Sociological Approach To Public Administration

A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH
TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
A report prepared and submitted in partial fulfillment of course GS F333
[Public Administration, under Prof. Umesh Dhyani]
SUBMITTED BY:
SRISHTI ARORA
2012A8PS235P
Introduction
The sociological approach of administration implies that the sociological background and factors and forces determine or influence the administration to various extents. It is one of the many approaches which explain or account for the success or failure of administration. It is not possible to say that the sociological background or forces determine or control the administration a hundred percent. The percentage of influence or control may vary from situation to situation.
In administration we are concerned with the various

The changes initiated by people can take place in the various walks of life such as economics, politics, industry, social life, religious life, education, literature and culture. For instance, in order to protect human beings in the normal course, every government has set up an elaborate administration of police, judiciary and prisons to see that wicked people or violent people do not kill others. Thus we have cherished the value of protecting human life and we have created several tasks for public administration. People have wanted that the custom of sati should be abolished. They have also wanted that child marriages should be prohibited. Following these desires, laws have come to be made and the work of the administration has increased. Some people believe that we should not take alcoholic drinks. So they want a ban on drinking. In other words, they want prohibition. When this happens, the government has to set up an elaborate administrative machinery to see that drinking is prohibited and offenders are punished. In the olden days