Essays on Sociological Theories

Behaviorist and cognitivist approaches to the study of language have been long debated in the literature. They have opposite arguments to one another; furthermore, advocated by celebrated names with their seminal works like C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards’s book “Meaning of Meaning”, Skinner’s...

Sociology involves stepping out of the box to analyze every custom, every tradition, every movement, every conversation that humans have. There are three sociological paradigms that we have been exposed to in this module: structural functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism. I see structural functionalism...

If we look at identity politics, a lot has changed since the 1960s. While the American Left rhetoric was all about colorblindness and national unity back then, it’s now changed to a group-based rhetoric, and intersectionality is no exception. In current political discourse, intersectionality divides...

Intersectionality, which is how social, economic, and other categories overlap and intersect in a greater framework of oppression. In the United States sexism, racism, ageism, classism, anti-Semitism, and other isms have deeply affected every fabric of human connection and it has become systemic. In this...

In Intersections: The Simultaneity of Race, Gender and Class in Organization Studies, Evangelina Holvino notes that even though there has been progress in the inclusion of race in mainstream organization theorizing, there has not been much progress in the field of organization development and change...

Defined over and over, intersectionality is ultimately stripped down to layers of uniqueness with which we identify ourselves with. Initially this word was utilized to describe an individual’s lifetime experiences, such as oppression and privilege. Taken at face value, Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing (HoH)...

Assam is state arranged in the northeastern piece of India encompassed by other managerial units of area, i.e., Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya and furthermore by outside nations like Bhutan, and Bangladesh. Topographically Assam contains rich waterway valleys encompassed and sprinkled by mountains...