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Lifestyle of Floating People: A Sociological Analysis


Md. Abadul Islam1*, Muhammed Abdul Jalil2, and Md. Mahafuzur Rahman3

1Department of Sociology, Dr. Abdur Razzak Municipal College, Jashore, Bangladesh; 2Research Fellow, World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; and 3Senior Teacher of English, New Blown School, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

*Correspondence: abadulislamjashore@gmail.com (Md. Abadul Islam, Lecturer & Head, Department of Sociology, Dr. Abdur Razzak Municipal College, Jashore, Bangladesh).

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ABSTRACT 

One issue facing Bangladesh's urban society is the floating population. It's what we call a social disorder. The urban floating population is underprivileged, illiterate, and socially oblivious. As a result, they are becoming floating individuals and contributing to a variety of societal issues as they lack the knowledge and competence to deal with the difficulties that society faces. One of the third world's poorest nations is Bangladesh. This study aims to identify the lifestyle of floating people and the effect of education, social life, and health conditions. The researcher has used qualitative and quantitative data to get the results. Statistical analysis has also been used in this research. The researcher has seen my research on the total number of Pedal Sabha of Jashore Sadar police station out of a population of 1,78,272, only 107 are floating people. But the people who float are socio-economic conditions are very poor. Most of them are beggars and porters, and the laborers are Sheni. The research has shown that the causes of human migration include floods, droughts, storms, seasonal weather problems, and natural disasters.

Keywords: Floating people, Education, Health, Sociological analysis, Lifestyle, and Social life.

Citation: Islam MA, Jalil MA, and Rahman MM. (2024). Lifestyle of floating people: a sociological analysis, Asian J. Soc. Sci. Leg. Stud., 6(2), 53-57. https://doi.org/10.34104/ajssls.024.053057


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