NAME: ALI HAMZA MUGHAL

ROLL NO. 20105002-080

CLASS: GREY DPT

SMESTER: 5TH

SUBJECT: SOCIOLOGY

SUBMITTED TO: PROF. ERUM HANIF

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 02-12-2022

ACTIVITY: 1ST

FROM BOOK: RURAL SOCIOLOGY

 Book Review

Introduction:

Book: - Rural Sociology

About Author & (Other publications):-

Lowry Nelson (1893-1986) was a sociology professor and academic administrator in Utah.
Lowry Nelson was born on April 16, 1893 in Ferron, Utah. He served as secretary to the president of
Utah State Agricultural College from 1917 to 1919. In 1921 he became editor of the magazine Utah
Farmer. From 1923-1934 he was Extension Division's director at Brigham Young University. In 1924
he married Florence Newell. In 1929 he also held the position of Dean of the College of Applied
Science. In 1934 Dr. Nelson organized the social welfare division of the Utah Emergency Relief
Administration. From 1937-1958 he was rural sociologist at the University of Minnesota. Nelson
became a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Tenancy Committee in 1936. He died
in 1986.

The other books are followings:

 1950. The Rural Cuba
 1960  The Minnesota community
 1936. Rural sociology: its origin and growth in the United States.

Description:

“This book deals with the sociology of rural life, emphasizing the analysis of social institutions in the rural

environment and the various forms of social interaction among rural groups. Part I consists of a review (Chapter 1)

and a preview (Chapter 2). Part II deals with the problem of human adjustment to physical environment, an

especially critical matter for farm people. Part III deals with population trends, characteristics, and movement. The

section on population is deliberately shortened, not because the author does not consider the topic important, but

because more extended treatment is not justified in a beginning course. Much of the population data ordinarily

treated in separate chapters is discussed in the book in such chapters as the family, school, church, and other

institutions. Ethnic data are considered somewhat in the chapter on assimilation. However, the teacher who wishes

to do so may supplement and expand the population material by outside reading. Following the treatment of the role

of physical environment in rural society, and the characteristics of the population, there is in Part IV a series of

chapters dealing with the basic forms of social interaction, or the social processes. Finally, in Part V is the analysis

of the basic institutions of rural society”

Rural sociology is a field of sociology that is connected with the study of social life in rural areas. It is an active

field in much of the world, and in the United States originated in the 1910s with close ties to the national

Department of Agriculture and land-grant university colleges of field is dedicated to the economics of farm

production. Other areas of study include rural migration and other demographic patterns, environmental sociology,

amenity-led development, public lands policies, so-called "boomtown" development, social disruption, the sociology

of natural resources (including forests, mining, fishing and other areas), rural cultures and identities, rural healthcare

and educational policies. Many rural sociologists work in the areas of development studies, community studies,

community development and in environmental. Much of the research involves the Third World.
During the beginning of the 1950s, the sociologists and the social anthropologists began conducting extensive and

innumerable studies in the field of rural sociology. The major concern of these studies was the scrutiny of the

interrelationships between various dimensions of the rural organization. The field of rural sociology was enriched

with the contributions by M.N.Srinivas (1960), McKim Marriott (1955), S.C.Dube (1955) and D.N.Majumdar

(1955). The birth of rural sociology was due to the requirement of the study of different conditions and aspects of

rural life and the prevailing problems that plagues the rural society. Earlier, many social sciences have strived to

provide viable solutions for the challenges found in the rural society but have not been able to provide viable

solutions to them. In order to provide a discipline for serious and focused study of the rural society, rural sociology

was born. According to Charles R.Hoffer, “Like all sciences, Rural Sociology developed in response to a need. It is

an elementary fact in the realm of scientific thought that a new science comes into existence whenever phenomena

confronting the human mind are not, or cannot be understood satisfactorily by the existing disciplines or sciences”.

The sociology of food and agriculture is one focus of rural sociology and much of theThe discipline of rural

sociology is indigenous to the United States. Its emergence as an academic discipline occurred early in the twentieth

century as an outgrowth of the response to the pronounced different- tials in rural and urban social organization of

the late nineteenth century. Highlights of its development include: the popular and literary recognition of the social

and economic climate of rural. America and the need for agrarian reform, the Roosevelt Country Life Commission,

the community studies under Charles Galpin and Charles Giddings, the establishment of the Division of Farm Life

Studies in the Department of Agriculture, the Purnell Act (1925) which funded sociological research in Agricultural

Experiment Stations, and the organization of the Rural Sociological Society and the journal Rural Sociology (1936).