Many people now feel that science can"t solve all of the social problems that our world currently faces. ... Also, during this time period, many of the social problems that come as a result of technological advancements began to appear. ... Science has also begun to be more geared towards improving social problems. As a result of the AIDS epidemic, a massive amount of AIDS research has been performed to help improve the lives of people who contract AIDS. ... As a result of the backlash against science in the past couple of years, the scientific community has become more socially- conscious...

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As migrants flowed within the British empire, Asians who arrived in Kenya were given greater access to social, educational and capitalist opportunities by the colonials, as a result of higher 'racial' status (also Bennell 1982, p131). ... Even in some instances when the British expressed a desire to provide better social programs for education, as in Tanganyika, there were various obstacles to their success. There was some apathy to participating in these programs, due to their perception as 'European' social processes, as well as conflict between the different schools of t...

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Of the functions they did perform, maintaining trading contracts with other Southeast Asian countries was probably most important. The social lives of citizens were still dependant on the strict caste system, which regulated everyday life of the people of India. ... This growth of trade resulted in thriving African cities, such as Timbuktu, and helped develop new social and political patterns in a wide stretch of Africa below the Sahara. ...

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The procedure is often used for social and cultural control of a woman's sexuality. ... Various STD's, anemia, and increased risk of contracting the HIV virus are another common consequence of female circumcision... In many cultures, considerable social pressure is brought to bear on families who resist conforming to the tradition of female circumcision. ...

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This will result in further social, political and economic impacts all over the world. ... The Causes International human trafficking can be attributed to many causes, these include; low economic status and a low GDP in affected countries meaning the majority of the population are living in poverty, little political power over the population leading to higher crime levels and little retribution for those who are caught, and low social status of particular groups including discrimination and lack of respect towards these people. ... Social issues contributing to human trafficking in the world ...

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AIDS affects the political, economic, and social structure of African society. ... "Lack of social cohesion, conflict, and underdevelopment have undermined the development of a strong civil society and the vibrant, independent and committed judiciary needs to uphold civil law." ... According to the Diane Richardson, author of Women and AIDS, in poorer areas one needle may be used to inject dozens of people increasing the risk of contracting HIV. ... It is preventing African nations from maintaining political stability and from making economic and social progress. ...

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This became essential to the colonists because the whites could concentrate more on the social businesses, such as trading and politics, while the African slaves would tend fields. ... As the colony grew profitable due to the seven year of hard labour that servants have done, the contracts of the servants were concluded and the settlers were reluctant to lose their labourers. ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. ... In exchange, the latter had to allow them social precedence. ... CONDITIONS OF THE SLAVES The only group that would have an interest in overthrowing the social order were the slaves of the father's household, in alliance with the bâ- dolo ("those without power," socially speaking, the poor peasants). 2 Indeed, it is ...

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There are many people who have praised or still praise small Christian communities which have developed some social groups as a way of responding to the call of those in need of help, those who are suffering in one way or the other from HIV and AIDS. ... Christian Communities refers to social groups with a common Christian faith who gather together to pray and serve people suffering and living with HIV and AIDS. The examples of these social groups are the Catholic Relief Services, Young Men or Women's Christian Associations, and Home Based Care Programme to mention but a few. ... Numerous...

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Except for a few social deviants, neither Africans nor Europeans would enslave members of their own societies, but in the early modern period, Africans had a somewhat narrower conception of who was eligible for enslavement than had Europeans. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took was shaped by con...

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By 1953, the guerilla fighting force of Mau Mau had largely been defeated, and by 1956, the fighting had mostly stopped; the unequal political, economic, and social conditions leading to Mau Mau's rise, however, were still in place. ...

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) countries and inflation of 2,9 percent. Dollar per capita income grew 73 percent during the decade. The 1970s were turbulent years internationally and the domestic economy grew by only 3,2 per cent per annum (versus 3,4 percent in OECD countries). Relative economic performan...

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