Village Studies in the Third World
Author: Edited by Biplab Dasgupta
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781412841061
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The Village Against the World
Author: Dan Hancox
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1781681309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly "Red Sundays" where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood. In particular he tells the story of the village mayor, Sanchez Gordillo, who in 2012 became a household name in Spain after leading raids on local supermarkets to feed the Andalucian unemployed.
The Practice of Sociology
Author: Maitrayee Chaudhuri
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9788125025122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book grew out of a need to examine the practice the teaching and research of sociology in India. This need was, in turn, prompted by the experience of the contributors as students and teachers, of the problems of understanding/communicating the connections between sociology and the society in which one lives, and between sociological theory and empirical studies.
India’s Villages in the 21st Century
Author: Surinder S. Jodhka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 0199098190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPost India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s, the village ceased to be central to ongoing sociological concerns. As a result, the period saw a marginalization of rural life and agrarian economy in the national imagination. However, in the 21st century as India transforms, so does its rural life. This book revisits the realities of contemporary rural India, exploring the trajectories of change across regions such as those in rural economies, the relationship of villages to the outside world, and the dynamics of caste inequalities. The volume puts together 14 papers based on empirical studies carried out by sociologists, social anthropologists, and economists over the past 15 years to begin a holistic conversation on contemporary rural India which continues to be an important site of social, political, and economic activities. India’s Villages in the 21st Century stresses diversity as a fundamental structure of Indian economy and society and illustrates the point by focusing on the economies, patterns of settlements, and organization of social and political life in India’s villages.
Labor Allocation And Rural Development
Author: Philip Guest
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-28
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0429713967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy integrating migration research in a comprehensive framework of labour allocation at household and village levels, this study shows how migration factors are crucial in understanding the transformations of rural communities in developing countries. Data collected in 4 villages within a wet rice-growing area of Central Java, Indonesia, are used to examine why some villages and households contribute a greater share of migrants than others. The decision to migrate is located within the constraints and opportunities of local labour markets, and migration is treated as one among many alternatives for allocating the labour of household members. The type of labour allocation choices made is lined to the demographic structure of households, the social position of the household, and the employment opportunities available within the community. These factors are then related to processes of rural development.
Population Movements and the Third World
Author: Mike Parnwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1134914385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interrelationship between migration and development is complex. The causes of migration stem from the uneveness of the development process and the effects exert a powerful influence on the pattern and process of development. This volume explores both the concepts and facts behind the main forms of population movement in the third world today, particularly rural-urban migration. Examining the causes and consequences of migration, the author assesses the implications for planning and policy-makers.
Rural Development in South Asia
Author: Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
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Social Research in Developing Countries
Author: Martin Bulmer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781857281378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelivers key information on social research methods in developing countries, delaing with the particular problems of carrying out social surveys and censuses in the Third World.
New Seeds and Poor People
Author: Michael Lipton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-11-29
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1136891552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1989, this book deals with the impact of cereal production upon the Third World, specifically ‘Modern Varieties’ (MVs). Using evidence from plant breeding, economics and nutrition science, the authors seek to pinpoint what has been achieved, what has gone wrong and what needs to be done in future. Although the technical innovations of MVs mean more employment, cheaper food and less risk for small farmers, the reduction in crop diversity increases the risk of danger from pests and though MVs enlarge cereal stocks, many are too poor to afford them. The book concludes that technical breakthroughs alone won’t solve deep-rooted social problems and that only new policies and research priorities will increase the choices, assets and power of the rural poor.
The Shape of Social Inequality
Author: David Bills
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2005-08-24
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0080459358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together former students, colleagues, and others influenced by the sociological scholarship of Archibald O. Haller to celebrate Haller's many contributions to theory and research on social stratification and mobility. All of the chapters respond to Haller's programmatic agenda for stratification research: "A full program aimed at understanding stratification requires: first, that we know what stratification structures consist of and how they may vary; second, that we identify the individual and collective consequences of the different states and rates of change of such structures; and third, seeing that some degree of stratification seems to be present everywhere, that we identify the factors that make stratification structures change." The contributors to this Festschrift address such topics as the changing nature of stratification regimes, the enduring significance of class analysis, the stratifying dimensions of race, ethnicity, and gender, and the interplay between educational systems and labor market outcomes. Many of the chapters adopt an explicitly cross-societal comparative perspective on processes and consequences of social stratification. The volume offers both conceptually and empirically important new analyses of the shape of social stratification.
