Category: Academic Writing

  • The Culture of Fear: Book by Barry Glassner – Summary

    The culture of fear: Book by Barry Glassner Renowned Sociologist Barry Glassner’s book The Culture Of Fear gives an insight into the unnecessary things people are paranoid about. He explains why Americans are afraid of the wrong things. The book initially published in 1999 has been updated lately and has become more relevant in recent…

  • Cultural Globalization: Research on Globalization and Local Culture

    Globalization of Culture: This thesis examines how globalization affects the world’s traditions and personalities, and how the effects of this blending of indigenous cultures with the rest of the world from the modern world order. Review of literature– Yogendra Singh, in Culture change in India: identity and globalization (2000). This book investigates Changes in cultural…

  • 10 Popular songs about Social Issues, Injustice, Human Rights

    Songs tend to have underlying meanings and themes that can be looked at from various perspectives. This article compiles a list of 10 pieces, eight by Bo Burnham and two by Jake Panten, and analyses them from a sociological point of view. Bo’s themes are discussed first, followed by Jake’s. #1 Art is dead- Bo…

  • Power and Emancipation: Karl Marx and Michel Foucault

    Power is crucial in structuring society. The definition of power, its nature and its impacts on society has been expounded by many social theorists.  This paper evaluates the notion of power and domination as described by two key social theorists, Karl Marx and Michel Foucault. Marx’s and Foucault’s notions of power bear huge differences, probably…

  • Beyond Workplace Surveillance & Intrusion: A contemporary culture perspective on Well-Being @ Work through Augusto Boal’s Theatre of The Oppressed

    While sipping my morning cuppa, I chanced upon an intriguing article (Khaira, March 4, 2020) published in an online journal sometime back, which spoke of sanitation workers in Chandigarh who are compelled to wear GPS trackers as part of a ‘Human Efficiency Tracking System’. The wearable tracker registers the movement of the worker by geo-fencing their…

  • The Sociology of Shopping Malls: Analysis and Summary

    Abstract- Shopping malls are a very important type of public space, especially in urban cities, for various reasons. They serve a variety of social effects and involve a range of sociological concepts. This article expands on how they aid cultural imperialism and globalization as well as provide a source of recreation and pleasure for their…

  • CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY

    Through this essay, I will be detailing scholarly understandings, critiques, and analyses of the New Social Movement theory. To begin with I’d like to lay out the differences between collective action from a Classical Marxist perspective, and New Social Movement theory. After which I detail features of New Social Movements. This will be followed by…