In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. ... Thus it is little wonder that a large part of the bilateral and multilateral assistance received by Bangladesh is channelised into the population sector. ... The question for us to ask is how is all this affecting women. Although theoretically, family planning should have affected both men and women, in practice it has usually been women at which the propaganda seems to be targe...

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Content Book 1 - Extra Social Factors Suicide and Psychopathic States Durkheim, as mentioned in the introduction, conducted the study of suicide to prove that it was social, rather than extra social factors that influenced suicide. The first extra social factor, to which suicide was mostly attributed to is insanity. Durkheim investigated this theory and pointed out that if suicide was caused by a certain insanity then this would be termed as ˜monomania' " in Durkheim's words, "a delirium of localized nature " that is, a person is otherwise normal but has sudden desires...

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Through the women's evolution of self, the narrative also enables the reader to see the society in which the characters are constructed, and how through the female's transformation society's attitudes towards the women are revealed. ... Her appearance and clothes are unkempt as her "little sailor hat of black straw" had "long been exposed to the soot of London" and "her hair needed washing badly". This portrays her as having very little wealth and a low socio-economic status as she is not able to dress like or look like a lady. ... Henry and Edward share the same viewpoint ...

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This comment raises issues of both security and choice, as the 'wants' of women are ignored in favour of men. In a patriarchal society where middle and upper class women did not typically work, remaining unmarried was dangerous. ... While belonging to the gentry, it is suggested that the Bennets have little or no savings, and furthermore, the family estate, Longbourn, does not make a significant amount of money. ... While, as it is implied by the opening quote, marriage was considered a goal, or duty of women, the power of manipulation was a tool which women could use to their advan...

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The feminist orientation gives women a voice in a world that has been dominated by male-oriented perspectives in the past. ... Mattox (1995) notes in regard to the trend in the US: "In 1975 sixty two percent of all women aged 40-44 had given birth to three or more children over the course of their life-times. ... In older days it was known that women would stay home and raise the children as the men go out and make the money. Now that times have changed, you see a lot more women in the workplace. Women sometimes give birth at a later age because they are so busy with their career. ...

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The inequality in gender patterns between males and females is not a new concept; men have always been associated extensively with violence compared to women. ... Furthermore, Pavelka (1995:30), disagrees with this concept as he argues that 'no knowledgeable evolutionary theorist would claim that men (and women) are not responsible for their choices.' ...

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Since most of society have little direct knowledge or experience of criminally victimising others or being criminally victimised, their awareness is to a large extent obtained from secondary sources. ... News coverage of young people and crime can sometimes focus on young girls and women. ... About a decade later there was another surge of interest in young women's alcohol consumption leading to the female equivalent of men behaving badly, the 'Ladette' (Turton, Jackie, 2007). This has since then been reproduced and has occurred more frequently, recently taking the following fo...

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"She is explicitly contrasted with [her cousin] Edith, who has fallen asleep on the first page" (Stoneman 127): "Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after dinner nap"(Gaskell 2). ... Her emotional response to her first visit of the Higginses, who represent the hard-working, suffering laborers of Milton, also proves her highly empathetic nature for she "could [afterwards] hardly smile at [her father's] little joke, so oppressed was she by her visit" (Gaskell 106). ...

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As Lester and Willie travel throughout Linden Hills in an effort to make a little money, they encounter residents who have compromised themselves in one way or another in order to belong to Linden Hills. ...

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Environmental groups, groups concerned with world peace, and representatives of women and subordinate ethnic groups are now shaping the face of political change. ... The question of women and feminism also erodes away at the support of class theory. ... The gendered division of labour is posing tremendous obstacles to the development of a single classification which would encompass both men and women. ...

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This was of course before the industrial revolution when goods began to be mass-produced, creating the opportunity to steal more, and also to sell more: "The growth of mass-produced and mass-owned consumer goods, of which there is little chance of being traced or recognized by the owner, paved the way for "receivers" who on a large scale buy stolen property to resell it, often at a distance or after a time has elapsed, for a handsome profit."... According to The Fence, there was little chance of being caught when dealing in mass-produced goods, so the benefits of committing a crime outweighed...

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Some of them have been collected from oral material taken from the TV or the radio or from overhearing –occasionally, eavesdropping –talks among business men and women. ... Style also suffers a little –habilidad is not what one may call an accurate substitute for capacidad and the only things that can be alrededor del mundo, in usual Spanish, are natural or artificial satellites. ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions, it lasts. ...

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Even though there are many different cultures and ethnic groups in the world, many of those people may face the same problems. According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individ...

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Division of labour does not exist except in a "broad division between sexes: women, being largely occupied with the rearing of children, play a lesser productive role than men" (Giddens, Capitalism, 1971: 24). While the adult men are occupied with hunting, the women care for the children and gather food. According to the characteristics of this society, there is little social conflict because property is communal. ...

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Urbanization, changes in the status of women and children, and new ideologies of liberty and social equality were as much consequences of the Industrial Revolution as were factories, cheaper consumer goods, and weapons capable of enslaving whole continents. ...

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Compared with this norm, others such as women, black people, disabled people and immigrants were marginalised from full UK citizenship, but conditionally included as inferior or dependent welfare subjects (Williams 1989, 1991, 1996, quoted in Hughes, 1998). ...

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He rounds up a few of his most trusted and loyal men and orders a hit on Tito where it'll hit the hardest, his place of residence where he lives with his little son. ... For a group of men, women, or children to evolve into a group of deviant subcultures, it takes a special person and circumstance to deviate from, social norms and acceptability. ...

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His study resulted in the following conclusions: • Men are more prone to commit suicide than women. ... These societies have higher suicide rate because they stress the renunciation of individuality, and the individual personality has very little value (Jones, 1986). ...

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(Boyd, 2002) pointed quoted a point from (The Copenhagen Centre for Partnership Studies,2002) stating that Social Partners and Social Partnership can be defined as: Social Partnership can be defined as a tri or multi-partite arrangement involving employers, trade unions, public authorities (the stat...

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The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thinkers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke have provided a pivotal influence on societal values. This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. The reality of contemporary liberalism, as it is inspir...

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