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Socio economic and cultural difference between rural and urban markets |
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Answer» nd urban communities may be distinguished from each other on the basis of several criteria like occupation, size, and density of population, environment, homogeneity-heterogeneity, social STRATIFICATION, mobility and system of INTERACTION:The term ‘COMMUNITY’ is used by SOCIOLOGISTS to describe a quality of relationship which produces a strong sense of shared identity among persons LIVING in a fixed geographical area. They describe ‘rural’ as a community and ‘urban’ as a society. When sociologists hold that a society moves from traditional to modern, they in fact contrast pre-industrial, largely rural, traditional society with industrial, largely urban, modern society. |
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