its attention on certain demographic processes such as birth, migration, aging, and death. These processes contribute to the population change and the trends that we find in the population…

  • Sociology of Globalization: Meaning and Overview

    Globalization is the process by which there has been integrated across the globe of the economy as well as the culture and political organizations. It is mainly the process of opening up of the market of one country to the global market, or the markets or the other countries. This helps in interconnecting various nations…

  • Sociology of Consumption: Meaning and Overview

    Consumption may often be seen as the purchase and use of goods and services, however, when we talk about consumption in the social context it is much more than just the purchase and use of products. Consumption is at all times related to one’s identity, social status and a part of one’s daily life which…

  • Sociology Optional Notes: Family and Marriage in India

    Family and Marriage in India: The Indian population is set to cross the Chinese population by the year 2040 and in turn, become the largest population on the planet. In this present day scenario, family planning has become an important issue for one to discuss in the country as the rise in population will have…

  • (PDF) Important Books and Sociology Optional Toppers Notes

    Download Sociology Optional Toppers Free Notes PDF Neha Bhosle AIR 15, 2019 Akshat Kaushal AIR 55, 2017 Tusharanshu Sharma AIR 75, 2014 Kshitij Tyagi AIR 148, 2011 Mahapatra Sir Notes   These are Some Important Books for Sociology Optional MAINS Preparation A Dictionary of Sociology (very useful) [Sociology- Optional] [NICE -IAS By Praveen Kishore] [English…

  • Definition of the Disengagement Theory of Aging

    Disengagement theory is a theory of aging, it has been given by Elaine Cumming and William Earle Henry in their book ‘Growing Old’ in 1961. This theory entails that all individuals tend to disengage or detach themselves from the larger society i.e. the social norms, their social roles, and the ways of behaving and doing…

  • What is Bourdieu theory of cultural capital ?

    Cultural capital refers to the various kinds of knowledge, skills, behavior we possess by the virtue of being a part of a specific social group. Read Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Explained! There are three kinds of capitals that are often recognized as a part of the society, the Economic capital, which refers to the control one…