Category: Sociology Optional

  • Dalit Feminism: Meaning, History, Personalities and Books

    The struggle of third world feminists could be marked in the final decades of the 20th century. In the Indian context, women always remain the dual victims of caste and patriarchy. The Indian social movements are conventionally concerned with the role of caste and caste identity. In the early 1990s, when autonomous Dalit organizations were…

  • Leela Dube: Biography, Works, Contributions and Achievements

    Leela Dube was a pioneering Indian feminist anthropologist who showed how gender is quietly shaped through everyday family life, marriage rules and kinship customs. She explained how patriarchy gets reproduced through practices like patrilineal inheritance, patrilocal residence, dowry, and gendered socialisation, where girls and boys are raised with different expectations. Her work made it clear…

  • 10 GREAT CIVIL SERVANTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

    Civil Servants are people employed in the public sector for the government of a country. The services or contributions by the civil servants vary from department to department. But in essence, the functions that they adopt in relation to ministers tend to be the same. They also check upon if everything is working properly, say…

  • 10 Great Woman Sociologists and Their Contributions

    The women scholars of Sociology have gained little to no recognition, despite their contributions in shaping prominent subfields of sociological enquiry. Moreover, male dominance in the field of Sociology has resulted in a flawed representation of women and their struggle, very often overshadowing their role in society, home as well as in academia. Hence, it’s…

  •  10 Famous Dalit Books/ Literature Everyone Should Read

    If we look back into history, we see Dalits as non-contributing beings and victims of society. However, reality lies even beyond the making of history. To understand reality and the concerns of Dalits, One needs to understand; that they not only questioned the oppression but tried to bring a change in society. A society in…

  • Inter-caste and interreligious marriages and The State Intervention

    Synopsis: Inter-caste and interreligious marriages in India, although have been a subject of academic discussion, especially in social sciences, account for a diminishing percentage of all marriages in India. Religious and caste-based atrocities serve as the most important reason behind such statistics. Hence, this article will focus on the aspects of marital democracy in India…

  • Difference Between Marxism and Neo-Marxism

    Marxism and Neo-Marxism Marxism is an idea which originates from Karl Marx’s views on capitalism, the economic structure of the society and dialectical materialism whereby the focus remains on class inequalities and exploitation due to economic hierarchies, the root of which is capitalism. Neo-Marxists generally criticise the monopolistic and oligarchical nature of capitalism rather than…