Media being the fourth pillar of the state is considered vital for maintaining social, economic, and political stability of the country. It has a powerful effect on the people. Sociology sees media through one of its major perspective, structural functionalism, and classifies media’s functions into two categories. Its manifest function […]
Author: Laiba Sajid
The Aftermath of Paris Attack Raises Some Serious Questions
Terrorism has no religion. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. Terrorism has become a systematic weapon of a war that knows no border and seldom has a face. They are a group of a bunch of terrorists who have nothing constructive to do with their own lives. […]
Deforestation: An existential threat to the world
“FORESTS ARE THE WORLDS AIR- CONDITIONING SYSTEM, THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET AND WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF SWITCHING IT OFF”. Deforestation is cleaning Earth forests on a massive scale, resulting in damages to the quality of the land and our overall environment. Forests still cover about 30 percent […]
Psychological trauma produced by Media
Media being the fourth pillar of the state is considered vital for maintaining social, economic, and political stability of the country. It has a powerful effect on the people. Sociology sees media through one of its major perspective, structural functionalism, and classifies media’s functions into two categories. Its manifest function […]
Peshawar School Attack: Remembering the Great Misery
16 December 2014. A Black Day in the history of Pakistan. A heart-wrenching, painful and wicked day in the history of humanity. The actions carried out on that day comprised of mass murder. The twist is that mass killing consisted not of armed men or soldiers prepped for war, but […]