Management — and the gujars’ social unrests in India

Daniels (1972) established relevance of the equity theory of Adams (1965) in access to health care system. This was supported by Aday et.al. (1980) in their studies of access to health care systems in the USA. Further Walster et. al (1978) found equity theory useful in understanding intimate as well as various non-intimate/social relations. According to the theory, when a party or an individual involved in certain business/exchange or social interaction/transaction, is/are concerned that the terms of their relationships remain along the principles of justice, Just &fair. And that, a felt injustice is manifested by the concerned parties, in behavour & satisfaction based on their overall ‘comparative perceptions’ of the process. Based along these assumptions, undergraduate students randomly selected from science and arts faculty of the Delhi University were studied.

Analyses reveal that at the initial stage of colleges the Arts-boys are perhaps more satisfied at the beginning of their college-days while the science-boys show more satisfaction at their higher levels of education, & in general girls show more academic satisfaction than boys in the said community. At the initial stage they seem to perceive that the justice exists with them in terms of academic-inputs/output-ratios they perceived. But as they move up to the higher levels of formal education, their this feeling appear to be fading however and they seem to be rather prone to perceive, that a little more justice is required for them in their comparative input-ratios perceptions for their money, time, efforts, etc, invested in it —& quite a few percentage of them perhaps feel, that they are rather, ‘under-benefited ‘compared to their other partners, in terms of their educational-outputs in society, compared to the rest others‘ input/output ratios in academic affairs. The study explores some new& interesting socio-psychological aspects of social- comparisons in issues of distributive-justice in academics too, which can be extended to any other social condition, social management, movement, or unrest at large.