A Village in India

The problem. The discipline of sociology has been and is limited by the paucity of sociological theory amenable to empirical verification. Theory construction must be our goal, because our job is to logically and systematically explain social phenomena on higher and higher levels of abstraction. The general purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability of an organizational theory of social change — the process of increasing scale of societal organization. Such a theory provides a model for the analysis of and an explanation of changing social structure. Since theory begs to be verified, it is the specific problem of this paper to explore the relevance of the theory of increasing scale of society to a particular village in India. Our question: Are the social changes observed in this village from Time I to Time II explained by the increasing scale of society? In other words our hypothesis is: The increasing scale of society is the independent variable which controls the structural changes occurring within a given society

Cartography · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Political science · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Indian Economic and Social Development · World Systems and Global Transformations

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