Social Sciences and Humanities

Change in agricultural land use, including movement into and out of agricultural production, is called change on the extensive margin of production. That is changes at the point or margin at which a different land use become more profitable. Such changes reflect choice about what lands are formed. The term margin should not be confused with marginal soil or marginal land from an environment view point. The agricultural land utilization in sweta nadi environment of Salem district. The river flowing northern portion of the kolli hills with drain into the velar basin.

This study was designed to investigate perceptions of secondary school social studies teachers about widowhood practices in Ohafia education zone in Abia State. Four research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 520 Social Studies teachers from which a sample of 95 male and 135 female social studies teachers from secondary schools in Ohafia education zone were randomly selected.

Normative laws govern the conduct of persons in society and both customary and enacted laws are members of this set of laws. And the question as to whether customary law may be regarded as law properly so-called appears to have been posed as a skeptics question, which thus does not seem to require a yes or no answer. What we need here is to provide reasons to justify the answer we prefer, whether as accepting the thesis or rejecting it. This paper is therefore an attempt to show that we can both see law as custom and custom as law.

The present paper aims to investigate the socio-economic status of scheduled tribes in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh state. Multi-stage random sampling technique was employed for the study, primary data was used with the help of pre-structured questionnaire for 89 sample respondents during the year 2009, further the results were interpreted with help of tabular analysis.

Technology has, for better or worse, undeniably brought about a change, hitherto unimagined, in our life styles. The transformation brought about by technology in the area of delivery of financial services has, thankfully, only been for the better. Internet Banking complemented by core banking solutions implemented by banks, mobile banking, card based electronic transactions at any bank ATM and merchants locations (both physical and through e-commerce sites) have offered a variety of channels to bank customers to conduct their payment transactions.

This study examined the relationship between budget deficit and macroeconomic variables in Nigeria for the quarterly period of 1970 -2011. The study employed the augmented Granger causality test approach developed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995). The result showed a strong unidirectional causality from budget deficit to macroeconomic variables in Nigeria. The result supported the Keynesian proposition. Also the evidence from Johansen co-integration result indicated that there is a positive long run relationship between budget deficit and macroeconomic variables.

Adolescence and identity crisis is a much discussed phenomena. As growing individuals, their personality dimensions or a set of characteristics are also playing an important role in their being. The present study attempts to explore the relation between personality dimensions and identity crisis of adolescents if any.  In the present study, standardized tests were administered to obtain the scores on self image of students (considered as the indicator of identity crisis) and scores on different dimensions of personality.

Rabindranath Tagore has been appreciated all over the world as one of the greatest thinkers. His writings are intermingled with positivism and humanism. In this paper Tagore’s contributions in the arena of music and poetry are explored in the light of Psychodynamic Psychology. The heart never becomes indifferent to a rose. Tagore found we are related to the universe in three ways, by necessity, by knowledge and also by a pure emotional and intuitional union with it.

In the framework of inclusive economic crisis and economic hold back, providing livelihood security to the people is the major challenging task. In the instigation of the 21st century, 260 million people in the country did not have income to meet their both ends. India is home to 25 per cent of the world’s poor, of which 75 per cent were in the rural areas. Thus, the present paper aims to study the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme on livelihood security of people in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh.

Customer satisfaction is essentially the culmination of a series of customer experiences or, the net result of the good ones minus the bad ones. It occurs when the gap between customers’ expectations and their subsequent experiences has been closed. The FMCG Sector is one of the most important sectors of any Economy. It plays a vital role in the economy as FMCGs are a necessity and are inelastic products which touch every life in one or the other aspect.