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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Changing Channels: The Bhutanese Middle Path Approach To Television, Kate Linthicum
Changing Channels: The Bhutanese Middle Path Approach To Television, Kate Linthicum
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The experience of watching commercial television and the ideals it promotes are incompatible with fundamentalist Buddhist teachings about consciousness, community and desire. However, the Bhutanese, whose culture, traditions, and worldview have a strong Buddhist foundation have not rejected the medium, which was introduced in Bhutan in 1999. But they have not fully embraced it. Instead they follow the Middle Path, weighing its positive and negative impacts in a manner that seems influenced by the guiding principle of non-extremism in Buddhist philosophy, and a notion the Bhutanese have adopted as a developmental strategy to attain Gross National Happiness. By first examining …
Self-Employed, Self-Empowered: Working Women In Benares, Madeline S. Oatman
Self-Employed, Self-Empowered: Working Women In Benares, Madeline S. Oatman
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
“Economic independence is the password to women’s empowerment.”
Sathi Nair, a Senior Administrative Services official in Andhra Pradesh.
Twenty or so women sit peacefully on a cool cement floor at the Kutumb program center in Benares, India. The room floats like an oasis above the dusty heat of the street, and unobstructed light pours in through a large window. The women, heads bowed, black hair shining, are stitching and measuring, brows furrowed in concentration despite the lull of the lazy afternoon. They have come to learn a skill in order to make extra income, to be around women, exchange advice …
The Effects Of Space On Sex Worker Experience: A Study Of Amsterdam’S Red Light District, Hannah Koski
The Effects Of Space On Sex Worker Experience: A Study Of Amsterdam’S Red Light District, Hannah Koski
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This report is the outcome of a month-long exploratory study on the ways in which a space influences the experiences of the sex workers operating within it, using the Red Light District in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as the site of focus. Data was obtained by way of qualitative methods including focused interviews and unstructured observation and analyzed with a pro-prostitute perspective and within various spatial theoretical frameworks. It is concluded that while the clustering and visibility of sex workers in the Red Light District results in a certain standardization of practice and experience, the independent nature of window sex work …
Democracy On The Steppe: A Search For Active Local Citizenship In Rural Mongolia, Matthew D. Simonson
Democracy On The Steppe: A Search For Active Local Citizenship In Rural Mongolia, Matthew D. Simonson
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This study seeks to understand how engaged Mongolia’s nomadic herders and other rural citizens are in local decision-making. To do so, we conducted over sixty interviews with rural citizens, local officials, and political experts. We also carried out two page-long written surveys which were filled out by nearly two hundred rural citizens in four provinces. Though many Mongolian political experts tend to dismiss local government as powerless and treat rural citizens as homogenous entity, our research has uncovered a remarkable diversity of opinion and activism at the local level. Through their participation in bag meetings and conversations with local officials, …
“Le Goût De Travail:” Work Value For Bamiléké Children, Diana Carlson
“Le Goût De Travail:” Work Value For Bamiléké Children, Diana Carlson
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This research examines the value of work in the Bamiléké context, and explores the psychosocial and cultural factors that influence the transmission of this value to children. Research questions explored included the perception of children within the Bamiléké family, the values that exist within the family and specifically the value of work within these families, how this value is transmitted to children, whether children are motivated to learn the value of work, and the impact of work on the personality development of a child. Data was collected through questionnaires, interview, and observation. 121 questionnaires were collected, and 9 interviews completed. …
Struggle, Revolution, And The Mst: Reflections On The Meaning Of Resistance, Andrew Cole
Struggle, Revolution, And The Mst: Reflections On The Meaning Of Resistance, Andrew Cole
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The following is an ethnographic account of the motivations, attitudes, and ideology of several residents of Lenin Paz II, a Brazilian land-reform settlement in the northeastern state of Ceará. The particular focus of the study is on the reasons these individuals decided to get involved with the social movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) that brought them to the settlement after a 2-3 year process of land occupation. Theoretically, the paper focuses on the development of a collective sense of social or class consciousness amongst the landless who were interviewed, drawing heavily on James Scott’s theory of resistance outlined …
Aborto Legal Para No Morir: Un Análisis De Los Discursos De La Lucha Por Los Derechos Reproductivos En Argentina, Jessica Scruggs
Aborto Legal Para No Morir: Un Análisis De Los Discursos De La Lucha Por Los Derechos Reproductivos En Argentina, Jessica Scruggs
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
No abstract provided.
Throne Names, Pen Names, Horse Names, And Field Names: A Look At The Significance Of Name Change In The Ethiopian Political Sphere, Krista Mehari
Throne Names, Pen Names, Horse Names, And Field Names: A Look At The Significance Of Name Change In The Ethiopian Political Sphere, Krista Mehari
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This study examines the motivations for name changes and the purposes the chosen names accomplish, specifically relating to the Ethiopian political sphere. Throne names and horse names were used solely by the emperors and the ruling class. Those name changes exalted the bearer by either stating his authority or connecting him to divine power. Pen names and field names were used by people not in power to hide their identity from people with the power to harm them. Although the purpose of those name changes was to disguise, the names that were chosen identified the bearer with another person or …
An Exploration Of Language Dominance, Michael Bishop
An Exploration Of Language Dominance, Michael Bishop
MA TESOL Collection
When two or more cultural groups make contact and interact over a period of time, language dominance often occurs. In this situation, one dominates the others both culturally and linguistically. This in turn, causes the weaker to start using the language of the more powerful until eventually it shifts its language and then its culture over to that of the more dominant group. Eventually its own language and culture dies. Language dominance, language shift and language death are social and linguistic phenomena that has been occurring for thousands of years. Historically, there were two great waves of language dominance, and …