SkyDream

Since ancient times, the social structure of traditional Indian society has been based mainly on the hereditary principle. The members were divided into hereditary caste groups, each caste with its traditional occupation. The actions of any individual in ancient Indian society were inherently structured on a normative, teleological socio-cultural group pattern. The normative structure consisted of Purushartha-Dharm, Artha, Kama, and Moksha. A person in this scheme of life was expected to behave in a pattern laid out for a religious sect and caste and achieve the goal of self-realization. This ideology of Indian society was followed in the ancient period through a synthesis of the system described in the Gita, the Smritis, and Arthasastra. This was, in fact, the model of Sanatan Dharm, the eternal religion. Social Structure of Indian Society: Social structure denotes the network of social relationships. The social relationship is created among the individuals when they interact with eac...

The roots of the term society can be traced to the Latin word socius which means companionship or friendship. Society has become an essential condition for human life to continue. Herein, we will discuss some of the views of the social thinkers who had on society and how they have perceived the same. Though the term society and culture is used today as a scientific concept by most of the social sciences, its most comprehensive definition has been provided in anthropology. Humans are social beings. That is why we live together in societies. Day-to-day we interact with each other and develop social relationships.  But in sociology and anthropology, the term is used in a different sense. The term “society” refers not just to a group of people but to a complex pattern of norms of interaction that exist among them. In terms of common sense, society is understood as a tangible object, whereas in sociology and anthropology it refers to an intangible entity. It is a mental construct, which...

The problem of the origin and evolution of man, strictly in its biological viewpoint, needs the review of the origin of life in its broadest sense and of the different explanations given for this phenomenon earlier. Paleontology (जीवाश्म विज्ञान) is one of the sciences which have made the greatest contribution to the knowledge of the genesis of life on earth and of its gradual evolution and complication. The earliest fossils found in the earliest of the earth’s layers of the Archaeozoic era belong to diversified creatures that give evidence to an already existing complex and highly developed organic life. Many theories were floated to explain the concept of evolution. Some important ones are here. Theory of spontaneous generation or Abiogenesis:   The theory of spontaneous generation is as old as human thought. It is well known that life arises only from pre-existing life and assumes that life originated from inert, inorganic matter as a result of a series of Physico-chemical condi...