In the 1860's action was taken by avid social reformer Madhav Govinda Ranade, who founded the Widow Re-marriage Association and the Deccan Education Society (which sought to increase young women's educational facilities). ... The Indian National Congress, led by Gandhi, was one of the first political organizations to actively include woman, even women formally in Purdah. ... The first group to cross over and actively seek out women's liberation was an organization of new Marxists called Magowa. ... This was important because the women of this group were already organized, althou...

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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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Though few shared his views at the time, Wallace favored natural resource planning on a national scale, with decisions based on conservation and long-term social values rather than on market prices. ... Also from this era, self-labeled experimental farmer, utopian social critic and best-selling author Edward Faulkner is remembered for his 1943 book Plowman's Folly and his ideas about permanent agriculture. ... Faulkner's theories about trash farming and social change represented a bold shift in U.S. agricultural practices towards greater stewardship ecological accountability and were...

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Moreover, the geographic, rather than ideological, basis of the religion (the fact that it comprises whatever all the people of India have believed and done) has given Hinduism the character of a social and doctrinal system that extends to every aspect of human life. ... No doctrinal or ecclesiastical hierarchy exists in Hinduism, but the intricate hierarchy of the social system (which is inseparable from the religion) gives each person a sense of place within the whole. ... We receive salvation by making a life-changing commitment to Christ, not merely by accepting doctrines or joining ...

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Around the world, countries and nations have established methods for organizing their citizens into different social groups. Specifically in India, they have had set up, for many centuries, a way of shaping their country into social strata, called caste systems. "The caste system is a form of hierarchical, kin-based social organization of great antiquity found in South Asian societies," however, with the changing times, the normal traditions are changing (Merchant). Caste systems were and are a major basis of unity, strife, stratification, politics, and social dominance. ... A member...

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Moreover, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility holds a vital position in the Act. Corporate Social Responsibility Goyder (2003) argues: Industry in the 20th century can no longer be regarded as a private arrangement for enriching shareholders. ... Gupta (2013) in a study on CSR in respect of CPSE in India, opined that, although most of the Indian CPSEs has started implementation of social projects under CSR scheme even though some CPSEs are still not utilizing CSR fund on the ground that they have no expertise in social field. ... (Matilda & Martin, 2007) studied that attitudes tow...

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The nation's GDP (gross domestic product) would increase and there would be a rise in output leading to great economic and social growth for the nation along with a rise in the standard of living and a decrease in poverty. ... This practice has been going on for generations, and evidently, there has been very less social development in the nation. ... Several families still live with the stereotypical thought that a woman is expected to stay at home and perform household chores, therefore they oppress their daughters and this has created a massive social drift. ...

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Main reasons are a low female adult literacy rate, social and cultural barriers, such as various forms of discrimination to female employees at the workplace. ... Nevertheless, India government tend to substitute pro-worker labour laws for social security programs and shift the welfare burden on to firms. ... According to NCEUS(2007), more than 90 percent of the workers without privileges are working in non-agricultural industry, they do not write contracts with the companies and often be paid less than the social minimum wages. The organized labour market encourages organizations offer emplo...

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The social lives of citizens were still dependant on the strict caste system, which regulated everyday life of the people of India. ... The depended strongly on agriculture among the villages, where organization was mostly tight knit and provided a secure political base for further cultural achievement. ... 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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I argue that ensuring economic development requires attention not just to economic growth but also to environmental and social issues as well. ... The main tools utilized for this include surveys, impact assessment, control of pollution, regeneration programs, support to organizations, research to solve solutions and training to augment the requisite manpower, collection and dissemination of environmental information and creation of environmental awareness among all sectors of the country's population. ... "Participatory management, which involves working together of the beneficiaries, ...

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Hence, as a result to find the answers to the questions raised in the above, gender inequalities, religious interpretations of women and men, economic factors and social discourses will be the key elements which will be discussed in depth throughout the essay. ... In order to understand how they are socially constructed, one must look deeper into the definition of it than the dictionary provides. ... He has shown through many of his works how our common-sense' understandings of identities, bodies, characteristics and relationships are the results of long-term social processes of definit...

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Mediation could be understood as the process by which a given social system produces and reproduces itself in and through a particular set of media (Mazzarella 2004). ... The alternative discourses that defy the one of the state can also find their voice on the internet platforms such as that of social media. ... Mediation is also an important aspect of identity formation as reflexive social entities, such as selves, societies, and cultures, are fundamentally constituted through the process of mediation while this same process produces a fiction of pre-mediated existence. ... Shireen Rai (2002...

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Some of the factors that supported new imperialism are the demands created by the Industrial Revolution, the improvement in transport and communication, the spread of extreme nationalism, and the civilizing mission.1 European nation-states had become very powerful at this point because of industrialization and because of the organizational efficiency of the government, which distinguishes the new from the old imperialism whereby corruption was more prevalent. ... During that time, the concept of great powers' born by social Darwinism which suggested "survival of the fittest nation" was pr...

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Thus, social institutions struggle to overcome the economic and social challenges within globalized society. ... His economic cost-benefit analysis points out the fact that, in order to seek a better life in terms of access to health and social services, income, education, freedom of speech, political stability, and physical security (Massey, p 309,1999). ... Therefore, inflows and outflows of immigration and emigration are indicators of a country to build the economic and social development. ... " The two authors noted how immigration helped shaping demographic, social structures, cultur...

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The following assessment is about current HR practices in India and how external and internal features have helped in shaping it. It is discussed in the Social, Economic, political context. The current recruitment and training planning of the country is also illustrated. The reliable statistical dat...

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The following assessment is about current HR practices in India and how external and internal features have helped in shaping it. It is discussed in the Social, Economic, political context. The current recruitment and training planning of the country is also illustrated. The reliable statistical dat...

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Abstract Electronic waste or e-waste is one of the rapidly growing problems of the world. E-waste comprises of a multitude of components, some containing toxic substances that can have an adverse impact on human health and the environment if not handled properly. In India, e-waste management assumes...

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This clearly elucidates the fact that those of the environmental and social activists, who are opposing GM technology tooth and nail, are not taking into consideration, the opinions of farmers on these issues. ...

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