STUDY OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF RURAL AND URBAN WORKING MOTHERS

The presented paper is intended for analysis and interpretation of data collected to a comparative study of social integration of secondary school students of working mothers from rural and urban areas. Data have been collected from the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand state. The findings of the study reveal that the language, educational status, religion, community, state and caste dimensions of Social Integration among urban and rural secondary school students of working mothers was similar. However, the rural secondary school students of working mothers had higher levels of economic status related social integration than the urban secondary school students of working mothers. The findings revealed that the urban secondary school students of working mothers had more or less similar mean score of social integration as compared with rural secondary school students of working mothers. The mean difference between scores of urban and rural secondary school students of working mothers for Social Integration was found statistically insignificant.