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Social Interaction and Contemporary Society

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi; Segment Books; 1992Description: 144 pISBN:
  • 8185330174
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.3 KAP
Summary: This book analyses various important aspects of sociology, with the help of writings in psychology and anthropology. Thus the fields of education, communication in mass media, dream symbolism, and social interaction are discussed with the help of the approaches laid bare by modern masters in sociology. psychology and anthropology. On the issue of education, the salient problems facing educationists are tackled and it is suggested that in modern times the area of character training, and of learning values and norms must go beyond the task of the teacher. It is primarily the responsibility of the parents. Thus it is suggested that parents themselves do what they would teach and self-learn. Analysing mass communication the book points out how the image in mass media is very deceptive and how channels of entertainment may turn out to be the harbingers of the demise of all creativity. It has been cautioned that the machines eg. video and T. V., must no become runaway horses. The section on dream symbolism indicates that becoming aware of one's dreams equires application and dedication. However there are rich dividends to be reaped. To learn to observe one's dream is to enter into a world far more benutul and complex than that which is available to mass media watchers.
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This book analyses various important aspects of sociology, with the help of writings in psychology and anthropology. Thus the fields of education, communication in mass media, dream symbolism, and social interaction are discussed with the help of the approaches laid bare by modern masters in sociology. psychology and anthropology.

On the issue of education, the salient problems facing educationists are tackled and it is suggested that in modern times the area of character training, and of learning values and norms must go beyond the task of the teacher. It is primarily the responsibility of the parents. Thus it is suggested that parents themselves do what they would teach and self-learn. Analysing mass communication the book points out how the image in mass media is very deceptive and how channels of entertainment may turn out to be the harbingers of the demise of all creativity. It has been cautioned that the machines eg. video and T. V., must no become runaway horses. The section on dream symbolism indicates that becoming aware of one's dreams equires application and dedication. However there are rich dividends to be reaped. To learn to observe one's dream is to enter into a world far more benutul and complex than that which is available to mass media watchers.

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