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Today as on 1864 is the birthday of a great Sociologist, Charles Horton Cooley, who had an intense interest in Politica...
17/08/2026

Today as on 1864 is the birthday of a great Sociologist, Charles Horton Cooley, who had an intense interest in Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Social Psychology.

Cooley is best known in Sociology for his contribution in the development of the interactionist perspective and for his development of the looking glass self.

He had greatly extended this conception of the looking glass self in his book 'Social Organization: A Study of Larger Mind', and sketched a comprehensive approach to society and its major process.

Charles H. Cooley was a sociologist who wanted to better understand society and human behavior. One of his most important contributions to Sociology was his idea by studying everyday social interactions between people.On this context he had coined the term 'primary group' and showed that it plays an influential role upon one's learning of ideas, beliefs, ideals, traditional values and the values of the community as well.

He has wrote voluminously during his lifetime and most of them have a contemporary relevance in present time also.

On this occasion Activism is paying sincere tribute to this great thinker.

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CALL FOR PAPERS We invite articles, book reviews, commentaries etc. for our e-journal CRITICALITY, Vol 4, No. 2, Decemb...
16/08/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite articles, book reviews, commentaries etc. for our e-journal CRITICALITY, Vol 4, No. 2, December 2026.
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ঊনবিংশ শতাব্দীর বাংলার নবজাগরণের অন্যতম পুরোধা হলেন ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর। বাংলার সমাজ প্রগতির ধারায় যাঁর অবদান অনস্বী...
29/07/2026

ঊনবিংশ শতাব্দীর বাংলার নবজাগরণের অন্যতম পুরোধা হলেন ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর। বাংলার সমাজ প্রগতির ধারায় যাঁর অবদান অনস্বীকার্য। বাংলা গদ্যের সংস্কার, সমাজ সংস্কার থেকে শুরু করে নারীশিক্ষাসহ যুগ যুগ ধরে চলে আসা অন্ধ কুসংস্কারের বিরুদ্ধে যুক্তিনির্ভর, বিজ্ঞানমনস্ক, উন্নত চিন্তার বার্তাকে অসম সাহসিকতার সঙ্গে তুলে ধরার ক্ষেত্রে ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর প্রকৃতই এক উজ্জ্বল জ্যোতিষ্ক-যার আলোক ছটায় আজও আমাদের জীবন, যাপন, মনন, চিন্তন উদ্ভাসিত।

তৎকালীন সময়ে একজন সমাজ সংস্কারক হিসেবে তিনি একাধিক কুপ্রথার বিরুদ্ধে সোচ্চার হয়েছিলেন । তাঁর উদ্যোগেই বিধবা বিবাহ প্রথা ও নারী শিক্ষা প্রচলিত হয়। তাঁর মহাপ্রয়াণের শতবর্ষাধিককাল পেরিয়েও তাঁর ক্ষুরধার চিন্তা, বলিষ্ঠ যুক্তিবোধ, বিপুল সাহসিকতা ও মানবদরদী মন আজও প্রাসঙ্গিক। তাঁর প্রতিটি কথাই মূল্যবান, শিক্ষণীয় এবং প্রণিধানযোগ্য, জীবনে চলার পথের এক সুস্পষ্ট পথনির্দেশিকা । আজও আমরা তাঁর কাছে ঋণী।

কালের নিয়মে চলে যেতে হয় সকলকেই। কিন্তু মহৎ প্রাণের মৃত্যু হয় না। মৃত্যু হয় না মহৎ ও উন্নত চিন্তার। ১৮৯১ সালের ২৯ শে জুলাই তাঁর মহাপ্রয়াণ ঘটে। আজকের দিনে এই চিরস্মরণীয় মানবতাবাদী মহা মনীষীকে ACTIVISM-এর পক্ষ থেকে জানাই বিনম্র শ্রদ্ধা ও প্রণাম।

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Today as of 28th July, 1902 is the birthday of one of the greatest philosphers of science of Austrian-British descent, K...
28/07/2026

Today as of 28th July, 1902 is the birthday of one of the greatest philosphers of science of Austrian-British descent, Karl Raimund Popper, who belongs to the Schools of Analytic Philosophy, Critical Rationalism, Metaphysical Realism, the Correspondence Theory of Truth, Interactionism, Liberalism. He had a special interest in Epistemology and made a significant contribution in the development of the Methodology of Social Science.

Karl Popper’s early work 'The Logic of Scientific Discovery' (1934), attempts to solve the problem of demarcation by putting forward his theory of potential falsifiability by offering a clear criterion that distinguishes scientific (or emperical) theories from metaphysical or mythological claims. He considered that if a theory cannot, in principle, be falsified by criticism, it is not a scientific theory. Popper's philosophy of falsification, or error elimination, element in his account of problem solving where he presents 'Falsifiability' as both an ideal and as an important principle in a practical method of effective human problem solving.

The contrast between Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity and the Theories of Psychoanalysis defended by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler was one of the most memorable examples through which Popper showed how Falsification works in Practise by making bold, counter-intuitive claims about the fundamental nature of reality which also accounts for previously observed phenomena. He further argued that there are in fact two closely related problems by taking into account David Hume's infamous problem of induction: the Logical problem of induction and the Psychological problem of induction.

Karl Popper is best known for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible embracing ideas from major democratic political ideologies, including libertarianism/classical liberalism, socialism/social democracy and conservatism, attempting to reconcile them. He was a tenacious opponent of totalitarianism, fascism, romanticism, reactionary and irrational ideas. Popper’s rejection of these ideas was anchored in a critique of the philosophical beliefs that, he argued, underpinned them, especially a flawed understanding of the scientific method. His defense of a freed and democratic society stems in large measure from his views on the scientific method and how it should be applied to politics, history and social science.

Some of his most important texts — 'The Poverty of Historicism' (1944; 1957) and 'The Open Society and Its Enemies' (1945) — offers a kind of unified vision of science and politics where he endorses a version of 'Methodological Individualism' based on 'Situational Logic and its Analysis' arguing against the historicist attempt to formulate universal laws covering the whole of human history.

He had an enormous influence on the formation of the modern intellectual climate and recieved numerous awards and honours for his wide influence both within the philosophy of science, within science itself, and within a broader social context. Popper was knighted in 1965, and retired from the University of London in 1969, remaining active as a writer, broadcaster and lecturer until his death in 1994.

On the occasion of his birthday, Activism is paying sincere tribute to this great personality.

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NotificationA Life-Members' discussion will be held today at 8 p.m. All members are requested to attend the discussion ...
25/07/2026

Notification

A Life-Members' discussion will be held today at 8 p.m. All members are requested to attend the discussion via Google Meet
https://meet.google.com/jpe-meyu-scc

Thanking you
Dr. Sourav Bag
Coordinator
Life-Member Working Group

Today as on July 16, 1923 is the birthday of an American "Action Theorist", Chris Argyris who was a Professor Emeritus a...
16/07/2026

Today as on July 16, 1923 is the birthday of an American "Action Theorist", Chris Argyris who was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School was also known as a co-founder of Organization Development and for his seminal work on learning organization. The perfect combination of practical application and academic knowledge reinforces his significant contribution to the field of Management.

In organizational development (OD), learning is a characteristic of an adaptive organization, i.e., an organization that is able to sense changes in signals from its environment (both internal and external) and adapt accordingly. As change occurs more rapidly in our work environment, companies and organizations must learn to respond wisely to changing markets and technologies, customer needs, a more diverse workforce, just to name a few.

After serving as a second lieutenant in the World War II, he like so many young men at that time, felt a strong determination to help create a better world. He chose to direct his interest in education towards the needs of organisations and the individuals working in them. His great energy and formidable academic qualifications (a Baccalaureate in psychology, a Masters in economics and a Doctorate in organisation behaviour) equipped him perfectly for the task and by the early 1950s he was teaching and carrying out research at Yale University. He taught at Yale for 20 years and was instrumental in creating the Yale School of Management where he became a Professor of Industrial Administration.

Following Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, organizations must develop the skills to recognize and respond to these changes of they are to evolve and insure their survival as propounded by Argyris. A highly influential management theorist Chris Argyris was widely regarded as the ‘Father of Organizational Learning’. Crossing the boundaries of multiple disciplines with his theories of single-loop learning and action science, he was a proponent of successful organizations as "learning organization".

Argyris' concept of Action Science begins with the study of how human beings design their actions in difficult situations. Human actions are designed to achieve intended consequences and governed by a set of environment variables.

His work with respect to thinking about relationships of people and organizations, learning organization and action research as known and recognized throughout the world. He authored and co-authored over 30 books and 150 articles.

Argryis was a passionate teacher and received many awards and accolades during his impressive career, including 11 honorary doctorates and several lifetime achievement awards. On the occasion of his birthday, Activism is paying sincere tribute to this transformative thought-leader in the field of Organizational Development.

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**Announcement* We are extremely happy to announce that our e- journal CRITICALITY, Vol. 4 No. 1, June 2026 has been pub...
15/07/2026

**Announcement*

We are extremely happy to announce that our e- journal CRITICALITY, Vol. 4 No. 1, June 2026 has been published.
We request you to go through it and send your valuable opinions.

Click the link below for the *E-journal Direct Link*
https://activismfoundation.in/criticality/

Click the link below for the *Full-Text Online Edition*
https://activismfoundation.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/E-Journal-Criticality_Vol-4-No-1-_June-2026-Issue-Full-Text.pdf

"Friends, there are no friends! thus said the dying sage;Foes, there are no foes! say I, the living fool." -- Deridda in...
15/07/2026

"Friends, there are no friends! thus said the dying sage;
Foes, there are no foes! say I, the living fool."

-- Deridda in 'Politics of Friendship' (1997)

Today, as on July 15, 1930 is the birthday of a French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who belongs to the schools of Continental Philosophy, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction and Radical Hermeneutics.

Situating himself within the lineage of Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure and Emmanuel Levinas, Derrida became one of the most well known 20th century philosophers, by addressing some of the most important questions in Western philosophy. He was also the Founder of the Method of 'Deconstruction', a way of criticizing not only both literary and philosophical texts but also political institutions.

Deridda's work is a critical engagement with phenomenology and structuralism, the major oppositional philosophical discourses in the 1960's France that needs to be appreciated as interrogation of the constitutive limits of the western enlightenment tradition serving as the wider postmodern critique of enlightenment. He has written voluminously during his career and published more than 40 books and also hundreds of essays and public presentations.

Deridda had an effortless access to different fields of knowledge in the broad spectrum of Humanities and Social Science, comprising Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Historiography, Socio- Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Critical Legal Studies and created a significant influence on each domain.

On the occasion of his birthday, Activism is paying sincere tribute to this great thinker.

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Today, as on July 12, 1817 is the birthday of American philosopher & literary figure Henry David Thoreau. Poet, Essayist...
12/07/2026

Today, as on July 12, 1817 is the birthday of American philosopher & literary figure Henry David Thoreau. Poet, Essayist, Naturalist, Theorist of Civil Disobedience, and Antislavery Activist, Thoreau both inspired and irritated audiences in his time, and the words he left behind both inspire and irritate readers today.

Along with his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau was a leader of the American transcendentalist movement and belongs to the school of Transcendentalism. Essentially, it combined romanticism with reform.

Thoreau’s radical reconception of work as art, or as cultivation. One learns by developing an “art of life” in which tangible practice informs the spirit or intellect. It was central to Thoreau’s philosophy that action follow thought. As Emerson wrote in ‘‘The Method of Nature’’: ‘‘ The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use. That man shall be learned who reduceth his learning to practice.’’

One of his major work ‘Walden; or Life in the Woods’ (1854), is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. It sheds light on the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.

As a democratic advice book, Walden has a proximity to action that contemporary political theory often lacks. Much modern political philosophy is a philosophy of postponement, in the sense that the extension of liberty entails waiting for a collective social actor willing to put changes into practice. Thoreau’s work is thus can be regarded generally as a movement from individual isolation to collective action.

Another of his essay “Walking”, posthumously published in the Atlantic Monthly (1862), comes Thoreau’s most ardent statement about preserving wildness, a wildness present in the world around us and within us. The most alive is the wildest. Wildness is a characteristic that people should have within themselves, and they should preserve this wild quality in their actions, thoughts, and speech. In the end, Thoreau’s ethic of preservative care—preserving wildness and the wild in all we encounter—entails a countercultural propensity, a disobedient way of life.

His writings on social reform inspired Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and protesters against the war in Vietnam. Thoreau’s theory of civil disobedience captured the attention of political theorists in the 1960s eager to evaluate the events swirling around them.

Being a versatile personality, he had an immense interest in different areas, like Ethics, Poetry, Religion, Politics, Biology, Philosophy and History. Some of his some notable ideas are Abolitionism, Tax Resistance, Development Criticism, Civil Disobedience, Conscientious Objection, Direct Action, Environmentalism, Anarchism, and Simple Living.

Thoreau was, for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the model par excellence and was among the five who had a lasting impact on him.

On the occasion of his birthday, Activism is paying sincere tribute to this great personality.

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