by kdkasi | Sep 3, 2019 | C. Wright Mills Theory of Power
The social research of C. Wright Mills is focused on power elites, the extent of power they hold within social institutions, use and abuse of obtained power and its effect on social lives of individuals or society. However, power is the most important and critical...
by kdkasi | Aug 31, 2019 | C. Wright Mills White Collar Theory
C. Wright Mills work was chiefly focused on the power elites and their influence on social environment. He examine the association among business, governmental and military elites. He was interested in this relationship because of its political and historical...
by kdkasi | Aug 26, 2019 | C. Wright Mills Power Elite Theory
C. Wright Mills is counted among prominent social thinkers of twentieth century. He was an American social conflict theorist. Mills social theories were influenced from the work or ideas of Karl Marx and Max Weber. He interpreted the social world from Weberian and...
by kdkasi | Aug 21, 2019 | Max Weber
Action refers to the process of doing something or an act. Effort, movement and exertion are required to perform any task or action. However, every action could not be considered as social action. According to Max Weber (pioneer of the concept) an action is not...
by kdkasi | Jul 12, 2019 | Women and Crime
Concern regarding high growth rate of crimes among women have developed in recent years. However, studies suggest that women have long history of commenting different crimes. According to statistical evidence, from 1500 to 1800 female prosecution rate was very high...
by kdkasi | Jul 11, 2019 | Men and Crime
Since 1970 the outlook of historians changed regarding crime, they turned away from traditional areas of research such as, war, diplomacy, politics, state formation etc… and focused on social history. The area of Social history or history from below refer to lives of...
by kdkasi | Jul 11, 2019 | History of Crime
Historical Patterns of Violence and Crime Many prominent historian believed that the ratio of violence was greater in past societies compare to contemporary modern societies. Julius ruffs was one among these historian who shared similar outlook. In 2003, he wrote...
by kdkasi | Jun 28, 2019 | Emile Durkheim Collective Consciousness Theory
Emile Durkheim is among one of the founding fathers of sociology. In 1983, he presented and pioneered the concept of collective consciousness in his book “The Division of Labor in Society”. Emile Durkheim theory was based on comparative analysis of traditional and...
by kdkasi | Jun 27, 2019 | Conflict Perspective on Deviance
Functional outlook on deviance infer that, if parts of social structure such as, objective norms and resources are not properly integrated deviance occurs within a society or disorganize social structure produce circumstances which lead to occurrence of deviance....
by kdkasi | Jun 26, 2019 | Max Weber Theory of Iron Cage
Max Weber presented the concept of iron cage in one of his most influential book “The Protestant Ethics and Spirit of Capitalism”. He described his theory via the evolution of west society. Pre evolution west society was governed by traditional or religious values...
