This paper explores the implications of Home Based Care on women‟s workload in the context of high HIV and AIDS prevalence rates in Zimbabwe as the country has experienced serious health worker migration since 2000. Health worker migration in Zimbabwe as a result of the weak performance of the economy over the years has inadvertently increased women‟s workload as more and more people adopt Home...

Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play. It the gradual decline in modernity through implementation principles secularism which has, according Islamic revivalists, plunged world into crisis jahiliyya (unGodliness). Revivalists sociologists such as Anthony ...

Noise appears to critique the prevailing cognitive and social habits of modernity by providing concrete and particular art objects that demand attention and jar us from one-dimensional life. Noise sounds, for a moment, like a true alternative not only to contemporary music but to a whole way of thinking through abstract generalisation and living through commercial mediation. Understood in this ...

In the course of the past decade, the question of identity in the Turkish context has acquired an increasing significance. With the emergence of trends which placed the question of identity outside of the official realm, the people who live on this land began to stagger between local and national as well as traditional and modern identities. This has paved the way for the explosion of multiple ...

The study is devoted to the value profile of contemporary Romanian society. It supports the thesis of “Pseudo-modern Romania”, not so much in the sense of a society with artificial modernity, but rather a heterogeneous society, with traditional, modern and postmodern segments. “Pseudo-modernity” is identified especially in the hesitation between participation and non-participation to public int...