Author: Prerna
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Concept and Examples of Peer Group And its role, Cliques, Crowd
Peer group: A society comprises of different people belonging to different age group, interest, family background, and nature. Peer Group can be seen as the small subset of this universal set of society in which people of same interest, age groups and needs are put together. For example, there is a dance society in any…
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Patrimonialism: Concept, Meaning and Examples
Patrimonialism: The society is comprised of two categories in which there is one who solely enjoys power in his hands and the other one is bound to follow rules and regulations. For example, in military-ruled countries, the power is in hand of militants and the commoner just follows their rules. This can lead to severe…
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Patriarchy definition and meaning
Patriarchy in simple words can be defined as the dominance of patrilineal lineage in a society. The control of a clan or family is in the hands of a male body and women are kept away from decisions, control and politics of a country. For example, the monarchy always followed a king ruler but queen…
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Pedagogy: Meaning, emergence and examples
Pedagogy is dealing with ideation and techniques of teaching. The main concern of pedagogy lies in setting up an environment where the needs and dreams of a student are being understood by the teacher. And the teacher is also trained in such a manner that he/she delivers the best attitude towards students. The broader sense…
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Patrilineal Concept: Meaning, Role in succession
Patrilineal means the male lineage system in which there is a transference of rights, property, surname, and wealth from father to coming generations. For example from ages, it has been seen that an offspring irrespective of gender takes his father’s surname. On the contrary mother’s surname is not taken for generations at a global rate,…
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Social pathology: meaning, emergence and reasons
To maintain positive kind of demeanor and equilibrium in society, one needs to view the negative points of a society too. Social pathology was the term introduced by Mary Douglas. Social pathology is assessing the crimes and problems origin from specific age, values and criminal history. For example, there is much crime shows running on…
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Paternalism: Meaning, Two kinds of it and Examples
PATERNALISM: For better functioning of society, there are certain functions and responsibilities which every person takes on his shoulder to carry. Paternalism is such an important factor in society in which a father or mother takes some of the behavioral patterns in their day-to-day life. The various techniques involved for the better functioning of the…