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Title Readings in Indian Sociology : Volume II: Sociological Probings in Rural Society
Published New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (425 pages)
Series Readings in Indian Sociology ; v. 2
Readings in Indian sociology.
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 Villages7 -- 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 Village14 -- 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 TheoryIndex; About the Editor and Contributors; Appendix of Sources
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Subject Rural population -- India
Sociology, Rural -- India
Rural conditions
Rural population
Sociology, Rural
SUBJECT India -- Rural conditions
Subject India
Form Electronic book
Author Sharma, K. L. (Kanhaiya Lal), 1941-
ISBN 8132118723
9788132118725