POPULATION SIZE AND SOCIAL CHANGE- A STUDY ON DHANKUT

POPULATION SIZE AND SOCIAL CHANGE- A STUDY ON DHANKUT OF DISTRICT
BAHRAICH (U.P.)
Dr. ALOK CHANTIA
Lecturer (Anthropology)
Sri J.N.P.G. College
Lucknow-
Social change is inevitable and it is a natural process. Population factor
brings a vital change. An individual's life is not merely concerned with his/her sociocultural
life where he/she resides but is affected by population also. Demography
studies the biological change in a society. Malthus connects it with production and
population, Sadler has studied fertility and population density. Gini studied biological
degradation and fertility. Confucius says that economy of a society, form of government,
types of relation and war decide population factors. According to French social scientist
Adolf Coste we can understand all process and conditions of social evolution by
population factor. Age, sex ratio, citizenship, rural and urban size of population, income,
occupation etc are closely concerned with formation, size and distribution of population.
Population factor means development and disintegration in size and density of
population" (sorokin 357).
In general practice we study quantitative aspects of population as fertility,
mortality, morbidity, immigration, emmigration rate, growth and depletion of population
rate, sex-ratio and age ratio but in present study, an attempt has been made to analyse
social change in a small population group under population factors in respect of
qualitative aspects. The study shows that population size creates both positive and
negative changes in the society which varies from community to community.