Subject Matter of Rural Sociology
According to Doshi and Jain in their book “Rural Sociology” (2010, pp. 40-42), has made the subject matter of rural sociology more comprehensive area of the study of rural sociology.
1. Rural sociology consists of the study of tribal, forest and village people. It provides a discourse on the study of the social life of these people.
2. Rural sociology is concerned with the problems and structure related to land and agriculture. In other words, it dwells heavily on the themes related to agrarian relations.
3. Village development programmes have been new additions to the subject matter of rural sociology. The objective of these programmes, on the one hand, is to improve the life-standard of the people and, on the other hand, make them participants in the task of nation-building.
4. Rural sociology also studies the stratification pattern which has emerged from the working of developmental programmes.
5. It also analyses the impact of technology on the rural life.
6. And finally, the subject matter of rural sociology also includes environmental decay and erosion of ecology.
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