Settlements and Social Change: Continuity and Change in Village Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-367
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Village Life

Continuity and Change in Patriarchal Structure: Recent Trends in Rural Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Main Ud-din
Keyword(s):  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
Transnational Communication ◽  
To Come ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Traditional Pattern ◽  
Village Life

This paper is about the transformation in the patriarchal structure of Rashidpur village in Munshiganj district, Bangladesh following overseas migration of men leaving their women in the village. In doing so, the study explores the continuity and changes in the discourse and practices of traditional gender roles in a patriarchal Muslim society considering the perspective of both men and women. The study pays especial attention to transnational communication of the villagers, the changes in their gender based mobility and its contribution to the changes in patriarchal ideology. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork, which examines whether the changes are sustainable or temporal for a period when the husbands are abroad and what happens to the practices when the husbands permanently return. Though the findings of the study indicate the diversity and complexity of practices, migration of men increases the mobility of the left behind women. Again, the entrance of cell phone, TV and satellite channels and transnational communication of women have significantly changed their agency as individuals. Consequently, many young wives like to come out of the domination of their in-laws and live in separate households instead of previous joint arrangement. The overall findings of the study show a remarkable change in the traditional pattern of village life. The study contextualizes structure and agency to understand how patriarchal structure influences individuals and how individuals play a role to transform the structure in exchange through their mobility, activities and resistance when the migrants are abroad.

Leadership Continuity and Change in Hmong Refugee Communities in the United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
International Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Authority Structures

Political violence and international migration have the potential to disrupt leadership continuity in Hmong refugee communities in the United States. At the same time, clan and village authority structures from Laos favor leadership continuity despite dramatic social change. Data on 40 Hmong leaders in ten communities are used to determine if the indigenous sources of leadership continue to determine who becomes a leader after resettlement. The majority of leaders were leaders in Southeast Asia and have close kin who were leaders, indicating leadership continuity. Whether these leaders have held few or many leadership positions in the United States, however, is not determined by prior leadership or kinship, but by factors associated with acculturation. Initial leadership status in a host society is linked to authority structures from the homeland, but social change influences subsequent leadership careers.

Constructing and Reconstructing Orientalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Julijana Nicha Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Obvious Change ◽  
Contemporary Artists

The purpose of the chapter is to show that orientalism is a dynamic construct that simultaneously represents continuity and change. The hypothesis outlines that contemporary artists build upon 18th century symbols to reconstruct orientalist art, hence reproducing the constructed, stereotypical neo-orientalist or self-orientalist imagery. The hypothesis is seen to be true as the intimate artwork of Zahrin Kahlo, Lalla Essaydi, Eric Parnes, and Yasmina Bouziane shows that contemporary orientalist artists are using recurring symbols to depict their self-identity, even though they appropriate those symbols in an act of resistance to depict social change. A more productive path of expression may be one of authenticity rather than a recreation of existing imagery in the attempt to deconstruct it. Even though the continuity of the construct is obvious, change is granular and not as pronounced.

Social Change in Javanese Town-Village Life

1958 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-242
Author(s):  
Ann Ruth Willner
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Village Life

scholarly journals Kirk Johnson. Television and Social Change in Rural India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999. 247 pages. Paperback. Indian Rs 225.00.

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Attiya Y. Javed
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rural India ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Social ◽  
Television Plays ◽  
Village Life

The role of television as a powerful medium of communication is wellrecognised. This one material commodity has most dramatically influenced the social life of India. About 75 percent of India’s one billion people live in villages. Today, in rural India, television is considered as a necessity and it has become a large part of most villagers’ daily life. Johnson’s book is about the role that television plays in the process of social change in rural India. His focus of research has been primarily on the advertising and entertainment aspect of television in the context of village life as a whole.

The New England Village Novel and Picturesque Reform

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-210
Author(s):  
John Evelev
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
New England ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Social Values ◽  
American Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Residual Space ◽  
Village Life ◽  
The Village

This chapter focuses on the New England village novel, a prestigious subgenre that figured in many of the midcentury’s critical assessments of what constituted “American literature” but that is now largely forgotten. Once important novels like Sylvester Judd’s Margaret (1845), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Kavanagh (1849), Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Elsie Venner (1861), and Henry Ward Beecher’s Norwood (1869) tell us about middle-class social values and their investment in reform in their depictions of New England village life during this period of time. This chapter explores some of the contradictions inherent in locating idealized theological and social change within the residual space of the New England village. As a consequence of these contradictions, the utopia of the New England village novel becomes literally “no place,” frozen between nostalgia for a unified national community that never existed and hope that through reform the village could fulfill utopian possibilities for the nation. This genre also maps out the transformation of attitudes toward social reform from the picturesque utopianism of Judd’s Margaret to a much narrower vision of the transformative possibilities of the picturesque in Beecher’s post-Civil War novel, Norwood, a quarter of a century later. This transformation reveals the importance of the picturesque to an alternative history of the mid-nineteenth-century American novel and explores the rise and decline of middle-class use of the picturesque as an authoritative discourse to reshape spaces and enact social change in American life.

scholarly journals Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Furholt
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Neolithic Expansion

AbstractThis paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500–2000 BC). In spite of major obstacles to a productive integration of archaeological and anthropological knowledge with ancient DNA data, larger changes in the European gene pool are detected and taken as indications for large-scale migrations during two major periods: the Early Neolithic expansion into Europe (6500–4000 BC) and the third millennium BC “steppe migration.” Rather than massive migration events, I argue that both major genetic turnovers are better understood in terms of small-scale mobility and human movement in systems of population circulation, social fission and fusion of communities, and translocal interaction, which together add up to a large-scale signal. At the same time, I argue that both upticks in mobility are initiated by the two most consequential social transformations that took place in Eurasia, namely the emergence of farming, animal husbandry, and sedentary village life during the Neolithic revolution and the emergence of systems of centralized political organization during the process of urbanization and early state formation in southwest Asia.

scholarly journals Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Muhammad M. Haque
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social System ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Continuity And Change

This book traces the development of Islamic law from its earliest period tothe full formative period, when the major madhahib were established, toshow that institutionalizing Islamic law always involved a reasoned defenseand calculative move. Hallaq asserts that such processes were not an innovation;rather, they were embedded in the structure of the original legal traditionsthat allowed for continual social change and the maintenance of orderand stability in Islam’s social system. Throughout the ages, the Shari‘ah hasbeen subjected to a dialectical milieu and change as dictated by varying socialconditions. This further stimulated change to maintain the established order’svery essence, which was based on the logic of reasoning and calculation.The juristic structure of authority did not remain very rigid and conservativeas it seemed, except for a few cases. Rather, at a certain level, ...

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