Author: Sociology Group
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Subaltern Perspective of Indian Sociology
In sociology, there are many factors like sex, caste, creed, race or any institution in which subordination is needed. A subaltern in a layman language is nothing but Sub-ordination. Insubordination, it is not necessary that people will always co-ordinate. Sometimes there will be bold resistance to anything and other times people can be convinced under…
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The subject matter and Importance of Studying Sociology
Subject matter: Anything that comes in society and performs certain functions becomes a part of Society. Sociology plays an important role to understand society and human behaviour. It tries to answer all the questions that human will certainly question themselves at some point in their lives. How did society emerge? How has it changed since…
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Elementary forms of Religious Life by Durkheim
Elementary forms of religious life: The general meaning of the term religion is understood as the belief, faith, rituals and traditions followed by an individual or individuals pertaining to a group or community. In the present modern society, there are many major religions working along with the complexities of social structures that define and project…
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Types of Social Roles: Meaning and Examples
Man is a social animal. Human beings interact with each other in their day-to-day lives and the lives of different people in the society are entangled with each other, in one way or the other. In the society, each of us is related to others through relations, either personal or public. The subject of sociology…
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Terms Related to Religion: One liner Meaning
Religion: Having Beliefs, Practices, and values on supernatural or in God, There are many religions in our world, in sociology, there is a separate branch to study religion, Durkheim explained elementary forms of religions and in India, M.N.Srinivas done fieldwork in south India Religious Belief: It refers to attitudes towards mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects…
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What is Reliability? Temporal and Comparative Reliability
In Research, we used to study different aspects so we need consistency, accuracy and precision results in the study, it is called Reliability, When we did measure or test repeatedly for measurement and it gives the same results, then it is called reliable. Reliability has two principal forms: 1.Temporal Reliability: It shows the same results when…