General sociology

General sociology

General terms relating to the study of society.

Contributors in General sociology

General sociology

Coined by T Veblen, a leisure class is defined by its sense of the indignity of manual labor and this disdain for work is expressed through conspicuous consumption, waste and leisure. The weakness of ...

life cycle analogy in sociology

Sociology; General sociology

The attempt to explain the development of social groups and institutional practices in terms of life-cycle stages of a biological organism for example the birth, growth, maturation, decline and death ...

lineage

Sociology; General sociology

Consists of all descendents in one line of a particular person through many generations. If this line is taken from paternal side it is called patri-lineage and if taken from maternal side it is ...

leisure class

Sociology; General sociology

This term was coined by Veblen in his book, ‘The theory of Leisure class’ (1899).When members of elites are engaged in conspicuous consumption they are termed as leisure class. This involves display ...

macro-sociology

Sociology; General sociology

The study of large communities and entire societies.

magic, witchcraft and sorcery

Sociology; General sociology

Three interdependent complex belief and practices in many tribal societies. Considerable work has been done on this topic by E.Evans Pritchard in his book ‘Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic’ among the ...

malthusian doctrine

Sociology; General sociology

The view that human reproduction increases by geometric progression and thus eventually outstrips the available food supply which increases by arithmetic progression. Famines therefore would be an ...