Lifestyle of Floating People: A Sociological Analysis

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. And as a result, they are becoming these 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 life style of floating people and the effect of education, social life and health condition. The researcher has used qualitative and quantitative data to get the result. Statistical analysis has also been used in this research. . The researcher has seen in my research 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 floats are socio-economic condition are very poor. Most of them are beggars and porters, and the laborers are Sheni. The research has shown that, causes of human migration include floods, droughts, storms, seasonal weather problems and natural disasters.