Muslims and modernization: a study of their changing role structure and norms in an urban setting
- Jaipur Rawat Pub. 1986
- 248p.
The Book discusses comprehensively the concept of modernization and shows how changes in social norms, values and role-structures are the basis of modernization. The chief aim of the work is to bring into light the extent and quality of changes which have occured in the Muslim families; in their institutional comp- lex, and its effect on the status and role of these Muslims.
The underlying question under con- sideration was to what extent has post independence efforts at econo- mic development and modernization helped or hindered this process of modernization in this community. It also probes into their value system and aspirations in the light of their educational, economic, and industrial development. Various factors which influence the degree of secularization and their political modernization such as the educational, economic factors and the mass-media etc. have been co-related. The status of Muslim women and their political awareness and political commitment have been separately discussed. It also sug- gests the prospects and possible direction for further changes. The work presented in this book had originally been written for the docto- ral thesis. It mainly centres around the Muslims in the clty of Jaipur. The entire work is being sustained by the emperical data collected over the period of three years by the author herself add to the richness of the book.