Social metabolism: The kinetics of entropy and motivational energy in transforming farm business of India
International Journal of Development Research
Social metabolism: The kinetics of entropy and motivational energy in transforming farm business of India
The creation, growth and decay of any social system, retaining myriads of life forms, have basically been the concerns and exposition of energy. Social Metabolism envisages a natural connectivity amongst physical, biological and social systems and their underlying cybernetics. It is the flow of energy that drives the social systems generating information, applying information and transforming the present social process into a desired social outcome. Energy remains retained, shelved as well as configured within a cell and a social capsule. Moreover, it is a subject to a ruptured release of unleashing motivations and psychological capabilities. The present paper examines the collision and collusion between imposed technologies vis-a-vis extraneous knowledge versus intrinsic vis-a-vis in situ knowledge. The rejection of innovation, prescribed by experts, has got a reverse osmosis impact in the entire technology socialization process. Generally, the rejected and discontinued technology has been branded as laggards but the logic behind rejections are not esteemed properly. The farming system performance cannot be conceived as an indoor and interactive drama, rather it is a splendid disposition of social metabolism, where in the flow in and flow out of energy can be audited and monitored for sustainable farming performance of either both the farmer and the manager or both of them encapsulated in a single entity. The factors like cropping intensity, siz e of holding, education have been found generating social entropy as well as informational dissonance.