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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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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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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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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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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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 is a heavy emphasis on family, religion and social issues. ... Some of the social issues that concern Indians are the promotion of democracy, freedom from discrimination, independence of thought, and rights of women and children. ... Our group-wide Equal Employment Opportunities & Diversity Policy emphasizes that we recruit and promote employees on the basis of their suitability for the job without discriminating on grounds of race, color, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, marital status, or disability. ...

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V P Menon was the Constitutional Adviser to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. He was the only Indian in Mountbatten's inner team. Menon's plan for the partition of India into two Dominions was the one which was eventually adopted. It was Menon who realised the need to get the Princely States to accede to India before the date of independence and that Mountbatten was the ideal person to facilitate this. When the communal violence began following independence, Menon asked Mountbatten to take charge. ...

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The pattern of social classes in Hinduism is called the "caste system." ... Below the Sudra was a fifth group, the Untouchables (lowest menial occupations and no social standing). ... Another aspect of Hinduism is Karma, which is what determines our status in the next life and explains what is happening right now. ...

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Utopian settlement where people of all races, classes and religions could live together 'without petty social distinctions and differences.' ... Kanai, on the other hand, has been summoned to the land by his aunt, Nilima Bose (Mashima), a renowned a social worker who runs a trust named Badabon Trust that supports the rights of the poor and the underprivileged and offers manifold services like medical, paralegal and agricultural to a population of several thousands in Lusibari, the most southerly of the inhabited islands of the tide country. ... In the fact, the relevant informatio...

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It is discussed in the Social, Economic, political context. ... Indian culture ranks relatively highly on Power Distance (77) compared to a world average of 56.5 that indicates the inequality is in terms of power, position, status in the society. ...

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It is discussed in the Social, Economic, political context. ... Indian culture ranks relatively highly on Power Distance (77) compared to a world average of 56.5 that indicates the inequality is in terms of power, position, status in the society. ...

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Birth He was born on Sunday, 25th December 1876, seven days after integration of the Victorian reign of England in India. According to the school register of Karachi where he was admitted for early education, he was born on the 20th October 1875, on Newneham Road, in Wazir Mansion in Karachi. Jinnah himself used to say that he was born on the 25th of December,1876. Schooling On 4th July, 1882 when he was six, he was admitted to Sindh Madreesah-ul-Islam, Karachi. After four years he sailed to Bombay and got admission in Gokal Das Tej Primary School. ...

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