International Journal of Advances in Social Sciences

Anurag Dwivedi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Sociology, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur- 273009, IN

Abstract

We are passing through the stage of tremendous change which focuses on rapid development. Consequently, the available natural resources are depleting. Water is one such natural resource. The issue of soaring food prices and the rapid depletion of the world's energy resources, it has been observed that a catastrophic water shortage could prove the biggest threat to mankind in coming years. The 20th century has seen the world's population triple. Utilization of renewable water recourses has increased by six times in the same period. India's demand for water is growing even as it stretches its supplies. Water infrastructure is crumbling, preventing the government from being able to supply drinking water to its citizens. India needs to make water supply a national priority the way it has made food security and economic growth priorities in the past. India's need for a comprehensive management program is so severe because of its rapidly depleting water supply, environmental problems, and growing population. The stress on water sources poses a major challenge to social scientists. The stress on water resources results from an imbalance between the consumption of water and the available water resources. The need of the hour is to change our thinking on water. Unless radical transformation is brought in the mindsets of the common people, the issue of water scarcity and crisis will further deepen.

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Anurag Dwivedi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Sociology, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur 273009, IN

Abstract

This paper focuses its attention on factors which facilitate mobility among the respondents for developing a new class order. It assumes that blurring of class divisions is taking place in the Indian industrial work organization because of the unequal opportunities construed as the aspect of life-chances (Merton:1968). Consequently, new class configuration is emerging which is prompting a situation of class-structuration. Emerging trends of mobility linked with external support facilitators like market-situation, class situation and work situation in organizational context is discussed. We also propose to examine the differential achievement orientation found among the respondents working at two different types of organization i.e. 'mechanistic' type and the 'organic' type of organization. The paper is divided into two sub sections. First section deals with the achievement orientation of the respondents, while the second section focuses its attention on the respondents' aspiration.

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