Category: Society

Motivations of the Individual in Society: Theories and Social Process! While the behaviour of an individual explains the inner workings of his mind, there is some factor that shapes such internal workings; and this factor that determines the mental processes leading to the behaviour of an individual can be termed as his ‘motive’. Psychoanalysts have… Continue reading Motivations of the Individual in Society: Theories and Social Process

Introduction: Man is a social animal and that, he loves to live in society with other human beings, is a general conception about his basic behavioural pattern. Almost all sociological thinkers agree that there is a very close relation between the individual and the society. Whether any particular individual could have been nurtured under conditions… Continue reading Man as a Social Animal

Culture: In common parlance, the word ‘culture’ stands for taste or refinement. In anthropology, the word covers all sides of our social life and attainment, including our knowledge, belief, codes and behaviour, and art. The wider anthropological meaning does not merely cover activities that are material, such as agriculture, mining of mineral resources and invention… Continue reading Culture and Personality Development of Man