modernization in kurdistan as an uncompleted process , in it’s historical transition , by religiousness which is the strongest and the most fundamental current cultural and social element , has encountered the researchers with this question that “ what kind of effect has the process of modernization on the rate of religiousness of people? “ this study investigates the relationship between moder...

The importance of values of tradition and new possibilities and challenges of modernization are unavoidable in social-anthropological and cultural analysis and understanding of urban and rural reality. Starting from an idea of determining tradition and modernization, in the paper their relation and influence to forming urban and rural culture in our society is considered. In this way, these two...

Background: Traditional and indigenous communities in India are of the religious belief that medicinal groves and plants are sacred in nature. Sacred groves (SGs) are patches of trees on forest land that are protected communally with religious zeal and connotations. These forest areas have been protected since ages by traditional societies and indigenous communities with their socio-cultural an...

Civil Sphere Theory (CST) provides a more dynamic, cultural, and democratically oriented model of contemporary society than either conflict or modernization theory. Civil spheres expand and contract in contradictory ways. Utopian periods of utopian repair trigger defensive efforts that primordialize and exclude. Late 20 century civil repair generated new relations of economic production and mor...

BACKGROUND This study concerns depression among women living in developing and developed parts of the world. Using a continuum of environments conceptualized as ranging from traditional to modern, the goal is to explore the hypothesis that the prevalence of depression will be higher among those living in modern compared to traditional societies. This issue is examined among samples from West Af...

1.Current Ecological and Social Problems in South America 1.1. Antagonism between Conservation and Development 1.2. The Blindness of Macroeconomic Parameters 2.Diversity and Homogenization in Southern South America since European Colonization 2.1. Three Waves of Eco-Cultural Homogenization: The Case of Southern Chile 2.1.1. European Conquerors (1500–1800) 2.1.2. Independence and Modernization (...

The preservation and maintenance of locally built, handcrafted vessels is costly and time consuming, with skills of construction and operation both esoteric and rare. Functionally, such craft may be unable to fulfil their original missions to fish, carry cargo, or serve as a platform for other maritime trade. With modernization, the loss of local vessels is imminent, as are the skills, songs, w...

this paper is about to discover the roots of formation of one of the political and social phenomena called political party in a particular period of iranian contemporary history. in the light of this kind of study we can go beyond the superficial and general analyses which are the characteristic of traditional and under developed societies unfortunately these analyses are used to justify all th...

This paper focuses on the cultural history of digital matchmaking from a Finnish point of view. By using examples from the mainframe computer era, personal computer applications, as well as from the age of the Internet, the paper argues that three reasons, popularization of technology, modernization of conventional partner seeking practices and the scientification of intimate relationships, are...