Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- SECTION I -- Child and Childhood -- 1 -- Social Class and Educational Aspirations in an Indian Metropolis -- 2 -- Education and the Emerging Patternsof Political Orientations: A Sociological Analysis -- 3 -- Adolescent Thieves and Differential Association -- 4 -- Culture and Fertility: Son Preference and Reproductive Behaviour -- 5 -- Sex Preference and Contraceptive Use in Manipur -- 6 -- Disappearing Daughters and Intensification of Gender Bias: Evidence from Two Village Studies in South India -- SECTION II -- Young and Youth -- 7 -- The Attitudes to English and Use of It by Students of ThreeDifferent Mother Tongues:Hindi, Kannada and Tamil -- 8 -- Perception of the FemaleRole by Indian College Students -- 9 -- Social Class and Occupational Aspirationsof College Students -- 10 -- Youth Aspirations vis-a-vis National Development: Participate or Emigrate? -- 11 -- The Use Psychotropic Drugs among College Youth in India: An Appraisal -- 12 -- Problems of the Youth of North-East India:A Sociological Inquiry -- 13 -- Youth in Techno Global World: Predicaments and Choices -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources
