Child and Adult socialization. Socialization is a learning process that begins shortly after birth. Early childhood is the period of the most intense and the ...

Socialization process can be conscious as well unconscious. Within a family and school, much socialization occurs consciously. That is parents consciously tell ...

The Principle of Descent: A descent group is any social group in which membership depends, on common descent from a real or mythical ancestor. Thus a lineage ...

Preferential Marriage: Rules prohibiting certain persons as spouses may be accompanied by rules designating others as particularly appropriate. If it is the ...

No society gives absolute freedom to its members to select their partners. Endogamy and exogamy are the two main rules that condition marital choice. Endogamy ...

List of main family functions: Satisfaction of Sexual Needs In all societies, primitive or modern, simple or complex, human sex urge requires established and ...

The dominant features of a post-industrial society are that the majority of the work force are employed in the service and the trade sector. Government is the ...

Modern societies are based on using machines to produce goods. Sociologists refer to the period during the 18th century when the production of goods in ...

List of main features of social organization in simple societies: Kinship: Tribal society, a typical example of simple societies, is generally divided ...

The society is divided in many groups but social, primary and secondary groups are important in them let us discuss one by one below: Social Groups:  ...

The following are the chief points of difference between the primary and the secondary group: Size: A primary group is small in size as well as area. The ...

Before understand the relationship between sociology and science. It is important to understand what science is. Science is the use of systematic methods of ...