Impact of Modernization on Socio-economic Development of Manipuri Communities: A Sociological Studies

The Manipuri communities are very industrious. Very rich or extremely poor families are rare among them. So they do not work as day labourer or rickshaw puller. This is the expression of their modernism. This study was conducted an informative research work on the effects of modernization on the socio-economic development of Manipuri people. Five sampling areas were selected purposively – Kewa para, Sibganj, Noya bazar, Lama bazar and Sagar dighir par Manipuri para of Sylhet city in Bangladesh. Following a systematic sampling, a total number of 100 Manipuris participants were selected from the 20 families from each of the 5 sampling. This study also revealed that most of the respondents 73% have educational qualification between SSC to Master Degree. Above 28% respondents are slight modern and 24% respondents are modern. So it proved that impact of modernization on profession. The observed that the Manipuri people are suffering from various diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, gastric, coughing, rheumatic fever. Around highest 60% respondents are took allopathic treatment. It was a positive response to modernization. The finding of the current research might be helpful to future national policies of Bangladesh.

Community Service Provider's Stories: COVID-19 Impacts and Vulnerable Canadians

In 2020 a global health pandemic began causing significant life challenges for most populations around the world. For vulnerable groups in Canada, like newcomers and refugees, the COVID19 global health crisis amplified pre-existing inequalities and barriers. Given the previous understandings of racial inequality in Canada, we began an online discussion with a group of social service providers to explore how newcomers and refugees are impacted by the social lockdowns, physical distance, and the closures of many services. As a result, we collected informative stories that tell how the pandemic disproportionately and distinctly impact newcomers and refugees, resulting in new challenges finding employment, access to educational services for their families, and maintaining an adequate social and spiritual connection. We also found out how community service provision drastically changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in additional challenges and barriers for marginalized communities.

The Influence of Presentation Format on Responses of Male Sex Offenders to Digital Paintings that illustrate the Consequences Sexual Crimes

Although art viewing experiences occur in varied contexts, responses of audience may be profoundly affected by the presentation format. In this paper, focus is drawn upon participation in a digital paintings exhibition and visual representation in assessing the responses of male sex offenders to digital paintings that illustrate the consequences of sexual crimes. The relationship between arts and technology is an emerging area of interest in modern research. In addition to the traditional gallery displays, digital technologies have provided new ways of audience participation in arts, enabling more involvement in the way art is consumed. The authors sought to determine the effect of viewing screen projected images in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation and in a gallery display. The study applied brief repeated exposures as described in Mere Exposure research. The study utilized temporary exhibition displays and projection by Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) where the respondents were passive participants, simply viewing the artwork. The participants were drawn from male sexual offenders aged 18-45 years at Nairobi West Prison, a male offenders’ facility in Nairobi City County. Stratified random sampling was used to select 61 male offenders convicted for defilement and rape. Respondents were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions involving viewing in projection by RSVP and gallery display. A five-point Likert scale was used to measure the participants’ responses to digital paintings illustrating consequences of sexual crimes. A Multivariate Analysis was used to assess ratings of the digital paintings against the various components of art. Findings show that painting style, colour schemes, themes and exposure frequency significantly influenced the participants’ responses to the digital paintings. The study recommends use of comparative analysis to determine how exposure to digital paintings impacts differently on other types of audiences.

Pocket-Picking to Armed Robbery to Prison: The Life and Criminological Analysis of Good Boy, Bad Boy and Wiser Man, Sal Ali

This case study examines the self-reported life story of a prisoner who has spent much of his life in juvenile detention and adult prison. His criminal history began with pocket-picking, then breaking and entry, and then advanced to armed robbery. Social learning theory, self-control theory and rational choice theory are discussed and the inmate’s reflections on them are offered in his words with illustrations from his experience.

The Transcending Age: A Study of Psycho-social Wellbeing of Elderly Women in India

India is witnessing rapid growth of elderly population. The population aged 60 years or older is projected to climb from 9% in 2015 to 19% in 2050 and to 32% in 2100 (UN, 2017). Aging population requires attention on their physical, social and emotional well-being. Wellbeing encompasses multiple interactive components which are beyond the conventional issues of health and diseases. There is multitude of social relationships and dynamics of social roles that women in this age negotiate in their lives. Family dynamics, compatibility with partner, household headship, decision making and level of autonomy, incidences of domestic violence, security concerns, care-giving, perceptions of self, societal status do influence quality of life and wellbeing. Using primary survey data of 165 women aged 60 to 65 years residing in urban areas in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) interviewed during first quarter of 2018, the paper attempts to understand what does well-being mean to them, how do they ensure it, what are the psycho-social barriers and how do they overcome them. Purposive sampling and snowballing techniques has been employed to identify these women. Increase in health related problems especially mobility issues, lifestyle diseases along with depression were predominant in this age. For women in post 60 years of age, respect and appreciation from family and society is vital to ensure their happiness, while family bonding and overall contentment stands out for ensuring wellbeing. Religious pursuits and social interaction are the fundamental coping mechanisms from stress. Inadequate and incomplete education and early marriage rooted in patriarchy and financial dependence are the principal sources of regret in lives of these women. Widowed women were identified as the most vulnerable. Women in the lowest income group and literacy level were further marginalized and needed help from state. Evident gaps were reported in the existing welfare government schemes for this age.

Satisfaction in Old Age: Activity or Disengagement?

The aging process of human being is intertwined with two vital aspects of life experiences; work and retirement when elderly people face greater uncertainties than other age groups as they have to replace themselves in the newer environs with shifting roles. Thus, in this process, researchers have queries whether elderly disengage or withdraw, whether their disengagement or activity brings satisfactions and how is their attitude towards the functionality of disengagement. To measure these, disengagement and activity theories have been used with descriptive research design when respondents were selected purposively and interviewed Face-to-Face. Most of the elderly in Bangladesh believe themselves to be forced to retire. A significant portion of retired elderly answered that they wanted to be engaged instead retire but, in reality, most of them enjoy disengagement escaping from earlier activities that ensures their quality of life and satisfaction. After all, it is found that disengagement is functional as the sense that the elderly people give up their positions to the young as they are not able to defeat them in the activity level.

Mini-review Summary

This mini review brings to bear a situation that occurred in the rural areas of West Africa where the inhabitants accused others of being responsible for the loss of their genitals. The town of reference is Zorse, which is inhabited by the Kusasi tribe in the North Eastern part of Ghana. Anthropologists and psychologists explain anxiety assault as a fear reaction that emanates from a people’s belief that a person can cause sex organs to vanish or shrink. Charles Mather used ethnography to describe detailed accounts of happenings. This current paper provides a systematic review of happenings based on the information gathered from the script of Mather. It is revealed that the explanations offered are also grounded in bioengineering and psychology.

The Impact of Knowledge Employees’ Psychological Capital on Their Organizational Employees’ Behaviors: The Relationship Among Human Resource Flexible Management, Psychological Capital and Job Performance

Human resource flexibility management, psychological capital and job performance are the core of organizational management. From the existing research, psychological capital as an intermediary variable, and specifically for China's employees as the sample of research less. In this paper, human resource flexibility management, job performance and psychological capital are taken as research variables. A correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted on the work behaviors of employees. The results are as follows: first of all, human resource flexibility management has a significant effect on psychological capital. Function elasticity, salary elasticity and working hour elasticity are positively related to psychological capital. Secondly, among the direct effects of psychological capital on job performance, self-efficacy, hope, resilience and optimism all have significant positive effects on task performance. Self-efficacy, hope, resilience and optimism all have significant positive effects on Contextual performance. Finally, in the regulatory effect, psychological capital plays an intermediary role between human resource flexibility and job performance.

Rethinking Two Scientific Currents, Westernism and Philosophical Orientation, in Iran of the Islamic Republic Era

The present article, with emphasis on the descriptive-analytic method, is a description of the thoughts of the scholars of the two scientific, westernist and the Philosophy oriented currents، In Iran after the 1979 revolution. The Iranian revolution in the space of modernity as a paradigm dominating the world occred in 1979. During the revolution and afterwards many crises were created in the Iranian society and the new political system. In the wake of the crises, numerous religious and non-religious groups consisting of clerics, intellectuals and academics sought to eliminate them. Each of these groups proposed a solution to these crises according to their intellectual base and community space or various intellectual and philosophical tendencies. Some of these groups saw their solution in embracing scientificism and adherence to it, some embraced Western models, modernity, and harmony with the West, others saw the solution in following traditionalism and distance from the West and the rationality of the new world, And some have considered solutions to managing society based on the Islamic model. Following will explain the thoughts of the thinkers of the two major streams of thought from these currents.

Islamic Cultural Symbol in “Tabur Beras Kuning” Tradition in the Wedding Ceremony in Malang

This Study is about Muslim cultural symbol in the tradition of tabur beras kuning in the wedding ceremony in Malang. This study aims at discussing the results of observation and in depth interview to the practitioners of tabur beras kuning tradition who still hold and practice this tradition in every wedding ceremony in Malang. This topic is interesting because there is a kind of acculturation between Islam and culture. Islam with its Islamic values has influenced tabur beras kuning tradition and it has worked for long time and it is still practiced up to now. Islamic values have colored the culture. This, further, brings to the arising of the Muslim cultural symbols. The Islamic values in tabur beras kuning tradition have affected people to depend on and get closer to God the Almighty so that the societies who do this tradition might always hope to live prosperously and peacefully. Therefore, it is important to maintain tabur beras kuning tradition so that this tradition would not be perishing in line with the coming of modern era.