SERICUL TURE AND THE PROCESS OF CHANGE - Institute for ...

at the societal and at the strategic levels. It has been effectively used In
the present study, in the context of sericulture. The study also finds the
'change and continuity' paradigm as very much part of this change
process, wherein 'the village society is dynarmc enough to accept
change and responsive enough to assess it without serious institutional
dislocations' (lshwaran 1970: 18).
The study has also initiated certain conceptual fonnulations and
reclassifications of certain phenomenon that w0 11ld be of use in the
studies of socio-cultural change. There are many studies related to
family structure. But then, the available family typologies are not
adequate enough to accommodate certain family structures that are
becoming increasingly common, especially in an era of transition, from
tradition to modernity. For this reason, a modified and comprehensive
family typology has been suggested and used in the present study, for
brevity and clarity. The effort here has been to make use of the available
concepts and use additional attributes for further classification. The
main addition in the new typology has been the inclusion of certain
types, by prefixing the tenns, 'matro' and 'patro', to the nuclear and
extended families. They correspond to the respective family structures,
with the presence of either father and mother alone, which have been
increasingly discerned in the emerging situation. In the analysis of
authority relations, the relationship dyads have been examined and a
process of change from concentrated authority to a distributive
authority, corresponding to the degree of productive realisation, has
been discerned. A research perspective for gender relations has been
developed to Wlderstand the gender issues in development interventions.
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