Author: Prerna
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Pastoralism: Meaning, Origin and Criticism
Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture that emphasizes the development of farm animals. Animal husbandry is a popular term in which animals like cow, camel, goats are taken care with cattle and other necessities to earn better agriculture results. It is a process which involves the movement of herds for grazing and water just like…
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Parallel descent concept and meaning
PARALLEL DESCENT: Every community in a society follows some set pattern in which a hierarchical process of giving some amount of money or land is observed in the same lineage. It also accounts for the basic relationship between parents and off-springs. From early times it has been observed that there is two kind of descent in…
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Parallel and Cross Cousins Concepts and Meaning
Parallel and Cross Cousins There are different relationships in this world, in which siblings relationship are studied in two different ways too. Firstly there was an only concept leading to real siblings irrespective of their gender which has evolved from your parents. But then two types of siblings came into the picture that is a…
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MAX WEBER VIEWS ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
After Karl Marx, Weber work regarding stratification was related to class classification. He divided society by majorly three facts viz. power, class, and status. These three terms were also called three components of stratification in which people belonging to same class enjoys the same lifestyle and are provided with the same amount of opportunities for…
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Challenges to Social Stratification: Class system & Analysis
The class system was evolved in society after slavery system, estate system, and the caste system. In class system society was divided into upper class, middle class, and lower class. But unlike other systems, the class system was an open system. The circumstances can change someone’s status at any point in time. But from the…
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MALVIN M TUMIN VIEWS ON STRATIFICATION
Malvin M Tumin was the American sociologist who has done vast researches in race and stratification on class analysis. In 1953, Malvin came up with Principles of Stratification and criticized Davis and Moore ideations on stratification. DAVIS AND MOORE PRINCIPLES OF STRATIFICATION The most important roles are attained by most deserving people of the society,…
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Multinational Corporations meaning and Characteristics
Multinational Corporations are the organization which operates in two or more than two countries for producing goods and services to its customers. Multinational companies are smaller packets of a parent institution which sell its products worldwide. There are some major characteristics of Multinational Corporations:- MNC have a huge turnover because of its operation on…