THE CONCEPT, SOCIAL PROCESSES: ITS MEANING AND USEFULNESS IN THE STUDY OF RURAL SOCIETY.

The article focuses on the concept and meaning of social processes in context with rural areas. The achievements of any science are determined in large part by the comprehensiveness of the problem the scientist sets for himself. In rural sociology people have asked many questions such as, "What?", "When?", and "Where?", questions which involve no essential problem and the answers to which are usually in terms of simple factual statements. The question immediately arises as to the importance of processes in any complete scheme of sociological analysis. The answer binges on the importance of change and action in the analysis being made. If the problem is one of explaining how a given social situation came to be, there is no possibility of generalization except in terms of process. The same is true if one is dealing with function: i.e., how a given system works.