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NO Rural Life Urban life Environment: Close / direct contact Greater isolation from nature. with nature. Preliminaries influenced Predominance of manmade (artificial by natural environmental elements like environment). rain, heat, drought, frost, sow etc. over which there is no control. Occupation: Agricultural is the No fundamental occupation. Most of fundamental occupation. Majority of people engaged in principally in population is engaged in agriculture. manufacturing, mechanical pursuits, Neighbors of Agriculturist are also trade commerce, professions and other agriculturist non-agricultural occupations. Size of Community: Size of community is very small in size. Size of community is large in size. Agriculturalism and size of Urbanity and size of community are community are negatively co-related. positively co-related. Density of Population: Density of Size of community is large in size. population is lower. Density and Urbanity and size of community are rurality are negatively co-related. positively co-related. More heterogeneous than rural. Homogeneity and heterogeneity of Urbanity and heterogeneity are population: More homogenous in positively co-related (Different type of social, racial and psychological traits. population is seen in cities, different Negative co0-relation with places, religions, caste, class race, heterogeneity. (Most are agriculturists community, economic and cultural are directly connected with differences, occupations and agriculture). behavioral pattern also different). Social Differentiations: Low degree of social differentiation High degree of social differentiation Less rigid Urban community is much Social Stratification: More rigid more strategic than the rural with Fewer economic, occupational, and having much more economic, sociopolitical classes. Less social occupational and social political stratification than urban. classes. Social Mobility: Mobility is less intensive. Territorial, occupational and other forms of social mobility of the Social mobility is more intensive. population are less intensive. They People change occupation and even follows same occupation, stay in the leave places in search of new and same village better occupation Social Interaction: Less numerous contacts. The area of interaction More numerous contacts. Area of system is narrower. More professional, interactions is wider, the relation are simple, face to face. Informal, sincere superficial and short-lived. The relations. popular are more formal and showy. Social Solidarity: Social solidarity or Social solidarity is less stronger than cohesiveness and unity are more rural, dissimilarities, division of stronger / greater than urban. Common labour, interdependence, traits, similarity of experiences, specialization, impersonal, strictly common aims and purposes, common formal relationships results customs and traditions are the basis of comparatively less sense of belonging unity in village. Strong sense of and unity.

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belonging and unity. Social Control: Social pressure by community is strong. Conformity of Control is more by formal impersonal norms is more by informal social means of laws, prescribed rules and pressure. regulations. Social Change: Rural social life is Urban social life is under constant and relatively static and stable. rapid social change Culture: Sacred (Religious) culture. Secular (Non-religious) culture. Leadership Pattern: Choice of leadership more on the basis of known personal qualities of individual, due to Choices of leadership is comparatively greater face to face contacts and more less on the basis of know personal intimate knowledge of individual. qualities of individual Group: Rural society is simple Unit- Urban society is complex multi-group group society society. Social Institutions: Most of the institutions are natural outgrowth of rural social life. Less enacted institutions. Numerous enacted institutions. Standard of Living: Home conveniences, public utilities, educational recreational religious, medical, communication and other facilities for living can be provided if In urban areas such conveniences and supported by sufficient population facilities are provided due to greater base density of population Standard of living is low. Standard of living is high.

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