Urban and Rural Sociology

Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures processes changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so provide inputs for planning and policy making In other words it is the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society. Like most areas of sociology urban sociologists use statistical analysis observation social theory interviews and other methods to study a range of topics including migration and demographic trends economics poverty race relations and economic trends. The philosophical foundations of modem urban sociology originate from the work of sociologists such as Karl Marx Ferdinand Tonnies Emile Durkheim Max Weber and Georg Simmel who studied and theorized the economic social and cultural processes of urbanization and its effects on social alienation class formation and the production or destruction of collective and individual identities. Rural sociology is a field of sociology associated with the study of social life in rural areas. It is an active field in much of the world and in the United States originated in the 1910s with close ties to the national Department of Agriculture and land-grant university colleges of agriculture. The sociology of food and agriculture is one focus of rural sociology and much of the field is dedicated to the economics of farm production. This book is fed with the information of this subject. This book will be very useful for a wide range of interested groups. Contents: • The Challenges of Globalisation • Urban vs Rural India • Panchayati Raj System: Panchayat before and after 73rd Amendment • Agrarian Unrest and Peasant Movements • Industry and Society • Impact of Social Structure on Industry • Workers Participation in Management in India • Sociology of Development • Socialist Economies in Practice