Social Problems of Contemporary India/Rajendra Pandey. New Delhi, 1994, vi, 373 p., tables, $40.
Contents: Preface. 1. Sociological analysis, social policy analysis and social problem analysis. 2. The aetiology of suicide in India today. 3. Suicide and social structure in India. 4. The street children of India. 5. Youth culture--nature and content: some approaches. 6. Student activism in British India. 7. Student movement in independent India. 8. The restive students. 9. The social situation of the Protestant youth. 10. Rape crimes and victimization of rape victim in free India. 11. Roots of rape in India. 12. Family in the face of urbanization. 13. Preservation of national unity in India. 14. Protective discrimination for backward classes in India: sociological and legal dimensions. Glossary. Index.
"This book intends to analyse some of the causes and implications of many of the most pressing social problems of contemporary India. The book begins with the introduction of the linkages between the sociological analysis, social policy analysis and social problem analysis. It deals with two different types of social problems; problems of individuals and problems of social organizations. The problems of individual refer to individual behaviours that have an adverse impact on other people and/or are self-harmful. The problem of social organizations refer to key organizational features of society that are demonstrably harmful to millions of people." (jacket)
[Rajendra Pandey in the author of India's Youth at the Crossroads, Mainstream Traditions of Social Stratification Theory and The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Society.] No. 9214