Question

"Sometimes the city may be preferred for social reasons." Enumerate these social reasons.

Answer 1

With the rise of urbanisation, rural-to-urban migration has been a fast expanding phenomenon. Social factors like interactional invisibility contribute to the demand for cities. The city has remote and temporary interactions. People from socially oppressed groups, such as Scheduled castes and tribes, may benefit from not having to reveal their identities while working and living in cities and from gaining some protection from the violence and humiliation that are so common in rural areas. City life involves brief interactions with strangers. Because of their silence, poor members of socially dominating rural communities can work in low status jobs in the city, something that is not possible for them to do in the countryside where they have a status to uphold. The city thus attracts a large number of villagers. It offers an escape from limitations of society.