scholarly journals Cultural Values and Population Action Programs in Turkey

1970 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Dr. Cigdem Kagistcibasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Striking Similarity

Readers will not:ce a striking similarity between Turkey and the Arab World regarding cultural values and problems of social change generally faced by Eastern countries nowadays. It is this similarity which has induced us to condense this valuable report in the following pages.

Female labour participation and pay equity in Arab countries: commonalities and differences

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf M. Sidani ◽  
Tony Feghali
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Country ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Problematic Situation ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Labour Participation

While there is a common belief that female labour indicators in Arab countries demonstrate a problematic situation, little is understood about the varieties within countries in that region. This paper attempts to draw a segmentation of the Arab world to show how different countries differ in this regard. It looks at two specific measures: the level of female participation as a percentage of male participation (FPM), and the female earned income to male income (FIM). Statistics from 20 Arab countries generated four clusters in which those countries are classified. Female labour indicators in most countries in the Arab world show similar patterns found in other countries in their stage of development. This confirms earlier research that indicates that women's labour participation decreases as societies move away from agriculture into manufacturing, services and industry. Only four countries are identified as outliers whose labour indicators can be understood within the context of the cultural values that dominate. The implications are discussed and individual research on female labour within each Arab country is invited.

scholarly journals 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-554
Author(s):  
Lee Artz
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Bolivarian Revolution ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Public Media

The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has built mass organizations of workers and communities that have erratically challenged class and market relations—verifying that taking political power is difficult but essential to fundamental social change and that capitalist cultural practices complicate the revolutionary process. This work identifies components of state power, separating state apparatus (government) as a crucial site for instituting social change. The case of democratic, participatory communication and public media access is presented as central to the successes and problems of Venezuelan 21st century socialism. Drawing on field research in community media in Caracas, the essay highlights some of the politico-cultural challenges and class contradictions in producing and distributing cultural values and social practices for a new socialist hegemony necessary for fundamental social change.

scholarly journals PERUBAHAN NILAI BUDAYA URANG BANJAR (DALAM PERSFEKTIF TEORI TROOMPENAAR)

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Imadduddin Parhani
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Difference

Cultural Values Urang Banjar research has not been done. This study refers to the dimension of cultural values being addressed Troompenaar. According Troompenaar cultural values have seven dimensions: individualism - Communitarism, specifik Relationship - Diffuse relationship, Universalism - Particularism, Neutral Relationship - Emotional Relationship, Achivemenent - ascription, Sequential time - Synchoronous time, and the Environment. Results of research conducted Troompenaar in Indonesia, indicating Indonesia is in the category Communitarism, Diffuse relationship, Particularism, Neutral Relationship, ascription, Synchoronous Time and Outter Direction. This study uses primary data collected through questionnaires which had been prepared previously by the indicators Troompenar dimensions of cultural values. The total sample was 192 people. The research focuses on is the Banjar, and its relation to the cultural values of Banjar. The conclusion of this research are (1) The value of Banjar culture included in the category of universalism with a percentage of 78.13 percent, Komunitariasme with the percentage of 79.17 percent, with the percentage Emotional 73, Specification with the percentage of 54.17 percent, with the percentage of 76.04 percent Achievement, synchronous with the percentage of 69, 79 percent, and Outter direction with the percentage of 83.33 percent; (2) There was a difference or shift in cultural values in society Banjar with Indonesian cultural values, from particularism into Universalism, from Neutral became Emotional, of Diffuse be Specific, and of ascription becomes Achievement; (3) The difference in the value of Indonesian culture and cultural values Urang Banjar indicate that changes people's lives, especially people Banjar ongoing and will never stop, because no one masyarakatpun that stops at a certain point all time. The difference or shift in cultural values that occurred in Banjar Urang an ongoing process of social change in society Banjar.

Out of the Closet behind the Wall: Sexual Politics and Social Change in the GDR

Slavic Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raelynn J Hillhouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gay And Lesbian Movement ◽  
East German ◽  
The Republic

The search for avenues to express changing cultural values has shaped recent politics in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). During the past decade tens of thousands of GDR citizens became involved in new social movements that included issueoriented groups within both the Protestant church and such mass organizations as the Kulturbund (League of Culture) and the Freie Deutsche Jungend (Free German Youth, FDJ). The rise of these issue-oriented movements evoked reactions from the former government ranging from repression to accommodation. Perhaps the most striking example of the old regime's response to social change can be seen in the emergence of a very visible gay and lesbian movement. Beginning with a handful of activists within the Evangelical church, the East German gay and lesbian movement expanded into state and party institutions throughout the republic. In 1985, partially in response to the growing movement, the state began a campaign to end discrimination on the basis of sexual and emotional orientation.

scholarly journals Governance of Higher Education in the Arab World and the Case of Tunisia

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Adnan El Amine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Dominant Model ◽  
Progressive Reform ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Arab Spring

Public universities in the Arab world have suffered from what might be called a political model of governance. This model involves the subordination of universities to political influence, from top to bottom as well as horizontally. It leads to the closing of minds, the undermining of knowledge production, and limiting the ability of universities to bring about social change. The exception to this dominant model in the Arab world is Tunisia, which, not coincidentally, has also been the only exception to the failure of the “Arab Spring,” continuing on the path of democracy and progressive reform despite some setbacks.

Community, dialect and urbanization in the Arabic-speaking Middle East

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Holes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Everyday Communication

The purpose of this paper is to explain how changes in the social structure of the countries of the Arabic-speaking Middle East are being reflected in new patterns of dialect use. The last 30 years have seen an enormously increased interest in Arabic as a living mode of everyday communication, reflected in many dialectological, typological and sociolinguistic studies. As a result, we now have a much clearer overall picture of the dialect geography of the eastern Arab world, and the beginnings of an understanding of the dynamics of language change. Inevitably, the focus of many studies has been geographically specific, so that the area-wide nexus between social change and linguistic change has not always been seen in a sufficiently broad context. By examining three case studies documented in the literature, I aim to point up similarities in the dynamics of change which are often obscured by distracting local particularities.

Musical Improvisation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Racy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Performance Events ◽  
Musical Improvisation ◽  
Musical Mode

This chapter studies musical improvisation from the perspective of a performing musician and ethnomusicologist. Informed by personal experience and theory, the author explores improvisation in terms of two broadly conceived yet closely interconnected realms, musical artistry and cultural interpretation. Examples from different world contexts are presented with emphasis on the author’s area of expertise, especially the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran. Topics addressed include musical mode, emotion, ecstasy, and the cultural values and meanings attached to improvisatory practice. Cross-cultural musical fusions are closely studied. Through analysis of specific performance events, this research highlights the symbolic, social, political, and ideological meanings as well as the improvisatory artistry.

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