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Category: Sociological Thinkers

  • What is Leninism in simple terms?

    Vladimir I. Lenin expounded the principles of Leninism, based on the political ideas of Marxism. Just like Marx and other communists, Lenin felt the necessity of the unification of and thereby a socialist revolution by the proletariat or the working class. He was aware of the fact that for the revolution to be successful, strong…

  • What is Goffman’s dramaturgical theory ( Impression Management)?

    Dramaturgical perspective was introduced in sociology in 1959 by Erving Goffman in his book ‘The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life’. Erving Goffman studied the interactions that take place in society at the micro-level. He took this perspective from theatre, he uses theatre as a metaphor to represent how people behave in society and represent…

  • Social Medicine: A complementary to Medical science 

    Decades ago being sick was a medical phenomenon and no other discipline had anything to intervene there. Medical Science engrossed this field. But during the 18th and 19th century, various other discipline started to intervene in the medical field. Public Health emerged to ensure peoples health rights and define risk factors, distribution, the pathogenesis of…

  • Karl Polanyi: Biography, Contributions, The Great Transformation

    Karl Polanyi was born on October 25, 1886, in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna. He founded the Galileo circle at the University of Budapest and actively participated along with a group of intellectuals to emancipate the potential of Social Science which had an immense impact on the Hungarian intellectual life. In 1908, Polanyi…

  • C. Wright Mills: Biography, Contributions, Conflict Theory

    Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist and a professor of sociology at the Columbia University; he was born in 1916 and died in 1962, living a life of 46 years. Mills was a known figure in the popular and intellectual journals; he wrote several books which highlighted several the relationships among the American elite…

  • Claude Levi Strauss: Biography, Theory & Structuralism

    In this article, we would look into the life and contribution of Claude Levi-Strauss in the field of Anthropology and Philosophy. Along with Franz Boas and James G. Frazer, he is considered to be the ‘Father of modern Anthropology’. He is accredited for changing the perception of the Western world about culture and civilization. To…

  • List of Sociological thinkers and their theories and Biographies

    These are world sociological thinkers and their theories with biographies ( we keep adding more social thinkers  ) Irawati Karve Biography and Works Govind Sadashiv Ghurye Biography and Contributions R.K Merton Bio, theories, Contributions & Everything M.N.Srinivas Biography and Contribution to Indian Sociology Bronislaw Malinowski biography and Contributions Yogendra Singh Biography and his Contribution to…