Rural Sociology

Paper Code: 
SOC124
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

India is a classic land of agriculture. Its long past history, its complex social organization and religious life, its varied cultural patterns, can hence be understood only if a proper study is made of the rise, growth, crystallization and subsequent fossilization and break up of the self-sufficient village community, the principal pivot of the Indian Society. Rural society in India has acquired a new significance after independence. The agrarian sector provides the very morphological framework for the underdeveloped Indian Society. As a result, constant efforts are being made to re-shape the agrarian social structure, subjecting it to the pressures of actively operating agencies of social change.

This paper attempts to focus the attention on the need of a sociological perspective in studying rural life and outline the approach to study the rural society. It further attempts to portray the picture of the multi-sided and complex rural life and the emerging trends.

 

12.00
Unit I: 
  • Rural Sociology: Origin and Development
  • Rural urban difference and convergence

 

12.00
Unit II: 
  • Basic Concepts:
  • Little Community and  Peasant Society
  • Little and Great Traditions;  Universalization and Parochialization
12.00
Unit III: 
  • Rural Social Institutions:
  • Rural family;  Caste system in rural India
  • Agrarian Economy
12.00
Unit IV: 
  • Problems of Rural Society: Poverty and Illiteracy
  • Peasant movements in pre and post-independent India
12.00
Unit V: 
  • Rural Development in India:
  • Planned change for rural communities
  • Community Development Programme , Integrated Rural Development Programme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Acts
  • Rural Power Structure and Leadership
References: 
  • Desai, A.R. 2005, Rural Sociology in India, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.

 

  • Desai, A.R. 2005, Rural India in Transition, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.

 

  • Dube, S.C. 2003, India’s Changing Villages, Routledge.

 

  • Gillette, J.M. 1927, Rural Sociology, American Sociological Society.

 

  • Marriott, McKim. 1968, Village India, University of Chicago Press.

 

  • Singh, Yogendra. 2004, Modernization of Indian Tradition, Rawat Publications.

 

  • Srinivas, M.N. 1966, India’s Villages, Asia Publishing House.

 

 

 

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