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    Ethics and Social Justice Issues within the United Nations Abstract Equity and social justice issues have become a global challenge that the world over is confronted with. It has got to a point that even international efforts and systems put in place have become overwhelmed with theories than realities. The United Nations which has purposely been formed to address human rights and social justice issues has in itself been bedeviled with gross inequalities and injustices. Attempt is made to show

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    MA in Sociology Paper II Perspectives of Indian Society-I DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE & CONTINUING EDUCATION UTKAL UNIVERSITY‚ Vani Vihar Bhubaneswar‚ India 1 UNIT-I INDOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1.1. Indology: Meaning and Definition Indology is known as the science of Indian Society. The Indological perspective claims to understand Indian Society through the concepts‚ theories and frameworks that are closely associated with Indian Civilization. It made a claim that Indian Society is unique in structure

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    A Comparative Analysis of Shelley Pearen’s Letters from Wikwemikong‚ 1845-1863 and David Thompson’s Columbia Journals Submitted by: Renee Matta (250310179) “Any cultural change since contact with Europeans was presented as the natural outcome of a passive‚ inferior culture coming into contact with an active‚ superior one.”—Dara Culhane Canada’s sovereignty is based on the expansion of imperialism‚ the growth of capital power and the notion of an inferior culture being dominated by a superior

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    Introduction Culture is a broad term which has been described by various philosophers since decades. It has been claimed by Raymond Williams to be “…one of the two or three most complicated words in English language” (Williams‚ 1976). Different definitions of the term‚ culture may have distinct descriptive ways and criterion to evaluate human activity. It is important to define the broad base of the sophisticated term ‘culture’‚ in the sense used later in the paper‚ to narrow down the discussion

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    ஽ Academy of Management Review 2008‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 4‚ 885–904. MIRROR‚ MIRROR ON THE WALL: CULTURE’S CONSEQUENCES IN A VALUE TEST OF ITS OWN DESIGN GALIT AILON Bar-Ilan University The paper offers a critical reading of Geert Hofstede’s (1980) Culture’s Consequences using an analytical strategy where the book is mirrored against itself and analyzed in terms of its own proposed value dimensions. “Mirroring” unravels the book’s normative viewpoint and political subtext and exposes discursive

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    Representation of the ‘Other’ in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre Abstract This study aims at examining the representation of the’ other’ as portrayed in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847). It attempts to inspect how the ‘Other’ is viewed in Nineteenth century England and the cultural ideology behind such specific representation. It poses crucial questions as to why the ‘Other’ is always represented negatively in main-stream western narrative as in the case of Bertha Mason who is portrayed as

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    Creating a mind‚ which gives the consent (accepts the hegemony)‚ is never a simple act. It indeed results from the social structures and the cultural designs. The code of conduct‚ moral value and education standards are the designed by the ruling classes and followed by the rest‚ both in social and global scenario. This social and cultural scenario dictates each group or its subordinate societies to what should be its behavior. Each and every institutions (social‚ cultural‚ political and economic)

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    1 Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai: A Homosexuals’ Odyssey Dr. Prakash Bhadury Assistant Professor‚ Dept. of H & S. S‚ NIT‚ Hamirpur‚India Research Article by the Author to be published in an Anthology shortly. Abstract: Gay and Lesbian relationships are branched off as two separate identity of homosexual behaviour and the issues relating to it has been a matter of intense debate in India and abroad in late 20th century especially‚ when in a post-war era the issues of identity crisis

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    marginalisation‚ the homosexual immigrants of Indian subcontinent demanded in Britain and America: An agenda within a racist climate different from the agenda imposed by white gays and lesbians. The impact of colonial history and concepts of orientalism upon world- views and perceptions has played a central role in how non white people have been defined…Silenced in both south Asian patriarchal societies and the white gay communities in America and Europe‚ the south Asian gays and lesbians have

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    Chapter 4: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science‚ Technology‚ and Socialist- Feminism in the Late 20th Century* DONNA HARAWAY History of Consciousness Program‚ University of California‚ at Santa Cruz 1. AN IRONIC DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR WOMEN IN THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism‚ socialism‚ and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful‚ than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed

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