Those in higher social castes are expected to have virtuous values and ideals and expected to behave in a different way. ... Consequently, the archetypes and the role of women found in Hindu texts have had a detrimentally negative effect of the status of women and their gender roles in Indian society. ... Additionally, the ritual Hindu practices have perpetuated this negative status of women in Indian society. ... For example, Hinduism has greatly advanced much of India's status of ethical conduct and definitely its philosophy. ... Despite this, Hindu doctrine has had a remarkable impact...

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All religious festivals evolve as mechanisms to propitiate the gods and celebrate their divine actions, but they also serve a social purpose and in the process offer a good insight into the cultural and social dynamics of a community. ... Corresponding to the atmosphere of festivity during Holi is the decrease in inhibitions of the participants, both social and otherwise. ... These gopis leave their husbands to sport with Krishna, breaking the normal codes of social decorum. ... Krishna would thus have acquired the status of practically a local deity and hence would have a greater...

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Around the world, countries and nations have established methods for organizing their citizens into different social groups. ... Caste systems were and are a major basis of unity, strife, stratification, politics, and social dominance. ... A member of a caste is able to attain "superior social status when they emulate the customs, rituals, and way of life of upper castes" (Caste). ... The universal definition of a caste system still remains: which is assigned to a person at birth, "are structures of social inequality in which the different strata are ranked and segregated primar...

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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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From a modernist perspective, development would therefore have a positive impact on women's social status overall (Greig et al., 2007). ... Traditionally, a woman at home is seen as a display of a higher socio-economic status (Desai & Andrist, 2010). ... For younger girls, the shift in parent-daughter relations also rejects the foreseen climb in the familial status. ... Parents usually encourage girls' education as it improves their chances on the marriage market and often disagree with their daughter working the night shift, as a woman working in the call center industry is sociall...

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Also, the directive principles of state policy in Irish constitution were looked upon by the people of India as an inspiration for the independent India's government to comprehensively tackle complex social and economic challenges across a vast, diverse nation and population. In 1928, the Nehru Commission composing of representatives of Indian political parties proposed constitutional reforms for India that apart from calling for dominion status for India and elections under universal suffrage, would guarantee rights deemed fundamental, representation for religious and ethnic minorit...

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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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For centuries, wars have been fought to end classism and to transform legislation to allow mobility between certain statuses in a society. ... To be concise, the precedents that were successful in changing class were social unrest, social activism, and media relations; thus these are some of the ways that I would reference in order to change my own class. In examination of the traditional, social unrest, war, and rebellion have always been one of the primal modes that humans have used to change any undesirable constrain placed upon them. ... Besides social unrest there is also peaceful, non-v...

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They experience violence, discrimination, and social exclusion on a daily basis. ... Scheduled Castes, once untouchables (even now the system prevails, revives), now popularly termed Dalits because of their general oppressed nature are in the lower rungs of the social ladder. ... These words, particularly the prefix of 'Adi', denote the aboriginal inhabitants of the land.4 The caste system, which has existed for more than 3000 years in India, is a traditional system of social segregation, which works on the principle of purity and pollution. ... Distribution of water and control o...

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In various regions of the world the EFA Goals are frustrated by social, cultural and economic factors. ... In addition, education is important for primary school and life-long learning and it is central to human development and freedom and social progress. ... It then considers the effects of the social, cultural and economic which hinders the country in achieving the set EFA goals. ... In India, the socio-economic status characteristics of households such as parental income, wealth, occupation and education determines the enrolment of education and achievement (Indian Child, 2002). ... In ...

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There are a lot of variables that are to be considered; personal needs, values, personality, socio-economic status, social influences, and society in general. ... Social practices are different exhibits in cultural differences, the males making decisions, and different saving patterns. ... Research is the main component in finding out what works best in these countries, in India the researches were made on different aspects of life such as different taste of people, social activity, and different preferences that are had, ways of life, what makes things attractive towards different products,...

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India's nation-state is widely inhomogeneous throughout history between both male and female social status in society. ... The Women's Movements; Nineteenth Century Social Reform Movement, Twentieth Century Freedom Movement and Women's Rights Movement in post 1975 period, have brought to the forefront a wide range of gender relations. ... Firstly, Purdah is the custom" in some Muslim and Hindu communities of keeping women in seclusion, with clothing that conceals them completely when they go out". 3 A large reason for the decline in the status of women and their free...

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Globalization is a relativity new process, in terms of the existence of human societies, and one that is the topic of many debates in the context of politics, economics, right through to the state of the environment, although these and many other social issues and institutes are inextricably intertwined. ... Yet this theory also implies that too many are sheep to the opinions of there piers Another approach highlights that the media, in particular television is a substitute for people who lack certain aspects of a healthy social life, this is not to imply that everyone who watches soap ope...

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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. ... Their marital status assumes significance in the context of construction of particular gender identities they acquired in popular discourse, which does not preclude allegations of affairs with men in their close circles (such as Dhirendra Brahmachari in the case of Indira Gandhi and M...

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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). ... Not only did it see the founding of POW (the Progressive Organization of Women), but it was the year that the official Status of Women Commission published their report, Towards Equality, on women's low and ever decreasing status in Indian society. ...

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It is ever difficult to be authentic when our society lacks grounded ness when it comes to our being, for how can we be true to the self when social change is so rapid. ... For example, cell phones factures us and from this facture we become labeled to the status of "cell phone user" or "cell phone customer". ... Isolation and being socially isolated sometimes occur from people's beliefs, values, and convictions but if we are to face death we must be able to face these little deaths and transcend suffering. Our education system and the media help produce social unity at the expense o...

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In order to better reflect the UN's contribution to India's development (no longer to qualify as assistance in view of India's middle income country status), the UNDAF 2013-2017 has been renamed as UN Development Action Framework. ... Among the poor in India, certain socially excluded groups experience greater challenges in accessing rights, entitlements and opportunities, and in moving out of poverty. ... The discrimination is accentuated for women from socially excluded groups. ... The UNDAF will work towards the achievement of six outcomes which are as follows: Outcome 1 Inc...

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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. ...

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Even in America today, women fight many social issues traceable to the biblical idea of the "evil woman" who introuduced original sin to the world. ... Islam does say that a man must present his wife with a dowry at the time her marries her, in order to acknowledge her status as an independent owner of property, and to make financial arrangements for her in the event of a divorce. ... A widow was considered a curse upon society, and was banished from any social event. ...

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What would you do if you woke up one morning and your daughter was missing? Whether figuratively or literally, there are estimated to be over 100 million girls missing in Asia due to female infanticide, sex selective abortion, sex slavery, and human trafficking. All around the world, populations ar...

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Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people, and English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Unjabi, Assamese, Dashmire, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language. ... I argue that ensuring economic development requires attention not just to economic growth but also to environment...

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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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During that time, the concept of great powers' born by social Darwinism which suggested "survival of the fittest nation" was prevalent and influential. ... This "world power status" frenzy fueled a trend of colonization and nationalism. ... Imperialism promoted racism and social Darwinism whereby the imperialist countries believe themselves to be of superior race to their colonized countries. ...

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It had been recorded that the implementation of DOTS has a success rate exceeding 95% and that it prevented the emergence of further MDR-TB strains[8].Recent work suggests that, on a national level, TB trends track more closely with social and economic indicators than with measures of TB control activities [4,5]. ... This study aims to look at the possible trends in incidence, prevalence, mortality and treatment patterns to understand the possible measures which could be implemented or looked into to improve the overall TB status in India and help the "STOP TB Strategy" goal. ...

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