Societal Attitude Towards Homosexuality

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Societal Attitude

A cry still unheard: A menace of female foeticide societal attitude towards female foeticide

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mona Arora
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Female Infanticide ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Societal Pressure ◽  
Societal Attitude

India has an age old fascination with the boy child and considers the birthof a girl as a bad investment in future. A girl is considered to be consumer ratherthan a producer, and this narrow viewpoint of the Indian patriarchal society haslead to horrid practices like female infanticide and female foeticide. There is societal pressure for women to have male children and failurestend to feel guilty after giving birth to a girl. Such women are at risk of beingbeaten and rejected by their husbands. This can even lead to rejection by in -lawsand by the society as a whole. Keeping in view the above discourse the presentpaper aims to study the attitude of society towards female foeticide.

scholarly journals A Legitimate End to Illegitimate Beginning: A Critical Analysis of Mariam’s Character in A Thousand Splendid Suns

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Samina Akhtar ◽  
Muhammad Rauf ◽  
Saima Ikram ◽  
Gulrukh Raees
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Battered Woman ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Societal Attitude

This paper is an attempt to portray the plight of Mariam that she undergoes due to her illegitimate social status. The study focuses on the critical societal attitude towards the illegitimate unfortunate women. Mariam begins her life with a “harami” status; continues her struggle for personal identity, suffer and endures as a battered woman and leave this world as a woman of consequences by digging herself out of the lower social status that society attached to her. The study analyzes Mariam’s endurance, struggles and resistance in her strenuous journey to attain legitimate ending. The researcher used feminist literary criticism to interpret the text as a research methodology and adopted close textual analysis of the text by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Demographic Change: Impacts on Rural Landscapes

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
Stefan Heiland ◽  
Silke Spielmans ◽  
Bernd Demuth
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Rural Landscapes ◽  
Shrinking Regions ◽  
Societal Attitude

The article examines the relevance of demographic change for the development of rural landscapes, especially in Germany's shrinking regions. To date, no empirical investigations have undertaken the matter. Thus, the article is mainly based on literature analysis and the findings of expert workshops. The research indicates that demographic change does not have as strong impact on landscapes as other factors such as agricultural policy, climate change, and the promotion of renewable energies. Nonetheless, from the perspective of nature conservation, there might be some indirect effects caused by structural and institutional changes of administrations, which could lead to a decline in importance of landscape-related concerns. In addition, changes in environmental consciousness due to rising cultural diversity could lead to a different societal attitude toward landscapes and their values.

An Evaluation of Staff Attitudes towards the Sexual Activity of People with Learning Disabilities

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Staff Attitudes ◽  
Hospital Policy ◽  
Condom Availability ◽  
Secure Unit ◽  
Attitude Rating ◽  
Societal Attitude

This article presents part of a study which aimed to evaluate staff attitudes towards the sexual activity of people with learning disabilities. The need for such a study is clarified, drawing upon the development of societal attitude change, normalisation and community care. Previous research in this area is reviewed and the potential change in hospital policy at the research site, which is a medium secure unit, is considered. The first part of the research is presented, which involved 69 questionnaires containing a 20-item attitude rating scale and open and closed questions being sent to both clinical and non-clinical staff. The data from the 46 (67%) returned questionnaires are analysed. Although some conservative attitudes remain, the results highlight a liberal trend in attitudes. Many staff identified a need to change hospital policy, provide more staff training and improve condom availability. Methodological issues are also discussed.

scholarly journals An account of alternative and complementary medicine and its scope in a clinical scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3341
Author(s):  
Saumil Maduskar
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary Medicine ◽  
Conventional Medicine ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Clinical Scale ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Alternative And Complementary Medicine ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Societal Attitude

Background: Alternative medicine is the practice of using alternative therapies as treatment modalities and complementary medicine is their inculcation with conventional medical practices. The purpose of this article was to judge people’s perception of these practices and assess societal attitude towards alternative and complementary medical practices.Methods: A survey was conducted among non-medical professionals to assess their attitude towards alternative medicine. They were asked questions with multiple choices to choose from in order to grade their attitude towards and comprehension of alternative and complementary medicine. The questions were designed in a way so as to demand responses ranging from their last visit to an alternative medical therapist to their reason for their visit and their experience.Results: It was observed that most people surveyed were aware of the difference between conventional and complementary medicine but usually visited an alternative therapist without consulting their physician. It was documented that most people were misguided about the actual benefits of complementary medical practices and a majority of the surveyed population chose either alternative medicine or conventional medicine but very few were willing to integrate the two.Conclusions: Alternative medicine is extremely beneficial when used in tandem with conventional medicine and provides numerous benefits. Its use and propagation however must be strictly monitored in order to prevent quackery and the spread of misconceptions regarding its effects.

scholarly journals MANIFESTATION OF SOCIETAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE SOCIAL WORKER’S PROFESSION IN LITHUANIA AND THE UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Virginija Nemeikšienė ◽  
Kristina Rūdytė
Keyword(s):  
Social Worker ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Material Condition ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Real Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Attitude

The paper focuses on the issues of societal attitude towards the social worker’s profession. Aiming to reveal the societal attitude towards manifestation of the social worker’s profession in Lithuania and the Ukraine, a quantitative research method has been chosen, using a semi-standardised questionnaire. The research data analysis employed a non-parametric statistical method – Kruskal-Wallis test. The hypothesis raised at the beginning of the research has been partly proven: it is likely that society has no clear vision on what are the characteristics of the content of professional activities of a social worker. The answers of the respondents (N=784) suggest that they cannot exactly say what social work is; but understand where and with what kinds of people’s groups the staff can work. They do not single out professional competences; however, they name the knowledge, abilities which are required for a social worker. They understand the values which are not attributed to general values but rather particularly oriented to a client, and know real material condition of a social worker, i.e. that this job is low paid.  

WHEN DOES PUBLIC INTEREST JUSTIFY GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND SURVEILLANCE?

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Leah Angela Robis
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
District Court ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Government Interference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Societal Attitude

This article examines the 16 December 2013 opinion of the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Klayman v Obama which intimated that the objective of the PRISM project, that is, the collection of metadata, violates the right to privacy. It assesses whether this opinion finds support in US federal laws, international law and the municipal laws of Hong Kong by surveying recent developments in balancing the conflict between public interest and the right to privacy. Societal attitude towards privacy is likewise accorded weight. The article concludes with the observation that while a handful of municipal legislation contains public interest exceptions to the right to privacy, there is an increasing clamour in international law to protect such right.

scholarly journals "Liwāṭ" im "Fiqh": Männliche Homosexualität?

1970 ◽  
pp. 49-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Anal Intercourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Normal Male ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Moral Conduct ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Societal Attitude

Despite widespread acceptance by (male) society, Islamic jurisprudence condemns anal intercourse—and this is the meaning of liwāṭ, not “homosexuality,” or “(male) homosexual behaviour.” The Arab conquest had changed neither the modes of production nor the patriarchal order or sexual mores of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran. In Hellenistic societies the main gender division runs not between male and female, and hetero- and homosexual, but rather between penetrator and penetratable (women, boys, slaves, Jews, eunuchs and dancers alike). To penetrate was normal male desire, but to suffer or to allow penetration was shameful, and to enjoy it worse. Islamic law, on the other hand, prescribes the death penalty for extramarital intercourse—with male or female and whether as penetrator or penetrated. Considering the sources of Islamic law, this paper reasons that neither the Holy Book nor the most authentic and earliest apostolic sayings impose a death sentence for sodomy in this life. But Ismaʿīlīs, Zaidīs, most Jaʿfarīs and Shāfiʿīs and many Ḥanbalites punish liwāṭ with the penalty for zinā; the Mālikīs and some Ḥanbalīs and Shāfiʿīs decree the death penalty even for the ghair muḥṣan. Leaving the ghulāt aside, who, if one is to believe Imāmī heresiographies, did allow liwāṭ, some viewing it as a way to transmit holiness, only the rather marginal ẓāhirīya and most Ḥanafites argue that there is no ḥadd—they impose only taʿzīr. Although in the classical period some Ḥanafīs believed it to be allowed in paradise, later the Ḥanafīya narrowed the gap with the other maḏāhib, either by imposing ḥadd az-zinā, or by removing all constraints from taʿzīr. As to sodomizing one’s slaves, only the Ḥanbalīs were unambiguous in their condemnation. The solution to the tension between societal attitude and the sharīʿa is found in strict requirements of evidence: together with general rules of moral conduct, the procedural law makes the execution of the death penalty almost impossible—as long as the sinful and shameful acts take place in private and are denied by the perpetrators.

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