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Nagwanshi, Nisha
- D.P Mukherjee's View on the Concept of Personality, Tradition, Modernity and Modernization
Authors
1 Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, IN
Source
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 4, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 82-83Abstract
Dhurjati Prasad Mukerji (1894-1961), a popularly called as DP, was one of the founding fathers of sociology in India. He was born on 5 October 1894 in West Bengal in a middle class Bengali family that had a fairly long tradition of intellectual pursuits. According to Satyen Bose, the famous physicist, when DP passed the entrance examination of Calcutta University, he, likes Bose, wanted to study the sciences, but finally settled for economics, history and was to have proceeded to England for further studies. DP began his career at Bangabasi College, Calcutta. In 1992 he joined the newly founded Lucknow University as a lecturer in economics and sociology. He stayed there for a fairly long period of thirty-two years. Radhakamal Mukerji, the first professor in the department, had been responsible for bringing DP to Lucknow. He retired as Professor and Head of the Department in 1954. For one year (1953) he served as a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. After his retirement from the University of Lucknow, he was invited to the Chair of Economics at the University of Aligarh, which he occupied with great distinction during his last five years of active academic life. He was the first President of the Indian Sociological Conference. He also remained the Vice-President of the International Sociological Association.1
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- Contribution of Auguste Comte
Authors
1 Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, IN
Source
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 3, No 2 (2012), Pagination: 270-272Abstract
Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857) is regarded as a founder of the discipline of sociology.
A strange destiny! The whole of Comte's life is a romance. His successors are divided between two attitudes-the incomprehension of disciples of limited outlook, and the indifference, or even hostility, of thinkers who could have learned a great deal, if only they had read him. Comte wanted to reform the moral order. He wasn't interested in creating an affluent society, but one where everyone would "live for others". He wanted to overcome class rivalry, but not by the destruction of one class (as with Karl Marx).
- Cost Function
Authors
1 Hidayattullah National Law University, Raipur, IN
Source
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 3, No 2 (2012), Pagination: 273-274Abstract
The cost function measures the minimum cost of producing a given level of output for some fixed factor prices. As such it summarizes information about the technological choices available to the firms. It turns out that the behavior of the cost function can tell us a lot about the nature of the firm's technology.
The average total cost curve: The average total cost curve is constructed to capture the relation between average total cost and the level of output. A productively efficient firm organizes its factors of production in such a way that the average cost of production is at lowest point.
A marginal cost Curve: A marginal cost Curve graphically represents the relation between marginal costs incurred by a firm and the quantity of output produced. This curve is constructed to capture the relation between marginal cost and the level of output, the marginal cost curve is U-shaped. Marginal cost is relatively high at small quantities of output, then as production increases, declines, reaches a minimum value, then rises.
Duality: Given a cost function we can "solve for" a technology that could have generated that cost function. This means that the cost unction contains essentially the same information that the production function contains. Any concept defined in terms of the properties of the production function has a "dual" definition in terms of the properties of the cost function and vice versa. This general observation is known as the principle of duality.