according to many scholars, social apathy is considered retaining ring dichotomy development-underdevelopment in modern societies. indeed, apathy is a kind of cynical and feeling paranoid, a passive process and social depression. from the perspective of cognitive impairment, apathy in society is recognized as a social disease. as opposed to that regardless of any social and altruism in social a...

Borrowing from other spheres of knowledge, social constructionism seems to have seeped into sociological thinking through micro-sociological theories. Unlike earlier classical and 'modern' sociological theories, micro-sociology tends to circumscribe analysis of human behavior to 'everyday sociology' and the social construction of experiential knowledge. Thus, human behavior is not perceived as ...

war and conflicts within and among third world countries and between them and western countries, despite the end of the cold war, continues to produce fear and threat, violence, insecurity and instability. they are some of the most important causes of pain and misery of peoples, together with immense human, social, economic and developmental costs, with vast and durable consequences, in deepest...

Open a book — any book —on the economics of developing countries, and it will begin with the usual litany of woes. Developing countries, notwithstanding the enormous strides they have made in the last few decades, display fundamental economic inadequacies in a wide range of indicators. Levels of physical capital per person are small. Nutrition levels are low. Other indicators of human capital s...

We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world's population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands. For this ...

1. The World is said to be a global village, linked together by all forms of technologies and infrastructures. At the touch of a button, it is virtually possible to access any part of the globe. That is the extent to which technology has gone. It has transformed humanity in several ways that could not have been imagined. Perhaps, no other phenomenon has had so much impact on humanity as technol...