Sanderson told about rural community that” A rural community consists of people living on dispersed farmsteads and in a hamlet or village which farms the center of their common activities”
Kolb and Burner “Population contain with 250 to 2500 and a hamlet as a smaller generation”
Characteristics of Rural Community
- Social Homogeneity: Unity and uniformity in rural society are largely visible. They are similar in their wage of thinking behaving action and living. We also find similarity in habits opinions customs, religious beliefs and dress.
- Dominance of Primary Relation: There exit face to face relation among people. The relationships are informal and personal. Community spread prevails over individual interest. A sense of belonging to the community holds them together.
- Informal Social Control: Law, legislation, police, court and there importance in rural society is very low. Customs, traditions, group, standard beliefs exits in rural society as a informal social control.
- Occupation: Agriculture pottering, spelling, weaving, carpeting.
- Importance of Family: People are banded by family custom and tradition. The rural family is mostly extended family. Status of the individual is derived from the family. Marriages, religion, occupation, modes of living are all influenced by the tradition of the family. (Ascribed family status).
- Role of Neighborhood: Louish Writh told that an area in which the residence are personally acquainted with each other and are in the area of visiting one another of exchanging article and services and in general of doing things together. In village the neighborhood is of a great importance. They share the joys and sorrows together.
- Faith in Religion: The Rural people are mostly religious but there exist some kind of superstition, convictism and fundamentalism.
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