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The volume calls for a deeper understanding of ageing in society. It begins with theories on gerontology and the way the aged can benefit from them. Based on a field study involving the elderly from different castes and religious groups in rural and urban areas, it points out that religion, community and institutional stay have a direct correlation with the empowerment and disempowerment process of the aged. Further, the process is related to one’s ...
The old and aged in a society represent the bedrock of its existence: symbolizing the past. They are the carriers of tradition, values and experience, the guiding light for the young without whom society is not total and lose its stability. And progress that a society makes, culturally and morally, is reflected in the way it treats its aged. This volume, comprising presentations at a national seminar on issues of ageing of current importance, takes up crucial ...
Women form half of the population of the world and share one per cent of the resources. In India Women are born to suffer till their death. The sufferings of women are doubled if they happen to be widows in the Indian soil. A woman is surrounded by the culture that seldom she can come out from this. Though social change is very fast due to the growing globalization few areas remain unchanged and one of the areas where the change is very slow is the marriage and ...
The traditional stratification in Indian society was a caste-oriented one in which caste and class used to synchronize. Subsequent to political Independence this pattern has undergone redical changes resulting in the emergence of a new pattern of stratification in which the class is given primacy. It was this aspect of change in the stratification system that is analysed in this book. Usually the stratification and social mobility are studied through conventional ...
Development, under development, modernization, globalization, construction and growth are a few concepts which are discoursed today in the social science literature. Last two decades saw the maximum growth in terms of development in the already classified developing societies. Third world countries concentrated on lesser developed areas to bring them on par with the main stream so that a balanced and uniform society is achieved. Globalization marked a great ...