Category: Sociology Optional
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Dalit Feminism: Meaning, History, Personalities and Books
The struggle of third world feminists could be marked in the final decades of the 20th century. In the Indian context, women always remain the dual victims of caste and patriarchy. The Indian social movements are conventionally concerned with the role of caste and caste identity. In the early 1990s, when autonomous Dalit organizations were…
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Leela Dube: Biography, Works, Contributions and Achievements
Fondly known as Leeladee, Leela Dube was an anthropologist, sociologist, feminist, teacher and above all a mother and a homemaker. Along with Irawati Karve, Vina Majumdar, and Lotika Sarkar, she worked in anthropology when the field did not even recognize women as a subject in male-dominated academia. She explains gender biases through her own examples,…
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10 GREAT CIVIL SERVANTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS
Civil Servants are people employed in the public sector for the government of a country. The services or contributions by the civil servants vary from department to department. But in essence, the functions that they adopt in relation to ministers tend to be the same. They also check upon if everything is working properly, say…
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10 Great Woman Sociologists and Their Contributions
The women scholars of Sociology have gained little to no recognition, despite their contributions in shaping prominent subfields of sociological enquiry. Moreover, male dominance in the field of Sociology has resulted in a flawed representation of women and their struggle, very often overshadowing their role in society, home as well as in academia. Hence, it’s…
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Difference Between Marxism and Neo-Marxism
Marxism and Neo-Marxism Marxism is an idea which originates from Karl Marx’s views on capitalism, the economic structure of the society and dialectical materialism whereby the focus remains on class inequalities and exploitation due to economic hierarchies, the root of which is capitalism. Neo-Marxists generally criticise the monopolistic and oligarchical nature of capitalism rather than…