Social Development of Adolescence in Rural Area of Puducherry

The domain of social intelligence and development is a critical component of descriptions of human ability and behaviour. Social skills are important for preparing young people to mature and succeed in their adult roles within the family, workplace, and community. For educators, it is increasingly obvious that learning is ultimately a social process. The present study was conducted on the rural area of Puducherry to find out ‘Social development of Adolescence in rural area of Puducherry’. Total 120 adolescent were selected for the study. Data were analysed using median and t-test. Results (1) based on the median value shows that there is social development in Overall sample, Boys, Children of both literate Parents and Children of single literate Parents. On the other hand Girls, adolescence belongs to other backward caste, scheduled caste and Children of both illiterate parents have poor social development. (2) based on t-test shows that there is no significance of difference between the sub-samples of (i) Boys and Girls (ii) Other backward community and Scheduled community (iii) Children of both literate Parents and Children of both illiterate Parents (iv) Children of both literate Parents and Children of single literate Parents (v) Children of both illiterate Parents and Children of single literate Parents.