RURAL SOCIOLOGY

Subject

Subject Category

Course(s):

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE

Year:

Semester:

Info

AG106

Hours and credits:

Lecture	Tutorials	Laboratory
3	0	0

Department:

Department of Agriculture

Subject content

Learning outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Gain insights of the rural communities in Papua New Guinea: their relationship with the land, environment and other groups within the society.

2. Gain knowledge of the fundamental social processes and their impacts on behaviour.

3. Understand the structure and functions of rural societies and rural - urban continuum.

4. Understand the characteristics of rural people, gender division and people’s interaction process within social systems.

5. Gain preliminary knowledge of research methods in social science and how to conduct social surveys;

6. Understand the rural social changes and reconciliation across the frictions of change;

7. Understand the practices of production from household farming to entrepreneurial farming and the customary to modern exchanges occurring the rural communities of Papua New Guinea.

Syllabus:

Society, culture, environment and their interactions in the process of agricultural production; Structure and functions of rural societies and rural to urban continuum; Gender division; Characteristics of rural societies in the context of PNG; The changing pattern of agriculture in PNG; Land holdings, the dynamics of farm management, characteristics of peasants/subsistence farmers and smallholders; Survey and methods of data collection in rural communities;. Household farming systems and entrepreneurial activities practiced in rural communities of PNG; The types of traditional and introduced modern exchange practices in villages of PNG

Text books:

Chitamber, J. B., Introductory rural sociology, Agricultural Institute, Allahabad, India, 1973.

References:

Bhattacherjee, A., Social science research: principles, methods and practices, Open Access Textbook 3, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, 2012.

Bue, V., Halim, A., Women at work: a village study in Papua New Guinea – Tumua village in Markham Valley, Department of Agriculture, UNITECH, Lae, 2009.

Swanson, B. E., Rajalahri, R., Strengthening agricultural extension and advisory systems: procedures for assessing, transforming and evaluating extension systems, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, Washington, USA, 2010.

James, P. (et al.), Sustainable communities, sustainable development: other parts of Papua New Guinea, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, USA, 2012.

Assessment:

Continuous assessment 40%

Written examination 60%

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