Pages from the past.... Title: The Coor System: A Study of Goan Club Life in Bombay Author: Olga Esther Baptista Pages: 253 Degree: M.A. Year: 1958 Guide: P.H. Cabinetmaker Methodology: Emperical
THE uniqueness of the Coor System, an organization that had emerged naturally and spontaneously from the social consciousness of a migrant people, is an interesting phenomenon. It was not scientifically formulated and organized or deliberately planned like the community centres in the USA, but it served the same purpose -- the rehabilitation of the immigrant and the prevention of social and psychological disintegration that such displacement sometimes brings in its wake.... Owing to various difficulties, the author was compelled to cut down the number of the sample (50 clubs and 250 individuals) to three individuals per club, especially as the pilot survey revealed that the system varied only in minor details from club to club and a major portion of the members of the rolls were son-resident. However, care was taken to make the sample representative. The Goan clubs serve a population of 40,000 Goans in Bombay, that is, half of the total Goan population on the city.... http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Y0yED5k62TsC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=Baptista+Coors+Bombay&source=bl&ots=kN4iUdWj_q&sig=5G57_KhHkMbOoDrSliHTIkumjkw&hl=en&ei=BbauSvP2NaiL8Qa_yPTGCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=Baptista Coors Bombay&f=false -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: blog on Goa books http://goabooks.wordpress.com
