Category: Sociology Optional
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Diagnostic framing and Prognostic framing
Framing has come up to be an important notion in the area of social movements and how they garnish support for their cause. It is the summation of the creation and arrangement of grievances by the social movement adherents for which the social movement is working. This framing can be divided into diagnostic framing and…
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Short notes on Pastoral Society
Pastoral society is a kind of society comprising of pastoralists where their main source of livelihood comes from herding and domesticating animals into herds. The flocks of domestic animals not only provide them with subsistence. The term ‘pastoral’ is derived from the Latin word ‘pastor’ which means shepherd. With herding being the major occupation, they…
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Karl Marx’s Commodity fetishism – Explained with Example
Karl Marx is one of the most influential social thinkers of the 19th century and he is known as the architect of socialism and the champion of communism. Commodity Fetishism in Marx’s application of his analysis of the relationship between a commodity and society as a whole. Fetish was popularly used in the good old…
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Short Notes on Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
The concept of organic solidarity was developed by Emile Durkheim along with the concept of mechanical solidarity. He developed these concepts of solidarity while giving the theory of the division of labour in society. He believed that these types of solidarities are in correlation with the types of societies; be it mechanical or organic. The…
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Short Notes on Social Morphology
In general, morphology refers to the study of the shape, form, or structure of things. But, in sociology, social morphology specifically deals with the structure of society. The term social morphology was first used in the synthetic school of thought. Emile Durkheim was one of the chief proponents of the synthetic school of thought. The…
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What does Ritzer mean by the term McDonaldization of society?
George Ritzer coined the word McDonaldization in his book ‘The Mcdonaldization of Society’ published in 1993. McDonaldization is the model that was adopted by Mc Donald’s in the industry of fast food. This model is viewed as the most rational form of running any business in the capitalist system. Its rationality can be understood from…
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What is Market Socialism – Explained!
Market socialism is an economic system where the means of production are not owned or planned but only mediated through the market. In this system it is either the state or the workers who own the means of production, i.e. it involves public, cooperative, or the society as a whole. The model or structure of…