Liberalism is considered to be an ideology whereby liberty, equality before law and consent of government and equality before the law. This article mainly focuses on Classical Liberalism and Modern Liberalism and how they are different from one another. Classical Liberalism Classical Liberalism is considered to be a political Ideology that propagates the concepts […]
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Game theory: meaning, importance, types, and examples
In brief, game theory covers the analysis of “mathematical models of strategic interaction which has to be among the rational decision makers”, which has found its usage in all disciplines of social science, and also in subjects like logic, systems science, and computer science. Initially, this theory approached zero-sums games. In these games, the losses […]
“Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” by Michel Foucault
Book Review on “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” by Michel Foucault Who is Michel Foucault? Foucault was a 20th-century French philosopher, literary critic, political activist, and writer. His theories are essentially concerned with the relationship between power and knowledge and the ways in which they perform a function of social control by […]
Political Liberalism by John Rawls – Book Review ( Summary )
Abstract: This book was written by John Rawls, which was published in 1993 (subsequently, in 2005, an expanded edition of this book, named “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, came out). This book is considered to be an update of his “A Theory of Justice”, published in 1971, where Rawls revised and continued his ideas […]
Sociology of Poverty: Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives
Defining Poverty: Poverty is the state of being financially incapable of affording the essentials for the prevailing standard of living (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2020). Within this understanding of poverty, the prevailing standard of living and basic human needs, while overlapping are not synonymous. Basic human needs include goods that are necessary for survival, […]
RELEVANCE OF NEO-MARXISM IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD
Before we dive straight into the relevance of Neo-Marxism in the postmodern world, we need to understand the postmodern world and Neo-Marxism. Hence, we start with some background on the two subjects and then proceed to check for the relevance of Neo-Marxist ideologies in the postmodern world. What is a postmodern world? Though the ideas […]
CONTRIBUTIONS OF HANS MORGENTHAU – INTERNATIONAL REALISM
CONTRIBUTIONS OF HANS MORGENTHAU – INTERNATIONAL REALISM At the end of the Second World War, Idealists lost their charm to Realists. The Idealists believe to find the cause of the war so as to find the remedy, was seen as flawed by Realists. Idealists ignored the role of power in international politics, failed to recognize […]
