Author: Mahima
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What is Urbanisation and Urban Problems in India
In the last decade saw more than half the world population becoming urbanised and India is the rate of urbanisation is growing at a rapid rate. Over the last 17 years, the urban population in India has been growing by 5.4% and in the year, 2030 more than 41% of the Indian population is expected…
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What is Elite Theory? Here’s the simple explanation
Elite is a value-free term inclusive of all who score high on scales of social values, power, wealth, or knowledge. Elite theory of political power nothing but the unequal distribution of resources, skills of leadership and power. This theory seeks to explain power relationships that are now seen in the modern-day era. Often negotiations between…
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Right to Health as a Fundamental Right – Explained
The preface of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines the term Health broadly as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” and the Constitution of India defines the right to health as “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health,” As we…
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Karl Marx’s Commodity fetishism – Explained with Example
Karl Marx is one of the most influential social thinkers of the 19th century and he is known as the architect of socialism and the champion of communism. Commodity Fetishism in Marx’s application of his analysis of the relationship between a commodity and society as a whole. Fetish was popularly used in the good old…