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Gender equality and women empowerment are no longer considered supplementary but central to the practice of development.
Socioeconomic conditions of widows in India.
Study based on data collected during June 1976-February 1977.
Study relates to Maharashtra Prabodhan Seva Mandal, a church related voluntary agency founded in 1964 by a Jesuit priest working in Nasik.
The most common view of the relationship between social work and society seems to be the perspective that social work is an intermediary profession, acting between the individual and society. In this intermediary capacity, social work is somehow able to act in ways that are in the best interests of both the individual and society, seeking to empower the individual and to improve society. Critics of social work reject the view of social workers as neutral and objective, and see them rather as agents of social control, largely acting in ways that perpetuate existing inequalities. Social workers are, or can be, agents and catalysts of social change, as intermediaries objectively balancing the pressures of social control and social change.
This work Elderly in India: Issues and Dimensions is one of my thought provoking ideas which I have gained from the experience in the academic and research fields all these years. I see the elderly are important for every one of us to see the problems from their rich experience and patience they have. Our family was enjoying the contributions which have been made by the elderly because we had the strong joint family system. When the family becoming small in sizes and nuclear in types we had to accept the migration of the family by keeping the elderly in their respective villages we started to lose the rich experience of the elderly. Within the elderly, those who are living in the rural areas...
Study of the private control on education; based on data gleaned from seven colleges in Kanpur under the control of Kanpur University during the academic year 1974-75.
Contributed articles, with special reference to India; includes introduction to the contributors.