WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Abstract

Women empowerment and social change are very vital subject matter of all the humanities subject, specially for the subject of sociology. Sociology emphasize on the social structure and function,  generally the main subject matter of sociology is society, basically society is the web of social relationship, relation among individual mainly  institutional and uninstitutional, organised and unorganised relations. So, the unit of society is the individual and family is the miniature forms of society, similarly marriage is the fundamental institution of society.   It is very necessary to believe that marriage and family are the core part of Anthropology and Sociology, though anthropologists emphasized on the pre-modern families as well as tribal social relationship. But in other hand sociologist always emphasized on the pattern of modern and post modern family relationship as well as social relationship. Famous American sociologist Kingsley Davis define that social change meant only such alteration as occurs in social organisation, that is structure and function of society, basically a change of social structure, this structural change depends on the change of family- relationship, where a male, a female and also with child. So, in family relationship male and female relation this male and female relationship are decided by the financial empowerment, community participation, social acceptance and various kinds of legal amendment. So women empowerment is one of the vital process to promote social change, women empowerment and social change are interdependent with each other. If we see the post independence social legislation on family and marriage in India, where has promoted various changes in family, group and social life by the process of women empowerment.