1. SOCIAL WORK IN INDIA: INDIGENOUS CULTURAL BASES AND THE PROCESSES OF MODERNIZATION.
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Mukundarao, K.
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SOCIAL services ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL history ,MANNERS & customs - Abstract
The article reports that a recent book on contemporary Appalachian life explores some key issues related to motivation for change and resistance to it. Jack Weller begins his study of Appalachian people by recounting his initial frustration due to the failure of the standard ways of working with individuals and communities as he automatically applied them in Appalachia. He mentions the passive and sullen quality of the people and the utter lack of communication between him, as a minister and a helping person, and the people, who seemed, outwardly at least, to be in need of some guidance in the solution of their problems. The realization slowly came to him that although he and the Appalachians spoke the same language they just did not communicate with each other. The Appalachians, their culture and their complex of problems are literally a world away from India and its people. But what Weller says about the Appalachian mountaineers sounds very similar to what one hears about the Indian people and their attitudes to change.
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- 1969
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