K L Sharma
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The questions of gerontology are truly global in scope. In the light of alarming predictions of the difficulties we will face due to population ageing, and with experts across the globe highlighting the benefits of interdisciplinary practice and multidisciplinary considerations for health and ageing, the book is both timely and telling.
The fields of health care, ageing, and social work are often treated as discrete entities, while all social workers deal with ...
This collection of 20 articles, published over the years in the Sociological Bulletin, attempts to present a sociological analysis of rural society in India. Taking a close look at the social change in rural India, it seeks to examine the rural-urban relations, industrialization and urbanization of rural areas, modernization and urban-rural gap, folk-urban continuum and rural family patterns.
Presenting profiles of some villages of Rajasthan, Punjab and South ...
Diaspora (from the Greek, meaning scattering , dispersion ) is the mass migration of people with common roots to more than one location. The word was first used for Jews exiled from Israel in ancient times. The Indian diaspora, of over twenty million, is spread across many regions and continents. This collection of essays examines the concept of diaspora, considering its cultural, economic, geographical, political and social dimensions, and focuses on the Indian ...
As an ism ageism reflects a prejudice in society against older adults. Ageist attitudes are perpetuated in many ways, for example, by the lack of positive images of the elderly in advertisements and on TV programmes and the widespread use of demeaning language about old age. The intentional mistreatment of or harm to elderly persons is elder abuse. Abuser can be any one that an older person comes in contact with. For example, he may be caregiver, a neighbour, or ...
The book highlights the core themes and issues relating to the conceptualization of social stratification and mobility. The basic concepts, such as equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation, have been discussed with conceptual clarity and empirical substantiation. Though the book is concise, however, it incorporates the major theories, approaches and profiles of the systems of stratification and mobility.The systems of stratification, as ...
Once again Professor K.L. Sharma has questioned the recent conceptualisations of caste, class and tribe based on his understanding of the emergent social situations and new parameters of status-evaluation. Change in the ideology of caste as well as inter-caste relations, is the focal point of discussion in this volume. Inter-caste relations have disappeared in everyday life, and politico-economic considerations are shaping and reshaping socio-cultural alliances ...
The present book provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a given social formation in terms of interconnections between caste, feudalism and peasantry on the one hand, and contemporary social transformation on the other. The study explains how feudalism functioned as an over-riding politico-administrative, social and economic formation undermining even the institution of caste. The feudal mode of social relations as a dominant force guided everyday life of ...
Trekking in the Himalayas has always been a spiritual experience. Difficulties of the journey and unceasing revelry of the mighty forces of nature bewilder the human mind. The journey to Kailash-Mansarovar raises the level of consciousness to union with Him – the Eternal Being. This book is an attempt at exposing the reader to various aspects of this journey to Eternity. A valuable guide, it gives a day-to-day account of the Kailash-Mansarovar yatra on the ...
The changing structures of societies, patterns of family interdependence, family and kin structure, demographic, social and economic trends have all affected the relationship between generations across the world. Such changes are going to have tremendous implications for contemporary and future societies. The most important issue is the extent of sharing of beliefs about social obligations and changes therein across and within generations. Although such issues ...
Of all my writings, the present book Indian Social Structure and Change has given me maximum satisfaction. It has reached out to students of various disciplines and pursuits, and has not remained confined to senior school students only. College and university students and those preparing for competitive examinations have equally found it useful. It has a reasonably wide coverage with a focus on 'national integration'. The book is quintessentially ...