Category: Sociology Dictionary
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Explained: What is a Community in Sociology
Community is a vague term often used in sociology, social sciences in general and even natural and physical sciences. While there is no commonly agreed definition of community, various sociologist have tried to define it in the following way based on certain common features- Talcott Parsons stated that community can be defined as a “collectivity,…
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Sociology of Knowledge: What you need to know
The sociology of knowledge is a subfield of sociology which examines the social production of knowledge. It believes that knowledge and knowing are subjective to social positionality in terms of race, nationality, class, culture, gender, etc. It includes the entire field of knowledge, ideas, theories and mentalities to understand how groups and institutions come to…
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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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Difference between life chances and lifestyle
Life Chances is a theory propounded by famous sociologist Max Weber. This term embraces the description of opportunities and recourses that one gets to improve the prevailing condition of one’s life. Opportunities in this context refer to one’s ability to access resources both visible and intangible goods like food, shelter clothes, and education and health…
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Difference between Family and Household : Sociology Notes
Households and families are basic units of analyzing demography. They are often used as interchangeable words but there’s a distinction between the two of them. And it is important to understand the difference between both of these terms. Family: ‘Family’ has no particular definition. It could mean all the generations after a common ancestor (an…
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Marx’s ideas on modes of production
Karl Marx was a German philosopher and sociologist. Besides, he mastered many other subjects like economics, political theory, history, etc. In Marxism, the mode of production is a very important concept. It refers to the way in which a society is organized so as to produce goods and services. It is composed of two main…
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MN Srinivas views on religion and society among Coorgs
Mysore Narasimachar Srinivas was born in 1916 in Mysore. He belonged to a Brahmin Family and studied various areas like caste, society, religion and so on. He brought up various ideas related to sociology. He published a book called ‘Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India’. It put forward a new approach to…