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SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AND SUICIDE RELATED BEHAVIOURS AMONG FARMERS
Get PDFUsing the theoretical premise of the linkage between sociopsychologicalfactors and mental stress leading to suicide behaviour, thispaper discusses the social and psychological factors, mental stress leadingto suicide behaviour, and the nature of suicide behaviours. The paper isbased on the data from an empirical study conducted in the district of Kannurin the state of Kerala. The study covered a sample of 30 individuals fromthe agricultural community who had unsuccessful suicide attempts in thepast. The main factors that produce stress situation that is conducive tosuicide related behaviour include poor housing condition and economichardships, unfavourable work place situation and household activities, anddisruptive interpersonal relationships within and outside family. Significantcorrelation was found between these factors and stress situation. The stresssituation experienced by the individuals led to fantasising suicide (or suicideideation), suicide intent and suicide related behaviours, such as thoseconcerning presence of others, planned timing, precaution against rescue,planned execution, objective of changing environment and certainty of death.Individuals under chronic stress resort to the suicide related behaviourpatterns in different degrees
SAMAGRA VIKAS SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIETY: PURSUIT OF INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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Social Justice as Demonstration of Truth: An Oral History Analysis of People’s Participation in the Struggle for the Right to Information in Rajasthan, India
Get PDFThe present study uses oral history to understand the nature of people’sparticipation at the public hearings (Jan Sunwai) that played a catalytic role inthe people’s movement for the right to information in Rajasthan between1994 and 2005. At these hearings, the people— marginalised by caste, classand gender– expressed their grievances openly before their electedrepresentatives and the officers of the state. The public records were sociallyaudited, revealing large scale corruption in panchayat expenditure
GLOBALISATION: SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE: PROSPECTS OF THE MARGINALIZED SECTIONS
Get PDFThis paper underscores the need to examine the complexphenomenon of globalisation and to evaluate its impact on thevulnerable sections of the society, such as the dalits, tribals and women.Globalisation is the new form of capitalism wherein maximisation ofprofit is the main objective. The vulnerable sections of the society havenot benefited from the economic opportunities that globalisation hasbrought in because they do not have access to the resources that arenecessary to benefit from them. On the contrary, the new economicpolicy based on market economy that has accompanied globalisationhas been exploitative of the vulnerable sections and has worked againsttheir interests. The new economic policy under globalisation haswidened the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the responsibilityof the state to take effective steps in this situation in order to ensurethat the vulnerable sections are not deprived of their basic human needs
THE PLIGHT OF CHILD LABOURERS IN BANGALORE CITY, INDIA: A MICRO LEVEL STUDY
Get PDFChildren are part and parcel of the economic activity of eachand every society. Notwithstanding the fact that child labour is not anew phenomenon and it has existed even in ancient times, its form hasbeen kept changing. Poverty, population explosion, survival strategyof the poor and exploitative economic systems are regarded as the causesof child labour in India. This paper discusses child labour as socialissue on the basis of the data from an empirical study conducted inBangalore, the capital city of Karnataka state in India. The data of thestudy pertain to the nature of the work done by child labourers, theirsocio-economic background (such as age, level of schooling, familysize, and parental education and income), earnings and difficultiesfaced by them as child labourers. The paper also discusses the mainmeasures taken by the government and non-government organisationsin order to deal with the social issue of child labour, viz. legislationand school improvement programmes
COLLABORATION BETWEEN ICDS AND SCHOOLS OF SOCIAL WORK: A MODEL OF GOVERNMENT-NON-GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
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Antecedents and Determinants of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
Get PDFThe present study aims at determining the antecedents ofOrganizational Citizenship Behaviour and to study thedeterminants of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour in bankingindustry of Ludhiana city. Primary data were collected fromrandomly selected bank employees in Ludhiana city through theuse of personally administered questionnaire. Impact of variousantecedents and determinants on OCB was tested using regressionanalysis. Altruism, conscientiousness and civic virtue are the keyantecedents of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) andjob satisfaction is found to be the most important determinant of OCB
Dynamic Relationship between Macro Economic Indicators and Indian Capital Market
Get PDFThis empirical study intends to examine the dynamic long andthe short run relationship between capital market return (BSESensex return) and select macro-economic variables in India usingAuto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Methodology. It can beseen that there is a long run equilibrium relationship betweencapital market return and macroeconomic variables in India.Empirical results show that FIIs investment and wholesale priceindex have significant impact on the performance of Indiancapital market. FIIs investment is statistically significant and haspositive impact on the capital market of India. The wholesaleprice index has an adverse impact on capital market return. Butexchange rate, interest rate, index of industrial production andgold price are statistically insignificant for the performance ofthe domestic capital market. Variance Decomposition Analysis(VDA) is also used to explore how much forecast error varianceof conditional stock market volatility is explained by theinnovation of each explanatory conditional macro-economicvariables. The result of VDA shows that the capital market returnis mostly explained by its own shock.Keywords: ADF, AIC, ARDL, stock return