Department of Social Sciences

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Department of Social Sciences was established in 2008 in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at UMT. The idea behind the launch of DSS was to cater to the needs of participants who have a keen interest in joining this realm of knowledge.

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    Common Entrepreneurial Purposes among the Students, Studying In the Universities of Lahore
    (University of Management & Technology, 2018) Muhammad Asad-Ur-Rehman
    This study explores the social entrepreneurial intentions of higher education students in Punjab.Poor economy, the rise in urbanization, rapid population growth, and absence of long-term sustainable policy has made Pakistan a challenging country in term of its long-term economic growth and competition with other developing countries. In the recent trends in economic development social entrepreneurship is the key to any country achieving her promise as a well-developed economy and as a country as well. Unleashed after decades of slow growth and government control, Pakistan’s entrepreneurs have begun to take advantage of many of the opportunities presented by the post liberalization business environment Social entrepreneurship is an economic environment that is being practiced around the globe. The concept of Social entrepreneurship in Pakistan seems very common now days. The waves of Social entrepreneurship in higher education found very strong. Therefore, this research thesis aims to look at the factors effecting social entrepreneurialintentions of the students in private sector universities of Pakistan. The core theme of this study is to cover up a gap of research related to social entrepreneurial intentions that exists in Punjab by identifying the dominating factors those play a key role in contributing success of social entrepreneurial activities by higher education students in Punjab. More, importantly this thesis has elaborated the intentions as well as attitudes of the students to become social entrepreneur. In order to systematically come up with meaningful result the researcher used quantitative research design to gather data from the respondent for the purpose to develop new ideas and test existing hypothesis. Furthermore, this study also looks at the association between empirical observation and measurement of quantitative relationships. In order to acknowledge the research question further, the participants were selected from the different department of private sectors universities. More importantly, the business department where more participants were focused as the research questions suggested requirements of the quantitative research; the researcher on the ongoing research has used the questionnaire as a tool for data collection and SPSS for data analysis so as to bring structured data in a meaningful way. Results have shown significant difference between male and females intentions towards social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship courses participants have shown more intentions towards social entrepreneurship than non participants. Future study can be conducted to study the pedagogical skills and development of courses to enhance social entrepreneurial skills of the higher education students.