Development of Denotified Tribes - Hardcover

Rural Sociology

Contents Preface 1 Introduction to rural sociology 2 Rural social institutions 3 The rural Jajmani system 4 Rural co operative societies 5 Agricultural marketing 6 Panchayati Raj 7 Community development 8 NGOs and rural development 9 Poverty alleviation programmes 10 Land reform 11 The green revolution 12 Agricultural labour References The identification of rural sociology with rural society has also raised questions about its relevance in the western context where no rural areas were left anymore and almost the entire population had become urbanized In response to these critiques of rural sociology a new sub discipline of sociology emerged that operated largely within the functionalist paradigm and was preoccupied with the study of the community life or rural people This sub discipline known as sociology of agriculture focused its attention on understanding and analyzing the social framework of agricultural production and the structures of relations centered on land It raised questions about how and on what terms the agrarian sector was being integrated into the system of commodity production and about the unequal distribution of agricultural incomes and food among the different social categories of peopleThe sociology of agriculture also distinguished itself from peasant studies on the grounds that its focus was on capitalist farming where the production was primarily for the market not on peasants producing for their own consumption by using family labour Thus it claimed more kinship with the tradition of the political economy of agriculture or agrarian studies At the methodological level historical inquiries became as relevant as ethnographic empirical studies This conceptual shift during the early 1970s also helped in bringing sociologists working on agrarian issues in the western countries closer to those concerned with agrarian trans formations in the third world jacket 328 pp. Artikel-Nr. 99459

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