Description
This book, first published in 1974, seeks to reply to the questions whether the nuclear circle of relatives has a tendency to be an isolated unit slightly bring to an end from its extended kin network; whether the patterns and effects of urbanization within the developing nations follow exactly the similar lines as within the industrialised nations; and whether the transition from pre-urban to urban living necessarily involves stresses and strains, conflict and sociocultural maladjustments. It illuminates the specific case of a middle-sized city in India on the basis of empirical research carried out with the cross-cultural comparative approach and on the same time contributes to the figuring out of the global problems of modernisation.