Category: Basic Concepts

  • Niti Aayog: Summary and All you need to know about it

    NITI  Aayog stands for National Institution for Transforming India. It is a Government of India initiative to replace Planning Commission. NITI Aayog involves inputs from both the central and state governments in policy-making processes. The Prime Minister is the Ex-officio chairman of NITI Aayog. NITI Aayog also consists a governing council. Chief Ministers of all…

  • Irawati Karve Biography and Works

    KARVE EARLY LIFE: Irawati Karve, named after the famous Burmese river Irrawaddy was a prominent Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist, and a prolific writer. Born in Myanmar where her father Mr. G.H Karmarkar worked in a cotton mill, Karve did her schooling at Huzur Paga boarding school in Pune. She went on to complete her BA…

  • Short notes on Poverty, Inequalities, Absolutive and Relative

    short notes on poverty,inequalities,absolutive and relative Poverty is something which one can relate to “lack”.One of the great ecologist R H. Tawney also explains social inequality led to extremes of both wealth and poverty and both were dehumanizing and has compared poverty with inequality. On studying and visualizing inequality from sociological point of view; inequalities…

  • Sociology of Law: Origin, Subject Matter and Developments

    Synopsis: This article gives a brief overview of the broad subject matter of Sociology of Law. By understanding how the multifaceted sub-discipline varies from the traditional approaches, exploring how sociology can be used in different ways in legal studies, and providing various modern approaches to socio-legal discourses, the article aims to explain how sociology and law…

  • Religious minorities in India and the problems faced by them

    Religious minorities The pluralist character of the Indian society is reflected in the multitude of religious communities that inhabit the country. The numerical strengths of some of these communities are more overwhelming than the others. Such communities have been designated as majority religious communities (example: the Hindus). India being a multi-religious country, it becomes an…

  • What is Secularism in India & overview

    Introduction to India secularism A power struggle is an important marker in our history. But with the passage time, it became evident that it is more and more between ethnic or religious groups both within, across nation-state. In India, religion can function as significant system of knowledge, identity, politics within a productive form of secularism. Secularism…

  • George Jacob Holyoake Coined the Term Secularism & Overview

    Secularism term was used by George Jacob Holyoake in 1851. Secular is a Latin word in which “Saeculum” means a fixed period of time.  It is related to earthly affair rather than spiritual affairs. Secularism was developed in a religious context for the sake of preserving peace among Christians. In medieval Europe, “the Latin term…