Indian Idols Drinking Milk: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Implications for Social Reform

Ramadhar Singh

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Indian Idols Drinking Milk: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Implications for Social Reform

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Indian Idols Drinking Milk: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Implications for Social Reform

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The mass media have occasionally been reporting miracles such as stone idols sipping milk or bleeding in India. The author argues for viewing such irrational happenings as the examples of the social psychological phenomenon of conformity to the group norms (i.e., informal, unwritten prescriptions of what the group might think to be right and desirable). By identifying people as likely (1) sources of accurate information and (2) standards of desirable behaviors in a given situation, it is proposed that a shift from conformity to the norms to compliance to the laws might be helpful in building a New India.

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Ramadhar Singh. 2020. "Indian Idols Drinking Milk: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Implications for Social Reform". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - A: Arts & Humanities GJHSS-A Volume 20 (GJHSS Volume 20 Issue A2).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

Print ISSN 0975-587X

e-ISSN 2249-460X

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GJHSS-A Classification FOR Code: 190499

Submission ReceivedDecember 9, 2019
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Accepted January 2, 2020
Published January 15, 2020

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February 26, 2020

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