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 … Read more
The Changing Dynamics of Work and Family Over the last decade, family roles have consistently played an important role in determining the structure and functioning of the workspace. Reduction in gender-typed positions has led to a rapid spate of women struggling to maintain a work-life balance. It has also resulted in women taking up significant … Read more
Realism is the accurate, detailed and unembellished depiction of nature or contemporary life. It rejected imaginative idealization to instead focuses on a close observation of nature and the closest possible replication of it. As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different civilizations. The term was used to talk about … Read more
Imagining and Re-imagining the Social: A response to the Cultural Sociology of Jeffrey Alexander Jeffrey Alexander is an American sociologist who is perhaps most widely acknowledged in his response to Parsonian Structural-Functionalism and pioneering the sub-discipline of Cultural Sociology. Alexander’s theorizing was crucial to the reshaping of American Sociological Thought which was dominated by Parsonian … Read more
In International Political Economy, there are opposing theoretical viewpoints on the issue of global disparities and the North-South split. Dependency theory, which originated in the 1950s in response to modernization theory, is one of these conflicting theoretical views. Given the complexities of the contemporary world order conditioned by the emergence of neoliberal globalisation, the paper … Read more
When you decide to pursue higher education, at one stage or another, you will come across something called Dissertation. It is an essential part of the completion of many academic degrees. It is work that needs immense hard work, dedication, and persistence. In this article, we will discuss all the various nuances of the Dissertation … Read more
What is Plagiarism? The 19th century English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton gave the world the phrase, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” The world of academia is held firm by this faith. Plagiarism is one of the highest crimes in the world of academics. It holds the power to destroy someone’s credibility and career. Suppose … Read more
