http://www.informationbible.com/profile-36280/mark-vaughn N/A http://www.informationbible.com/article-rural-community-193990.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The social life of man has undergone different stages of development. The earliest human communities were perhaps the loosely organized aggregations of a few families who carried on mutually interdependent activities... http://www.informationbible.com/article-rural-welfare-activities-194007.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT More than 2/3 of the people of the world still live in villages. Rural welfare activities constitute one of the powerful means of promoting the progress of ruralites. http://www.informationbible.com/article-community-and-individual-life-193980.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Community plays an important role in the life of an individual. A community is the total organized social life of a locality. “The mark of a community is that one’s life may believed wholly within it”. http://www.informationbible.com/article-heredity-and-environment-193944.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Human society is not only dynamic but also diverse. Differences are found between societies and within the same society among peoples and groups. http://www.informationbible.com/article-heredity-and-its-mechanism-193952.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Heredity is one of the powerful factors that contribute to the formation of human personality. http://www.informationbible.com/article-rural-and-urban-communities-193987.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Communities are commonly divided into two general types—rural and urban. The line distinguishing these two types is not definite. http://www.informationbible.com/article-environment-193948.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT “Environment’, as the term itself indicates, is anything immediately surrounding an object and exerting a direct influence on it”. P. Gisbert. http://www.informationbible.com/article-rural-problems-193998.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The rural communities are not free from problems. Though tly are simple and less complex, they have their own social, economic, educational, medical and other problems. http://www.informationbible.com/article-types-of-environments-193950.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Environment is a complex totality of many things. it has been divided into different types. http://www.informationbible.com/article-urban-community-194009.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The ‘urban community’ means the city community. “The history of every civilization is the history, not of its countryside, but of its cities and towns. http://www.informationbible.com/article-cause-of-differences-in-human-personality-193946.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT It is generally believed that the following factors contribute enormously to the formation and development of human personality. http://www.informationbible.com/article-influence-of-environment-on-personality-193951.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Environment of both the types—geographic and social or natural and man-made has a tremendous bearing on human personality. http://www.informationbible.com/article-influence-of-heredity-193954.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Biological inheritance provides the raw materials of personality and these raw materials can be shaped in many different ways. http://www.informationbible.com/article-evidences-in-support-of-heredity-193967.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Some supporters of heredity have based their investigations on the following evidences: http://www.informationbible.com/article-comments-on-heredity-193969.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The conclusions drawn by the supporters of heredity are no doubt interesting. But they rather appear to be one sided, misleading and exaggerative. http://www.informationbible.com/article-relative-role-of-heredity-and-environment-193972.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The ‘nature-nurture’ controversy has been raging for centuries. Interest in the biological basis for individual differences in intelligence and behavior is currently rising. http://www.informationbible.com/article-benefits-of-community-life-193983.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The individual not only lives in a community but also reaps the benefits of community life. The individual makes achievements and registers progress due to the support given by the community. http://www.informationbible.com/article-types-of-rural-communities-193993.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Sociologists have spoken of two types of rural communities: (i) Agricultural Village Communities and (ii,) Industrial Village Communities. http://www.informationbible.com/article-rural-recreational-activities-193996.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The recreational activities of the rural communities are not only simple but also limited. http://www.informationbible.com/article-rural-health-194000.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT I comparison with the urban communities, the rural communities are lagging behind in matters connected with health... http://www.informationbible.com/article-role-of-latent-functions-in-relation-to-manifest-functions-193544.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Latent functions of an institution or partial structure may— (i) support the manifest functions, or (ii) be irrelevant to, or (iii) may even undermine manifest functions. These points may be clarified with-examples. http://www.informationbible.com/article-man-in-society-and-society-in-man-193560.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Everywhere and all the time we are members of groups. The isolated individual does not exist. http://www.informationbible.com/article-functional-prerequisites-193533.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The functional theory has to answer questions such as— “If social life is to persist what conditions must be met with by the group or social system? http://www.informationbible.com/article-central-problem-of-sociology-193549.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT It was Aristotle who said long back that man is a social animal. This proposition gives room to the central problem of sociology i.e., the sociability or the sociality of man. http://www.informationbible.com/article-scope-for-individuality-193562.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT We need society in order to become persons. But society is no great an engine of which we are merely a mechanical part. It is not a giant organism in which we are only a microscopic cell. http://www.informationbible.com/article-inseparable-individual-and-the-society-193559.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The relation or the type of unity between the part and the whole, between the individual and society is not merely a physical unity, or a functional unity, or organic or systematic unity, but it is something more than these. http://www.informationbible.com/article-theories-of-nature-of-society-193551.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The question of the relation between the individual and the society is the starting point of many social investigations. http://www.informationbible.com/article-individual-and-society-193547.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Man is asocial animal. He lives in social groups, in communities’ and in society. http://www.informationbible.com/article-social-functions-and-dysfunctions-193536.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The concepts of social functions and dysfunctions are essentially related to the functional theory R.K. Merton has drawn our attention to the fact that not all elements in the social system are functional at all times. http://www.informationbible.com/article-functions-and-dysfunctions-as-eunomia-and-dysnomia-193541.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The distinction between function and dysfunction can further be made clear by making use of the much fashionable organic analogy. http://www.informationbible.com/article-latent-and-manifest-functions-193542.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The functional theory presupposes that every element in a social system fulfils certain functions. http://www.informationbible.com/article-latent-dysfunctions-193546.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT As it is clear, a particular or some latent functions of an element or a particular structure may prove to be dysfunctional for the system as such. http://www.informationbible.com/article-social-contract-theory-thomas-hobbes-193552.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT Thomas Hobbes, an English thinker, was of the opinion that society came into being as a means for the protection of men against the consequences of their own nature. http://www.informationbible.com/article-social-contract-theory-john-locke-193555.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT John Locke, another English political philosopher, believed that man in the state of nature was enjoying an ideal liberty, free from all sorts of rules and regulations. http://www.informationbible.com/article-jean-jacques-rousseau-social-contract-theory-193556.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT J.J. Rousseau, the French writer of the 18th century, in his famous book “The Social Contract” (1762) wrote that man in the state of nature was a ‘noble savage’ who led a life of “primitive simplicity and idyllic happiness”. http://www.informationbible.com/article-organismic-theory-of-society-193558.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT The English social philosopher Herbert Spencer has been the chief exponent of this theory. He said that society is an organism and it does not differ in essential principle from the other biological organisms.