Importance of Rural Sociology in Nepal

a. To solve rural social problems:

• We can gain an understanding of the causes of social problems like conflict, crime, suicide, murder, robbery etc., and ways of solving them from rural sociology and apply this knowledge while making an effort to solve them. Thus, rural sociology helps us solve rural social problems.

b. To make democratic process

• Democracy cannot succeed in a situation in which all the sections of a society do not enjoy their rights equally.
• The success of democratic system requires that all the sections of a society become politically, economically, spiritually and culturally empowered.

c. To understand rural society in its entirety:

• Rural sociology provides us with a complete understanding of rural society. In other words, we can gain a knowledge of social, cultural, religious, and economic aspects of a society.

d. To maintain national integration:

• Rural sociology is also a reservoir of knowledge about how to ensure the equal participation of all sections of the society which is sine qua non for maintaining national integration.
• Therefore, we can take recourse to it in order to bring all sections of the country into the mainstream of the country.

e. To formulate and implement effective rural development policies:

• For formulating and implementing rural economic development effectively, we must acquire an adequate understanding of agrarian institutions, which we can gain from the discipline of rural sociology.