Rural Sociology

Impact of Market Economy on Indian Villages

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  Impact of Market Economy on Indian Villages The pace of change was accelerated by the beginning of British hegemony and the process of modernization that followed. The colonial vested interests imposed a new type of capitalist economy in agriculture under the British rule. Land also became a commodity and property. A new type of … Read more

Land Reforms and its Social Consequences

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  Land Reforms and its Social Consequence    ‘Land Reform’ refers to the redistribution of ‘surplus land’. Decided on the ceiling on cultivable holdings for small farmers and landless was taken in view of the workers. From a broader perspective, land reform meant not only the redistribution of land but also the development of institutions related … Read more

Social Change in Rural India

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  Social Change in Rural India AR DESAI has identified four trends for this rural transformation The transformation of an agrarian society from a traditional subsistence based society to a market based profit oriented society with the use of modern urban technology from a scattered, loosely developed agricultural system to the national Attempt to integrate … Read more

Community Development Programs 

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Community Development Programs    Community development planning has an important place under planned change in India. Residents of rural and tribal areas are suffering from lack of education, indebtedness, unemployment, faulty agriculture and land system. In India, this program was started with a multifaceted objective of the rural community. Community projects are the result of … Read more

Planned Changes – Directions and Major Schemes 

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Planned Changes – Directions and Major Schemes    The process of mobility in Indian society has been rapid since the beginning. As a result, changes are happening in Indian society from the very beginning. If seen at various historical levels in Indian society, the effect of change is clearly visible. War and natural calamities have … Read more

Panchayati Raj and Democratic Decentralization

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Panchayati Raj and Democratic Decentralization   Although the existence of Panchayat system is in India since ancient times, but as an institution based on definite and clear meaning, purpose, budget, authority, organization, rules, the existence of Panchayats as in independent India was never there in the past. The method of resolving retrieval disputes on the … Read more

Traditional Bases of Rural Leadership 

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Traditional Bases of Rural Leadership    In order to study the traditional nature of rural leadership in India and the present form of leadership on a comparative basis, it is necessary to first discuss those traditional forms of rural leadership which have remained an integral part of rural leadership for a long period. The present … Read more

Rural Leadership

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Rural Leadership   Leadership has an important place in the rural power structure. In the present complex society, our entire social system is directly or indirectly based on leadership. The reason for this is that there are very few such persons in the society, who have the ability to make their own decisions on any … Read more

Recent Changes in Rural Structure 

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Recent Changes in Rural Structure    Rural power structure in India is adopting a new environment by moving away from its traditional form. After independence, a new democratic Panchayat system was established in India by abolishing the Zamindari system. It is true that before independence, in 1920, the British government had also made arrangements to … Read more

Rural Power Structure : Leadership – Changing Patterns 

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Rural Power Structure : Leadership – Changing Patterns    For systematic study of any social system it is necessary that all its aspects should be studied. Politics is a very important subject in new studies. For many nations, the politicization of people and groups is also very important from a sociological point of view. To … Read more

Little and Great Traditions

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Little and Great Traditions   In order to understand the Indian society from a systematic point of view, it is necessary that we study all those ‘traditions’ from which the Indian social system has its distinctiveness. The rural social system is even more important from the point of view of traditions. Indian society is composed … Read more

Universalization 

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Universalization  The concept of ‘Universalization’ is basically the complete opposite of the concept of Parochialization. If we look at it from the literal point of view, then we can say that universalization means the spread of some cultural feature in every place. – Mackim Marriott refers to the process of universalization as a situation in … Read more

Rural Processes in India : Parochialization , Universalization , Sanskritization , Little and Great Tradition 

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  Rural Processes in India : Parochialization , Universalization , Sanskritization , Little and Great Tradition      The scientific study of the Indian rural system can be done only through certain changes inherent in it. These changes can be social, political, cultural and natural. As the interest of sociologists and other scholars towards rural … Read more

Comparison between Rural and Urban Community 

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Comparison between Rural and Urban Community    Rural and urban communities are different in principle, but in practice they are so mixed. that it is difficult to pinpoint their isolation. There is hardly any community that is completely “rural” or urban. The reason for this is that many elements of the Indian urban community are … Read more

Rural and Urban Community 

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Rural and Urban Community    India is a country of villages. Even today, most of the population here lives in villages. Village is a place where people live for a long period of time to fulfill their necessities of life. There are primary relationships between people here. Their culture is less influenced by the metropolitan … Read more