Tunes connect people of the same taste together, give people chances to meet new friends who may be lifelong companions standing by them in the future. ... Firstly, the role of women is being changed from housewives to bread-winners in the family. ...
Basically, this means that national economies have developed economic relations that have transcended the nation state and occur at a supranational level, giving rise to the world economy. ... For example, Japan gives rice farmers seven times what it costs them to produce rice, which allows the farmers to sell the rice for very little, shutting out cheap rice produced in Thailand and other developing countries. ... Last year the Bush administration announced it would give American farmers an extra $175 billion during the next decades. The yearly subsidy the US gives just to American cotton far...
Kenya is only able to supply about 70% of its demand for wheat; an increasing demand for bread, especially in urban areas, has put strain on the country's economy since the cultivation of wheat has an 80% foreign exchange content compared with 50% for maize. ...
While Weber did not deny the importance of economic factors, he was not prepared to accept that man acted for bread alone, and he organised much of his work to show that other factors were important influences (Owen: 20). ... Thus members of complex societies must perform more specialised tasks and as a result of these tasks becoming more specialised, rewards in unequal amounts in order of importance must be given out in order to fill these positions where talents may be scarce and to give people the motivation to fill these positions in society. ...
