The book contains a total of eight chapters covering topics related to social awareness and personality development. The eight chapters of this book can be divided into four parts. This book deals with topics like An Overview of Indian Society and Contemporary Issues, Growing Social Problems and Role of NGOs, Emerging Issues of Globalisation and Indian Society and topics concerned with Self and Society covering issues such as heredity v/s, environment, management of conflict and stress, realistic goal setting, time management, significance of aptitude tests, IQ v/s. EQ, etc. There are also two tests, one dealing with assessment of self actualisation in Chapter 6 and another dealing with emotional intelligence in Chapter 8. The Foundation Course is a compulsory paper at the first and second year level in the faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce. The course was introduced more than 2 decades ago for many reasons. One of the major objectives for introducing this course was to make the students aware of the various socio-economic issues that are important for our society and which directly or indirectly influence us. The foundation course also contains topics which are relevant for increasing our self understanding and our psychological development. The subject of foundation course also deals with increasing one`s Social and Self Awareness that collectively develops our personality.
