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The present publication is designed to provide a lucid treatment of the Social Problems and Social Change keeping in mind the students of undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology. It provides an insight into the several social problems along with the factors of social change. The book tries to acquaint reader with major social problems and the theories of social change and presents an integrated picture of the several approaches to it. It captures the ...
Social problems are a major theme now-a-days in undergraduate courses in sociology and professional courses in health and social care. This book includes substantive studies on the emerging issues and explores the social issues which directly or indirectly affect a person or many members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective into many social issues and the ...
This book provides a thorough introduction to gender based violence which affects almost every society in the world. It explores and discusses the wide variety of forms that gender based violence can take and the impact that this violence can have on the capacity of victims to support themselves and enjoy their full rights. It extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence rape murder sexual assault and dowry murders etc. The book ...
Rural women constitute nearly 80 per cent of the female population. They contribute largely to the country's economy which is mainly agriculture based. A number of social enactments have been introduced for removing various constraints which hindered the progress of rural women. But inspite of these, there has been staggering progress in ameliorating the working conditions and socio-economic status of rural women. The present publication brings to the light ...
The present publication bring together the frame-work of a plan of social reconstruction in the context of Third World countries. It profiles the parameters of social development and the challenge of change. The book analyses the scope and nature of the social challenge that the task of reform calls for. It examines the nature of the Establishment, the legal processes and the social institutions that work towards the social upliftment and engineering that need to ...
The essence of the social dynamics of the times and the components of human development that are sought to be covered in the present compilation of articles, essays, abstracts and excerpts. The topics range from the most obvious and general to the extremely obscure and indefinable. Thus, included here are: demographic patterns, urbanizations, environmental degradation and decreasing resources etc. The analyses presented, are incisive, lucid, and very relevant. ...
This encyclopaedia on Academic Sociology introduces the student of sociology to the main concepts and theories in a lucid and interesting style. The encyclopaedia is divided into four volumes i.e., Elements of Sociology, Structural Sociology, Dynamics of Social Ecology and Social Control and Social Problems and Social Change. Each volume is independent in itself and is being prepared by keeping in view the requirements of the students of several universities. The ...