Pilot Study in Research Various disciplines carry out research on a large scale, such researches involve a large sample and are time-consuming and costly. There are various method and techniques, whether scientific or not, that are chosen as suitable to carry out the research. A pilot survey is carried out before the actual research to … Read more
To completely understand what untouchability is, how and why it is practiced, we must first understand that there ‘four-fold system’ in India which divides the population into four Varnas or groups namely Brahmins, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra. They are placed in a hierarchy and observe rules of purity and pollution (higher castes being the purest … Read more
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. This term is derived from Greece and psēphos … Read more
There are various crimes that place in the society since crimes are deviant behavior it is often considered appropriate that they entail consequences or punishment, this punishment is decided based on the seriousness of the crime. Thus they differ in their degree or class and their seriousness. Based on these crimes are divided into infractions, … Read more
Labeling theory is a theory to understand deviance in the society, this theory is focused more on trying to understand how people react to behavior that happens around them and label it as ‘deviant’ or ‘nondeviant’. This theory was given by Howard Becker who tried to understand, not in the causes behind the deviant behavior … Read more
Ritualism is derived from Robert Merton’s strain theory. According to him tension in the society arises from the fact that the resources in the society are to equally divided among people to achieve cultural values and goals. when one does not have the resources to reach goals, they adopt other ways to attain goals, based … Read more
The concept of relative deprivation was first given by Samuel Stouffer, in his study of the military officials in World War 2. Various scholars like Robert Merton and Walter Runciman have further extended it. Relative deprivation is seen often as the theory of social movements, it is the perceived lack of resources of the essential … Read more
