Category: Political Sociology

  • What is an Egalitarian Society

    Egalitarian Society: The term is derived from the French word eแฟฝgal which means equal. Egalitarianism as a political ideology can be defined as the doctrine that sees each and every person as equal in their moral status, thereby granting them equal rights and opportunities. As a social doctrine, it advocates the removal of economic inequalities…

  • A Short Note on Psephology and Examples – Explained

    Psephology is literally defined as the scientific study of elections. It is a sort of statistical analysis which studies the elections, the voting patterns, the electoral behavior and helps predict the results. W.F.R Hardie coined this term for the first time in the United Kingdom in 1948.ย  This term is derived from Greece and psฤ“phos…

  • Ideology: Meaning, Types, Right, Left and Centrist Examples

    What is ideology? Ideology can be defined as a set of ideas and practices which is conceived to bring about social-political, economic, or cultural changes in the ways of perception along with implementing certain changes that entail it. The term ideology was coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, is French philosopher, he coined this term…

  • C. Wright Mills: Biography, Contributions, Conflict Theory

    Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist and a professor of sociology at the Columbia University; he was born in 1916 and died in 1962, living a life of 46 years. Mills was a known figure in the popular and intellectual journals; he wrote several books which highlighted several the relationships among the American elite…

  • Why the era of โ€œDonโ€™t careโ€ began

    If you go through the study of classical history and Anthropology you would see that people used to live together very closely, eat together, and fight together during the war. More accurately primitive societies were collective in their every activity; for instances: hunting-gathering societies used to go for a hunt with the strong members of…

  • What is counterculture and Give Examples? Explained

    It means a way of leading life and having an attitude that is different or opposes social norms. It is a subculture whose values are different from the prevailing culture of the society. It also means to protest against a present social situation or issue and having a rebellious opinion against the way of doing…

  • are you a conformist ?

    Generally, a person who is confined to a particular behaviour or practices is said to be a โ€œConformist.โ€ A conformist behaves or thinks like the other people in a group and doesnโ€™t do anything unusual. People often are confined for a desire for security within a group of similar age, culture, religion or educational status….