Page 11 - Lessonnote_Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society

❖ Changes in the technological organisation of agriculture also has a large

and immediate impact on rural society.

❖ Sudden fluctuations in agricultural prices, droughts or floods can cause
havoc in rural society.

❖ Large scale development programmes aimed at the rural people can also
have an enormous impact. E.g- NREGA(National rural employment

Guarantee Act 2005)

Social Order and Social Change in Urban areas

➢ Urbanism as a way of life for large segments of the population is a
modern phenomenon.

➢ City life and modernity go very well together.

➢ City fosters the development of group identities, based on factors like
race, religion, ethnicity etc.

➢ High population density places a great premium on SPACE and creates
very complex problems of logistics.

➢ City life presents challenges of planning, implementation and

maintenance.

➢ Shortage of housing for the poor leads to homelessness and the

phenomenon of ‘street people’. It is also the leading cause for the
emergence of slums.

➢ People live in cities is based on Socio-cultural identities. Creation of

ghettoes through the conversion of mixed composition neighbourhoods
into single community neighbourhoods is common in cities all over the
world.

➢ City centres are experiencing a revival in many major western cities as
attempts are made to regenerate community life.

➢ A related phenomenon ‘Gentrification which refers to the conversion of

a previously lower class neighbourhood into a middle and upper class
one.