Social Reconstruction: The Challenge of Change

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 be initiated for any long-term realization of the welfare state. It examines the dimensions of the contemporary social crisis and reviews the role of the various instrumental aspects: social legislation, social reform, social defence, social indicators and social action. All these are attempted to be put together in a blueprint for social reform. The book it is felt, will be of immense use of sociologists, planners and policy-makers in the area of social development, empowerment and change, and also for students and researchers who would like to acquire a coherent overview of the subject.