Social Constraints on Animate Vision

The State of Qatar has implemented several family policies in order to improve the wellbeing of Qatari families and ensure fair distribution of development benefits for both men and women. However, there is a linkage between female employment outside the home and instability in the marriages of Qatari families. This paper investigates the impact of female employment on marital stability, based on the results of primary data collected in Qatar, a questionnaire that consisted of several sections such as challenges in the workplace, supervisor, family and spouse relations, work motivation and performance. Of the 824 questionnaires that were returned, 807 were completed and valid for analysis. Regression analysis and an ANOVA test have been used to test the relationship between the variables. The results of the research have produced mixed findings about how wives’ employment increases marital instability and have yielded few significant differences on mean scores of discuss on work demands, insufficient time together, housework, financial matters, communication, relatives and rearing children. The results indicates that in general Qatar working women face several challenges in relation to their marital life as part of cultural and social constraints.

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Globalisation and Equity Issues in Post-socialist Transition Economies

Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/aoecon.54.2004.3.1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 273-296

Author(s):

G. W. Kolodko

Keyword(s):

Transition Economies ◽

World Market ◽

Early Years ◽

Standard Of Living ◽

Social Constraints ◽

Significant Shift ◽

Equity Issues ◽

Goods And Services ◽

The Rich

Equity issues in policymaking are difficult to resolve because they are linked not only to the economic situation but also to social constraints and political conflicts within a country. This is even more true in the case of post-socialist economies during their transition to a market system in the era of globalisation. The historical and irreversible process of liberalisation and integration of capital, goods and services, and labour markets into one world market, as well as the gradual construction of new institutions and the process of privatisation cause a significant shift in the income pattern of post-socialist emerging markets. Contrary to expectations, inequality increases affecting the standard of living and long-term growth. While globalisation contributes to the long-term acceleration of economic growth and offers a chance for many countries and regions to catch up with more advanced economies, it results in growing inequality both between the countries and within them. On average, the standard of living increases, but so does the gap between the rich and the poor. Therefore, equality issues should always be of concern to policymakers, especially in the early years of the change of regime in post-socialist transition economies.

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Cuban Spanish in the US context: linguistic and social constraints on the variation of syllable-final (r) among Cuban newcomers

Sociolinguistic Studies ◽

10.1558/sols.v5i2.291 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Gabriela G. Alfaraz

Keyword(s):

Social Constraints ◽

Cuban Spanish ◽

The Us

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The transformation of the decision-making process on the part of economic agents influenced by social constraints

National Interests Priorities and Security ◽

10.24891/ni.16.7.1202 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (7) ◽

pp. 1202-1222

Author(s):

M.V. Grechko ◽

L.A. Kobina ◽

S.A. Goncharenko

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Consumer Choice ◽

Social Constraints ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Economic Knowledge ◽

Economic Agents ◽

The Individual ◽

Contextual Environment ◽

Economic Constraints ◽

External Signals

Subject. The article focuses on the decision-making mechanism used by economic agents given the existing social constraints. Objectives. We devise applied toolkit to study how socio-economic constraints transform the decision-making mechanism used by economic agents. Methods. The study involves means of the expert survey, the method that streamlines economic knowledge. Results. Social constraints are illustrated to influence the decision-making mechanism used by economic agents, assuming that the individual mind relies on specific mechanisms to make judgments and decisions. Generally, the mechanisms are very useful, however they may generate serious errors during the decision-making process. Given the social constraints, economic agents were found to follow four mental models to make their decisions in case of the full or partial uncertainty, i.e. the representative relevance, accessibility, relations, heuristics (modeling). Conclusions and Relevance. The scientific ideas herein show that the inner architecture of a choice an individual makes determines his or her decisions. The decisions often depend on the contextual environment that gives external signals perceived by the individual while evaluating alternative ways. The findings can possibly be used as a mechanism to manage the consumer choice.

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Dynamics of Farm Power Sources and their Availability in Bihar

Journal of AgriSearch ◽

10.21921/jas.v7i03.18685 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (03) ◽

Author(s):

PREM K. SUNDARAM ◽

BIKAS SARKAR ◽

PAWAN JEET ◽

SANJAY KUMAR PATEL ◽

ANUKUL P ANURAG ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Crop Yields ◽

Crop Productivity ◽

National Average ◽

Social Constraints ◽

Eastern Region ◽

Power Sources ◽

The North ◽

Farm Mechanization ◽

Production Technologies ◽

North Western

The production levels of agriculture have remained low in eastern region of India mainly due to lack of location-specific production technologies, natural calamities like floods, water logging, drought, inadequate timely supply of critical inputs and social constraints. Bihar is one of the important agrarian states of Eastern India. The crop yields are low and almost stagnating in Bihar compared to the north-western and other parts of the country. To improve the productivity in this region mechanization of farms is of critical importance. The farm power availability in Bihar in 2017 is 2.80 kW/ha and is more than the national average of 2.03 kW/ha. Still there are 14 districts in Bihar which is below national average. The number of marginal farmers has increased from 84.18 to 91.21 during 2014-17, an increase of 7.03 percent. Increase in Small and fragmented land will further hindrance the farm mechanization process. The present study was conducted to understand dynamics of farm power availability in Bihar, so as to take substantial measures for improved mechanization and in turn crop productivity in the region.

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