CHANGE AND OCCUPATION MOBILITY AMONG VADDARS OF DHARWAD DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA

In every society, changes occur, either in a slow process or a fast process which involves both positive and negative elements. Change is a broad and complex concept. As we have noticed, it is an alteration that takes place in concepts, practices and situations. It also indicates an alteration between points in time. Similarly, we can notice many changes in the Vaddar community. These changes may benet or damage the community or society. With the passage of time, changes also take place. It indicates nothing is permanent and as days go by everything changes. These changes may come to our notice or may not come to our notice. In the social eld also, changes take place either at a slow pace or fast. For instance, we know women are hard workers but with the advancement of science and technology, especially urban women started using grinding machines, washing machines etc., to reduce their workload. So changes in every walk of a woman's life have taken place in accordance with their modern lifestyle. Individuals and materials change gradually but such changes are easy in a social world. Change depends upon the speed of time, direction and materials which come under the transition

THE PRACTICE OF UNTOUCHABILITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

We get a lot of valuable information regarding untouchability from the works of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, M.K. Gandhi, G.S. Ghurye, A. Ayyappan, B Kuppuswamy, J.H. Hutton, H.N. Brailsford, D.R. Desai and others. `Basically, the people considered within the scheduled castes category are untouchables in India. For the rst time, the Government of India prepared a list of people under the head 'Scheduled Castes, amounting to a population of 5.35 crores. Now their number has increased tremendously in all the states of India. In this paper, the researcher has tried to prove that, even today untouchability occurs among the Madiga community in a few villages in the Haveri district.