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Author: Pragati Kalive

  • The Psychology of Sustainability

    Synopsis: As the world inches closer to a climate catastrophe, the role of sustainable development as a viable and necessary action for a tenable future has been accentuated through popular and political discourse. The largest contributor to the climate disaster is human production and consumption; both of which have their roots in human behaviour. The…

  • Bahujan Movement : Meaning and History of Bahujan Samaj Party

    The sickness of caste has plagued Indian society since the Vedic ages and continues to remain a source of unparalleled inhumane treatment of individuals based on their involuntary membership of a particular social group. Within the Indian context, caste has often been understood as a Dalit issue that is not inclusive of conversations about other…

  • Common Sense Versus Psychology: Explained With Examples

    Psychology and Common Sense: Psychology can be understood as the science of human behaviour that seeks to understand how human beings feel, perceive, think, learn, interact and understand themselves and the world around them. It is a science that studies observable and measurable human behaviour and also the human mind, both the conscious and the…

  • What is Thinking in Psychology? 7 Different Types of Thinking

    The APA Dictionary of Psychology defines thinking as “cognitive behaviour in which ideas, images, mental representations and other such hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated.” Thinking is both a covert and a symbolic process that allows us to form psychological associations and create models to understand the world. It is considered a covert…

  • Minority Groups : Definition, Characteristics, Types, Problems

    American sociologist Louis Wirth (1945, p. 347) defined minority groups as “a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination”. “All, too, will bear…