The social class into which one is born has a profound influence on one’s entire life. One faces more disadvantages and fewer life chances at the bottom of the social stratification system. One’s mental health, education, occupation, political behavior, religious affiliations, social participation, and attitudes are …
Researchers generally agree that the population of the United States can be divided into the upper, middle, working and lower class. The following gives typical characteristics social class in the United States. It must be recognized, however, that not all individuals in a particular society hold …
Since the dawn of recorded history we find many scholars and social philosophers who made contributions in this field. Keeping aside the versatile ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Hindu, Chinese and Persian scholars there were many intellectuals who appeared after tenth century and tried to explain the …
Culture is the man made environment Most of which is transmitted from one generation to the other. Culture is a very wide term which covers the entire activities, ways of thinking, behaving and many other things ranging from very simple to the most complicated learned behavior …
Erickson Theory of Child Development Erickson was influenced by Freud’s work and accepted the work done by Freud. The same is the case with his Erikson theory of personality, which is known as Erikson theory of child development. According to this theory of personality …
Simply sociology is the study of society. Our society is web of social institutions. These institutions are interrelated and interlinked with one another. The interest of sociology is to explain these institutions, which is its subject matter. There scope of sociology is very wide while it …
