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Subject: Sociology × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Female headed households in rural Haryana-A sociological study
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-08) Deepika; Subhash Chander
    Female-headed households have not received the same attention of researchers and academicians as the other categories of women. Such households are a separate category and cannot be equated with other households. Being head of the household does not necessary ease the women's position for the entire responsibility of maintaining the household falls on her. Widowhood is the main source of female household headship. The study was conducted in two zones of Haryana state namely Bagar and Nardak. A sample of 260 female -headed households was selected randomly from two districts namely Karnal and Hisar with following objectives 1. To find out the incidence of female-headed households in rural Haryana. 2. To assess the socio-economic characteristics of these households. 3. To study the livelihood strategies of female headed household. It was found that the main reasons becoming head of household was widowhood (42.69%) due to the death of their husbands. More than three-fourth of the female-headed households (78.78%) were facing the problem of low income. Mostly female-headed households were engaged in non-farm activities namely tailoring work, beauty parlour, kirana shops and dairy farming and shifting from one crop to other crop in both the district, respectively. Mostly female heads were managing all agricultural affairs single handedly but female heads were not aware of any agricultural developmental programme. Livelihood diversification to business/enterprise strategies were adopted by respondent was the most remunerative strategy followed by farming. To sum up our discussion, it is necessary to provide them need based trainings to generate income at household level. As female-headed households constituted substantial proportion of the rural households, development agencies and planners must recognize the existence of these households in project design and implementation.
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    Sociological analysis of health status of elderly in rural Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021) Praveen Kumar; Vinod Kumari
    The present study entitled “A Sociological analysis of health status of elderly in rural Haryana” was carried out with the objectives to study the nature and extent of health problems faced by rural elders and their perception regarding their physical and psychological health status. The study was carried out Haryana state in two district Hisar and Mahandragarh with a sample size of 360 respondents. A well framed questionnaire and interview scheduled was followed to conduct the study. More than half of the respondents belonged to young old (60-69) age group (56.7%).Two third of the respondents belongs to backward caste (66.9%) and 30.8 per cent of the respondents had marginal land holdings. Visual impairment was the main health problem followed by dental problem and hearing impairment .Among rural elders the problem of paralytic attack, diabetes and cardiovascular disease were minimum. The major psychological problems faced by the respondents were difficulty in learning, mood swings and irritation and reduced interest. It was observed that on an average 66.4 percent were having average psychological health statuses where as 30.8 percent were having good and 2.8 percent having poor psychological health status. The mental status of elderly showed that 64.2 per cent of elderly were always playing useful role in family followed by 94.7 per cent elderly faced sleep loss sometime and 85.6 percent of the elderly sometime could concentrate on work. As a regards to perception about physical health status, two-thirds of rural respondents (66.4%) perceived their physical health status as good and only 0.8 percent perceived their physical health status as poor. Physical health status was significantly associated with their gender, age, education level, occupation, family type, mass media exposure, lifestyle and leisure time activities. It can be concluded from the results that these factors contributed to the physical health status of elderly.