Abstract:
This research is trying to sociologically elaborate the contributions
and the contradictions between the process of social empowerment and the
sustainable rural development. And also it will provide the guidelines to
promote the processes of rural social empowerment to achieve the target of
sustainability. This research should understand the dimensions of
empowerment which are implementing in these research areas, practical
contributions of community empowerment in sustainable development in
grass root level. The important orientations and strategies to promote social
empowerment process to attain the sustainability and the opportunity to
enhance the attitude base, self administration base and economic base for
sustainable development. It should stress the importance of attitudinal
criteria of the people such as sense of solidarity, democratic values, spirit of
co-operation, collective spirit, creative spirit and spirit of self-reliance as
alternatives for effective empowerment for sustainable development. It
should recommend the new orientations for the effective empowerment
strategies for sustainable rural development.
