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Rural Sociology: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Relationship, Importance in Nepalese Context and Relationship with Agricultural Extension and Other Social Sciences
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Sociology
Nature of rural sociology
Relationship of Sociology with other sciences
Importance of Rural Sociology in Nepal
Social Values and Attitudes: Meaning, Definition, Types and Role of Social Values and Attitudes in Agricultural extension
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Social values: Meaning and definition
Role of social values and attitudes in agricultural extension
Nepalese Rural Society
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Characteristics of Nepalese Rural Society
Culture and cultural concepts
Some important terminologies related to culture
Types of Culture
Some important terminologies
Rural Urban Continuum: Concept, Differences and Relationship Between Rural Urban Societies.
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Rural Urban Continuum
Differences between rural and urban society
Social Groups: Meaning and Definition and Classification of Groups
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Meaning and definition
Classification of social group
Factors Considered in Formation and Organization of Groups, Stage of Group Formation, Role of Social Groups in Agricultural Extension
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Factors considered in formation and organization of groups
Stage of group formation
Social Process (Process of Social Interaction): Basic Concepts, Accommodation, Adjustment, Amalgamation, Cooperation, Consensus, Competition, Conflict and Integration
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Basic concept
Accommodation
Forms of accommodation
Some terminologies
Cooperation
Competition
Conflict
Integration
Conflict Stages, Conflict Intensity, Continuum and Conflict Management
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Conflict
Conflict intensity
Conflict continuum
Conflict management
Social Movement: Meaning and Causes of Social Movement, Early and Recent Theories and Types of Social Movement
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Introduction
Factors of social movement
Types of people who are motivated for social movement
Early theories of social movement
Recent theories of social movement
Types of movements
Social Stratification: Meaning, Bases (Class, Caste, Age and Gender), Viewpoints on Stratification: Functional, Marx and Max Weber
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Introduction
Bases of social stratification
Viewpoints on stratification
Social Stratification and Inequality: Caste/ Ethnic and Regional Exclusion in Nepal
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Caste/ethnicity in Nepal
Regional inequality
Rural-Social Institutions: Concept and Functions
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Rural-social Institution: Concept and Function
Household, family and its types- marriage systems
Essential features of family
Types of family
Marriage
Farming, fishing and hunting
Exchange labour
Political institution: Government
Religious institution: Types, maintenance and followers
Social Problems and Their Solution
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Social problems
Socialization: Meaning, Stages and Agents of Socialization
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Socialization: Meaning
Agents of socialization
Overview of Theories of Socialization Self by Cooley, Mead and Freud
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Charles Horton Cooley
George Herbert Mead
Sigmund Freud
Social Change: Meaning and Factors of Social Change
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Meaning
Factors of Social Change
Agricultural Technology and Rural Social Change
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Technological Factors in Social Change
Social System: Meaning and Elements of Social System
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Social system: Meaning
Social Deviance and Social Control: Meaning, Types and Mechanism
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Social deviance: meaning
Classifications of deviance
Mechanisms of deviance
Social control: meaning
Leadership Meaning, Classification, Function and Role of Local Farm Leader in Agricultural Develop
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Leadership meaning
Leadership classification
Leadership function
Role of farm leader in agricultural development
Qualities of a Good Leader
Education, Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology: Definitions and Importance in Agricultural Extension
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Education
Psychology
Educational Psychology
Importance of educational psychology in agricultural extension
Social Psychology
Importance of social psychology
Basic Principle of Human Behaviour; Sensation, Attention, Perception: Meaning and Characteristics. Basic Concept of Change in the Behaviour, Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes. Characteristics and Differences Between Formal, Non-Formal and Informal Education
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Human behaviour
Attention
Perception
Change in Behaviour, Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes: Key Points
Formal, non-formal and informal education
Concept of Learning; Three Domains of Learning. Types of Learners, Theorist, Pragmatist, Reflectors and Activists. Learning Cycles: Conceptualization, Construction and The Dialogue
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Learning: Concept
Three domains of learning/ Bloom’s taxonomy of learning
Types of learners (Peter Honey and Alan Mumford, 1986)
Learning cycles (Mayes and Fowler’s model)
Learning Theories: Four Learning Theories and Thorndike’s Four Laws of Learning
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Introduction
Thorndike’s Four Laws of Learning
Effective Teaching Learning Elements. Factors Affecting Effective Teaching Learning Situation
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Effective teaching learning elements
Factors affecting effective teaching learning situation
Basic Psychological Concepts: Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Emotions, Attitudes and Social perception
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Intelligence
Personality
Social perception
Personality: Traits, Types and Measurement. Factors Influencing the Personality Motivation: Significance, Techniques; Perception: Determinants, Errors; Attitudes: Factors Influencing the Development of Attitudes
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Personality
Measurement of personality
Motivation
Perception
Attitudes
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Types of family:

a. Family based on authority

  • The Patriarchal family: Is one in which the authority is vested in the oldest male in the family, often the father.
  • The Matriarchal family: Is one in which the authority is vested in the mother or the mother’s kin.
  • the equalitarian family: Is one in which the husband and wife exercise a more or less equal amount of authority.
  • The matricentric family: Is a recently emerged type and usually found in the sub uses of the USA. In suburban families, the father commutes and therefore is absent for the greater part of the day. His prolonged absence gives the mother a dominant position in the family. However, the father also shares with the mother in decision-making.

 

b. Family based on descent

  • Patrilineal descent: which affiliates a person with a group of relatives who are related to him through his father
  • Matrilineal descent: which affiliates a person with a group of relatives related to him/her mother.
  • Bilateral descent: which affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him/her through both his/her parents.

 

c. Family based on residence

  • Patrilocal residence: family is the newly married couple who lives with or near the domicile of the parents of the bridegroom.
  • Matrilocal residence: family requires that the newly married couple live with or near the domicile of the parents of the parents of the bride.
  • Bilocal residence: family gives the couple a choice of staying with either the groom’s parents or the bride’s parents, depending on certain factors (wealth, status, wishes, preferences of the parents or the groom).
  • Neolocal residence: permits the newly married couple reside with or near the maternal uncle of the groom or bride. This type of reside is very rare.
  • Avunculocal residence: prescribes that the newly married couple reside with or near the maternal uncle of the groom. This type of residence is very rare.

 

d. Family based on integral organization or membership

  • The nuclear family: is composed of a husband (father) and his wife (mother) and their children in a union recognized by the other members of the society. Every normal adult in every society belongs to two kinds of nuclear families; namely of procreation. The family of orientation is the family into which one is born, and where one is reared or socialized. It consists of a father, a mother, brother(s), and sister(s). The family of procreation is the family established by the person by his marriage and consists of a husband, a wife, son (s)and daughter(s).

 

  • The extended family: is composed of two or more nuclear families economically and socially related to each other. The extensions may be through the parent-child relationship and through the husband-wife relationship.

 

Function of the family

  • Family regulates sexual behaviour, performs the function of biological maintenance and is the chief agency for socializing the child.
  • The family gives its members status and is an important mechanism for social control.
  • Family may perform economic, education, recreational religious and political functions.
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