Category: Psychology

  • What is Personality – Definition, Meaning, Types of Personality, Factors

    “Personality” always directs the mind, towards the physical appearance of an individual. Here we are talking about something which covers not only physical but also mental and psychological aspects, something which presents you in front of the community and society. The judgment of an individual, by society, is based on its personality, so it is…

  • Social Medicine: A complementary to Medical science 

    Decades ago being sick was a medical phenomenon and no other discipline had anything to intervene there. Medical Science engrossed this field. But during the 18th and 19th century, various other discipline started to intervene in the medical field. Public Health emerged to ensure peoples health rights and define risk factors, distribution, the pathogenesis of…

  • Erving Goffman – Biography and his Major Contributions

    Erving Goffman was a Canadian American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer; he was known to be the most influential figure in American sociology in the 20th century. Goffman was influenced by the many greats of the sociological sphere but Everett Hughes is regarded as the most influential figure of his life. Goffman has always been…

  • Sigmund Freud: Biography and Contributions to Psychology

    Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist born on the 6th of May in 1856. Freud is best known for his works in the field of psychology and sociology where he deduced a method which would change the study of psychology. He named the method psychoanalysis, which was a clinically proven method for treating psychopathology through…

  • are you a conformist ?

    Generally, a person who is confined to a particular behaviour or practices is said to be a “Conformist.” A conformist behaves or thinks like the other people in a group and doesn’t do anything unusual. People often are confined for a desire for security within a group of similar age, culture, religion or educational status.…

  • What is Propinquity Effect in Social Psychology

    Did you ever experience a strange connection with someone whom you meet often and find them attractive? And sometimes you may not be able to define that relationship. Such physical proximity or an interpersonal attraction is known as “Propinquity”. It can be a physical or mental proximity among people. People with similar ideologies, attitudes, and…

  • What is Hermeneutics Theory and Summary

    Hermeneutics: Sociology also studies the psychology of an individual. Psychology means the science which studies the mental emotions of an individual. It interprets, analyses, study and then modifies, proposes and then accordingly, brings changes in the culture of the society. If psychological aspects of the society are not taken into account before making recommendations of such…