Society makes various types of social control depending on the social situations. In primitive societies beliefs and superstitions are enough for the control. In rural areas folkways, norms, beliefs, customs and traditions are used as means social control, while in modern societies formal agencies like police, …
What is Social Control Social control is the basic mean of social solidarity and conformity rather than deviance. It controls the behavior, attitudes and actions of individuals to balance their social situation. Man is born free but in chains everywhere he lives. A person living in …
Before going to why sociology as a science discussion first we will examine that what is science and what are the main features of science, then we will measure all these qualities with the discipline of sociology. If these characteristics were present in sociology, it would …
Psychology is the study of mind. It leads with the psychological process of human like thinking, learning and remembering. Modern psychologists also studies motivation, emotion and feelings of a person. Sociology and social psychology are inter-related in using such terms. Sociology studies the socialization of man …
The basic elements of community are discussed as under Locality Locality means a community occupies a territorial area permanent or changing. The people are having belonging to their locality and develop “we” feeling with each other. Sentiments The community sentiment is the social coherence, which the …
What is Sociology The start of has been taken by the Greeks while they consider man as a social animals. Plato discussed sociology in his book “Republic” and Aristotle discussed sociology in his book “Ethics and Politics”. Among others like Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Ibn-e-Khaldun also contributed …
The historical development of social psychology can be kept in the following three categories. Initial stage Social psychology was mainly developed by sociologists, psychologists and cultural anthropologists. Period of Emergence as an Independent Field As a rough first guess the years between 1908 and 1924 seem …
