Sociological probings in rural society / edited by K. L. Sharma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharma, K. L. (Kanhaiya Lal), 1941- editor.

Series:

Readings in Indian sociology ; Volume 2.

Readings in Indian sociology ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural population--India.

Rural population.

Sociology, Rural--India.

Sociology, Rural.

India--Rural conditions.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xl, 383 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2013.

Summary:

Sociological Probings in Rural Society, focuses mainly on the changing face of rural-urban relations. The papers included in the volume have been arranged in five sections, taking a note of rural-urban relations, rural social stratification, rural profiles, religion and rituals and social change in village India. The volume maps out the structure and process of rural-urban relations, along with divides and gaps between the rural and the urban settings, and the role of urbanization, industrialization, land reforms and development agencies.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Series Note

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Reconceptualising The Indian Village

SECTION I - Rural Society and Rural-Urban Relations

1 - Rural Sociology: Its Need in India

2 - Symposium on Rural-Urban Relations: The Industrialization and Urbanization of Rural Areas

3 - Modernization and the Urban-Rural Gap in India: An Analysis

4 - 'Fringe' Society and the Folk-Urban Continuum

5 - Rural Family Patterns: A Study in Urban-Rural Relations

SECTION II - Social Stratification in Rural India

6 - Measurement of Rigidity-Fluidity Dimension of Social Stratification in Six Indian Villages

7 - Bhadralok and Chhotolok in a Rural Area of West Bengal

8 - Caste System in Contemporary Rural Bihar: A Study of Selected Villages

9 - Power Elite in Rural India :Some Questions and Clarifications

10 - Social Stratification and Institutional Change in a Gujarat Village

SECTION III - Village Profiles

11 - Chokhala-An IntervillageOrganization of a Caste in Rajasthan

12 - Modernization and Changing Fertility Behaviour: A Study in a Rajasthan Village

13 - Ideology, Power and Resistance in a South Indian Village

14 - Voices from the Earth: Work and Food Production in a Punjabi Village

SECTION IV - Religion and Rituals

15 - Public Shrines and Private Interests: The Symbolism of the Village Temple

16 - A Study of Customs in Rural Mysore

17 - Ritual Circles in a Mysore Village

SECTION V - Social Change in Rural India

18 - Study of Social Change in Independent Rural India: Critical Issues for Analyses in the Fourth Decade of Independence

19 - Downward Social Mobility: Some Observations

20 - Dimensions of Agrarian Structure and Change: Issues in Theory

Index

About the Editor and Contributors

Appendix of Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

81-321-1836-7

81-321-1872-3

OCLC:

1108541601