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“Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.” ( Samuel Johnson) The spirit of this Revolution, as far as relates to taste and manners, may best be divined by contrasting the English society of the period with the contemporary society of France. The art of conversation, developed by feminine genius, was carried in France to the height of perfection. It is the supreme distinction of Addison, as the chief founder of English essay-writing, to have created in England a school of literary taste which has raised our language almost to a level with the French in elegance and precision. Joseph Addison wrote in almost every genre flourishing in British literature. He wrote elaborately on religion, politics, death, woman and other contemporary issues. Myres, in this connection, says- “It is necessary to study the work of Joseph Addison in close relation to the time in which h...

Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968) is considered a great pioneer in sociology in India. He suggested for the use of comparative methods in the study of social sciences in India. He said: “We must aim at the scientific study of the race and culture origins.” Radhakamal Mukerjee’s contribution to the studies of what is called ‘social ecology’ is unparalleled. In his book, Regional Sociology (1926), Mukerjee explains the scope of human ecology “as a synoptic study of the balance of plant, animal and human communities, which are systems of correlated working parts in the organization of the region”. The geological, geographical and biological factors worked together to produce an ecological zone. In its turn ecology is conditioned by social, economic or political factors. Ecological balance is not mechanical carving out of a territory and settling people thereon. Such an attempt weakens or destroys social fabric. In case of human beings, cultural norms have a very important ro...

        Shyama Charan Dube belongs to that category of social anthropologist who did not do their master’s or Ph.D. Social change and economic development has been the major theme of his several works like India’s Changing Villages: Human Factors in Community Development (1958). Development is something to which we all aspire, and the ideas about the best means of achieving our own aspirations and needs are potentially as old as human civilisation. Modernization is an all-encompassing and global process of cultural and socio-economic changes whereby developing countries seek to acquire some of the characteristics common to industrially advanced countries. Dube considers the actual structural implications of change as well as the nature of some of the processes of change. In his book on Contemporary India and Its Modernization (1974), Dube deals with subjects as diverse as bureaucracy, leadership, education, planning, and secularism. Dube identifies seve...

KINSHIP OF IRAWATI KARVE  Every individual has relationships with other people around them. This is the basic system that takes place in all human societies. It is known as the system of kinship. Radcliffe-Brown (1964) insisted on the study of a kinship system as a field of rights and obligations. Evans-Pritchard’s study of the Nuer of the southern Sudan (1951) focused on kinship groups. Irawati Karve was an Indian educationist, anthropologist, sociol­ogist and a writer from Maharashtra. Her study of kinship is based on personal inquiry supplemented by readings in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and Maithili. Iravati Karve (1953) undertakes a comparative analysis of four cultural zones with a view to trace out something like a regional pattern of social behaviour. Karve analyses the process of acculturation and accommodation in the context of kinship. Some Points that gained Karve’s consideration: 1.      Kinship in terms ...

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