SNAEHA SATHYAN

  India is a country to witness carnival life and cultures that are embraced by its inhabitants which requires abundant processions inside to proliferate your pockets to afford everything and make life easier and find a position to sustain with it. In this fierce, merciless and the fast growing contemporary times, a man needs to run and mint money for his life to be at ease and serene in the midst of paradoxical complications and diverse beliefs. The toil might include ball games where you battle resistance from your loved ones and embark on a soul searching journey to get anchored with an appropriate work to upgrade the position and set forth the plan of action for survival.     Have you ever had a conversation with those who sells food in the streets? They would tend to break their backs for a loaf of bread and feed their family. They would save the money they earned from the business, wake up early each day, run to the markets to get the necessary items for their sta...

  SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY AS THE CATALYST   There are varied belief systems among all the parts of the country. These belief systems helps in framing perspectives in life which may turn out to be either positive or negative that is associated with the success of a person in his/ her life. There are even many therapies and fruitful ways to turn the negative perspectives or views of a person into a constructive and fruitfully optimistic frameworks. The functionalist principles gets in synchronisation while analysing concepts like these with the practical realities of life. Robert K Merton is an American sociologist who coined the term “Self-fulfilling prophecy”. This is in relation to what was the main context of a famous book called “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne. This book mainly focuses on the Law of Attraction and how human lives are turned with positive or optimistic outlooks in life. This term refers to 'a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour whi...

  Image taken from Google Images " YOU ARE EITHER ON MY SIDE OR YOU'RE IN MY WAY" We all associate ourselves with a particular group and also differentiate from another group. The associating group will include your liked ones and you might hold a different emotion with it and the other differentiating group (out-group) will also be seen with a different kind of emotion as the view towards it will not be one and the same with the in-group. The disparity within the groups might also fan the flames of conflicts between them. In simple terms, a group of people voting for one particular political party will hold on to each other and will be in good terms within themselves while those who are at odds with the ideology will be seen with hatred and ultimately an enmity position. Amity-enmity complex is a theory propounded by a sociologist Arthur Keith . He says that this complex ushers to a form of evolution in the society. No society remains static but is always in a dyna...