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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.I(VIII)/159-163/28
AUTHOR: Dr Geet Lamba
TITLE: BREAKING DOWN OF SOCIAL SUPPORT PATTERNS IN AGRARIAN PUNJAB: A SOCIOLOGICAL LIGHT ON FARMER’S SUICIDE IN PUNJAB’
ABSTRACT: Over the decades agriculture and problems related to farmers is widely discussed. For the survival of livelihood, the food grain production is important and as so the farming community. Therefore it is indispensable to ease the problems related to farmers and farming. This article makes an attempt to understand the increase in phenomena of suicide among farming community from sociological angle. Modernization, mechanization and economic factors are always being blamed for crisis and breakdown of farming community but these are the surface factors beneath these the reason is very much social. Breakdown of joint family culture, social support system from kinship, decreasing social tolerance and formalization of the social transactions and cultivating culture played big role in cropping of crisis situation and giving impetus to problems. Hence suicide is on increase among farming community.
KEYWORDS:Punjab, farming community, culture