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• Why Americans love Football
  

  Football has become a hugely popular spectator sport. Millions of people worldwide watch televise More...

• Neoliberalism
  

  One currently influential intervention philosophy is neoliberalism. The term encompasses a set of More...

• Analysing Surrogacy practices in India
  

  Miha Alam

  Sharp growth in surrogacy in India has drawn sharp attention and raised sever More...

• CO2 TO H2O: TRANSITION TO SUSTAINANLE ENERGY
  

  Fatima Mansoor Pal, Mahmoud Radwan & Miha Alam

  The oil and gas industry plays a piv More...

• To LEED or Not to LEED
  

  
  Fatima Mansoor Pal, Mahmoud Radwan & Miha Alam

  Green Buildings are an emerg More...

• Accelerating Action to Address violence against women and children in Tanzania
  

  Violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW) are public health and human righ More...

• Ways of studying Health, Illness and Medicine Sociologically by Miha Alam ( University of Waterloo)
  

  The focus of this article is on four main sociological perspective of studying health, illness an More...

• Coastal Tourism Development in Philippines: Managing economic, environmental, and socio-cultural sustainability
  

  Miha Alam 

  University of Waterloo ,Canada

  Globalization has allowed many More...

• What role can (does) the private sector play in adaptation?
  

  As adaptation measures reduce climate vulnerability and increase “climate resilience” More...

• How do we achieve gender equity in adaptation and vulnerability interventions?
  

  Vulnerability to climate change is a complex nexus that includes the capacity to adapt, to access More...

• Cultural Competency
  

  This article focuses on cultural competency and how it has gained a lot of momentum in terms of e More...

• Trends in ageing population in Canada
  

  Most communities that are left out in Canadian medical care especially in ageing populations are  More...

• Measuring Health by Ms.Miha Alam ,University of Waterloo
  

  This short article is focused on challenges of measuring health. It implores on what does it mean More...

• Sociological Perspectives of Health and Illness
  

  The development of sociology of health and social perspectives of health and illnesses provided a More...

• The Range of Social Relationship
  

   Weber notes many possible forms of content – friendship, exchange, competition, confl More...

• Liberal Feminism – A Brief View
  

  The major expression of gender inequality theory is the liberal feminism that argues that women m More...

• Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction
  

  Jacques Derrida was one of the most well known 20th century philosophers who is best known for de More...

• Sociology of White Collar Crimes
  

  The term white-collar crime was first introduced by Edwin Sutherland in 1949.It refers to crime t More...

• Reclaiming “Allahu Akbar” from Semantic Pejoration by Adam Hodges
  

  Allāhu akbar, the Arabic phrase meaning “God is the greatest,” has gained c More...

• Sociology of mob lynching
  

  Since last few years, India is witnessing an unusual rising trend in crimes related to mob violen More...

• Social identity and Stigma- Goffman
  

  A stigma is an attribute that is deeply discrediting to an individual. When someone is reduced in More...

• The Legacy of Colonialism
  

  Most of the African countries attained independence from the colonial powers by the end of the 20 More...

• Gender biased Sex Selection and Access to Safe Abortions
  

  Recent 2011 census data reveal a dismal child sex ratio of 914 females per 1000 males. This is do More...

• Abortion in India
  

  Abortion has been legal in India since MTP Act was brought into effect in April 1972.This Act ens More...

• Comparative Analysis of Marxian and Parsonian of Social Change and its relevance for social development
  

  Karl Marx theory is dialectical materialism or economic determinism. Human society passes through More...

• Regionalism as a concept in Sociology
  

  Regionalism is defined as a phenomenon in which people’s loyalties revolve around their reg More...

• Progress for Children in the SDG Era : UNICEF study
  

  The extent to which the world delivers on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will dire More...

• Diarrhoeal diseases and Malnutrition in India
  

  Diarrhoeal diseases affect millions of people in India annually killing people. Acute diarrhoeal  More...

• Caste System is entrenched in Indian psyche - A Survey
  

  The recently concluded Social Attitude Research India survey done in some of the major Indian cit More...

• Post-Development and Sustainable Development Goals Reflection
  

  Post development theory is founded upon the notion that development practice, prior to 1980s, was More...

• Problems of Health Care delivery in India
  

  The effect of social and economic inequality in health is profound in India. Poverty as a result  More...

• Peasant Studies
  

  According to Barrington Moore it is impossible to define the word peasantry in absolute precision More...

• Tradition in Sociology
  

  Tradition refers to the beliefs and practices handed down from the past whereas traditionalism is More...

• A Familiar Face : Violence in the lives of Children and Adolescents - UNICEF Report
  

  Beyond the unnecessary hurt and pain it causes, violence undermines children’s sense of sel More...

• Adolescent Relationship Violence in Brazil and Honduras
  

  What puts adolescents at risk of experiencing relationship violence? In 2015, Promundo and the In More...

• Slums and Human Habitation
  

  Slums represent the appalling and pathetic conditions co existing with modern urban life causing  More...

• Social Determinants of Mortality
  

  Mortality rate is a measure of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population durin More...

• Morphological concept of social structure
  

  The morphological conception of the social structure finds a similarity with the interactionist p More...

• Aristotle and Society
  

  Aristotle advocates that social philosophy should not consider anything absolute  good or ba More...

• Greek Tradition and Sociology
  

  Greek philosophy offered scope for intellectual debate advocating the truth is not absolute. Ever More...

• Sociology, Globalization and Discontent
  

  Zygmunt Bauman is one of the foremost thinkers of the contemporary sociology. He writes about a r More...

• The Demography of Aging
  

   

   

  The demography of aging is a subfield within demography that ca More...

• Sociological Explanations of Fashion Cycles
  

  Fashion shifts occur periodically and with increasing frequency in the popular culture. Generatio More...

• Gender Inequalities in Health Care
  

  Feminist scholars have brought health inequalities based on gender to the attention of the sociol More...

• Traditional Religion versus Civil Religion
  

  Religion has traditionally not only supported gender inequality but also supported class inequali More...

• Ethics in Sociological Research
  

  While doing research it is important for the researchers to respect their subjects’ rights  More...

• Do financial Bubbles exist?
  

  Financial bubble, sometimes also referred as speculative bubble or mania is defined as a situatio More...

• New Mother’s Hangover - Postpartum depression & issues with representation
  

  “I couldn’t pick my daughter up by myself to feed her — helplessness. When I wa More...

• Failures in efforts to eradicate the Ebola Epidemic
  

  While Ebola virus disease (a severe hemorrhagic fever caused by species of viruses that attach to More...

• Family and Marriage in American History
  

  Families represent a core institution in every society, though the composition of families varies More...

• Force in Social Life
  

  The regulation of behavior in society of individuals or groups is undertaken in two ways by the u More...

• Infant Mortality in India - UNICEF South Asia Health Atlas
  

  According to UNICEF report, India was home to 7,00,000 of the one million babies who died within  More...

• Maternal Deaths in India
  

  In India 55000 pregnant women die every year due to preventable causes such as lack of access to  More...

• Key ideas for Sociology’s origin and survival
  

  Sociology emerged as new subject in the later part of the 18th century and developed throughout t More...

• Status of Indian Judiciary
  

  Indian Judicial System is facing massive shortage of Judges creating unprecedented delay in dispo More...

• 2016 Annual Global Gender Gap Index - World Economic Forum
  

  India is ranked at a low 87th place globally in terms of gender equality despite an improvement f More...

• Food Wastage in India- A Ciphet Study
  

  India is growing more food but also wasting up to 67 million tonne of it every year as per a gove More...

• Advertising and impact on society
  

  Advertising is an integral part of market economy. The high level competition involves more aggre More...

• Does Microfinance empower women? Evidence from Self-Help groups in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, India
  

  Microfinance institutions (MFI) provide financial services such as savings; credit, insurance, an More...

• Gender Roles of Men and Women
  

  Transition in the society has been a universal factor in the human history. Changes in a particul More...

• Changing Idea of Family
  

  The family has for time immemorial been considered the basis of society. The family is the ideal  More...

• Sociology of Teenage violence and Role of mass media
  

  The increasing trend in crime by teenagers is a matter of serious concern. The world over teenage More...

• Philosophy of Gender Distribution in Occupations
  

  The state has passed a legislature that gives preference to returning veterans over civilians whe More...

• The state of Homeless
  

  In India, the homeless people can be found everywhere in  the cities. The most likely places More...

• Tradition and Modernity by D.P Mukerji
  

  D.P Mukerji asserts that traditions do change.These principles of change are recognized in Indian More...

• Structural Features of Caste given by G.S Ghurye
  

  G S Ghurye sees caste as social grouping or segments.The membership of which is obtained and fixe More...

• The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective by Andrew Scull
  

  Mental illness, as the eminent historian of psychiatry Michael MacDonald once aptly remarked, &ld More...

• Annual Report on Registration of Deaths and Births in Delhi 2015
  

  According to Delhi's annual report on registration of deaths and births more girls were born  More...

• Some findings on Muslim status in India 2011 Census
  

  As per the new census data released  by Govt of India ,almost 25% of 370,000 beggars are Mus More...

• India is a land of believers- 2011 census
  

  India is a land of believers .Only 33,000 people declared themselves  atheists as per 2011 c More...

• Informal sector in India
  Informal sector in India is broadly defined as consisting of units engaged in the production of good More...

• Conflict Formation and Conflict Containment
  

  The processes of ethnic conflicts can be understood in the context of India’s development d More...

• Parsis : Vanishing Race in India
  

  The Parsis community in India is declinning with their population fell to 18% in 2001-2011 decade More...

• Child Labor Amendment Bill 2012
  

  In  1986 a law to protect children from forced labor and exploitation, was enacted by the In More...

• Sociology of Resisting Against Coups
  

  As the surprise, rage, nervousness of the coup attempt is ongoing; the “resisting against t More...

• TB cases triple in New-Delhi
  

  There is drastic increase in number of TB cases the number has risen almost three times in the na More...