Category: Sociology Dictionary

  • Caste among Other Religions: Muslims and Christians

    Caste is a social stratification wherein people are grouped based on wealth, occupation or social status. It is characterized by endogamy (marriage within the same class), the inheritance of occupation and social status. The word ‘caste’ is derived from the Portuguese word ‘CASTA’ which translates to lineage. A caste is generally referred to as Jati…

  • Manuel Castells: Information age, Works, Books, Awards

    Manuel Castells was born in Spain in 1942, studied law and economics and completed in Ph.D. in sociology. His area of research was information processing. During 1968, Paris was an international center of Marxist controversy. He finished his first dissertation and was appointed as a professor in Paris at Nanterre. Castells took active participation in…

  • Frank’s Theory of Underdevelopment: Overview

    Frank’s Theory of Underdevelopment: All resources have their own level of capacity to be used by mankind to grab all its potential for which it has been created. But, there are cases when it is being used only by few countries creating a difference of opinion among nations. This concept has been deeply analyzed by…

  • Vilfredo Pareto’s Circulation of Elite: Explanation and Examples

    All societies and civilizations have a class of elites and all have a similar distribution of power, income and wealth. All societies have a predictable distribution with wealth concentrated at the top. A total count of 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth with the top 1% holding an enormous share in the…

  • Reserve Army of Labour: Explained with examples

    When essentials are price tagged and people want not to starve, they started to earn money either by increasing own money or by working under the “owned-man”. These people are referred to as a labour force on which many sectors were depended for productivity. When years passed, needs of such force are not in demand,…

  • Labour Commitment: Overview

    Resources are essential for conducting the activities of the economy in a country which includes capital, raw materials, and pieces of machinery, buildings, transport and importantly man-power. The word ‘commitment’ is so big in value when compared to the word ‘engagement’ which does not show the importance of willingness towards working. Here, we can analyse…

  • Consumerism: Meaning, Importance, Examples & Overview

    Consumerism: Human beings always keep the money as secondary when there is a desire to acquire material possessions whatever the financial situation is. Consumption, as we all know is one of the activities of the economy without which industrialisation cannot be achieved. But, when we consider society engaging in the consumption of goods, we cannot…