Help from socio guys

[Jason Bourne]

Though my optional is anthropology but there is a lot common in social anthropology and sociology. SO I have a lot of doubts..

Have u people read about culture personality school ?

1)What is culture pattern ? 

2)culture pattern integrate themselves into a functional whole and form a special design of whole cultre called configuration of culture. What is the meaning of this.

[Gambit]

Syllabus mein nahi hai.

[Jason Bourne]

difference b/w a culture and a tradition.

[Gambit]

There is no culture in p1. Mahapatra ne esa kahi nahi padaya. Not in syllabus. I did question paper too last time and never encountered such a question.

[Jason Bourne]

I will first look at ur syllabus

[Jason Bourne]

In thinkers list I saw Mead, She belongs to culture personality school of thought and has talked a great deal about culture pattern.. Is she some other mead ? 

[Jason Bourne]

What are your sources fr agrarian social structure ? 

[Jason Bourne]

lol..Ur mead is different. Mine is different :P

[Swagat N]

I guess you know now that our Mead is George Herbert Mead and is definitely a he :)

@Gambit,

Saroj Samal did cover culture in the context of cultural lag and social change. There were formal definitions as well, like the one from Tylor which might be there in Anthro as well: 'Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.' 

With Tylor's definition of culture at hand, one can look at tradition as being part of a culture and thus a subset of culture and make further comparisions.

Cultural lag was covered under social change I guess (don't remember the sequence rt now).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_lag

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jason Bourne <bournej...@gmail.com> wrote:

lol..Ur mead is different. Mine is different :P

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[Jason Bourne]

So have u people studied about impact of globalization on agrarian social structure. If yes then a probable question cud be impact of FDI in retail on Indian agriculture. Whats ur views ? 

[Gambit]

Hmm, w.r.t to the agrarian social structure, there was a guy who said that librelization has had a positive effect on agriculture, brought in better infra, more connectivity etc. 

You can say it will lead to the spurt of the new, educated farmers/entrepreneurs, those who do reverse migration, from cities to towns. Many thinkers talked about it during green revo. I dont remember names, if you want i can check them up. But on the top of my head i will say the guy who wrote the book "where have all the farmers(?) gone?" and most of the marxist thinkers like ashok rudra and all.

He even gave a character desc. of this new farmer. most sociological studies were on the impact of green revolution and the effect on urbanization etc. which is amplified by FDI. So, maybe you can use those studies.

 

Plus many others, who mostly classified them into big/small/new educated farmers. The big farmers already no not need middle men. So, FDI will benefit the small farmers, as they are the ones most plagued by middle men. This is just a guess, have no concrete proof of this.

As for the negative effects, you can say it can again lead to usurpation up the big landowners, as said by gail omvedt. But i dont think there are any major negative effect on the agrarian social structure. Maybe on the rural social structure, but not sure about agrarian. There might be on other things, like loss of business for convenience stores. BTW, there was a term for these small shops, like some xxx and xxx store. Do you remember?

Just cooking something up. If you have any ideas, please do share.

[Jason Bourne]

Since fdi in retail is  a new concept i have no access to any analysyis about its impact. Thinkers are old and scholars might be trying. With regards to impact of globalization, wto impact, green revolution it had a lot of negative impact with increase in farming suicides, etc. Also govt is planning to remove the land ceiloings in land reforms as it is done in plantation agriculture. If u have studied these things then fine or else i will share them. Though i have  ahard copy.