Sociological Study of Life Style of Nomadic Community and Its Impact on Children Socialization in District Jhang Punjab

Abstract

The socialization of the nomadic community's children affects the family relation in the nomadic community and causes serious fasting the family development in order to explore study the life pattern of nomadic community in relation to their children socialization. The study is plans to investigate the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the nomadic community, and the lifestyle of nomadic community and its impact on socialization of their children. The researcher conducted research in the Union Councils Badh Rajnbana, Qaim Bharwana and Allah YarJutta in Tehsil Shorkot. The sample size of the study was 210 repliers. The sampling technique used in this study is convenience sampling. First, the experimenter used multistage stage sampling, then researcher used randomly sampling and then finally researcher selected conveniently 210 (70 from each UC) respondents in this research. The interview schedule used in this research prepared in the light of research objectives and hypotheses. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to investigate research objectives and hypothesis. For this purpose SPSS is used to analyze data and results are represented in form of thesis.  It was found that a huge majority (74.8%) of the participants agreed that tents or mobile schooling can minimize the issue of nomads’ illiteracy and social exclusion. The majority (75.2%) of the nomadic  parents  see  that most  of  the  things  learnt  in school  are  not  relevant  in real life situation and it is not in their culture to educate children (70.5%). It was observed that majority of the participants (67.1%) agreed that children who are subjected to a nomadic lifestyle are often deprived of emotional support, which may result in psychological traumas that can have long-lasting negative effects and when children were emotionally neglected, it poses a barrier to their academic development (61.4%). It was observed that children that suffer from intellectual deprivation do not benefit to their full potential from any educational programme (70.5%). Around 62% of the participants agreed that any educational programme will not be able to provide the maximum benefit to a mentally impoverished child. It was concluded that there is significant association between awareness of education and children socialization of nomadic community. The government must provide health and education facilities to the nomadic peoples and NGOs and other civil society organizations host nomadic communities.

Key words: Nomadic Community, life style, Socialization, Jhung, Punjab