This book covers syllabi in the papers Social Dynamics; Social Change and Social Control, prescribed by Indian Universities. Part I on Social Change includes the discussion of Social Change, Social Selection, Theories of Social Change, Social Development, Social Evolution, Social Revolution and Factors and Sources of Social Change including Population; Fashion, Style, Fad and Craze; Education; Culture and Civilization; Social Progress, Social Interaction and Social Processes. Part II on Social Control includes discussion on Social Organization, Status and Role; Individual, Society and Socialization; Suggestion, Imitation and Sympathy, Meaning, Types and Agencies of Social Control and Factors and Sources of Social Control including Social Groups, Family Group, Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, Religious Institutions, Propaganda, Public Opinion and Social Codes.
DR. RAJENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (born 1962) M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., U.G.C. Research Fellow, Punjab University, Chandigarh (1985-1988), worked in I.C.S.S.R. Sponsored Project (1987) on 'Overseas Indian Entrepreneurs in Kenya'. He is LMI: Indian. Sociological Society, Uttar Pradesh Samaj Shastra Parishad, Indian Research Association, U.P. Darshan Parishad. He is author of dozens of papers and books in sociology both in Hindi and English. Dr. Sharma has utilised his experience of teaching Sociology to Post-graduate and Under-graduate Students for presenting ideal textbooks both in Hindi and English on almost all the papers taught in this subject at Indian Universities. He taught at N.A.S. P.G. College, Meerut (1987-1991). At present, he is Lecturer at N.R.E.C. (P.G.) College, C.C.S. University.