The scientific and technological advance has been a major driving force of modernization for centuries. However, the 20th century was full indications diagnoses deep crisis modernity. Currently, debates on limits to growth, pollution, climate change indicate serious threatening lack sustainability so-called ‘first modernity’. This modernity motivated scholars develop concepts modernizing modern...

This is a bibliographical review that aimed at considering teaching at the actual historical moment, denominated post-modernity, and that has resulted in a pragmatic change in all levels of human being understanding. Thus, authors rescued and presented the presuppositions for a post-modern education, emphasizing among them the reflexive education proposed by Donald A. Shön, that is based on pra...

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...

during last century and in a period of time called modern history of middle east, we have seen different changes in life of urban communities as whole, and urban and rural of the mentioned region in particular. the range and power of such changes has been in such a level that we can claim: it has changed the “life world” of people noticeably. among all parts of the region our field study (iran’...

This paper examines almost 30 years of disputation concerning the disposal of the world's largest stockpile of the toxic organochlorine, hexachlorbenzene. It describes the study of a chemicals company in its attempt to manage the disposal of the toxic waste in a collaborative fashion with government, environmentalists and the local community. The study describes the new processes and structures...

look for the political in the wrong place, on the wrong floors and on the wrong pages of the newspapers. Those decision-making areas which had been protected by the political in industrial capitalism – the private sector, business, science, towns, everyday life and so on – are caught in the storms of political conflicts in reflexive modernity. (Beck 1994:18) We have been brought up with a clear...