To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.

Understanding the important features of a society is a very controvertial and demanding feild of study, but to say this can be acheived by studying the major Cities under it might not neccessarily be true. The study will involve an analysis of various aspects such as economical, curtural, religious beleifs, cusines etc.the people within adhere to, which contribute all together in developing a society. It involves a study of the various laws, mutual understanding and the tolerance people share amongst each other to make living more peaceful and bearable. Thus a conclusive demographic figure needs to be present for this undertaking. There are one too many reasons why I refute the assumption in the issue statement,of which the most prominent are, firstly Major cities are more involved in growing and assessing the country’s economy and are thus more susceptible to foreign influence.And secondly it is not necessary that a major chunk of the population resides in the city. Thus it is wrong to say that by only understanding the cities, one would entirely understand the entire nation.

Major Cities were once towns where economic development opened up better financial and carrer oportunities which inevitably raised the standard of living of people within. The same invited an influx of people into the region, thus creating a high density region in which people are a part of the rat race to get ahead of one another. This creates an environment in which people are bound to neglect their cutural traditions and attire, their eating habits and the need to perform daily household chores. Thus creating a society that indulges in dressing up formally, seldomly celebrating annual festivals and switching to a fast food culture. Whereas the same cannot be said about the life in remote areas and villages, People living here are more inclined towards dressing up in a traditional attire. All festivals major or minor are celebrated with the same enthusiasm. And dilligent care is taken about eating habits which comprise of a healthy traditional meal.

Also it is quite possible that the majority of the population comprising the society may not even reside in Major cities.Take India or China for example, More than two-thirds of its total population resides in rural areas. Thus rendering a study done on their major cities inconclusive demographically.

There may be points made wherein it would be stated that, Mojor cities hubs people from all around the nation thus giving a variety of People with different cultural and traditional backgrounds in one place. This although true but is easily refutable since cities are built on modernization. Thesw cities attract more attention to a particular country towards a western culture. Life is a rat-race, the only choice is to keep up or get beat down. Allocating time to follow traditional values is hard and almost impossible if one needs to live a good, appreciable lifestyle.

To sum up, Cities while they can characterize certain aspects of society, they cannot characterize society as a whole. They represent a very few, considering the demography of the entire nation, their standard of living and ideas, thoughts and aspiration are very different than the people from rural areas and to characterize them all under one roof, by just studying a few would be vastly wrong.