B.A. Social Notes

                                                 Iron Age After a century so people came to know of iron,the hardest metal in comparison with copper and bronze,and began to use it as a substitute for copper.It is estimate that iron was first of all used by Aryans in India.Iron age immediately succeeded the Stone Age in South India. Men during this age up making tools and weapons with copper and bronze and started the use of iron for making different implements,such as swords,ploughshares,axes,daggers,etc.With the passage of time there happened to be great  improvements in the quality of food and dress during this period.The people had not only started to adorn themselves by wearing various ornaments and fine cloths but also made their life happier with recreation and amusement.They had also improved their dwellings and means of communications. The political life which was quite improved now during the copper and bronze age remind unchanged.But during the Iron age people started wor

                                          Copper and Bronze Age Immediately after the New Stone Age men came to learn of the use of metals.In the beginning , they were greatly attracted by the lustre of gold but later on it was given up in favour of hard metals such as copper and bronze.But they were still not acquainted with iron.But historians hold divergent opinions regarding the use of metals as to which metal was used first of all.In Northern India stone was replaced by copper,and articles made of copper have been found all over Northern India. People of this age started making tools and implements with copper and bronze in place of stone.These tools of Metal Age were sharper and more beautiful than the tools of Stone Age.As metal is harder than stone,tools of metal proved to be more durable.During this period the clay pots were replaced by the utensils made of metal.Men had become more civilized during the Metal Age.Their knowledge of agriculture,animal breeding and arts made

                                            Neolithic Age The man of Palaeolithic Age had considerably advanced towards civilization in the Neolithic Age.The capacity for progress is an inherent ingredient in man's personality.Though the tools and the weapons were also made of stone,and people did not know the use of metals,these tools of the New stone age were clean,beautiful and bright.The remains of this age have been found in India in Tamil Nadu,Orissa,Nagpur,Karnataka,Kashmir,and Bengal. This age belong to 10,000-3,000 B.C.Man had progressed rapidly during this period.He had left the nomadic life and begun to live a settled life.He practised agriculture and grew fruits.The chief occupation of the people during this period was hunting,fishing,rearing of goats and sheep.They produced barley, wheat,maize and vegetables. The man during the Neolithic age had made a great progress in the field of tools and weapons.Though the tools were made of stone,they were well grounded,groov

                                                Mesolithic Age During this period man made some improvements in his stone weapons made of bones of animals.Besides quartzite stone the primitive man had started making weapons with jasper,chert and blood stone.The weapons of this age were extremely small.They were therefore,known as microliths or pygmy tools.They were used by wooden handle on their one side.The chief occupation of this age was hunting and people were still ignorant of agriculture and construction of dwellings.But during this period,the man had started giving a decent burial to the dead ones.The dog had become their tamed animal and in the later Mesolithic age man had started to make clay pots. 

                                             Pre-Historic Age                    The life of the primitive man was not better than that of savages.But gradually,he began to progress and learnt much by experience.These different stages of man's progress towards civilization are chiefly known as: 1-Palaeolithic Age  2-Mesolithic Age 3-Neolithic Age 4-Copper and Bronze Age 5-Iron Age 1- Palaeolithic Age- Historians hold divergent opinions the origin of man.Some scholars mention ,first of all,the existence of man traced in south India.The early man originated ,first of all between Sindhu (Indus) and Jhelum river in the province of Punjab at Jammu. Punjab, Rajputana,Gujarat ,  Madhya Pradesh , Karnataka,Mysore,Bihar, Assam, Bengal and South India are specilly regarded the centres of early stone age. Men belonging to Palaeolithic Age were entierly barbarous.They used to lead a very hard life and wander here and there in the jungles in search of of food.Neither they knew the

                                                The Renaissance The world 'Renaissance' has been used both in extensive and narrow form.In extensive form it implies all those important movements of 15th and 16th centuries which changed the medieval outlooks into the modern one, but in narrow sense it means a new spirit in learning. Ferguisson Bruun has thus described Renaissance. Renaissance denotes revival or rebirth but in history it has been referred to as rebirth of culture and civilization.Hence Scheville, a prominant scholar of history writes,"The Renaissance was not a sharp break with the Middle Ages.It was worldly movement and included all the intellectual changes that were visible at the close of the middle european period and at the commencement of the Modern times." The Renaissance invoked the spirit of enquiry and knowledge among the mankind.So far,people used to follow the commands of the Pope like blind fellows but with the advent of Renaissance,peo

                                              What is Role? The concept of role is by no means a new one . It originally comes from the theatrical setting, referring to the parts which actors play in a stage production.Shakespeare uses the theatre as an analogy for the world as a whole and for the human experience. Actors obviously take on roles but so do the rest of us. In every society individuals play a number of different roles,according to varying contexts of their activities. Modern sociologist E.Goffman 1959 has proposed  dramaturgical  approach *(social life as like a theatre drama) in sociology.He sees social life as through played out by actors on a stage-or on many stages,because how we act depends on the roles we are playing at a particular time. Role is sociologically important because it demonstrates how individual  activity is socially influenced and thus follows regular patterns. The first systematic use of the concept of role was by G.H Mead in 1934,a forerunner o