Tag: sociology : what? why?

M.N. Shrinivas is an Indian Sociologist and Anthropologist and is famously known for his work on the caste system, social stratification etc. He was the child of his own times and never wrote things in utopia, he exposed what he gathered from experience and integrity. He focussed on understanding Society and people not merely on the basis of textbooks and western writings but by direct observations and field experience which he categorized into his methodology as field view.

G.S. Ghurye is regarded as the Father of India Sociology. He was an Indian Professor of Sociology. He has authored several books and papers also Founded the Indian Sociological Society and it's newsletter Sociological Bulletin. He studied tribes and castes of India extensively using Historical and Indological data.

Karl Marx devised the theory of Class Struggle. According to him, the world is divided into two classes of people one is of Bourgeoisie that control capital and production and others are proletariats that provide labour. According to him there always is conflict and struggle between these two classes to what he referred to as Class struggle.

The French Philosopher August Comte is called the Father of Sociology. He used the term Sociology in 1838 to refer to the scientific study of society.

Emile Durkheim is known as the principal architect of modern Sociology. He expanded the positivism as pronounced by the August Comte and propounded structural functionalism. According to him, Sociology should study large extents of the attribute in a society and not limit its area of study.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar started the newspaper, MookNayaka (Mutehero) in support of the downtrodden section of society, to raise the voice of untouchables. No newspaper at that time in 1929 has ever given recognition to untouchables.

A.R.Desai is important among the prominent sociologists of India. He worked as the UGC national fellow and as Head of Department of Sociology of Bombay University. His full name is Akshay Ramlal Desai and was born in 1915. He was the student of G.S.Ghurye and later taught and became head of the same department. As he was following the Marxist Ideology in his sociological studies, he was identified as ‘Marxist Sociologist’. His ‘The Sociological Background of Indian Nationalism’ work is the best work.

Socialization is the process of inculcating social values in human being to make him a responsible social being. It is the process of learning social behaviour. In society, good behaviour is expected to adopt and learn to live by the standard acceptable behaviour of the society. The values like honesty, truthfulness, and non-violence are learned by the process of socialization.