Social Utopia- A Study of Perfect Socio-Political Setup

Babar Javed

Abstract


At all times, the utopian concepts have been derived from the development of ideas about the physical and social-political structuralism, in the human settlements; and can be classified as viz. – physical utopia and social utopia. The former improves and strengthens the built environment while the latter serves as the medium to help the former function favourably to improve the society and governance. Whatever roles one may attribute to these, any of these cannot function in the absence of the other. However, social utopia appears to be of greater importance as it involves the basic idea, based on which the physical utopia is formed. The whole idea of utopia may fail if the socio-political environment is inhospitable, and one expects the same to continue into the future.

Keywords


Utopia, Physical Utopia, Social Utopia, Socio-Political Order, Perfect Society

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